There’s Been No Good Spy Drama Since Kite 风筝之后再无谍战。

1. 1 军 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 Sweet Leaf甜润叶Urban735k WordsCompleted [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…” 158Reads7.4Score119Shelves
2. 2 风 The Wind Rises: A Kite Prequel 风筝前传起风 Chapter 5第5章Urban298k WordsCompleted This was Zheng Yaoxian's finest hour. Back then, he hadn't lost anyone. He still believed he could win every game of chess, protect all his brothers, and, once the sun rose, walk the path he had chosen for his entire life. 4.7kReads8.2Score356Shelves
3. 3 重 Reborn: Zheng Yaoxian's Unconventional Life 重生郑耀先的另类人生 Pear Blossoms Deep in the Wind and Rain风吹雨打梨花深Urban673k WordsCompleted My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 734Reads5.6Score111Shelves
4. 4 伪 The Pretender: Kite 伪装者之风筝 God of the New Southern School新南派的神Urban2.6M WordsOngoing In 1943, Shanghai seethed with intrigue under the Wang Jingwei puppet regime. Zheng Yaoxian, the ace agent known as “Ghost Six,” was ordered by the Military Statistics Bureau to infiltrate the puppet government’s Special Services Department under the codename “Kite.” In reality, he was a senior Communist agent. Ming Lou, meanwhile, became the puppet government’s chief financial adviser after returning from overseas with a degree in economics. Publicly, he was the Military Statistics Bureau’s “Vi 1.5kReads7.0Score103Shelves
5. 5 潜 The Sequel to Lurking 潜伏后传 The Too-Late Jinx为时已晚的克夫Urban686k WordsCompleted In September 1949, at Tianjin Airport, one fleeting glance was all it took. Using the code phrase “the old hen circling,” Yu Zecheng entrusted his life savings and the intelligence he had yet to deliver to his “late wife,” Wang Cuiping. After heading to Taiwan, Yu Zecheng walks on eggshells under Wu Jingzhong. He must contend with factional infighting within the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics while fending off the relentless scrutiny of Liu Yaozu, chief of the Operations Division. Meanwh 47.8kReads8.6Score3kShelves
6. 6 双 Crossing Between Two Worlds: From the Start in 1952, I Was Already a County-Level Cadre 双穿一九五二开局就是正科级 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban443k WordsOngoing In 2026, Su Tianci accidentally transmigrated to the war-torn Korean battlefield. Fortunately, he had brought along a pocket dimension. The System grabbed a bucket and ran. To return to 2026, he had to reach the siheyuan. Two vast eras lay before him. 28.5kReads5.5Score1.6kShelves

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7. 7 双 Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Historical632k WordsOngoing In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 24.7kReads7.2Score1.7kShelves

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   The director of the cartography management bureau blocked the way.

8. 8 两 Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九年 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban229k WordsOngoing No morals + a little cruelty to beasts + everyday life at the heart of it Su Tianci transmigrates to Beiping in 1948, where his daily life revolves around tormenting beasts. Our protagonist has no manners and often does things without playing fair. The main idea is simple: if I have no morals, you can't morally blackmail me... [Putting the facts aside, is the author wrong to want to earn a little more tuition money? We shouldn't think only of ourselves; we need to consider the author too. I've m 3.3kReads—Score192Shelves

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   The truth of the matter

9. 9 影 Screen Worlds: I Can See Your Name 影综：我能看到你的名 There's Poison in the Egg蛋里有毒Urban516k WordsCompleted Li Weigong, Wu Jingzhong, Zheng Yaoxian, Wang Tianfeng, and Tan Zhongshu are my colleagues. Yu Zecheng, Li Ya, Lu Qiaoshan, Xu Zhongyi, Ming Lou, Gong Shu, Lin Nansheng, Chi Tiecheng... are my students. How could I lose? Watch Gao Feng write his own legend in the world of master spies. We stand at the beginning of the story, watching them head toward their inevitable deaths. 3.3kReads7.4Score143Shelves

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   This is a spy fanfiction. Zheng Yaoxian, Wu Jingzhong, and Li Weigong are my colleagues; Ming Lou, Gu Shenyan, and Wang Tianfeng are my deputies; Xu Zhongyi, Gong Shu, Chi Tiecheng, and Yu Zecheng are my students; Chang Shenkai considers me a confidant; the Japanese consider me a friend; I am the ninth of the Eight Great Vajras; I am the Thousand-Faced King of the Special Service; I am a major in the Japanese Military Police; I am an advisor to the Kodama Agency; I am Gao Feng! [Cool][Pouting][Cool][Pouting][Cool][Pouting][Cool][Cool][Cool][Cool]

