Spy Novels With a Cautious Lead Who Puts His Own Survival First 谍战，很苟，自己命最重要

1. 51 抗 War of Resistance: From the Start, I'm Surrounded by 100,000 Japanese Soldiers 抗战，开局被十万鬼子包围了 Happy Little Heihei快乐的小嘿嘿Urban1.2M WordsCompleted The moment he opened his eyes. He had transmigrated to the start of the War of Resistance Against Japan. The bad news: He was born inside the enemy's encirclement, with hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops surrounding him. Zhang Xing'an had no choice but to change into Japanese army clothes on the spot. With his golden finger, he successfully infiltrated the enemy ranks on the battlefield. Starting out as a soldier with a “noble” status, he rose step by step to become a senior Japanese comma 10.1kReads8.4Score606Shelves
2. 52 谍 Code Name: Wick 谍战代号灯芯 Blessings Every Day恩赐天天Urban2.1M WordsOngoing 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 12.7kReads7.5Score1.4kShelves

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   This Republican-era spy drama, focusing on meticulous details and strategic maneuvering, meticulously depicts various plot devices such as surveillance, coded rendezvous, infiltration by informants, and maneuvering within the police station. The settings—such as a tailor's apprentice acting as an informant, a spies passing messages in a teahouse, and hidden files containing whistleblower records—are consistent with the historical context and avoid being detached from reality.

3. 53 谍 Espionage: From the Start, I Become a Japanese Aristocratic Officer 谍战：开局化身日本贵族军官 Cabbage Sprout白菜秧子Urban2.3M WordsCompleted Li Yan was a frail, sickly man until one day he discovered that he had gained a doppelganger with a highly sensitive identity. Connecting his various doubles to his real body was a modest-sized storage space. From then on, he began moving through the largest commercial city in the Far East under a variety of identities. A covert agent for the Military Investigation Bureau, an aristocratic officer in the Japanese Marines, a rickshaw puller by day and a rooftop-running bandit by night… All these i 22.1kReads8.5Score1.8kShelves
4. 54 纯 A Pure Heart: A Life-or-Death Game 纯净的心：生死牌局 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我9k WordsCompleted A Pure Heart: The Life-and-Death Card Game 424Reads—Score—Shelves

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   In "Shanghai Nights: Triumph in Shanghai," Lin Ge forms an alliance with Feng Jingyao for Bai Wei (Feng Linglong), but many of the traitors and scourges he purges are Feng's underworld henchmen.

5. 55 穿 I Transmigrated into a Book and Started Farming and Studying in a Warlord's Household 穿书后，我在军阀后院种田学习 Immortal White Crane白鹤仙Modern Romance780k WordsCompleted Jiang Jiangjiang was an utterly ordinary countryside lifestyle video blogger. After graduating from college, she returned to her home in a remote mountain village, where she raised cats, grew vegetables, cooked, and filmed videos to earn a little money. Apart from that, she liked reading novels. Who could have guessed that she'd wake up inside the melodramatic novel A Rose in Troubled Times, a tale as sappy as Love Deeply? She'd even become Jiang Xiyue, a cannon-fodder character who wasn't impor 3.5kReads8.7Score246Shelves

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   🦚🦚Here comes the cowardly one🦚🦚 🦄🦄 [1]🦄🦄The female lead in this book has a system. She transmigrates as a child and can only slowly grow stronger by hiding her strength. The system is quite powerful, with a significant cheat ability. As she grows stronger, it secretly helps her. She's quite cunning. 🦄🦄 [2]🦄🦄This one is also good. She has a system, but the cheat ability isn't that big. The plot is fast-paced and not a mindless novel. The characters are vividly portrayed. Worth reading. 🦄🦄 [3]🦄🦄The female lead's cheat ability in this book is really too big. It really feels like a mindless wish-fulfillment novel, a bit fantastical, but I really hope that everything in it can come true in reality. It's really good.

