Looking for Espionage Stories Set in Republican-Era China 求民国时期谍战的书
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I Transmigrated to Republican-Era China and Became the Most Useless Young Marshal 穿越民国：我成了最废少帅
Liu Luo, a criminal police captain, accidentally activates a spirit-communicating jade while accompanying female police captain Wen You to inspect cultural relics. The two transmigrate together to Jiangcheng in the Republic of China era. Liu Luo is mistakenly identified as Hong Qingshu, a good-for-nothing young marshal, while Wen You passes herself off as Ren Xinyi, a gang boss's daughter. Japanese officer Shanghu Mao disguises himself as a Japanese businessman and brings his children to Jiangch
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Code Name: Wick 谍战代号灯芯
Espionage · play the pig to eat the tiger · battles of wits · cool-headed and composed · fake marriage · love of country In 1936 Shanghai, everyone at the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics station knew Lu Xingzhou was a “deadweight”: he dozed at work, was always the last to handle a case, went weak in the knees at the sight of blood, and ranked dead last in every annual performance review. No one knew that he had quietly handed over half the “meritorious achievements” on Director Dai’s desk
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Nightingale 夜鹂
Espionage in the War of Resistance “When loyalty becomes a crime and betrayal becomes a means of survival, who can hold on to their humanity in a world gone mad?” An epic tale of espionage that blends transmigration, suspense, and devotion to country and family. It uncovers the darkest corners of wartime Shanghai and follows a soul torn apart by fate as it grows from a pawn into the player moving the pieces. In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, late autumn draped Shanghai’s sky in a sickly
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Butterflies and Spies 蝶来谍网
A beautiful female bandit blunders into Harbin's espionage network. She takes a male spy hostage, only to find herself trapped in bed with him. The two decide to plot together in private and put their plans into action beyond their bedroom door. They spill blood in a bandit stronghold, root out traitors in a brothel on Peach Blossom Lane, lie in wait to catch bandits at an illegal gambling den, and smash up an opium house to rid the area of its evils... This is neither fantasy nor a story about
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The Windbreaker 破风者
In 1931, Jiang Hanwen, head of the Shanghai Central underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party, was arrested and promptly betrayed the revolution. Under the command of special commissioner Wu Shude, the Shanghai district of the Kuomintang Central Investigation Department, predecessor of the Zhongtong, used information provided by the turncoat Jiang Hanwen to launch a sweeping manhunt and purge of our underground intelligence network in Shanghai and its key operatives. Chen Tongzhou,
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Warlord of the Republic: I Turned Shanghai’s Nightlife Upside Down 民国枭雄：我掀了夜上海的天
When Chen Mo wakes up, he has returned to the age of fifteen, facing the hellish slums of Shanghai. In his previous life, he lived an unremarkable life and died in humiliation. This time, he’ll overturn this world that devours people! Armed with the [Warlord System], his fists draw blood and his blade takes lives. Starting in Fangualong, he recruits followers, seizes territory, and gathers wealth... He swears to become the greatest warlord in all of Shanghai’s pleasure quarters! The underworld i
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The Rouge Calamity of War: Cao Feiyan, the Warlord 烽火胭脂劫：枭帅曹飞燕
She was born and her mother died because of it. At seven, her father sold her into a brothel. On the night she was forced to entertain her first customer at fourteen, Cao Feiyan drove a red-hot candlestick through the madam's throat. She fled into a ravine of the dead. When she was down to her last breath, the bandit chief lifted her chin. “Girl, can you handle a gun?” Five years later, the old chieftain died suddenly, and the three leaders were drenched in blood in the Hall of Brotherhood. No o
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Espionage in the Republic of China: Starting with a Treasure Chest, I Tear Apart the Japanese 民国谍战：从宝箱开始，手撕鬼子
Introduction: [War of Resistance against Japan + Brave and resourceful + Passionate + Loyal and righteous + Deep brotherhood + High-tech + Saving the country through unconventional means + Cunning + Undercover + Disguises + Perfect secret agent] After a car accident, Lin Feng transmigrates to Long Country, a parallel world resembling China in 1938. It is now the second year of the full-scale war against Japan, an era of internal strife and foreign threats, with the nation in peril and traitors a
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Divine Oil 神油
The waters of the Gui River cannot wash away old blood debts. A jar of miraculous oil can keep the secrets of a powerful family locked away. The Republic of China is in chaos, the country teetering on the brink of collapse. At the command of his ancestors, the sole surviving heir of the Shi family enters the fray, disguising himself as an anonymous laborer at the Wen family’s oil mill. He appears plain and timid, but in his heart he is plotting a sweeping revenge. The miraculous oil the Wen fami
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A Buddha's Heart and a Daoist Body, Bound by Nine Women 佛心道体，九女缠身
If Heaven had feelings, even Heaven would grow old; the Dao is boundless, yet its way lies in the heart. The god who ruled Heaven has fallen into demonic ways, and demons can defy Heaven. This is only a myth. Those who read it need not reveal Heaven’s secrets.
