Classic Spy Novels: Got Any Recommendations? 经典谍战小说，推荐几个呗
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Espionage: I Can See People's Identities 谍战我能看到身份信息
He graduated from the Qingpu Special Training Class, a rookie on the intelligence battlefield. He will defend his country and protect it to the death. The Japanese invaders have already destroyed his home. Now all that remains is to defend the nation! Along the way, he uses his ability to investigate people’s identities to kill collaborators and eliminate Japanese spies. To the warriors on the covert front, your achievements will live forever.
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Just Like His Father and Grandfather Once Were 就像他父辈和祖辈曾经的模样
(From World War I to World War II) (Slow burn, with the focus mainly on the period after World War I) (A note for readers who may want to pass: It's slow-paced. It has some wish-fulfillment, but nothing too outrageous.) (Alternate history) “Deceivers and doers aren't necessarily opposites. Deception takes many forms. If my actions make you believe that this is who I am, then I've succeeded in deceiving you. As for being a doer, I deceived you all and then made my deception a reality.” Humphryck
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My Ten Years Working at the Xishan Base 我在西山基地工作的那十年
Anomaly containment, an overpowered protagonist? No. High IQ. One heroine. Some heartbreaking plot twists. Beijing, Xishan, 3,000 meters underground: hundreds of anomalous objects. A digital Earth that drifted through space for ten thousand years; a woman who transmigrated a thousand years into the past and died during the Shang dynasty; a colossal stone pillar that appeared on the North China Plain; Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor, who have survived for four eras; a pen that can improve people’s
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Espionage: You Were Told to Go Undercover, So How Did You Become the Boss of Shanghai? 谍战：让你潜伏，你成淞沪大佬？
[Espionage + no System + no brainless plot + loyal revolutionary roots + multiple identities] In the twentieth year of the Republic of China, the head of the Red Party's Third Special Section was arrested and immediately defected. Overnight, around a hundred outstanding Red Party comrades were arrested. Within a year, spies had uncovered nearly all of the Red Party's secret safe houses in Shanghai. Whenever the nation is in peril, heroes always step forward. Zhang Mingxue, only twenty-five years
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King of Spies: Shanghai from the Start 谍战之王：开局上海滩
Parallel World! Parallel World! Parallel World! [Spy thriller + Military Statistics Bureau + Cheat powers + Feel-good story] On the eve of the 1937 Incident. Lin Feng, a young agent newly returned from studying abroad, awakens a telepathic ability and sets out to destroy the Special Higher Police. Don't lie to me. I can hear the spy inside you. The overall course of history will remain unchanged.
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Espionage: I Have X-Ray Vision! 谍战：我有一双透视眼！
After his soul transmigrated to 1935, he found himself in the Republic of China era as a member of an operational squad in the Lixing Society. Since he was from Jiangxi, Gao Lingyu was always pushed to the front lines during operations to capture Japanese spies, serving as cannon fodder. But there was always a way out. From the start, during an operation to capture Japanese spies, he discovered that his eyes could see through anything: walls, people, cars, flowers, plants, and trees... His X-ray
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Espionage: A Fight to the Death 谍战：生死较量
In early 1928, Su Ziwu, the son of a wealthy family, is arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang's Special Operations Group, then secretly trained as an agent. During an operation to crack a secret Japanese spy organization, a Chinese Communist underground operative sacrifices herself to protect Su Ziwu's identity. Stunned by this revelation, Su Ziwu makes an even greater discovery: the "Thousand Faces" instructor who has been training him in the Kuomintang unit is also a member of the Chinese
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Lost in the Spy Game 谍海迷踪
The turbulent age is rife with calamity! A young man with some martial arts and medical skills finds himself working as a doctor for a gang. When the nation faces a crisis, he secretly joins the underground Communist Party. Keeping a low profile, biding his time, and acting decisively and ruthlessly, he endures one trial after another, becomes a member of the Military Statistics Bureau and the 76th Bureau, and begins a ghostlike career as a spy!
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Blood and Iron in the War Against Japan 抗日之铁血狂兵
Those who invade China, however far away, must be punished. Special forces soldier Zhao Zhiguo unexpectedly found himself on the battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Drawing on his extensive combat experience, he led his troops to repeatedly defeat the Japanese invaders. Zhao Zhiguo and his men showed the Japanese that the descendants of Huaxia were not to be trifled with. With their burning passion, they forged an iron Great Wall of resistance!