6. 56 1 1938: From the Start, It's Hell 1938：开局地狱 Dream of a Winter Night冬夜之梦Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Patriotic tale + wartime resistance and espionage + multiple identities + strong female lead + System + no romance After Kong Qianrou dies by accident, she transmigrates to the Republican era. She knows how to choose between dying right away or waiting a little longer to die. Looking at a land torn apart, she wears an innocent expression as she takes up the butcher's blade, becoming someone who strikes terror into the Japanese. On the outside, the protagonist is a Republican-era Lin Daiyu. In re 16.9kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves

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   The protagonist is highly intelligent and has an exceptionally high EQ. The plot is full of twists and turns, and the writing style is humorous and witty. He is so cunning that he can even fool his enemies.

7. 57 夜 Night Shanghai: Making My Name on the Bund 夜上海之扬威上海滩 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Male-Channel Fanfiction237k WordsCompleted Lin Ge and Bai Wei transmigrate into the TV series Shanghai Bund, arriving in 1930s Shanghai. They clash fiercely with the Japanese and throw themselves into the nationwide resistance, helping launch the 1932 Battle of Shanghai. 117Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 58 谍 Spy War 1937: From the Start, I Wiped Out the Special Higher Section 谍战1937：开局血洗特高科 Zixiao Ke紫霄客Urban2.8M WordsCompleted Transmigration + Spy Warfare + Bloody Slaughter + Spatial Power While playing a game, modern young man Zhang Yunhe transmigrates to 1937 and becomes an agent for the Blue Shirts Society. To his surprise, he has brought along the Iron Warriors’ equipment from the game. Using its cloaking ability, he wipes out the entire Special Higher Police Agency from the start, striking such terror into the enemy that they tremble in fear. After that, he easily acquires enemy intelligence and maneuvers through 5.3kReads8.3Score339Shelves

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   🍃The entire story features high intelligence, offering a high-IQ spy novel experience. While there's a cheat system, it's not significant. The protagonist's cheat ability is to see through other people's identities, but only if that identity is registered with their organization; otherwise, it's ineffective. Furthermore, the protagonist primarily relies on his intelligence to outmaneuver enemies and complete missions. For example, his codename, "Barbed Wire," saw several changes in superiors, yet he remained alive and well! And in the end, he even survived until the victory of the War of Resistance!

9. 59 谍 Espionage: I'm a Shanghai Scion, Codenamed Porter 谍战：我，沪上大少，代号搬运工 Flowers Bloom and Flowers Fade花开又花谢Urban460k WordsOngoing In Shanghai, occupied by the invaders, there is a prominent and illustrious family: the Lin family of Shanghai. The eldest brother, Lin Zhenbang, is the military command's finance chief in Shanghai, codename: God of Wealth. His true identity is a secret underground intelligence agent, codename: Cedar. The second brother, Lin Duhan, is chief of the military command's operations division in Shanghai, codename: Killer. The eldest sister, Lin Hanyue, is chief of intelligence at the Shanghai station 5.5kReads6.1Score488Shelves

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   In Shanghai, occupied by invaders, there lived a prominent and prestigious family—the Lin family. The eldest brother, Lin Zhenbang, was the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau's Shanghai financial division, codenamed "God of Wealth," but his true identity was a secret agent for the underground Communist Party, codenamed "Cedar." The second brother, Lin Duhan, was the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau's Shanghai operations section, codenamed "Assassin." The third sister, Lin Hanyue, was the head of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics' Shanghai intelligence section, codenamed "Music Box," and also had a hidden identity, codenamed "Deep Sea." The protagonist, Lin Yun, was the youngest brother, always pampered by his older siblings. They all hoped he would stay away from danger and live a peaceful life; the Lin family's wealth was more than enough to support him as a carefree playboy. But no one could have imagined that this seemingly ordinary and unassuming young master of the Lin family was actually the most deeply hidden patriot, codenamed "Porter." A transmigrator disguised as an ordinary person, a hidden night emissary, wielding multiple identities: President of the Hundred Knowledge Society, Master of the Time Pavilion, and Master of the Dark Fire Hall. These titles, hated to the core by traitors and applauded by the Chinese people, depict a family navigating the turbulent undercurrents of Shanghai, a thrilling tale unfolds.