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Undercover: A Gynecologist in the Japanese Concession 潜伏：我在日租界里当妇科大夫
[Undercover] + [Infiltration] + [Multiple Heroines]... Most of the plot is original. The male lead isn't an idiot or a do-gooder, and he's cunning. More spy-drama storylines will unlock later on.
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The Republic and the Qing: Thirty Years in the Brotherhood Underworld 民清：袍哥江湖三十载
The Book of Songs says: “How could I say I have no clothes? I’ll share my robe with you.” It speaks of loving one another and sharing a robe with one’s brothers in arms. From this grew a term, or perhaps an organization: the Paoge Society, a sworn brotherhood active during the Qing and Republican eras. The Paoge stand for loyalty, brotherhood, the world of martial heroes, and revolution. Revolution against corrupt politics, a declining society, failing education, and crooked thinking... They cal
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A Lane Boy's War of Resistance 弄堂小子的抗战
Chen Agen grew up in the alleys of Shanghai and learned extraordinary martial arts from the reclusive master Lu Zijian, known as "Ghost Shadow." Carrying the simple ideal of upholding justice, he joined the police force. But after he unexpectedly saved Wu Siba, a powerful officer in the Japanese puppet organization known as Unit 76, he was forced into the den of evil and became a member of the collaborationist secret service headquarters. There, he witnessed the invaders' brutality and endured
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Winter Melody of Beicheng 北城冬曲
[Alternate Republican-era setting + love of country and family + ensemble cast in troubled times + mystery and espionage + two devoted first loves + happy ending] [Gentle, proud opera beauty x quiet, guileless student who speaks her mind] A single “reform order” put an end to Su Yige’s long road of study. But just as she faced this predicament, everything changed the moment she opened the file folder. The folder her professor gave her pointed to the hidden sparks inside the theater, and to the
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Those Memories Haven't Faded Like Smoke 那些往事并不如烟
Based on true historical events, this book recounts how Chinese public security and political security agents in the 1960s used extraordinary methods to endure humiliation and infiltrate enemy intelligence organizations in Taiwan. They remained undercover for more than twenty years, making major contributions to national security. The story paints a sweeping historical panorama. Its twists and turns are vivid and compelling, and its main events are adapted from historical fact. Rich in the spiri
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Anti-Japanese Special Forces 抗日特战队
To fight the Japanese, you need money, guns, territory, and real ability. Xu Jianfei has all of them. I truly admire the Japanese. How did they manage to last eight years under Xu Jianfei? Let’s see how the Japanese got through those eight years. Longtime readers, please support the author’s new book, The Great Wall’s War of Resistance: Fighting to the End. My thanks in advance.
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The Snow Wolf’s Mission 2: Wolf Knight 雪狼的使命2之狼侠
The snow wolf is a beast of the wolf family that lives in cold, snowbound lands. It stands for abundant vitality and untamed wildness, a free and independent nature, an unyielding spirit that never surrenders, courage in battle, willpower, dignity, and teamwork. The Snow Wolf Squad was once a civilian resistance group that fought across the Wuhan theater. After joining the Communist Party of China, its members took part in an operation in which their captain and the snow wolf perished in the art
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The Rise and Fall of a Landlord in Republican China 民国地主沉浮
In the turbulent year 1941, war and chaos reign, and the people live in misery. Against the backdrop of the times, the Qi family landlord’s household experiences both joy and sorrow, as each member faces their own fate. This is the story of what the Qi siblings witnessed and experienced from the Republic of China era through the founding of New China.