10. 10 抗 War of Resistance: Japanese Translator? No, I'm Code-Named God of Wealth 抗战：鬼子翻译？不，我代号财神 A Man at Thirty三十而立的男人Historical341k WordsCompleted June 1941, Jin Province. When Chu Feng comes to, he discovers he has somehow become the interpreter for Major Mei Chuan of the Japanese army in Yuci County. “What? I’m an interpreter for the Japanese? A traitor?!!!” Chu Feng is completely stunned! “I’m a fine young man with all the right values. You want me to become a traitor?” Just as he’s about to rise up and pull off something big, memories from the body’s original owner make him obedient as a puppy! “Codename: God of Wealth?” “Oh, I’m not a 522Reads—Score103Shelves
11. 11 穿 I Transmigrated Into a Secret Agent, Now I'm in a Siheyuan 穿越成特工，人在四合院 Fish Who Can’t Lie Flat躺不平的鱼儿Male-Channel Fanfiction654k WordsCompleted Wang Baichuan was reading a spy thriller when he transmigrated into the world of the courtyard houses. To his surprise, he had become an enemy agent. Is there any way out of this? Help, waiting for answers online. Well, he can't wait around! Wang Baichuan uses his agent's golden finger to wipe out an enemy spy cell and resolve the problem of his identity, then plans to live a good life in this era. What he doesn't know is that this is a world crawling with scoundrels… 3.5kReads6.2Score141Shelves
12. 12 谍 Espionage: I’m a Screwdriver, Infiltrating No. 76 谍战：我是螺丝刀，卧底76号 Fragrant Blossoms in Spring春暖留芳Urban2.7M WordsOngoing (A rough-around-the-edges spy’s rise to success, with a soft spot for the Communists. Please don’t flame if it’s not your thing!) He’s a disposable pawn in the Military Statistics Bureau, but he has an infinite storage space and supernatural hearing! Thanks to his uncanny ability to hit his targets with flying screwdrivers, he rises to become the top assassin at the Shanghai station, then goes undercover at No. 76 by pure chance. Amid the turbulent world of espionage, he kills Japanese invaders 45.4kReads8.0Score3.1kShelves

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    The masterpiece "Barbed Wire" has ended, and you're probably experiencing a reading slump again, right? Check out this one! While it may not be on par with your idol Sylvester Liu, it's definitely worth a read—the kind that will make you laugh out loud! [Shy]

13. 13 谍 The Little Spy's Rise to Power 谍战小特务的逆袭 Winter Isn't Hot冬天不热Urban2.8M WordsCompleted He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation... 186kReads9.5Score20.6kShelves

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    This spy novel is excellent; everyone should check it out.

14. 14 民 Republican Era: The Spy Trail of a Stranger 民国之异客谍踪 Dreaming Freely梦幻随心Urban329k WordsCompleted Shen Yu transmigrates to 1937, taking over the body of a captain and action squad leader in Nanjing’s Second Special Services Division. He also awakens a daily intelligence System and a portable storage space. While carrying out a mission, a stroke of luck gives him the identity of a down-on-his-luck collateral descendant of a Japanese noble family. Before transmigrating, Shen Yu graduated from a foreign languages college, where he chose Japanese as an elective out of personal interest and earne 2.5kReads8.0Score144Shelves
15. 15 无 Silent 1937 无声1937 Dreaming of the Corner梦知隅Urban746k 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 101.9kReads8.8Score9.3kShelves

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    That's because you haven't seen this book yet. It's so captivating, you can't stop reading!

16. 16 潜 The Complete Story of Undercover 潜伏之全传 July at South Bridge南桥七月Urban1.9M WordsOngoing In 1945, with victory in the War of Resistance drawing near, Yu Zecheng, a Communist underground agent codenamed “Emei Peak,” is sent by Dai Li to the Tianjin Station of the Military Statistics Bureau. Relying on his exceptional intelligence and composure, he carefully navigates the enemy’s inner circles, maneuvering among multiple factions. But the unexpected return of his former lover, Zuo Lan; the suspicions and tests of station chief Wu Jingzhong; and the covert surveillance of his colleague 13.2kReads7.9Score764Shelves

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    It looks really good!