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An Old Pocket Watch 一块老怀表
By a stroke of luck, Mai Tianyu acquired a time-trading System after a disaster. While carrying out missions, he stays true to himself and saves patients without holding anything back. The treasured pocket watch he carries attracts far too much attention, putting him at risk of threats, kidnapping, and assassination. With the System and his steadily growing cultivation, he manages to turn danger aside time and again.
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Struggling in the Darkness: I Am the Ant Queen 黑暗挣扎之我是蚁后
After Lin Wei drops dead from overwork, she is reborn as a captive queen ant. Her invaders treat her as a breeding tool, demanding strong soldier ants from her day and night. She keeps her true intentions hidden, steals opportunities, gives birth to all kinds of strange ants, and creates openings to wage a battle for survival. Starvation, self-mutilation, kin-slaughter, stealing food, training, miracles... In the end, she uses human intelligence to wage war and reclaim the throne that is hers. A
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The Secret of My Lunchtime Buddy 午休搭子的秘密
Xu Qian is a young man crushed by fate. After losing his job and his mother, and being saddled with enormous debts, he stands on the edge of an overpass, ready to end this suffocating life. But fate has more in store for him. A bolt of lightning strikes him, and he unexpectedly gains the ability to heal himself. To repay the enormous debts left behind after his mother’s death from illness, he becomes a special companion on the “Lunch Break Buddy” app, offering a service of “quiet companionship,
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Right or Wrong, One to Six 对错一比六
A unique era and extraordinary experiences shaped the main character Xiao Jiu's distinctive personality, way of thinking, and outlook on life. His views on many things differ from those of ordinary people, but he is no rebel against convention. His ideas about love and marriage are especially original: clear-eyed, perceptive, and above the ordinary. Reality often plays tricks on our ideals. Though Xiao Jiu is principled and upright, he still faces conflicts between morality and kindness, law and
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Reborn, I Somehow Became a Real Eunuch 重生，我竟然成了真太监
[No System + True Eunuch + Conspiracies + Open Schemes + Cunning + Shameless + Alternate World + Contest for Supremacy + Maybe the palace gates can be opened later] (For the best listening experience, try the supernatural narration setting. Watching and listening at the same time is great fun.) Yang Wei, an ordinary office drone from the 23rd century, is fated to be a lone star one day. As the saying goes, when the King of Hell says you must leave at the third watch, how could you possibly stay
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A Tale of the Records of the Grand Historian 话说史记
Records of the Grand Historian is one of China’s greatest historical works, as well as a literary classic from ancient China with immense literary value. Lu Xun praised it as “the historian’s swan song, a Li Sao without rhyme.” But because it is written in classical Chinese, it is difficult to understand. While respecting the original, I have retold it as a story that everyone can understand, and hope readers will enjoy it with me. My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I
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Back to 1937: Kill Japanese Invaders to Recharge the Nation's Fortune 重回1937，杀鬼子充值国运
Transmigration to 1937 Shanghai + a light System element + espionage + resistance against Japan + urban warfare and purging traitors + no romance. If you don’t mind the protagonist being a woman, this book is for readers of all genders. You could call it a female-led story. A lecturer at the police university transmigrates to 1937. She has 72 hours to complete her mission, or she dies. By day, she’s an angel in white, saving lives. By night, she’s a grim judge, delivering death. She kills Japane
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A Few Things About Graduate School 读研二三事
This novel combines humor, school life, and original music. A fun story about eating, drinking, playing, and getting up to mischief on campus. It’s sure to make for a relaxing read and leave you laughing out loud! The story unfolds in a witty, humorous style, with several original songs woven into the narrative. The plot has the feel of a sitcom: each chapter tells its own story, while the chapters are connected. Everyone is welcome to take a look and enjoy! Original songs include: The First Tim
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Sunlight at the End of a Fated Bond 宿缘烬处有阳光
Yu Fang, in her early forties, thought the hardships of her first half of life had written the whole story of her fate: a poor but brilliant student forced to drop out, a disastrous marriage that trapped her in domestic abuse, and, after her divorce, years spent raising her son alone. All that awaited her now was a lonely old age. Lü Hengyang, nearing forty, was also struggling through life. His family had fallen into decline and retreated to the mountains. After several heartbreaks, he married
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Robbing Tombs with One Hand and Taking Pulses with the Other: The Unhinged Empress Can Do It All 一手摸金一手诊脉疯批皇后她全能