10. 60 夜 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Urban282k WordsCompleted Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 203Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 61 特 Agent: From the Start, I Make Contact with Zheng Yaoxian 特工：开局郑耀先和我接头 Loves Tower Diving for Kills喜欢越塔杀Urban5.4M WordsCompleted Shen Fei transmigrates into a world that brings together several espionage dramas, all fraught with danger. Here, there are Kite, The Infiltrator, The Disguiser... And the person he’s supposed to meet is none other than Zheng Yaoxian, Sixth Brother of the Military Statistics Bureau! And so, a secret agent feared by the enemy emerges, codenamed “Nightmare”! 5kReads9.3Score506Shelves
12. 62 禁 Drug Enforcement Elite 禁毒精英 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Urban101k WordsCompleted Two major drug cartels operate in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. This is the story of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, and US Northern Command, assisting Mexican police in the fight against drug crime. 82Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 63 兼 Part-Time Secret Agent 兼职小特务 Under Two Hundred Pounds不到二百斤Urban1.8M WordsCompleted Xu Shitou is a part-time secret agent. He owns a tattered silk painting that lets him lie in wait for prey like a spider, letting them walk right into his trap. Born with one leg shorter than the other, he is known to everyone who knows him as Crooked Five. He lives with his family on the banks of the Huangpu River... 14.3kReads7.7Score829Shelves

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    [Top Post][Top Post][Top Post] ① [Proficiency Panel + Reward Space + Longevity Secret] The Longevity Secret: Killing and releasing animals grants longevity. Since we're already here, times make heroes. Wen San decides to pull a cart by day and eliminate evil to cultivate longevity by night. [Cool] ② [Talismans + Beast Taming + Space] A soul from the future, vowing to contribute its meager strength to expel the invaders. [Cool] ③ [Silk Painting Space + Family] Born with short legs, part-time killer of Japanese devils! [Cool][Cool][Cool][Please Follow]

14. 64 火 The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse341k WordsCompleted An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans. 58Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 65 来 Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse181k WordsCompleted Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later 22Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 66 泰 The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记：星尘之战 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse266k WordsCompleted Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 67 谍 Espionage: I Have a Phantom Express Van 谍战，我有一辆幽灵快递车 Steamed Bun and Rice Noodle Soup包子粉汤Urban1.3M WordsOngoing [Espionage] + [Behind Enemy Lines] + [Multiple Identities] + [Spatial Powers] + [The Green Gang]... The moment Yu Yang opened his eyes, he found himself in Republican-era Shanghai, a low-level Green Gang thug tasked with watching over a venue. He was also the Military Statistics Bureau's most peripheral informant, so peripheral he wasn't even worthy of a code name... One intelligence handoff caught the attention of the bureau's headquarters. Dai Li said, "From now on, his code name will be Lon 45.4kReads7.9Score4.6kShelves
18. 68 太 The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse202k WordsCompleted Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter 26Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 69 谍 Espionage: From the Start, I Could Hear People's Thoughts and Expose Japanese Spies 谍战：开局偷听心声，识破日谍 Daily Ten-Thousand-Word Writer日万小写手Urban3.7M WordsCompleted Su Mu wakes up one morning and finds he has transmigrated to the Republic of China, becoming a low-ranking agent for the Military Statistics Bureau! Just as he’s losing hope, he gains the ability to read people’s thoughts! Agent at No. 76: Damn it, how did our secret plan to arrest the deputy chief of the Military Statistics Bureau get leaked? Chief of the Special Services Section: Damn it, who exposed the top-secret agent infiltrating Mountain City? I’ll kill him! Headquarters of the Plum Bloss 66.5kReads8.8Score5.1kShelves

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    Espionage during the War of Resistance Against Japan required both cunning and audacity; they secretly carried out their missions, disguising themselves in front of the enemy and employing multiple guises.