17. 17 孤 Tale of Two Stars on a Lonely Island 孤岛双星记 July at South Bridge南桥七月Urban205k WordsCompleted In 1939, during Shanghai's isolated-island period, the 76 Office has just been established as a den of evil, and Japanese agents run rampant. Yan Shuangying, an underground Communist Party member, infiltrates the 76 Office under the name "Earl," walking a razor's edge. Meanwhile, Zheng Yaoxian, a top undercover agent of the Central Special Operations Division codenamed "Kite," is assigned by Dai Li to the Shanghai station of the Military Statistics Bureau, where he secretly lays plans in the Fre 11Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 18 官 The Official and His Charms 官人官色 Curtain-Rolling West Wind 666卷帘西风666Urban5.7M WordsOngoing The road to becoming an official is narrow, so narrow that if you want to climb it, you can only step on other people's shoulders. Yet it is also broad enough to encompass everyday life and the people's hardships. Along this road lie intrigue and shifting fortunes, ruthless decisions, and love and hatred... 267.3kReads9.4Score19.1kShelves
19. 19 荒 King of the Wilderness 荒野之王 Continue Writing Spring and Autumn续写春秋Urban2.0M WordsCompleted On the deserted National Highway 318, a beautiful young woman flagged down Cang Yunfeng’s car. Any seasoned driver who regularly traveled through Tibet would know what was going on... 95.5kReads9.5Score9.2kShelves
20. 20 胡 The Folks of the Hutong 胡同人家 Xiaoman Crisp小满酥Modern Romance560k WordsCompleted ☆ [Main story complete] ☆ [No transmigration, no rebirth, not a feel-good power fantasy, no golden finger] ☆ [An ordinary person's ordinary story, with a focus on everyday life] In 1972, seventeen-year-old Zhong Wenshu took over her mother's job at the state-run supply and marketing cooperative, avoiding the mass campaign to send young people to the countryside. In 1973, eighteen-year-old Zhong Wenshu married a young police officer from the neighboring courtyard and started a home with just th 15kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
21. 21 亮 Bright Sword: Lucky Me, I’ve Reached the Japanese Stronghold 亮剑：锦鲤啊，打到鬼子大本营了 Words Love Cigarettes字爱香烟Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Wang Hao is an office worker and fishing enthusiast who transmigrates to the War of Resistance battlefield, where he doesn’t know how to do a thing. What he doesn’t realize is that he has the combined luck of a lucky koi and a total good-luck charm. He goes out fishing and somehow hooks a beautiful Japanese intelligence agent, exposing a Japanese spy network infiltrated into the base area. He goes up the mountain to hunt and somehow takes out a Japanese sniper team and kills a lieutenant colonel 15.4kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves

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    These are some lighthearted, satisfying reads for those who enjoy a carefree, down-to-earth lifestyle. They're good stories, both cathartic and funny.

22. 22 谍 Spy War: I’ve Caught Every Japanese Spy 谍战，日谍被我抓光了 The Spycraft Angler谍战钓鱼佬Urban2.1M WordsCompleted I'm an avid angler, and I transmigrated into the body of a secret agent. I'm an avid angler. I don't know how to do anything. But I have a System that can identify Japanese spies. I also have a storage space, just for helping myself to free stuff from the Japanese. Before the full-scale war broke out, I had nearly rounded up every last one of their spies. Japanese soldier: Baka! What's going on? We're running out of spies! Kenji Doihara: Baka! What's wrong with you people? We can't train spies a 19.8kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves

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    A very good spy novel

23. 23 谍 Espionage: You Were Told to Infiltrate, So Why Are You Running the Special High Intelligence Unit? 谍战：让你潜伏，你搞特高课课长 Words Love Cigarettes字爱香烟Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Espionage]+ [System]+ [Super Satisfying]+ [No Torturing the Protagonist] Guan Peng transmigrates to Shanghai in 1934 and becomes a young police officer. His superior immediately makes things difficult for him, but luckily, his System activates just in time. In this world, kind people get bullied, and even a good horse gets ridden! Realizing he needs to change, Guan Peng first kills his superior, then successfully takes his place! Du Yuesheng: “Brother Peng, this is just a little token of my 15.6kReads7.7Score991Shelves
24. 24 夜 Nightingale 夜鹂 The Dinghan Empire That Loves Pancakes爱吃松饼的鼎汉帝国Urban853k WordsOngoing 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 1.4kReads—Score103Shelves