[Transmigration + political intrigue + archaeology + wild imagination] Feng Wan, an archaeology expert and medical doctor, touches a mysterious bracelet. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself lying in a coffin, attending her own funeral! After transmigrating into the body of a crown princess poisoned by an assassin, all she wants is to lie flat, keep her head down, and stay out of palace intrigues so she can survive. An unexpected run-in with enemies at a casino, along with her rescue of
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Warrior King Xie Baoqing 兵王谢宝庆
Li Yunlong: Xie Baoqing! Get your sorry ass out here! Hiding in your hole like a turtle, are you? Xie Baoqing: C-Commander Li! Let’s talk this out! Our Black Cloud Stronghold has already agreed to join the Eighth Route Army under Commander Kong. We’ve even got our unit designation: the Independent Detachment of the New Second Regiment! Li Yunlong: The Eighth Route Army? You think you’re fit to say those words? Your men chopped off my guard’s head. You didn’t know about that? Xie Baoqing: Comm
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Snow Leopard: Steel Storm 雪豹之钢铁风暴
The flames of war have died down, but the heroes are not old. The legendary story of Snow Leopard continues in a new chapter. The dawn of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan brought no lasting peace. Xu Hu, Shuisheng, Zhuzi, and the other members of the Snow Leopard special forces, led by Zhou Weiguo and Liu Yuan, barely had time to wash the dust of battle from their uniforms before throwing themselves into the mighty tide of liberation. From the East China battlefield, they rode to
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The Spirit of Jin and the Charm of Qin 晋风秦韵
War of Resistance spy thriller! Patriotic passion! A story of love and hatred spanning three generations of Chinese and Japanese people! In southern Jin, a prominent nationalist family lost six lives. Only one branch of the family survived, in Shaanxi.
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Spy Among Spies in the Republic of China 民国谍中谍
A string of magical prayer beads sends Luo Shaoqiang, a rural development leader, dreaming back to the Republic of China. In this turbulent, chaotic era, he starts out as a police officer, investigating murder cases and tracking down the real culprits. He faces one conspiracy layered atop another and navigates a web of intelligence agencies, walking along cliff edges and dancing on blades as he joins the epic War of Resistance.
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Espionage: The Days I Slacked Off at the Military Statistics Bureau 谍战我在军统摆烂的日子
We live in a peaceful era, but how many nameless heroes sacrificed their lives for this country and its people? History books are too thin to contain their greatness. Turn a page, and you've got their whole lives! History books are also too thick. We can't remember their names; we only know that they are heroes! He transmigrates through time to China during the War of Resistance Against Japan and takes the place of the original owner. Following his elders' arrangements, he joins the Juntong as a
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Transmigrating Through the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Sun and Moon Light My Way 穿越之日月照我隋唐路
He was just a 2025 spy operating on the edge of a knife. An accidental explosion sent him transmigrating to the turbulent years of the Sui and Tang dynasties. Reborn in another body, he finds himself the young lord of a frontier people. Should he take up the shepherd's crook and continue living a pastoral life? Or command a hundred thousand mounted archers and challenge the Sui and Tang, the Tujue, and the Gaobaixin Japanese? A cinnabar mole, a moonlight of the heart... His reach extends to ever
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Reborn Impostor 重生伪装者
With exceptional skills and an outlook far ahead of his time, Liu Zhenhua serves his country under several layers of assumed identities. He gives everything he has for his 455 million countrymen. If I must die on the battlefield for my country, why should I care whether my body is brought home in a horsehide shroud?
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Transmigrated to World War II: I Went Undercover in Germany 穿越到二战，我在德国做卧底
[Historical espionage + transmigration and undercover work + no System + master of disguise] From Dunkirk to Operation Barbarossa, he rises step by step to become the Empire’s most loyal strategic genius! Berlin, 1940. The German high command is preparing for war against the Soviet Union. With no System and no supernatural abilities, he carefully maneuvers through one precarious situation after another. Others offer advice to secure victory. He offers advice to send the Empire plunging into t
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Wielding Wind and Thunder in Silence 无声执风雷
[Modern-day agent + modern-day espionage + mind-bending] By a twist of fate, a reporter met a former covert operative. After getting to know him, the reporter came up with the idea for this story. Thanks to it, he went from working for a small-time newspaper to becoming editor-in-chief. The story he wants to tell is about a group of young people and their lives on the secret front.
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The Fourth Cipher 第四套密码
The Fourth Cipher
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The Brave Always Win 勇者必胜
Will Golland and his girlfriend, Aminni, joined the SBS and SAS, the British commandos, one after the other. They were born to fight the war against fascism. Raiding behind enemy lines, they struck fear into the hearts of Nazi demons. Their footsteps carried them across France, Norway, and the battlefields of North Africa. They wore green berets, and their name was the Commandos.