20. 70 破 The Windbreaker 破风者 Half a Sunbeam半扇阳光Historical181k WordsCompleted 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, 2.4kReads8.8Score253Shelves

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    It realistically recreates a bloody and brutal battle on the secret front of our Party in Shanghai in 1931.

21. 71 潜 The Infiltrator: Spy Hunter 潜伏者【猎谍】 Xia Fengcheng夏风成Urban201k WordsOngoing A young man named Chen Heng is accidentally swept into a turbulent era by a copper pocket watch. Watch as he lies low in the shadows, builds an intelligence network, hunts spies, and works step by step toward the ideal he holds dear. 126Reads—Score103Shelves

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    Espionage intelligence is on point; recommended.

22. 72 无 No Return Call 无回电 Gold Medal Uncle金奖大叔Urban104k WordsOngoing In 1949, on a besieged island battered by storms. He is Jin Tie, deputy director of the Communications Department of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, codenamed "Fisherman." After twelve years undercover, he suddenly loses contact with his organization overnight. A piece of intelligence that could save hundreds of lives is trapped inside him, like a bomb with its fuse nearly spent. The enemy has arrived. Gu Shenyan, codenamed "Hound," is a top agent who trusts data, not human nature. H 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New spy novels available for seasoned readers.

23. 73 帝 The Empire's Setting Sun 帝国夕阳 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Historical9k WordsCompleted The Empire's Twilight 77Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 74 风 A Wind of Cranes and the Rustle of Grass 风声鹤唳 Jun Bu Jian君不贱Urban1.1M WordsCompleted A cuckoo cannot build its own nest. It can only take over the nests of other birds. What Feng Chen took over was not a nest, but someone else’s identity and name. Even the Military Statistics Bureau’s confidential files in Section Eight contained no photograph of him, only a codename known to no one: Red Cuckoo. A top Kuomintang agent, Feng Chen was ordered to infiltrate the Shanghai underground Communist Party to obtain the list of Communist agents embedded in the Military Statistics Bureau’s u 1.4kReads9.3Score171Shelves

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    1️⃣ A lighthearted spy comedy that blends time travel, a system, unconventional tropes, and dark humor. It breaks away from the serious, tense, and tragic tone of traditional spy novels, attempting to tell an alternative spy story through a "playing dumb" or "pretending to be weak while actually being strong" approach. 2️⃣ Following the success of "Barbed Wire," this is another masterpiece. The protagonist travels back to the Republic of China era and becomes a peripheral member of the national defense, gaining the ability to listen to others' thoughts (his cheat ability isn't very strong). The plot is thrilling, full of twists and turns, logically sound, and rife with foreshadowing and plot developments—you won't be able to put it down! (˶╹ꇴ╹˶)~

25. 75 月 Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cloudtop City 月海花亭：云顶城市 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cities Above the Clouds 60Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 76 谍 Espionage: You Were Told to Go Undercover, but You're Thriving 谍战：让你潜伏，你混得风生水起 Traveler in the Mortal World红尘阡陌客Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Spy thriller + no female lead] Lin Jiang transmigrates into the body of a peripheral operative at the Shanghai station of the Military Statistics Bureau, code-named Catfish. His handler is killed, the Shanghai station is wiped out, and the new station chief is another notorious traitor to the Bureau, at least according to Lin Jiang's memories! [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on awakening the Big Data Deduction System!] Special Higher Police School: “Who exactly is Catfish?” Military Statistics Bu 19.5kReads7.9Score1.4kShelves
27. 77 你 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 你是别样的风景 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 91Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 78 白 A Kiss from the Clouds 白云之吻 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted A Kiss from the White Clouds 41Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 79 谍 Espionage: I Can Eavesdrop on Everything 谍战：我能窃听万物 The Scholar with a Brush执笔的书生Urban397k WordsOngoing He's an agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, yet his superiors have ordered him to save the son of a Japanese military bigwig. He's a marginal figure in enemy intelligence circles, yet time and again he gets wind of the Japanese side's top-secret plans. He's timid, greedy, and lecherous, yet he repeatedly becomes the key to foiling the enemy's schemes. And the only reason he can do all this is that he has an extraordinary pair of ears, able to hear the sounds around him... 9Reads6.5Score—Shelves
30. 80 谍 Shadows of Espionage: Starting as a Patrol Officer 谍影暗杀：从巡警开始 Seeking Poetry in the Evening Glow晚照寻诗Urban1.4M WordsCompleted “Instant Mission: Kill Wang Mingchu, a traitor to the Fuxing Society. Reward: +50 combat skill experience.” Enhanced physique, martial arts, marksmanship, spatial abilities, disguise... When the Special High Commission discovers that collaborators are being killed one after another, when the Military Statistics Bureau cannot fathom how the Japanese army’s arsenal was blown up, and when the Red Party’s contact point suddenly receives an anonymous warning... No one would have guessed that the guy 19.8kReads7.3Score1.5kShelves
31. 81 在 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Strive for Happiness努力幸福Urban1.5M WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.4kReads5.8Score297Shelves