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    Lin Guangyao picked up his pen and added a line below the hastily written suicide note: "Wang Tianfeng, head of the Military Intelligence Bureau's Shanghai station. Died for his country on the 25th day of the first month of 1939. Does anyone remember him?" He put down his pen, folded the letter, and placed it at the bottom of the drawer. There, locked away, was another piece of paper with four lines of poetry: "Where can a drifting duckweed find its anchor in this chaotic world? Only the plum blossoms reflected in the snow. Do not say that the road ahead is full of frost and snow, for our hearts are connected by a single thread of understanding." The ink had faded somewhat. He gently stroked those lines, as if stroking an old dream that could never be returned to. Outside the window, the lights of No. 76 Across the street were still bright. Behind one of the windows, a woman in a black uniform was looking down, flipping through the files she needed to process that night. She did not look up. He did not wait. He simply closed the drawer, stood up, and walked to the window. The night in Shanghai was always so unfathomably black. But he knew that even the darkest night would eventually give way to dawn. I just wonder if those who never wake up after dawn will feel any regret. Lin Guangyao stood there for a long time. Long enough for the moon to move from the top of the sycamore tree to the eaves. Long enough for the clock to strike eleven. Long enough for him to finally say to himself: Zhou Wenhao, I've finished writing your poem for you. Wang Tianfeng, I've preserved your name for you. I'm still walking the path you walked. The day I can no longer walk, I will stop, just like you.

25. 25 民 Republican China: From Fake Young Master to Warlord 民国，从冒牌少爷到一方军阀 Li Xuanhe李玄河Urban2.4M WordsOngoing [No System + Republican Era + Multiple Heroines + Espionage in the Later Story] After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, landlord's son Li Mingyuan, who had paid for a trainee patrol officer's post, set sail for his new assignment with his newlywed wife Shen Shutong, his attendant Fugui, and the old family servant Wang Guilan. They were attacked by river bandits along the way. The original Li Mingyuan was killed, while Fugui, the protagonist and a modern-day special forces soldier, was knocked unco 11.9kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves

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    A spy novel of 2 million words, enough to satisfy your reading cravings.

26. 26 间 The Spy's Daily Life After the System Dumped Me in Republican-Era China 【被系统坑到民国的】间谍日常 Listening to Rain in the Night Wind夜风听雨Urban1.3M WordsCompleted An ordinary office worker gets a System, but before she can enjoy any of its benefits, it dumps her into a parallel-world version of Republican-era China. That's where her life as a spy begins. From an ordinary field operative to an undercover agent, from a regular spy to a triple agent, she goes from reluctant to willing, writing her own legend in the great metropolis of Shanghai... Check out the new book next door: The Village Girl, the Grand Diviner, also known as After Getting a Puppet Space 45.9kReads9.5Score4.8kShelves

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    With so many highly-rated spy novels, should that satisfy you?!

27. 27 谍 Espionage: Body in Cao's Camp, Heart with Han 谍战：身在曹营心在汉 Little Black Sun黑色小太阳Urban450k WordsCompleted Long Yan transmigrated, and woke up in the body of a Japanese man. And one with a little royal blood, at that. He swore to the heavens that even if he was wearing a Japanese man's skin, he would defend the land of China to his dying breath! A fake Qiu Chan is in mortal danger? Long Yan says with a serious look, “Comrade, I’m Qiu Chan! I’ll cover you, so hurry and run!” The real Qiu Chan, whose identity has been stolen, is completely dumbfounded? Ye Chong raises his hand and shoots someone dead 604Reads9.4Score100Shelves
28. 28 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

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    I'm only recommending this one right now. It's really good, with complex character relationships and many storylines, but it's not confusing. The system helps the protagonist at the beginning, but dies later [laughs]. He has three identities, but they're not mixed up.

