Spy Stories Set in Old Shanghai, With a Modest Golden Finger for the Protagonist 老上海，间谍文，主角金手指别开太大的

1. 201 紫 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 27Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 202 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
3. 203 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
4. 204 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
5. 205 云 Sunset on Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 云顶落霞：幽灵骑士 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted Sunset on the Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 38Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 206 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
7. 207 时 The Compass of Time 时光罗盘 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我6k WordsCompleted The Time Compass 37Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 208 踏 Walking Beneath the Moon: The Age of Machines 踏月而行：机械纪元 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted Walking Beneath the Moon: The Mechanical Era 103Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 209 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
10. 210 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
11. 211 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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    A masterpiece of spy dramas

12. 212 沪 Shadows of Espionage in Shanghai: 1938 沪上谍影：1938 Xu Yao虚遥Urban540k WordsOngoing Modern-day investigator Lu Ping'an is driven to his death by a game of capital. His soul transmigrates to the French Concession in Shanghai in 1938, where he becomes a timid, fearful clerk in the police archives. In this chaotic era, he awakens the “Hard Work Makes Up for Lack of Talent” System. Combining modern criminal investigation techniques with the ability to learn twice as fast, he catches a glimpse of a covert war taking shape through the musty air of the archives. Forced to bear four id —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's a bit mentally taxing, but otherwise it's okay. 😁

13. 213 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
14. 214 谍 Railway Archives: Infiltration, Espionage, and the Shocking Case of Liaoshen 谍战潜伏铁路档案辽沈惊蛰 St RifleSt步枪Urban204k WordsOngoing Espionage, agents, undercover work, urban life, history, mystery, hard-core railway detail, war, the Republic of China era, and passion. In the thirty-sixth year of the Republic, on the eve of the Liaoshen Campaign, undercurrents swirled along the railway lines at Jinzhou, Siping, and Meihekou. Ye Tian, a Communist underground agent codenamed Jingzhe, went undercover as a railway traffic dispatcher. He gathered military intelligence and disrupted Nationalist transport, providing crucial support 5Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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15. 215 铁 Railway Archives: The Hour of Jingzhe 铁路档案之惊蜇时分 St RifleSt步枪Urban349k WordsCompleted This book is set in a different period from the earlier novel Railway Archives. On August 15, 1945, the thirty-fourth year of the Republic, Japan surrendered. The espionage game had already been set in motion. Before the Liaoshen Campaign, Ye Tian was recruited by the Military Statistics Bureau under the codename Qingci. He became a double agent, using both his railway dispatcher’s job and his Qingci identity to wage a covert battle as a Communist underground operative. He supplied the Communist 6Reads7.4Score—Shelves
16. 216 铁 Railway Archives 铁路档案 St RifleSt步枪Urban329k WordsCompleted A tale of wartime espionage and undercover work. Ye Tian’s soul transmigrates to the twenty-sixth year of the Republic, 1937, where he unravels a series of mysterious railway cases from the Republican era. Every inch of rail holds a code for life, and the names of espionage agents are revealed from sealed files. At Yixian Station, he meets Ma Yunfei, who introduces him to the Communist Party. Ye Tian recruits Zhang Laoliu, Liang Jincheng, and Jin Guozhong as grassroots Party members, providing i 3Reads7.1Score—Shelves
17. 217 我 Only in My Bag: Book 18 我的包里只第18本书 I Only Have Four-Fifty Left in My Wallet我的包里只剩四块五Urban58k WordsCompleted My new story is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Super good-looking and funny

18. 218 暗 Dark Flame: A Lone Star Shines Over the East 暗火：孤星照东方 Hehe, A Spear Smeared with Poop Kills Whoever It Pokes嘿嘿长矛沾屎戳谁谁死Historical801k WordsCompleted After the Pacific War broke out, Japan’s wartime economy was strained, yet its naval factories continued running at full capacity. The war in China entered its most grueling phase of strategic stalemate, and the Japanese army carried out brutal “mopping-up” campaigns across the country. They thought the night was their cover, never realizing that I was the night itself. He was known by the codenames Qiming and Qingluan. He was also Stone, and the mysterious codename Ghost. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommend the new book

19. 219 金 Blood Wolf of the Golden Triangle 金三角血狼传 Jiang Yueling of Wangyue City望月城的姜月灵Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted The Legend of the Golden Triangle Blood Wolf has no System, no cheats, and no golden finger! When the bullets run out, the knives come out. My name is Jiang Shijun, codename “Death.” I’m a legend in the mercenary world. But now, my Death Squad and I are trapped in the man-eating jungles of the Golden Triangle, surrounded by more than a hundred guns. This isn’t a game, and no one comes back reborn. One wrong step, and you’re torn to pieces. The ground beneath us is a poisonous swamp, and sniper 66Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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    For those who enjoy old Shanghai spy novels and stories with restrained superpowers, the modern spy storyline of "The Blood Wolf Chronicles of the Golden Triangle" is a perfect fit! The protagonist doesn't have any overpowered abilities; he relies on his mercenary tactics, intelligence analysis skills, and on-the-spot adaptability. Like an old Shanghai spy, he navigates between various forces using his wits. His only "advantage" is his Amazon rainforest survival knowledge (using the juice of carnivorous plants to make anesthetics and using formic acid from army ants to treat wounds). All of these are logical and hardcore skills. Over 15,000 readers online have commented that "this is the real game of espionage."

20. 220 金 Blood and Steel in My Bones: A Chronicle of Love and Vengeance 金戈入骨：枕边恩仇录 Jiang Yueling of Wangyue City望月城的姜月灵Urban304k WordsCompleted The Record of Rising and Falling in a Sea of Desire is a hard-hitting urban comeback story set in the 1990s, featuring multiple heroines, business rivalries of the era, and realistic themes. From the start, Jiang Shijun faces a life-or-death choice: the brick he brings down on a construction boss will set off a tumultuous business saga that entangles him with four women for half his life. Luo Xiaoju's gold wedding ring, Wang Qiongfen's loan-seeking backroom dealings, Sun Juanjuan's deadly USB d 1Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 221 蒋 Jiang Shijun: Legend of an Amazonian Elite Mercenary 蒋士军之亚马逊巅峰佣兵传说 Jiang Yueling of Wangyue City望月城的姜月灵Urban318k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Shijun, codename “Godslayer.” I'm a legend in the mercenary world, and everyone's favorite target. A simple escort mission landed my thirteen-man squad in the hell of the Amazon. The Vulture Mercenary Corps blasted us with rockets, the Golden Society's assassins hunted us from the shadows, and even my old flame from three years ago, “Enchanting Rakshasi” Lin Wan'er, turned her love into hatred and was the first to come after my head with a knife. All we want is a “Nazi mineral 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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