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Zero-Degree Showdown: Operation Blue Arrow 零度交锋：蓝捷行动
[Mystery and Suspense] [Espionage] [Crime Investigation] [Modern Urban] [Genius] [Strong Female Lead] [National Security] Twenty-three years ago, a separation tore the lives of twin sisters apart. The younger sister was trained by an overseas spy organization to become an elite agent. Sent back to China, she is ordered to assassinate her own sister, take her place, infiltrate Lanjie Communications, and steal the core secret, “Lanjie 9.” Caught between her mission and her organization's orders on
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Reborn in Qiu Village: The Twin Spies Are on a Killing Spree 重生裘庄：双生谍影杀疯了
[Yu Meng fan fiction] + [The Message fan fiction] + [two powerful leads who bring out the best in each other] + [high-IQ mind games] + [past and present lives] + [hardcore espionage] “Alert! The Enigma machine has been forcibly deciphered from a higher-dimensional plane!” As the System blared its piercing alarm, Gu Xiaomeng stepped in front of the cool, composed professor Li Ningyu and drew her gun. “At Qiu Manor in our previous life, I couldn’t get you out. Today, even if space and time fold in
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Reborn as an Agent Princess 重生之特工皇妃
After transmigrating into the body of a concubine-born daughter of the prime minister, special agent Bai Qingxuan tramples the wicked First Madam, tears into the pretentious legitimate daughter, and becomes the talk of the Great Li Dynasty! An after-dark visit to the Prince of Qi’s residence unexpectedly turns her into a meal for the cunning Fifth Imperial Uncle. One dark and windy night Prince of Qi Yuan Zhen appears at the window of Bai Qingxuan’s chambers. She draws a hidden weapon and hurls
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The Girl Student Spy: Young Master Di, Please Stop Flirting 特工女学生：帝少求别撩
She was the research institute’s most outstanding creation, and M Country’s most feared ace agent. After perishing in a sea of flames, she opened her eyes again, reborn as a student who had taken her own life for love. The whole school was rife with rumors, while her parents and younger sister schemed against her every day, hoping to sell her off for their own advancement. Reborn from the flames, who could stop her now? She had to protect herself and grow stronger, take down the school’s crimina
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Peerless Agent: The General's Second Daughter 绝世特工：将府二小姐
A leader of the Five Kage in the 21st century dies taking a bullet for a brother and transmigrates to another world, reborn in the Great Night. She is a direct descendant of the Phoenix clan. Everyone who ever wronged her will pay, not a single person will be spared. He is the Great Night's eldest prince, a god of war who dominates the battlefield and is like a demon in the eyes of the people. Cold and overbearing toward everyone else, he wants nothing to do with women. Only with her is he gentl
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Agent Number One 一号特工
Three Immortal Needles cure every illness, and a divine prescription decides who lives and dies. The peerless agent Lin Xiangnan dominates the city and rises to become a legendary kingpin.
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Dragon Soul Agent 龙魂特工
He is a super agent, the supreme judge of the underworld, and a mercenary king who strikes fear into all who hear his name. For his friends, he would take a blade to both sides; for the woman he loves, he would stain his armor with blood. Driven by a single conviction, he returns to Huadu, ready to rule supreme and crush his former enemies beneath his feet. And so, the city gains another legend: the tale of a super agent.
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Counterespionage Storm 反谍风云
About the Story: A spy case threatens China. Luan Jianglong and Si Hongmei lead their team through the investigation, uncovering one clue after another as the case grows ever more complex. But the ending is completely unexpected...
