High-IQ Spy Thrillers Set During the War of Resistance 高智商碟中谍的抗战谍战类小说
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The Ming Dynasty’s Special Reconnaissance Troops: The Night Watchmen 明朝特种侦察兵夜不收
A battle of wits between elite scouts, a shadow war of espionage full of twists, and a poignant romance between two people caught in forces beyond their control: all this awaits in the legendary tale of the Ming Dynasty’s Night-Rejecting scouts! During the Jiajing era, unrest flares along the frontier as the Mongols and Jurchens watch hungrily from the shadows. An elite reconnaissance unit known as the Night-Rejectors becomes the sharpest hidden blade guarding the Ming border. Shen Yan, the son
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Dual Transmigration to the 1960s: A Prosperous Nation and Strong People 双穿六零之国富民强
In 2025, Su Tianci was just another overworked wage slave. He ate a roujiamo at Red Romance, then opened his eyes to find himself back in that fiery era. What’s more, he had somehow become a wanted criminal. See how Su Tianci fares with the System’s help: will he be doomed from the start, or turn danger into safety?
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- 103 Dual Crossing to Republican-Era China: A Blood Sacrifice to the Land 双穿民国之，血祭山河 Su Tianci is an ordinary office drone from 2025. To make ends meet, he joins a film crew shooting short dramas. Who could have guessed that he would lose his footing and fall into a deep pit? When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated to 1937, a year engulfed in war. Fortunately, he has a portal that lets him travel back and forth between this war-torn era and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before Su Tianci… 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Invincible Between Two Worlds 两界穿梭之无敌 Wu Xiaoyao was an ordinary wage slave. To survive in this damnable era, he had no choice but to go abroad and become a mercenary, risking his life for a living so his family could have an easier life. Who could have guessed that, through a twist of fate, he would transmigrate back to the late 1970s? See how Wu Xiaoyao, equipped with the golden finger every transmigrator needs, makes a name for himself in that red-hot era! 653Reads—Score—14d adds
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Anti-Japanese Special Forces 抗日特战队
To fight the Japanese, you need money, guns, territory, and real ability. Xu Jianfei has all of them. I truly admire the Japanese. How did they manage to last eight years under Xu Jianfei? Let’s see how the Japanese got through those eight years.
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The Savvy Little Soldier 小兵油子
Beacon Bones Beyond the Great Wall: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting Japanese Invaders on the Grasslands [Warlords, War of Resistance, Searching for Family, No Overpowered Cheats, Spy Warfare, Logic and Intelligence, Ruthless] 1921–1945: The land is in turmoil, and China is engulfed in endless flames of war. Adopted as a child by a top undercover spy, the young man is meticulously trained for over a decade to become his other hand. There is no System and no mindless overpowered cheat. Every struggl
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Spy War: Only I Can Eavesdrop on People's Thoughts 谍战，只有我能偷听心声
[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
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- 108 1938: From the Start, It's Hell 1938：开局地狱 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 17kReads9.1Score2.2k14d adds
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I'm Supposed to Be a Spy, but Everyone Thinks I'm the God of Wealth 明明是卧底，活成别人眼中的财神
Traditional spy thriller + no System + no pocket dimension + no transmigration or rebirth (if you don’t like that, don’t read) [I’ve seen quite a few comments lately pointing out typos and missing words. I’m truly sorry. I wrote the whole thing by hand, and even though I checked it in the backend before uploading, some errors were unavoidable. Also, completed novels can’t be edited, so it’s not that I’m deliberately refusing to fix them. If you enjoy the story, please bear with it. May you get p
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- 110 Wolf Warrior 1938 战狼1938 Lin Gang and Zhou Jie are modern-day elite soldiers. Betrayed by their former employer during a mission, they die on the battlefield and transmigrate together to Shanghai in 1938, where a new battle begins. 11.2kReads7.5Score81314d adds
- 111 War of Resistance: Blasting the Japanese Invaders to Pieces 抗战：烽火硝烟之打爆小鬼子 No System, no brainless characters, no rebirth, and a lightly ensemble cast! Xiao Hongya: An orphan adopted by the Independent Regiment, she belongs to the regiment and loves fighting the Japanese. All she knows is the smoke and fire of war, and her fate is inseparable from the battlefield. Zhao Heihu: A veteran of many years on the battlefield. He doesn’t want to fight, but he can’t escape the battlefield. All he wants is to put down his gun, yet fate forces him to pick it up again! Zhao Youcai 3.9kReads8.8Score26314d adds
