Novels like The Luminous Pearl
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Luminous Pearl, best match first.
- 51 Espionage: The Thousand-Faced Agent, a One-Man Army 谍战：千面特工，我一人成团 Li Fei transmigrates to Shanghai in a parallel world and awakens the Many-Faced Agent System. Every time he completes a mission, he gains a new face. From then on, Shanghai has a new elusive Communist agent: Many Faces. Captured courier who turned traitor: Every time I meet him, Many Faces has a different face. Military Statistics Bureau: Many Faces is an organization, maybe even a whole regiment. Our bureau has been infiltrated like a sieve. There are Many Faces everywhere. Special Higher Polic 2.2kReads8.5Score194Shelves
- 52 Espionage: A Rider in Manchuria 谍战之一个骑手在满洲 In his previous life, he was the most ordinary rickshaw puller. In this one, he’s a ruthless assassin! On the freezing nights when Japanese forces and their puppet regime run rampant, Ding Li relies on his extraordinary intelligence to repeatedly assassinate emperors, generals, and Manchurian officials... Single-handedly, Ding Li undermines the puppet state of Manchukuo, its order, and its economic lifelines... He gradually becomes a brave and steadfast patriot, and organizes a fierce, tenacious 4.3kReads8.8Score420Shelves
- 53 Espionage: Starting with the Assassination of the Emperor 谍战：从刺杀天皇开始 Li Wencheng transmigrates to a parallel world, returning to an era when every inch of land is soaked in blood, and awakens a System! A year later, he witnesses the horrors of the Battle of Shanghai. Acting on impulse, he accepts a hell-level mission: travel to the island nation and assassinate the emperor! 2.1kReads8.1Score113Shelves
- 54 Endless Shadows of Espionage 谍影无涯 Back in an age torn apart by war, he must keep himself alive by navigating between powerful factions. Little by little, he becomes a capable soldier, hiding deep in the enemy’s heartland and turning into a sharp blade driven behind enemy lines. 1.5kReads6.9Score105Shelves
- 55 Espionage: Madam, the Chief Doesn't Know About That, Does He? 谍战：夫人，长官不知道那事吧？ Xu Feng transmigrates to 1939 and becomes an undercover agent, awakening the [Weekly Lottery System] and continually acquiring new skills. From then on, he breezes through life with one advantage after another, gaining multiple identities... 1.2kReads7.3Score102Shelves
- 56 Espionage: I Have a Double Possession, and You Want Me to Be an Informant? 谍战：我双重附体，让我做线人？ [Humorous and funny] [No romance, no do-gooder heroine] [Self-interest above all] [Feel free to dive in] Gou Dadan is timid and afraid of trouble. The chaos of wartime turns him into a fastidious egoist. From the start, he transmigrates to Shanghai in 1937, just before the nationwide resistance against Japan begins, and becomes an ordinary soldier. [Early story] Forced to become a secret agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, he brings along his blind younger sister. Military Statistics Burea 36Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 57 Love of the Broken Blade 断刀情 War is a catastrophe. It destroys everything, including humanity and conscience. Yet war is also a furnace that remakes everything: not only willpower and faith, but humanity itself. And it is the stain of blood that makes all of this so precious. But in the face of war’s devastation and cruelty, we need the courage to break our blades. To break one’s blade is an attitude, a will and faith that can turn certain death into survival. Against a powerful enemy, we must never fear and always press fo 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Reborn Impostor 重生伪装者 With exceptional skills and an outlook far ahead of his time, Liu Zhenhua serves his country under several layers of assumed identities. He gives everything he has for his 455 million countrymen. If I must die on the battlefield for my country, why should I care whether my body is brought home in a horsehide shroud? 496Reads7.4Score102Shelves
- 59 The Spy Hunter 猎谍 Espionage is an ancient profession. Ever since wars first began, spies have been the only way for opposing sides to obtain each other's intelligence. Some say that spy warfare is the only kind of battle in the world without gunpowder smoke. But the truth is that almost no battle in this world is free of it. Even covert struggles are full of bloodshed and sacrifice. My surname is Tang. My name is Tang Cheng, though you can also call me Tang Wulang. My father was with the Juntong, the organization 2kReads8.6Score202Shelves
- 60 Espionage: It Begins with Kite 谍战：从风筝开始 Li Baoguo transmigrated into a sprawling world of treacherous spy dramas, where the stories of Kite, The Disguiser, The Rebel, and others all converged... As Boss Dai's trusted confidant, his first mission was to keep an eye on Zheng Yaoxian, the sixth brother of the Military Statistics Bureau! To hold fast to his red ideals and save the country by working from within, Li Baoguo resolutely ventured along the blade's edge, even to the brink of a cliff! From then on, an ace agent codenamed “Abyss” 220Reads7.9Score106Shelves