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Gu Yizhong Is Reborn Before the Events of The Lone Boat 顾易中重生在孤舟剧情之前
Gu Yizhong is reborn in 1936. The original A Lone Boat begins in June 1941, but this story starts with his rescue of Lin Shujuan in Hong Kong in early 1939. Since the timeline has changed dramatically, much of the plot will have to be newly created. Your support is greatly appreciated. To make the story’s progression as plausible as possible, feel free to share your theories about what happens next in the discussion area, preferably with sound reasoning. I hope to work together with fellow fans
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A Romance in the Northwest 西北恋
In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1937), Japanese invaders trampled China beneath their boots, leaving the land shattered. Tianshui, a strategic city in the northwest, was also overshadowed by both the threat of war and a severe drought. Newlywed peasant girl Qiuping tearfully bids farewell to her husband Mang'er, whose full name is Chen Tiemang, as he is drafted into the army. On a hill above the dry Wei River and parched land stretching for miles, her “brown tears” become the
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Secret War in the Republic of China: The Judge of the Underworld 民国暗战之阎罗判官
In a turbulent era of national crisis, there are traitors and lackeys, but even more people of conscience. Faced with hardship, some profit from the nation’s suffering, while others accept things as they are. Yet there are still people with unwavering faith who disregard their own gain and loss. For the first glimmer of dawn in the darkness, they willingly step into the shadows, becoming judges of the underworld whom their enemies fear at the mere mention. The protagonist works undercover at fir
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Undercurrent: Special Task Group Five 暗潮：五号特工组
Starring Liu Lin, Wang Likun, Gao Lu, and others. A fan novel based on the TV series Five-Man Secret Service, written to give Li and Ouyang's romance a proper ending. A struggle against spy organizations, Ouyang Jianping and Li Zhibo, Ma and Gao's romance, and everyday life. The main story takes place in Shanghai and the surrounding occupied areas, from the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 to the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Ouyang Jianping, a lieutenant colonel in the Na
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Yangcheng 飏城
This is just one of countless stories from the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression: sacrifice, passion, fear, and moving moments fill every cell. In this era, even love seems to have been reduced to waiting...
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A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金
Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代
Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!!
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代
Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him.
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Dual Travels in Republican-Era China: Slaughtering the Japanese Invaders 双穿民国之屠戮倭寇
Li Xiaren was an outstanding young man who had been 25 for years. After finally finding a girlfriend, he was just about to duo queue with her when a ball lightning bolt whisked him away to Shanghai during the Republican era. To his surprise, the mark left by the ball lightning lets him travel back and forth between the two worlds. In an instant, two monumental eras open up before him...
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Transmigrate to the Water Margin: Dominate the World 穿越水浒之雄霸天下
Wu Zhantian was one of China’s top special forces soldiers. While carrying out a top-secret mission, he was betrayed by a traitor. To ensure his teammates could withdraw safely, Wu Zhantian stayed behind alone. Seriously wounded in a sneak attack by the Japanese invaders, he chose to detonate the button bomb he carried rather than be taken prisoner. He and dozens of members of the Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces perished together. Wu Zhantian thought he was as good as dead, but the flourishing
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Traveling Between Two Worlds: 1970 两界穿梭之1970
After getting drunk in an accident, Wu Xiaoyao somehow transmigrated to the fiery era of the past. With a System that lets him travel between two worlds, he now has two great eras before him...
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Between Two Worlds: 1973 两界穿梭之1973
An unexpected transmigration brought Wu Xiaoyao, an outstanding young man from the 21st century, to the 1970s. The golden finger that comes with transmigrating gave him hope of surviving. As the System leveled up, Wu Xiaoyao discovered that he could travel back and forth between the modern era and the 1970s. Two completely different worlds opened up before him!
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Rising to Power Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之崛起
After getting drunk and tumbling down a flight of stairs, the protagonist Wu Xiaoyao accidentally transmigrates to the 1970s. Luckily, he has the essential transmigration golden finger: releasing animals. See how Wu Xiaoyao carves out a place of his own in this fiery era.