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32. 82 铁 Iron-Blooded Late Ming I: The Decisive Battle of Ruzhou 铁血晚明（一）汝州决战 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Historical6k WordsCompleted Iron-Blooded Late Ming (Part One): The Decisive Battle at Ruzhou 81Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 83 狼 Smoke and Mirrors: Wen San Drives a Cart to Kill the Japanese 狼烟鉴宝：文三拉车杀鬼子 Yi Ran Zou Chen Shuang弈然走沉霜Urban950k WordsOngoing Wen Shen transmigrates into Wolf Smoke Over Beiping and becomes Wen San, a rickshaw puller. He obtains a secret art of immortality: killing or sparing lives can earn him longevity. Since he's already here, and the times make heroes, Wen San decides to pull his rickshaw by day and punish evil by night to cultivate immortality. They say anyone in Beiping can slap Wen San twice, except for dogs. Of course, everyone who's ever slapped him has died, but since he's already here, he might as well take 4.5kReads8.7Score243Shelves
34. 84 大 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted Across the Ocean 61Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 85 双 Double Crossing to the Sixties, Hauling in 2026 双穿六零，搬运2026 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban127k WordsOngoing Set aside your personal standards and enjoy a life without scruples. Refuse to wear yourself down with overthinking; when something happens, just lose it. Better to inconvenience others than make yourself miserable. Su Tianci from 2026 unexpectedly transmigrates to the materially deprived 1960s. Two vast eras now lie before him. 591Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 86 我 I'm Just a Taoist, Definitely Not a Spy 我就是个道士，绝对不是特务 Follow Your Heart, Your Nature, Your Whim随心随性随意Urban956k WordsCompleted The nation has fallen, families have been destroyed, and the ancestral traditions wiped out. A young Taoist priest descends from the mountains, seeking both survival and a way to help the world. A soul from a later age vows to do his small part to drive out the invaders. 5kReads8.5Score328Shelves
37. 87 东 Dreams of Tokyo: Love Through the Four Seasons 东京梦华：爱有四季 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted Tokyo Dreams: Love Through the Seasons 83Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 88 超 Super Agent: Codename Sun Wukong 超级特工：代号孙悟空 Monkey God Uncle2020猴神大叔2020Urban1.5M WordsCompleted Fang Ping, a promising young doctor in the medical field of the twenty-first century, transmigrates to the War of Resistance era and becomes a doctor at Headquarters 76. Though trapped in the devil's lair, his heart remains with the light. The scalpel he uses to save lives also becomes a blade turned against the enemy. Like Sun Wukong burrowing into Princess Iron Fan's stomach, he leaves his enemies trembling with fear and terror. [A heartfelt story. Dive in without worry.] 15.1kReads8.1Score1.2kShelves

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    Espionage, time travel, so awesome!