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The Raging Eastern Front 狂飙的东线
The Führer is assassinated, and Goering takes over the Third Reich. He appoints Kahn Regismond as commissioner on the Eastern Front, granting him command over the German forces there. The Battle of Stalingrad begins. Can he change the course of the war?
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No One Knows Your Name 你的名字无人知晓
This is a “book of darkness” for hardcore fans of historical spy fiction. If you’re hoping for someone to transmigrate or be reborn, or for a System that gives them cheat-like powers... there’s still time to leave. But if you long to sink into the real, filthy quagmire of espionage from 1930 to 1949, rife with conspiracies, schemes, and betrayal, and to witness with your own eyes how an ordinary man is forged by the Soviet NKVD into a nameless phantom, shaping the course of war from the shadows
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Espionage: From the Start, I'm Told to Investigate My Own Communist Party 谍战：开局让我一个红党查红党
A leak at the newly established Zhejiang branch of the Fuxing Society led to a failed arrest. Acting on Dai’s orders, Lin Mingyu, a Communist Party member undercover at the Central Army Officer Academy, heads to the Zhejiang branch to secretly investigate the Communist Party infiltrators.
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Infiltrating the Military Statistics Bureau, I Accidentally Built an Arms Empire 我在军统搞渗透，竟造出军火帝国
After transmigrating to a world of espionage, Ren Pingsheng becomes a nobody in the archives room. After accidentally activating the [Mission Lottery System], Ren Pingsheng mows down people like grass and blows up buildings like he’s setting off firecrackers! Zheng Yaoxian treats him like a brother, while the higher-ups are completely wrapped around his finger. Everyone thinks Ren Pingsheng rose through the ranks by sucking up to powerful people. Who would have guessed that, in the blink of an e
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Espionage: I Make Up All My Intel 谍战我的情报全靠编
Chen Feng, a modern-day wage earner, transmigrates back to the Republican era and becomes a military intelligence agent. Drawing on the knowledge he gained in the future, he writes a legendary chapter in the world of espionage in the Republican era, becoming a legend among intelligence agencies around the world.
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Espionage: I Was Undercover, Then Awakened the Fierce Cop System! 谍战：潜伏的我却觉醒悍警系统！
[Espionage + Wits and Strategy + Cheat Ability + Ruthless + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Punishing the Japanese Invaders + Tycoon] When it comes to killing Japanese invaders, is anything more satisfying than slaughtering them openly, right in front of their own men, and then getting promoted and rewarded by them afterward? Li Mengzhou transmigrates to Shanghai in 1938, becoming a rookie who has just joined the police force, and awakens the Tough Cop (Bandit) System! “This is occupied territory! The crim
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Silent Glory: Blade Against Time 沉默的荣耀之逆时之刃
A spin-off novel in the "Glory of Silence" series, telling the story of an unlucky man who transmigrates into a spy thriller with a System. Follow him as he navigates Taiwan during the White Terror and makes it out unscathed.
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Espionage: From the Start, I Shoot a Secret Agent from the Special High Police 谍战：开局击毙特高课特务
Liu Wentao transmigrates to the Republic of China era. Every Japanese soldier he kills earns him a reward, which he uses to buy weapons and help resist the invasion. Many people wonder who killed the chief of the Japanese Special Service Agency and blew up the counterfeit banknote printing plant. No one knows it was him. Liu Wentao keeps a low profile, moving along the edge of life and death as he carries out the boldest missions! Rumble! An explosion echoes as black smoke billows from the Speci
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Espionage: I Can Possess Corpses 谍战：我能附身尸体
(Transmigration + covert infiltration + assassination + sabotage + pocket dimension) Jiang Yunfei, a young man from the modern era, transmigrates to the early days of the War of Resistance and becomes an agent in the intelligence division of the Military Statistics Bureau's Shencheng Station. Just after he arrives, a traitor sells them out. The intelligence division's safehouse is surrounded by the agents of 76, and they're about to be wiped out! Fortunately, Jiang Yunfei gains the ability to po
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Espionage: From the Start, I’m an Underground Party Agent, Leveling Up on My Own! 谍战：开局地下党，我独自升级！
The moment he opens his eyes, information security engineer Shen Ye finds that he has transmigrated to Shanghai in 1938, a city battered by war, and become an underground Party member on the verge of exposure! From the start, it’s a nightmare: within three days, he must infiltrate the Japanese military’s Tokko headquarters and steal a top-secret intelligence file that will decide the organization’s fate, right under the nose of Kenichi Sato, a “China expert”! Fortunately, the [Eye of Intellige
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Intelligence Codename: I Am Candle Shadow 谍报代号我是烛影
He is the Chen family’s only son, a wealthy young master, fluent in several languages, a top expert, and equipped with memories from his rebirth and a portable pocket dimension. On the surface, he is a carefree playboy. Inside, he is a soldier driven by urgency and guilt after being reborn. He plays a multifaceted spy while cultivating ties with all sides. Love of country and family: the romance and moving spirit of a “lone hero.”