29. 29 我 I Used a Hundred Ways to Kill Japanese Soldiers and Prolong My Life 我用百种方法杀鬼子续命 Water-Nourished Jade Grove Bell水润琼林钟Historical425k WordsOngoing He Shouye, an actor in a hit TV drama, is shot in the heart with a prop gun and wakes up in the Republican era as He Shouye, a ginseng porter. He has no lifespan to spare after his transmigration, but a System that lets him extend his life by killing Japanese invaders arrives and binds itself to him. Follow He Shouye through the many lives he leads as he fights the invaders to stay alive. 2.4kReads—Score167Shelves
30. 30 民 Republican-Era China: From Ruthless Bandit to King of Assassins 民国之从悍匪到杀手之王 Great Snow of the Gengshen Year庚申大雪Urban1.9M WordsCompleted This book is complete, so feel free to dive in. The author's new book, A Republic-Era Diviner Who Sends the Japanese Devils to Their Graves: I'm a Professional, is also available. Come check it out! In a bandit stronghold in the three northeastern provinces, the bandit king Wang Laoliu, known as the Iron King of Hell, starts out as a notorious outlaw who robs Japanese devils. He fights his way across half of China and gradually rises to become the King of Nanyang. Unlike traditional War of Resis 20.4kReads8.3Score1.7kShelves
31. 31 民 Espionage in Republican-Era China: Big Brother, Why Make Me a Spy? 民国谍影：大哥，为啥让我做特工 Let the Wild Youth Out聊发骚年狂Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [Ruthless traitor hunting + political intrigue + wits and strategy + multiple identities + pulse-pounding] This is an age of despair, and an age filled with hope. An age of silence and endurance, and an age of cries of resistance. An age of trust, and an age of doubt. We have everything before us, and nothing before us. We are all bound for Heaven, and we are all bound for Hell... This is the Republican Era! It is the twenty-eighth year of the Republican Era. Japanese invaders are ravaging China 17.3kReads8.3Score1.3kShelves
32. 32 谍 Espionage: I Have the System of the King of All Evil 谍战：我有万恶之王系统 Deep-Fried Tomatoes油炸西红柿Urban1.6M WordsCompleted The cold-blooded assassin Chen Guobin is transmigrated into a small-time patrol officer in Shanghai, badge number 9527. He’s accidentally caught up in a Military Statistics Bureau manhunt and forced to become one of its agents. He’s trapped in occupied territory, where danger lurks everywhere and death waits around every corner. Luckily, he awakens the King of All Evil System. He can earn all kinds of rewards by stopping bad people from misbehaving or simply taking them out. He beats up a traito 30.9kReads7.8Score2.4kShelves

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33. 33 谍 Espionage: I Pose as a Japanese Officer in Enemy-Occupied Territory 谍战：我在敌占区扮演鬼子军官 Fists in Kindergarten拳打幼儿园Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [This novel has a System, with no more than ten uses] [Large cast] [Espionage + business warfare + nation-stealing] The novel has three volumes: [The Mainland Arc] Mainly follows the protagonist's rise and development. [Siam Arc] Portrays the Japanese military in the later stages of the war from Siam's perspective. [Japan Arc] Begins at Chapter 648 and mainly focuses on postwar Japan. Many readers consider this part the highlight. Lin Zhiyuan is Hengdian's best-known actor for playing Japanese 135.4kReads8.7Score17.5kShelves
34. 34 魂 My Soul Traveled to 1903 Republican China 魂穿民国1903 User Mountain Peak用户山尖Historical2.5M WordsOngoing Transmigration, a pocket dimension, resistance against Japan. After transmigrating as Zhang Damao, he uses his pocket dimension to seize weapons, raid Japanese banks, stockpile food, and train soldiers, all to wipe out more Japanese invaders during the War of Resistance. 15.5kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
35. 35 谍 Espionage: I Accidentally Became the Head of a Military Intelligence Bureau Station 谍战：我一不小心成了军统站长 Can Be Small or Big可小可大Urban1.9M WordsCompleted No one knows his name, but his achievements will never be forgotten! Others who go undercover become objects of suspicion. When he goes undercover, he suspects everyone else! He is a military intelligence station chief, a traitorous secret agent, and a steadfast Communist Party member, all at once. Through a twist of fate, he infiltrates the Japanese puppet regime's secret service bureau. Three identities, one conviction: to fight the War of Resistance to the very end! 16.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
36. 36 影 Shadow Agent 影子特工 The Great Way Is Natural大道自然Urban3.3M WordsCompleted Born into an age of chaos, with the nation in peril, a man must serve his country! A young man burdened by vengeance for his family and hatred for his country assumes a false identity as he flees and joins the Special Services, beginning a dangerous and thrilling career as a spy. He crosses paths with forces from every side, matching wits and battling for survival. In this game within a game, who will be the last one standing? 14.6kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
37. 37 潜 Undercover: Echoes from a Lonely Island 潜伏之孤岛余声 July at South Bridge南桥七月Urban1.8M WordsOngoing In 1949, the Taiwan Strait is lashed by fierce winds and towering waves. Yu Zecheng, a Communist underground agent codenamed Emei Peak, has no time to savor the joy of victory before Wu Jingzhong forces him aboard a ship bound for Keelung. Behind him lies a homeland he never had the chance to say goodbye to; ahead is an isolated island rife with hidden currents. Under the watchful eye of his former superior, Wu Jingzhong, and hunted by the bloodthirsty secret agent Li Zixuan, he resumes his life 3.3kReads6.9Score155Shelves