39. 89 谍 Espionage: I Became the Biggest Secret Agent 谍战：我成了最大的特务头子 Brother Bao宝哥Urban3.6M WordsOngoing In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic, Xie Yanlai transmigrated back to Beiping. As a Whampoa Military Academy graduate assigned to reinforce the Beiping branch, he foiled Major Ishikawa of the Special Higher Police's plot to buy off Beiping's political leaders within half a month, breaking the record for the fastest promotion of a Whampoa graduate. A month later, he took down the North China Army's secret treasury. Three months later... Xie Yanlai was able to repeatedly earn outstanding mer 3.5kReads8.8Score330Shelves
40. 90 抗 War of Resistance: Building a Heavy Combined-Arms Brigade for the Decisive Battle of Songhu 抗战：打造重装合成旅，决战淞沪 Jiangxi Fried Rice Noodles江西炒米粉Urban1.5M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 7.9kReads8.2Score468Shelves

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    "Xu betrayed his country and surrendered to the enemy. The entire group died for their country. They are left to defend the area and await reinforcements. The third group is old wine."

41. 91 谍 Espionage: The Little Spy's Great Reversal 谍战：小特务大逆袭 Si Ruolan思若兰Urban1.8M WordsCompleted [Love for the Nation + Passionate Resistance Against Japan + One Heroine + Tense, Thrilling Plot + Ruthless and Decisive] With our nation on the brink of destruction, we have no choice but to risk everything and fight to save it. Military academy student Qin Tian transmigrates to the snowbound city of 1938 and becomes director of the General Affairs Section of the secret service bureau. On the surface, he is a carefree playboy, but in truth, he is a long-time undercover agent for the Communist P 8.3kReads8.6Score611Shelves

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    Because the nation is on the brink of extinction, we have no choice but to risk our lives to save it from any chance of survival. Military cadet Qin Tian travels back in time to a snow-covered city in 1938, becoming the head of the General Affairs Section of the Special Service Bureau. On the surface, he appears carefree and irresponsible, but in reality, he is a long-time undercover agent of the Communist Party. Together with his wife, Gu Shumei, they share life and death, passionately resisting the Japanese invasion, composing a story of love and national righteousness in that era. Read the full text.

42. 92 谍 Espionage: From the Start, I Could Hear People's Thoughts, Code Name: Shadow 谍战：开局偷听心声，代号影子 Qingyun Gege青云哥哥Urban525k WordsCompleted Su Chen woke up one morning transmigrated to Shanghai in 1939, where he had become a low-ranking member of the Green Gang. He accidentally awakened the ability to read minds, saw through the Japanese invaders’ arrest plan, and successfully rescued members of the Lixing Society. With the country in turmoil, he also caught the eye of the Green Gang boss and went undercover in the police station, distinguishing himself time and again. Through one life-or-death crisis after another, he rose steadily 6kReads7.2Score255Shelves
43. 93 北 Hokkaido: From the Start, the Neighboring Auntie Asked Me for Help 北海道：开局邻居阿姨拜托帮忙 Living Off Others While Acting Tough软饭硬吃啦Urban561k WordsOngoing [Deep-Sea Fishing + Building a Fleet + Daily Life + Multiple Heroines] Schools of blue-ringed sea snakes, squid season, sardine storms, migrating salmon, prized tuna… The ocean holds endless riches, but they belong only to those brave enough to ride the waves! Gao Zhiqiang transmigrates to a fishing village in Hokkaido in 1953, becoming a humble fisherman. The island nation's fishing industry is on the brink of a boom, and the opportunities are boundless. He starts with a small wooden boat, grad 18.4kReads9.2Score2kShelves
44. 94 穿 Transmigrated to 1950: China's Ace Spy Goes Undercover in America 穿越50华夏王牌暗谍潜伏美利坚 Elephant Fan大象的粉丝Urban250k WordsOngoing [CIA + British 007 + NATO + espionage] The Korean War breaks out in 1950, and our top spy embedded in the United States finds himself surrounded by danger. To keep Matthew Ridgway from heading to Korea, he uses a missing-person case to drag him into an investigation. As the investigation progresses, he discovers that Britain is dissatisfied with the postwar order and has built an extensive network of spies in the United States to seize geopolitical advantages. The master spy enters the game alon 176Reads—Score111Shelves

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    An Anglo-American spy war. An old British aristocrat, in an effort to salvage the fading glory of the British Empire, stirs up conflict between nations. A cunning and ruthless Chinese spy, seemingly righteous yet treacherous, uses minimal force to achieve maximum effect.