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Agent: The Treasure Chest System Makes the Impostor Stronger 特工：宝箱系统，伪装者开始变强
Chen Shi transmigrates into a world that brings together the spy dramas Kite, The Disguiser, The Wind, The Invisible Guardian, and Undercover. After getting drunk, he picks up Yu Manli and joins the Military Statistics Bureau's training camp. He stands out at the camp, uncovering several Japanese spy networks in Shancheng. He never misses when he makes a move. Even the slightest clue won't escape his notice. His methods are ruthless, earning him the name “Chen Yama” from the Japanese Special Ser
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One Man’s War of Resistance: My Blade Is No Less Sharp 一个人的抗战：我的刀也未尝不利
[Resistance War espionage + no System + illustrations + joins no faction + goes it alone + heads to the Northeast + heads south to Nanyang] Chen Beixuan, a former elite lone-wolf operative and lieutenant colonel forced into a desk job by an injury, is reassigned by his superiors to maintain an S-class wartime safe house directly under military intelligence headquarters. It looks like he's still being entrusted with important work, but Chen Beixuan knows better: it's practically an early retireme
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Espionage: Rising from Cannon Fodder 谍战：从炮灰开始崛起
A new book is out: “War of Resistance: Turning Dad into a Rising Star.” It’s a feel-good War of Resistance novel. Please check it out. The previous book is about to conclude, and an audiobook narrated by a real person is now available. Readers who enjoy audiobooks are welcome to check it out. [War of Resistance Espionage + System-Powered Wish Fulfillment + Multiple Paths of Development + Military Statistics Bureau in the Early Story + Army in the Later Story + Beating the Japanese to a Pulp] Son
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Bright Sword: Why Did You Capture So Much Loot? 亮剑：为什么你的缴获这么多
Zhang Yun, a staff member at a New Era War of Resistance Memorial Hall, carries a game cheat that boosts captured loot by 0.5 times as he transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword" and becomes a member of the Eighth Route Army. See how he uses this golden finger to fight the Japanese invaders alongside regiment commanders like Li Yunlong and Kong Jie. A carefully researched novel with a moderate golden finger, and no weapons that exceed their era!
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One of the Eight Great Generals of the Military Statistics Bureau: I Am Zheng Yaoxian 军统八大金刚之我是郑耀先
[Espionage + history + secret agents] No power fantasy, no golden finger. Read with caution if that's not your thing. “I once thought I was Zheng Yaoxian of the Military Statistics Bureau, Ghost Six, a killing machine. But my brothers, you used your lives to teach me that you were Chinese first and foremost. Today, we have all gotten our wish. Consider this peaceful, prosperous world something I’m seeing on your behalf…”
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Shadows of Espionage: Operation Rat Hunt 谍影重袭：猎鼠行动
This is the second espionage novel following Shadow in the Clouds. It is about a “mole's nest” that has infiltrated the upper ranks of the Ministry of State Security, and the series of life-and-death struggles between Luan Jianglong, Zhou Yutong, and the “mole's nest”…
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The Sand of Theseus 忒修斯之砂
The Sand of Theseus is a post-apocalyptic allegory blending sci-fi suspense with philosophical speculation. While investigating a series of severed-finger murders, Detective Lin Xia accidentally uncovers her father’s legacy: a quantum utopia project. The entire city is actually a virtual cage imprisoning human consciousness, and every case is a cruel enactment of the System’s self-checking procedure. When she discovers that her memories have been altered and her body pieced together from forty-t
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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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The Phoenix-Eyed Agent: I Tear My Rotten Enemies Apart in Republican-Era China 凤眼女特工：我在民国手撕渣敌
I, Su Wanqing, am a small-time female thug at the bottom of the heap at Jiangcheng Wharf. My only talent is hearing other people’s thoughts. For three years, I used that ability to dodge countless assassination attempts, until I met a coachman who was nearly beaten to death. My heart skipped a beat: this man’s thoughts were actually pure.
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