- 112 War of Resistance: Defending Nanjing Unlocks a God-Tier Soldier System 抗战：保卫南京获得神级单兵系统 [War of Resistance] [System] [Pocket Dimension] [Action-Packed] During the War of Resistance against Japan, soldier Xu San acquired a god-tier individual combat System. He used it to wipe out the Japanese invaders and stored the gold they had stolen in the pocket dimension granted by the System. After the country was reunified, he gradually returned the vast quantities of gold he had recovered. He himself stayed in Borneo, in the Nanyang region, with his men. 22kReads8.2Score1.7k14d adds
- 113 Bright Sword: Brigade Commander, Congratulations on Your Fortune 亮剑：旅长，我恭喜你发财啊 [No System + hardcore technology] This time, I, our military industry big shot Yu Ye, will make sure to turn the tide. This time, Ping'an Gele will be the true turning point. This time, my Independent Regiment will be terrifyingly strong! 64.4kReads9.3Score4k14d adds
- 114 Livestreaming the War of Resistance: From the Start, I Become the Oriental Meat Grinder 直播抗战，开局东方绞肉机 [War of Resistance + no System + ensemble cast + heroic epic + plot-driven] It is a tragic age, but also an epic era that gives rise to heroes. After living a peaceful life for more than twenty years, Xia Yu unexpectedly transmigrates into the past and becomes a soldier heading for the battlefield. He thinks he’ll die beneath the enemy’s guns and cannons, but never expects to become part of the epic himself. The land lies in ruins. The truly brave do not flinch when disaster suddenly strikes. Ho 3kReads9.1Score21814d adds
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Espionage: I Can Earn Rewards by Playing the Villain! 谍战：我当恶霸能爆奖励！
After transmigrating into a minor secret agent at Beiping Station, he unexpectedly awakened the Tyrant System!! As long as the System judges something to be bad behavior, he gets a reward! Kidnap a dog traitor and torture him for information. Ding! For using serious violence against another person, reward: the Japanese devils’ top-secret military intelligence! Lin Ze: ??? Beating up traitors counts too? “Mrs. Miyamoto, I have a new assignment for you!” Ding! For coercing an innocent young woman,
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Warlords of Two Worlds: The Pirates' Last Stand 两界枭雄之倭寇末路
Su Tianci was betrayed by his girlfriend. He got drunk, and when he woke up, he had somehow transmigrated to 1936, a year ravaged by war. Seeing the Japanese invaders bullying ordinary people, how could Su Tianci possibly stand by and do nothing?
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- 117 Trading Between Two Worlds in 1983: A Tycoon Rises 两界倒贩1983巨鳄崛起 Destitute Su Tianci accidentally transmigrates from 1983 to 2025, an age of soaring economic growth. Two vastly different eras now lie before him: one wad of bills from 1983 can be exchanged for over a hundred thousand, while an electronic watch from 1983 costs only a few bucks in 2025... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Hidden Game: A Silent Contest 暗局：无声的较量
[Espionage + Based on real events involving General Li Kenong + Mind games + No System + High-stakes intrigue] In 1930, Shanghai is rife with undercurrents. Li Yin, a Communist underground agent using the alias “Skylark,” is ordered to infiltrate the Kuomintang’s secret service, the Fuxing Society. There he joins forces with Qian Zhuangfei, codename “Night Hawk,” and Hu Di, codename “Green Snake,” to form a special party cell codenamed “Zhulong.” Their mission is to obtain the Kuomintang’s plan
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- 119 Shanghai, 1941: Code Name Crane Ferry 抗日上海1941：代号渡鹤 [Spy thriller + based on true events + mind games + no System + high-stakes game] In 1941, Shanghai was an isolated island surrounded by Japanese-occupied territory. The city was a crossroads of power, with undercurrents running deep. On the surface, it was the “Paris of the East,” a glittering world of pleasure and luxury. In truth, it was a city of spies where every faction vied for power. Shen Mo was a rising star in Shanghai, deputy chief inspector at the French Concession police station. Da 119Reads—Score—14d adds
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Gu Yizhong Is Reborn Before the Events of The Lone Boat 顾易中重生在孤舟剧情之前
Gu Yizhong is reborn in 1936. The original A Lone Boat begins in June 1941, but this story starts with his rescue of Lin Shujuan in Hong Kong in early 1939. Since the timeline has changed dramatically, much of the plot will have to be newly created. Your support is greatly appreciated. To make the story’s progression as plausible as possible, feel free to share your theories about what happens next in the discussion area, preferably with sound reasoning. I hope to work together with fellow fans
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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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Espionage: Too Many Identities? How Many Undercover Jobs Are You Working? 谍战：身份太多？你卧几个底啊