45. 95 谍 Espionage: I Have an Intelligence System 谍战，我有一个情报系统 Valley of Guixu归墟谷Urban458k WordsCompleted People usually play many roles in society. They may be a son in one family, an employee at one company, and a citizen of one country. Liu Songfeng is more than all that: one man with a thousand faces, surrounded by layers of intrigue. In this turbulent age, Liu Songfeng uses his intelligence and extraordinary courage to navigate between rival factions. Yet his identity is shrouded in mystery, impossible to pin down. No one knows his name, but his deeds will live forever. Liu Songfeng says, “I wa 6.1kReads8.6Score332Shelves

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    They're all amazing!!! Please check out my carefully selected picks, which have been read over 6,000 hours!!!

46. 96 行 The Faceless Man of Republican China 行走在民国的无面人 Winter Plum Blossom冬日寒梅Urban918k WordsOngoing Yao Zhendong transmigrated. He didn't have the System that others had, but he brought with him a gift from his previous life: the Fool pathway of a mysterious potion series. He arrived in a world where the line between black and white was impossible to discern. The protagonist is suspicious by nature, quick to swing between joy and anger, neurotic, and somewhat selfish. 86Reads7.8Score116Shelves

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    All three books are absolutely amazing!!! Two are completed, and one is still being serialized, so the ratings are a bit low. The main characters are all transmigrated and have systems, and the plots written by the authors are very engaging.

47. 97 谍 Espionage: 2,000 Deaths from the Start 谍战：开局死亡两千次 Jin Daye金大涯Urban958k WordsOngoing Xie Shu, male, formerly an Olympic shooting champion in the twenty-first century. One day, he kills himself and wakes up in 1940. Reason: Unknown. Identity: Unknown. Status: Being buried alive. Xie Shu: ...What a disastrous start! The good news: He gains the ability to rewind time whenever he dies. The bad news: He wakes up at a live burial site and has to die two thousand times before he escapes. While helping a passing guerrilla unit complete its mission, he somehow ends up as the illegitimat 41.2kReads9.3Score6.2kShelves

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    This book is amazing, it's just too short.

48. 98 无 Silent 1937 无声1937 Dreaming of the Corner梦知隅Urban741k WordsOngoing In his previous life, he met with an accident while carrying out a mission. When he opened his eyes, he had become Chen Shusheng, captain of a Juntong action squad, locked in an interrogation room and framed as a scapegoat. The Japanese spy wants him dead. His own men have set him up. His superior is happy to go along with it. On this path, one wrong word means death, and trusting the wrong person means ruin beyond redemption. He comes from the future and knows how much more suffering this natio 101.1kReads8.8Score9.1kShelves

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    A new author has arrived in the spy thriller genre. The protagonist has no special abilities; survival is his top priority, and he's absolutely ruthless about it.

49. 99 谍 Espionage: I Have X-Ray Vision! 谍战：我有一双透视眼！ White Tea Egg白色茶叶蛋Urban221k WordsOngoing 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 112Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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    I've been watching these lately. Some are undercover agents, others are Eighth Route Army soldiers fighting on the front lines. They're all pretty good, you should check them out! [Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

50. 100 茶 The Tea Horse Road Mystery 茶马诡局 Purple Clay Warm Sunshine紫砂暖阳Historical800k WordsOngoing Huang Shi'an, a young man from the Ancient Tea Horse Road, carries on his shoulders the stories of three generations. His father's generation put down roots in western Yunnan and lived through the flames of war, fighting the enemy in the smoke-filled Southwest. They left behind an unyielding spirit and regrets that were never laid to rest. His older brother went to the countryside as an educated youth, then headed south to guard the border, leaving his fiery youth in the frontier. When his turn 103Reads—Score—Shelves

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    What's there to be afraid of if you've already time-traveled? At worst, you can just time-travel again, and keep going!

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