- 61 Espionage: Cultivating with the Female Commander from the Start? 谍战：开局和女长官修炼？ 646Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Fourth Cipher 第四套密码 The Fourth Cipher 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Espionage: Daybreak 谍战：破晓 When night falls over the newly born land, two fated adversaries are forced to join forces. The brilliant Lin Nan is a forgotten gem from the old era, versed in criminal psychology and codebreaking. The battle-hardened Zheng Feng is the blade of the new order, devoted to discipline and absolute loyalty. This is a war that begins with conspiracy and ends in faith. When the enemy holds the city’s pulse in its grasp, and humanity’s fate hangs by a thread, they wield their wits as spears and their c 139Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Lotus Spy 芙蓉谍 The moment the silver scissors pried open the dragon’s vulnerable scales, the fuse began to sputter and spark. Jiang Ruobing stared at the red words on the “Torch Dragon Project” map: “Level Rongcheng on the sixth day of the winter month.” Suddenly, her fingertip brushed half an embroidered hibiscus on the back! As the Military Statistics Bureau’s most ruthless ace, she could kill with a steel needle. But no one knew that inside her Shu embroidery frame, she was using three shades of blue threa 97Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Agent: The Treasure Chest System Makes the Impostor Stronger 特工：宝箱系统，伪装者开始变强 Chen Shi transmigrates into a world that brings together the spy dramas Kite, The Disguiser, The Wind, The Invisible Guardian, and Undercover. After getting drunk, he picks up Yu Manli and joins the Military Statistics Bureau's training camp. He stands out at the camp, uncovering several Japanese spy networks in Shancheng. He never misses when he makes a move. Even the slightest clue won't escape his notice. His methods are ruthless, earning him the name “Chen Yama” from the Japanese Special Ser 12.5kReads7.9Score953Shelves
- 66 A Spy in the Shadows, Starting with The Rebel 谍战从叛逆者开始的特工 This is purely for my own amusement. I’m sorry if it makes you unhappy. At first, I wanted to take things slowly, but then I got criticized, so I changed it. I changed it. Then people said the characters weren’t written well. That part I’m not changing. Later, I messed up the golden finger, so I gave up. Anyway, I’m having a great time writing it now. If it’s stressing you out, sorry. I didn’t mean to. 1.5kReads8.1Score108Shelves
- 67 Blank List 空白名单 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
- 68 Lost in the Spy Game 谍海迷踪 The turbulent age is rife with calamity! A young man with some martial arts and medical skills finds himself working as a doctor for a gang. When the nation faces a crisis, he secretly joins the underground Communist Party. Keeping a low profile, biding his time, and acting decisively and ruthlessly, he endures one trial after another, becomes a member of the Military Statistics Bureau and the 76th Bureau, and begins a ghostlike career as a spy! 218Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 69 Shadows of Spies in the North 北国谍影 Living through this turbulent era has left Xu Ruifeng, already a man of standing in the underworld, utterly exhausted. Just as he's preparing to take a wife and settle down to a quiet life, he never expects to spend his money on a spy... She infiltrates enemy territory to steal intelligence; She builds an underground intelligence network to send information to the Central Brain; She operates everywhere behind enemy lines and earns countless commendations. While the whole world believes this woma 77Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 70 The Cowardly Agent 鼠胆特工 Lin Jie transmigrated into the body of a cowardly traitor. Then Juntong used a honey trap on him, and he became an undercover agent for the organization. To hide his identity, he pretended to be greedy and lecherous, embarking on a very different path. 878Reads7.0Score103Shelves
- 71 Espionage: A Fight to the Death 谍战：生死较量 In early 1928, Su Ziwu, the son of a wealthy family, is arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang's Special Operations Group, then secretly trained as an agent. During an operation to crack a secret Japanese spy organization, a Chinese Communist underground operative sacrifices herself to protect Su Ziwu's identity. Stunned by this revelation, Su Ziwu makes an even greater discovery: the "Thousand Faces" instructor who has been training him in the Kuomintang unit is also a member of the Chinese 4.1kReads9.2Score487Shelves
- 72 The Hidden Sentry 暗哨 On the eve of the Liaoshen Campaign, a sleeper agent who had been silent for years awakens inside the Kuomintang's Northeastern secret service. Surrounded by treacherous Military Statistics Bureau agents, gang leaders straddling the line between respectable and criminal, and prominent Shengjing women whose loyalties are hard to read, he must maneuver alone through threats from every side, hidden in the shadows as he shines a bloodstained beam of light on the city's liberation... 4.6kReads8.9Score320Shelves
- 73 Espionage: Code Name Big Dipper 谍战：红色特工代号北斗星 In 1936, an era of turbulent waves! There was a group of people feeling their way through the darkness, using the flame of their faith to light up the pitch-black night sky. Jiang Huo, code-named Polaris, went undercover in the Special Service Office, walking on thin ice and teetering on the edge of a cliff! In the narrowest of spaces, the struggle was cruel and merciless! In the dark of night, it was a tale of hardship and greatness! Their names may have been forgotten amid the years of raging 565Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 74 Espionage: I Make Up All My Intel 谍战我的情报全靠编 Chen Feng, a modern-day wage earner, transmigrates back to the Republican era and becomes a military intelligence agent. Drawing on the knowledge he gained in the future, he writes a legendary chapter in the world of espionage in the Republican era, becoming a legend among intelligence agencies around the world. 12.3kReads6.5Score755Shelves