I'm Lin Tiannan, the son of a wealthy family in Jiangshan, Zhejiang. I'm an agent for the Red Organization, codename Deep Sea. I'm the Military Statistics Bureau's ace agent, Foolish Old Man. I'm also Lord Nan, a Shanghai underworld boss; a special adviser to the Central Statistics Bureau; a spy for the Special Higher Police; chief inspector of the Maillane Police Station in the French Concession; and a major general and division commander in the puppet government. It all began when my handl
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Zero-Degree Showdown: Operation Blue Arrow 零度交锋：蓝捷行动
[Mystery and Suspense] [Espionage] [Crime Investigation] [Modern Urban] [Genius] [Strong Female Lead] [National Security] Twenty-three years ago, a separation tore the lives of twin sisters apart. The younger sister was trained by an overseas spy organization to become an elite agent. Sent back to China, she is ordered to assassinate her own sister, take her place, infiltrate Lanjie Communications, and steal the core secret, “Lanjie 9.” Caught between her mission and her organization's orders on
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- 124 Espionage: Telling Jokes in Republican-Era China 谍战：我在民国说段子 After staying up all night ranting about spy dramas, 996 office drone Cheng Ming wakes up having transmigrated to Shanghai in 1938, now under occupation! From the start, he's an abandoned pawn of the military intelligence service, pursued by traitors at No. 76 and surrounded by Japanese agents. He just transmigrated, and already he's about to get himself killed? Fortunately, he awakens a historical-commentary golden finger. While others rely on marksmanship and strategy to go undercover, he uses 51Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Long River, Nameless 长河，无名
In 1928, in Jinan, he lost his entire family. In 1931, at the 23rd Special Mental Research Institute in Kazan, his emotions were stripped away. In 1934, in Nanjing, he buried his past. From then on, he walked the razor's edge, turning the gears of history from the shadows. Except for the highest-ranking figures in a handful of intelligence agencies, no one knew his real name or what he had done. On May 17, 1961, he died on the execution grounds in Seoul, South Korea. His gravestone bore neither
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- 126 Shadows of Espionage 谍影重重 Bao Dazhuang transmigrates to the wealthy Guan family in Yulan City during the War of Resistance Against Japan, becoming a repulsive-looking Republican-era live-in son-in-law whom everyone despises. He works as a translator for the military police, handling nothing more than routine documents. It is only after becoming a real spy that Bao Dazhuang realizes this is nothing like the spy films of his previous life. At best, he is a mediocre agent. Yet his cowardly, selfish, and easygoing nature rep 6kReads8.8Score55614d adds
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The Windbreaker 破风者
In 1931, Jiang Hanwen, head of the Shanghai Central underground organization of the Chinese Communist Party, was arrested and promptly betrayed the revolution. Under the command of special commissioner Wu Shude, the Shanghai district of the Kuomintang Central Investigation Department, predecessor of the Zhongtong, used information provided by the turncoat Jiang Hanwen to launch a sweeping manhunt and purge of our underground intelligence network in Shanghai and its key operatives. Chen Tongzhou,
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- 128 Springtime in a Shell Casing 弹壳里的春天 This is a stirring anthem of a people forged in the flames of war, and a tender love story blossoming beneath the smoke of battle. Set against the backdrop of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan from 1931 to 1945 and the subsequent War of Liberation, the story weaves a sweeping historical tapestry through the intertwined fates of Zhang Ai, a farmer’s son from the Northeast known as Goudan, and Qi Shuyun, a young student from Beiping. Spring in the Bullet Casings, originally titled Songs 248Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Hot-Blooded Hunter: God’s Assault 热血猎人神之袭击
[Survival] [Hunting] [Fighting the Japanese invaders and looting their gear] [Cultivation] Wang Fei has just entered the world of cultivation when he's forced into becoming a live-in son-in-law. One blow shatters his dantian, setting him on a long road from staying alive to rising to greatness. Though he has lost his cultivation, he takes countless disciples. This novel was not written by AI. Every word was painstakingly typed out by the author, who only hopes readers will enjoy the story in its
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Contract Countdown: A Guide to Revenge 契约倒计时：复仇攻略
Five years ago, he was a rising star in the business world, until his brothers betrayed him and ruined his reputation. Five years later, she became a woman unknown to him, Lin Wei, and returned reborn with a contract: she had to bring her enemy’s business empire crashing down within 90 days, or she would forget everything forever.