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    It looks good, you should check it out.

38. 38 孤 Eagle of the Lonely Island 孤岛飞鹰 God of the New Southern School新南派的神Urban3.0M WordsOngoing In 1941, Shanghai is an isolated island. Yan Shuangying, carrying the Chinese Communist Party’s top-secret codename “Earl,” parachutes into the Shanghai station of the Military Statistics Bureau as deputy station chief, under the codename “Sharp Sword.” Director Dai kills two birds with one stone: what is called reinforcement is really both a blade and a shackle. Facing the suspicions of station chief Chen Gongpeng and the deadly struggle with action squad leader Du Ma, while navigating the dead 2.8kReads7.0Score190Shelves
39. 39 我 I Became a Spy in Republican-Era China 我到民国当间谍 Wind and Snow in the West City风雪西城Urban1.4M WordsCompleted Zhang Yunxuan, a team leader in the Criminal Investigation Squad of Xiangcheng Police Bureau, is a spoiled rich kid who spends his days loafing around and making friends. He has a taste for eating, drinking, and gambling. The only thing he doesn't do is visit brothels. But what people don't know is that he is the military intelligence agent Judge, a man despised to the bone by the Japanese and their Chinese collaborators. 6.8kReads8.6Score435Shelves
40. 40 无 Years Without Regrets 无悔岁月 Wind and Snow in the West City风雪西城Urban221k WordsOngoing In 1936, dusk settled over Xiangcheng, steeping it in the smell of rust and blood. The late-autumn wind cut like a knife, piercing to the bone. Xu Chengyang tugged down the brim of his police cap. The collar of his coarse wool uniform chafed his neck raw. This black uniform was both his prison and his armor… 469Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 41 谍 The Spy's Snow Fox 谍之雪狐 Wind and Snow in the West City风雪西城Urban1.1M WordsCompleted On the evening of the eighth day of the first lunar month in 1945, snow was still falling in Xiangcheng. Inside the Ma Family Shaomai Shop on Second Street, a middle-aged man suddenly collapsed and began convulsing, foam bubbling from his mouth. At the shop entrance, a man wearing a felt hat and a scarf that concealed everything but his eyes hurried inside. He snatched up the fallen man’s briefcase, turned, and left, disappearing into the endless snow. 11.3kReads8.6Score941Shelves
42. 42 穿 Transmigrate to the War of Resistance: From the Start, I’m Hunting Yan Shuangying 穿越抗战：开局追杀燕双鹰 Yin Zhen吟震Urban143k WordsOngoing [Yan Shuangying] [Zheng Yaoxian] [Ruthless and Decisive] Yang Xiao, a college student suffering from stomach cancer, wakes up after a failed surgery to discover that he has transmigrated into another world and taken over the body of a traitor with the same name. Less than half an hour after transmigrating, before he can even figure out what's going on, he receives orders from his superior: lead a team to surround Yan Shuangying. At the sound of that name, Yang Xiao nearly curses out loud. But wi 25Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is absolutely wonderful!

43. 43 我 I Am Li Huaide's Bodyguard 我是李怀德的警卫员 Lying-Flat Enthusiast躺客Male-Channel Fanfiction1.8M WordsOngoing Li Dahu, a soldier, served as Li Huaide's bodyguard. After leaving the military, he was assigned to the Hongxing Steelworks. This is the story of how he struggled through years of famine while supporting his three younger brothers and three younger sisters, and gradually built a better life for himself at the Hongxing Steelworks. 49kReads7.2Score3.2kShelves

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    Yes yes yes yes yes

44. 44 谍 Spy War: Only I Can Eavesdrop on People's Thoughts 谍战，只有我能偷听心声 Drunk on Wine for the Rest of My Life浊酒醉余生Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [Not a formulaic spy thriller. A feel-good story about growth, with an original plot. If you don’t like it, don’t argue.] In 1931, as the War of Resistance was about to break out, under pressure from the situation on all sides, Dai Yunnong traveled to Beiping in person to establish an intelligence network in the three northeastern provinces. Who could have guessed that the secret would leak? The three spy teams sent into the region were exposed, and all thirty Huangpu Academy elites were wiped o 37.9kReads9.0Score5.5kShelves

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    This is truly the pinnacle of espionage!