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The Controller of Ten Thousand Worlds, Roaming the City 万界掌控者都市逍遥
Wu Zhantian, a young man from Huaxia, accidentally fell from the summit of Mount Hua. He was rescued by the Venerable Myriad Swords, who happened to be passing by Earth. Wu Zhantian was then taken to the top-tier world of the Hongmeng Realm, where he became the Venerable Myriad Swords' disciple and began cultivating. By chance, his master found the Origin of the World in the Myriad Venerables' Secret Realm. But Dragon Rock Emperor, an ancient skeleton, and the Venerable Myriad Swords' eldest dis
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The Iron-Blooded Tigers Battle the Ming 铁血虎贲战大明
Chinese special forces king Wu Zhantian was betrayed by a traitor during a mission. To avoid being captured by the enemy, Wu Zhantian set off the miniature bomb strapped to his body, dying alongside dozens of enemy special forces soldiers. By chance, he touched the laws of the game. He rebuilt his body, copied abilities, and saved the Ming Dynasty from ruin. To stop the Yangzhou Massacre and the Jiading Massacres, Wu Zhantian, China's special forces king, refused to stand by. He tore Aobai apart
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Transmigrate to the Song Dynasty: The Empire's Mighty Rise 穿越之大宋雄风
A wondrous transmigration, invincible from the start. See how our protagonist, Wu Yue, recruits the heroes of Liangshan, gets up close and personal with Li Shishi, defeats mighty bandits and sweeps away powerful invaders. See how we Han people conquer the world.
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Transmigrate to the Late Han and Fight for the World 穿越汉末争天下
Wu Xiaoyao, a Chinese special forces soldier, is betrayed by a traitor while carrying out a mission in an island nation. To cover his teammates' retreat, he detonates the bomb strapped to him, taking the enemy down with him. Unexpectedly, he awakens the destiny of China. His body is remade, and he transmigrates to the Three Kingdoms era. By a twist of fate, he meets the peerless master Li Yan, who takes him on as a disciple! With his extraordinary combat skills, assassination techniques, and aut
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Transmigrating to the Late Han Dynasty to Rule the World 穿越汉末霸天下
Wu Xiaoyao is an active-duty special forces king. While on a mission in the Sakura Islands, he is betrayed by a spy who had been hiding in China for more than thirty years. To protect his teammates as they retreat, he single-handedly takes on the entire Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces unit, more than 180 men, and kills over a hundred Japanese devils. Exhausted, he raises his head to the sky and roars, "I have the will to kill the enemy, but not the strength to turn the tide!" Then he detonates
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The Urban Cultivator’s Carefree Life 修真者都市逍遥
Wu Xiaoyao was a young man from China. While climbing Mount Laojun, he was accidentally sucked into a black hole and transported to a world filled with powerful cultivators. As an ordinary mortal, he thought he was as good as dead, but unexpectedly, he gained the cultivation legacy of the Venerable of Ten Thousand Swords. Relying on his Chinese bloodline, he fought his way through every obstacle. After countless trials and hardships, he rose to the realm of Supreme Sovereign of the Myriad Worlds
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Moonlight Fort 明月堡
Set after the Central Plains War, this work follows the rise and fall of the Hu family, a prominent business clan in Mianshang County in central Shanxi, and the joys and sorrows shared by two generations. It portrays the region’s distinctive local customs and bears the clear imprint of its era.
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Espionage: From Agent to Japanese Aristocrat 谍战：从特工到鬼子贵族
“Who am I? …Chen Lin? …Or Konoe Ichiro? …Chinese? Or Japanese?…” “You are Konoe Ichiro, heir to Japan’s Konoe family, one of the Five Regent Houses, and Konoe Fumimaro’s eldest grandson. You are Japanese!!!” “That’s right, I’m Konoe Ichiro… Konoe Ichiro… I am Konoe Ichiro… I’m Japanese… Then who are you?” “Me? My name is Chen Lin! I’m Chinese… Chen Lin!”
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Dreaming of the Pearl River 梦回珠江
This work is based on the revolutionary history of the Guangdong Army. Its characters and relationships were inspired by stories passed down by word of mouth among the elders. It tells of soldiers’ choices between their country and their love during the revolutionary era…
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Wild Pansy 山堇花
Lin Meng escaped the great bombing of Wuhan, only to be kidnapped and sold to a wealthy household in the countryside as the bride of an idiot. Her life was full of misfortune, yet she found a different kind of happiness...
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North Gate, South City 北门南城
The front line stretches from north to south, and the story begins in a small town in the Northeast. Decline, hope, redemption, hardship, pain, and love reaching ever farther: it all feels like a dream. The story unfolds through its male and female leads, depicting the helplessness of wartime.
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