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Crossing Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九
Drop the pretense of being a decent person and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to waste your energy on inner turmoil; if something’s wrong, just lose it. Rather than make yourself suffer, make life difficult for someone else. That’s Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrates to Beiping on the eve of liberation. The booming economy of 2026 and the war-torn year of 1949: two vastly different eras lie before him.
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I Sign In to the Republic-Era Spy System From the Start 我，开局签到民国特务系统
After transmigrating to the Republican era, I started out with the Japanese chasing me down. At the critical moment, the System activated. Sign in: obtained fluency in Japanese and a pistol. I fired back and killed them on the spot. From then on, Peking gained a living King of Hell whom everyone feared. I kill collaborators, steal weapons, infiltrate the Japanese military, and turn beautiful female spies to my side... Other people rely on their brains to play spy games. I rely on sign-ins. As lo
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- 133 Cracking Codes and Capturing Spies: From Prisoner to the Military Intelligence Bureau's Seventh Brother 破密码擒间谍，从囚犯到军统七哥 Ye Mingyuan, a modern criminal investigation graduate, wakes up to find himself a murder suspect in the Republic of China era. In a Military Statistics Bureau prison, a whip is dipped in water and a branding iron glows red. His interrogators have only one demand: "Sign the confession." Someone else might have caved. But Ye Mingyuan has read thousands of case files in his previous life, and forensic science, forensic medicine, and criminal psychology all come naturally to him. In just one night, 720Reads6.3Score10414d adds
- 134 Undercover at No. 76: My Female Boss Wants to Marry Me 在76号当卧底：女上司想嫁我 Shanghai, 76 Jisifei'er Road, 1943. I am Shen Tingbai, the youngest interrogation section chief at the Wang Jingwei regime’s secret service headquarters, codename Judge. No anti-Japanese agent in my hands can hold out for more than seventy-two hours. They say I’m a loyal dog of the Japanese, a traitor among traitors. No one knows that every time I pry open someone’s mouth, I’m gambling with my own life: extracting the enemy’s intelligence while protecting comrades who haven’t yet been exposed 258Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Undercover Diary: Bureau 76 76号卧底日记 He has ears that can hear death in the radio waves. She can't read, but she can memorize anyone's face with a single glance. Nanjing, 1943. Chen Ze'an, deputy head of the communications office at No. 76, is a Wang Jingwei regime agent on the surface and an undercover Communist operative in secret. His only weapon is his extraordinary hearing: he can anticipate death from the static in radio transmissions and detect lies from the sound of a heartbeat. The organization assigns him a “wife”: Cuipin 135Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Espionage: From the Start, I Personally Betrayed My Comrades 谍战：开局我亲手出卖了同志 Shanghai, 1942. On the first day Shen Gui was dragged into Unit 76, bamboo splinters were driven beneath his fingernails. For three days and three nights, he didn't give them a thing. On the fourth day, he confessed. The contact station was destroyed, and six comrades were killed. Overnight, he went from an underground Party member to a traitor despised by everyone. The organization wanted him dead, and the enemy didn't trust him. He became a wandering ghost with nowhere to go. But no one knew t 1.5kReads6.8Score10514d adds
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From the Start of the Republic, I Applied to the First Class at Whampoa: I'm from Fenghua 民国开局报考黄埔一期我是奉化人
[Main Battlefield + First Class of Whampoa + No System + No Fighting Among Ourselves] If you're here for the War of Resistance, start reading from Chapter 43. The earlier chapters cover Whampoa and Eastern Europe. Liu Bin looks back on the century of humiliation in the history of the Rabbit nation. To make up for the regrets of history, he'll set foot in Whampoa's first class and rewrite what happened in places like Shanghai and Nanjing. It all starts now, in Fenghua. What does it matter if y