45. 45 孤 Kite on a Deserted Island 孤岛风筝 July at South Bridge南桥七月Urban2.2M WordsOngoing Shanghai, an isolated island, 1941. Zheng Yaoxian, the Juntong's ace agent known as “Guizi Liu,” arrives at the Shanghai station as deputy chief and launches a bloody campaign against Japanese and puppet forces in the French Concession. Ruthless and always several steps ahead, he's the enemy's most fearsome opponent and the most dependable big brother in the eyes of his comrades. No one knows his true codename is “Kite,” a top-secret Communist operative working undercover. Every day, he walks a 417Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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    It looks great, everyone should take a look.

46. 46 风 Kite: The Prequel 风筝前传 July at South Bridge南桥七月Urban2.4M WordsOngoing In 1932, Communist intelligence agent Zheng Yaoxian, codenamed “Kite,” is ordered to go undercover in the Special Services Division of the Fuxing Society. Over eighteen years, he rises from a rookie agent to the high-ranking position of “Juntong Sixth Brother,” navigating Dai Li's suspicions, the Nationalist Central Organization Department's Party Affairs Investigation Bureau's crackdown, and pursuit by the Japanese. As “Guizi Liu,” he strikes fear into his enemies and eliminates traitors, while 633Reads7.6Score—Shelves
47. 47 穿 Transmigrating into Bright Sword: Li Yunlong’s Independent War of Resistance 穿越亮剑：李云龙的独立抗战之路 July at South Bridge南桥七月Urban1.1M WordsOngoing Modern young man Lin Manduo gets so frustrated watching a show that he unexpectedly transmigrates into the insubordinate regimental commander known as the defiant Li Yunlong, a man who was supposed to be executed. Demoted to a common soldier, he uses his knowledge of the plot to recruit Wei the Monk before anyone else, teams up with political commissar Zhao Gang, brings Chu Yunfei over to his side, and beats Yamamoto’s Special Forces to the punch. When all the scattered heroes of Jinxi Bei have 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
48. 48 逆 The Nameless Reverse Blade 逆刃无名 You'nan Story Collection悠南故事汇Urban253k WordsCompleted Spy thriller + Republican-era China + agents + mystery and deduction + careful planning + high-IQ mind games + undercover work + no romance In 1934, Shanghai was shrouded in turmoil. Shen Yan, a proofreader at a small newspaper, was an ordinary man with just two extraordinary qualities: a photographic memory and an unmatched talent for keeping his abilities hidden. A circle-shaped coded message, a ragtag team of five, and an assassination that would shake the world. He killed the traitor in thre 89Reads—Score—Shelves

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    War of Resistance Against Japan, Espionage

49. 49 潜 Covert Blade Warfare 潜刃暗战 God of the New Southern School新南派的神Urban1.5M WordsOngoing After Ning Qianqiu, a colonel and inspector dispatched from the Chongqing Military Statistics Bureau headquarters to its Binhai station, is ambushed by the Japanese and killed, the enemy's rear-area guerrilla unit rescues him. Yan Shuangying, a reconnaissance company commander and model combat hero, receives orders from his superiors to assume Ning's identity and infiltrate the Binhai station. He is to keep watch on the station, gather intelligence on the Japanese and their collaborators, strike 420Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's good, you can check it out.

50. 50 空 Blank List 空白名单 Mai Ren脉人Urban862k WordsCompleted Wuhan is occupied, and the situation is treacherous and unpredictable. A mysterious list has drawn intense attention from all sides. It came from a Chinese Communist Party member who vanished eleven years ago, and now every faction is locked in a fierce struggle over it. To obtain the list, our organization sends a top student to infiltrate the upper ranks of the puppet regime in Wuhan. His name is Xiao Muyang. He has received no training and has never carried out a mission. His spotless record 1.2kReads8.2Score171Shelves

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    This is an epic spy novel!

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