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- 138 You Were Supposed to Go Undercover, So How Did You Become a Cabinet Minister of Dongdao? 让你潜伏你怎么成了东岛内阁大臣 Wang Tieshan, an underground courier codenamed Mantis, is sent to infiltrate the Military Statistics Bureau. After being framed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, he’s assigned to a covert mission at the Magic City station under the codename Paperclip. “I haven’t seen you in years. How did you end up as a minister in Dongdao’s cabinet?” Wang Tieshan: “I don’t know either. Somehow, you arranged for me to impersonate someone, and now I’m a minister in Dongdao’s cabinet. I’m under a lot of pre 492Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Making of a Top Assassin 顶级杀手的成长历程 Northeast China, 1933. Snow dyes the world a ghastly white, and the icy wind can gnaw the flesh from your bones. A young man in a thin shirt, skinny as a stick and shivering uncontrollably, stumbles into an earthen temple. He nearly trips over something at his feet: a corpse that is still warm. Beside the body, a spot of golden light flickers faintly, like a star buried in the snow. He reaches for it with trembling hands. The instant his fingertip touches it, a cold voice suddenly rings out in h 402Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 140 War Against Japan: The Enemy-Lines Suicide Squad 抗日之敌后敢死队 This is a spy thriller. There is no System, no transmigration into another person's body, no rebirth, no transmigration into a book, and no futuristic weapons to lend a hand. It's a story about using intelligence and the unique talents of extraordinary people to pull off one major operation after another that gives the Japanese invaders a headache. Since there are no futuristic weapons to help, the story moves a little slowly. I ask readers to be patient and enjoy it. The story takes place in Z 715Reads6.2Score10014d adds
- 141 Transmigrate Through Time and Space: The Tiger Roars as It Slays the Japanese 穿越时空之虎啸杀倭 Laohu was an overseas agent. He died a hero while carrying out his final mission, but his soul transmigrated into the body of a man in a shantytown in Zhabei District, Old Shanghai, in 1938. Using his skills, Laohu kills Japanese soldiers, robs their banks, sabotages their counterfeit currency schemes, raids their supply depots, breaks people out of prison, blows up their headquarters, destroys their airfields, and carries out countless other missions. He also has a System that transmigrated wit 1.1kReads6.5Score—14d adds
- 142 Superpowered Heroes Beat Up the Japanese Invaders 异能者暴揍鬼子 Wang Lu possesses the Dragon Soul Divine Cauldron, whose blessing grants him supernatural powers to hunt Japanese soldiers and collect Sin Points. He forms a league of superpowered fighters and leads them in killing, sabotaging, and destroying, carrying out one bloody atrocity after another to fill the Japanese with fear and dread. 344Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 I Suspect My Wife Is Cheating on Me 2: Sequel 1 《怀疑老婆对我不忠2》续1 Sequel 1 to Suspecting My Wife of Cheating on Me 2 19Reads—Score114d adds
- 144 I Suspect My Wife Is Cheating on Me 2 怀疑老婆对我不忠2 Suspecting My Wife of Cheating on Me 2 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 I Suspect My Wife Is Cheating on Me 2: Sequel 2 《怀疑老婆对我不忠2》续2 Sequel 2 to Suspecting My Wife of Cheating on Me 2 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 I Suspect My Wife Is Cheating on Me 《怀疑老婆对我不忠》 Suspecting My Wife of Cheating on Me 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 147 I Stumbled Upon My Aunt's Secret 我偶然发现小婶的秘密 I Accidentally Discovered My Aunt's Secret —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Reborn: A Brilliant Life of Reversal 重生逆袭灿烂人生 I'm someone who has been reborn. In my previous life, I drifted through life in a daze, muddling through each day. The first thing I'd think about every morning was where to go to make money and how much I needed to earn. I couldn't think of anything else. But even after working so hard, I accomplished nothing and lost so much along the way. When it came to opportunities in life, I missed out on one good chance and turning point after another. When it came to family, I was left with countless re 62Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Beautiful Warrior of the Asylum 疯人院漂亮女斗士
A Pretty Fighter in the Asylum “Love is heaven, and killing each other is hell. We drift between the two, unable to escape.” Wen Yue and Yang Liang are locked in a love-hate battle, caught between fire and ice over a medical research breakthrough. Then a series of bizarre events begins: Professor Wen suddenly drops dead, Wen Yue’s daughter accidentally falls from a building, and Yang Liang forcibly sends Wen Yue to a prison-like psychiatric hospital... In the hospital, Wen Yue endures inhuman to
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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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