- 75 Reborn in Republican-Era China: Becoming the King of Spies 重生民国：成为谍影之王 [Reborn]+ [Political Intrigue]+ [Military]+ [Spy]+ [Invincible] Wang Xinghuo, a lowly office worker, is reborn in the twenty-fifth year of the Revolution. A ninth-term student at the Whampoa Military Academy, a heaven-blessed prodigy: this is Wang Xinglan's new identity. He is Reborn to protect his family, but an unexpected turn of events leads him into the Secret Service, where he becomes a spy. He battles Japanese spies, gradually awakens his abilities, and climbs step by step to the pinnacle 2.9kReads7.0Score175Shelves
- 76 The Laizhou Stone Array 莱州石阵 On the eve of liberation, the Jiaodong Peninsula lies under dark, stormy skies. A deadly struggle between the underground Communist Party and the Bureau of Secrecy quietly unfolds: some operatives have spent years undercover, hiding their true selves; danger lurks at every turn in the dead of night; and every clash of wits is a matter of life and death. These anonymous fighters, each known by a codename beginning with “Stone,” carry the torch of their faith and eventually find the dawn in the da 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 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 233Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Secret War in the Republic of China: The Judge of the Underworld 民国暗战之阎罗判官 In a turbulent era of national crisis, there are traitors and lackeys, but even more people of conscience. Faced with hardship, some profit from the nation’s suffering, while others accept things as they are. Yet there are still people with unwavering faith who disregard their own gain and loss. For the first glimmer of dawn in the darkness, they willingly step into the shadows, becoming judges of the underworld whom their enemies fear at the mere mention. The protagonist works undercover at fir 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 A Spy, But Not Quite 似谍非谍 Still Chen Gang, still transmigrated into someone else's body. But this time, there’s no golden finger and no life-saving spirit spring water. It’s simply a story about killing Japanese soldiers and traitors, and stealing their money. 1.6kReads8.3Score154Shelves
- 80 Espionage: I Can Possess Corpses 谍战：我能附身尸体 (Transmigration + covert infiltration + assassination + sabotage + pocket dimension) Jiang Yunfei, a young man from the modern era, transmigrates to the early days of the War of Resistance and becomes an agent in the intelligence division of the Military Statistics Bureau's Shencheng Station. Just after he arrives, a traitor sells them out. The intelligence division's safehouse is surrounded by the agents of 76, and they're about to be wiped out! Fortunately, Jiang Yunfei gains the ability to po 5.4kReads8.3Score416Shelves
- 81 System Agent: Code Name Mo 系统特工，代号默 Chen Mo, a "System agent" with the Huaxia Intelligence Bureau, has the quantum chip "Qian" implanted in his brain. It can connect to the global satellite network and control electronic devices and weapons. It can also switch between attack and defense modes, along with many other super abilities that have yet to be unlocked. Eight months ago, an accident during a mission left Chen Mo with amnesia and stripped him of his "System" abilities. He ended up in Heng City, Sakura Country, where a kindhe 171Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Jiang Shijun: Legend of an Amazonian Elite Mercenary 蒋士军之亚马逊巅峰佣兵传说 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
- 83 A Sea of Spycraft and Mystery 谍雾谜海 When faced with known history, some follow it faithfully, while others want to change it! This is a war between two transmigrators! A contest between light and shadow! But who will emerge victorious in the end...? 3.9kReads8.9Score394Shelves
- 84 Republican-Era Espionage: The Secret Agents All Call Me Chief 民国谍战：特务都叫我处座 A righteous soul transmigrates to the twenty-second year of the Republic of China. By then, the Japanese were already preparing to invade China. Lu Yang, a Chinese student studying abroad, is recruited into their spy organization. A transmigrator takes advantage of the situation and embarks on a thrilling mission worthy of Mission: Impossible. He starts out as a low-ranking police officer in the Nationalist government, then gets recruited by both the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics and th 1.4kReads6.9Score100Shelves
- 85 The Wrongly Placed Murder Case 错位追凶 Lawyer Shi Yi takes on a death penalty review case and meets Ting Fang, a condemned prisoner in the twilight of her life. To his surprise, Ting Fang seems to know him. She not only asks him to retrieve something from a certain place, but confidently insists that they will be in touch again. Not long afterward, Ting Fang is executed. Shi Yi intends to put the matter behind him, but somehow he still goes to the place she mentioned. There, he finds an old music box and a notebook Ting Fang left fo 12.4kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
- 86 Espionage: Infiltrating the South Manchuria Railway as a Junior Train Conductor 谍战从潜入满铁当小乘警开始 Synopsis One: A train is a world of its own. What is espionage? To borrow an old saying from Zhang: espionage isn’t about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly affairs... This is the story of a family of three who transmigrate into a world of spy dramas and films... Synopsis Two: A HUAWEI Mate 50 and a 22-month-old orphan appear in Dalian, under Japanese control in 1912… 1.3kReads8.4Score104Shelves
- 87 I'm an Undercover Agent Who Just Wants to Survive, But I'm Forced to Do the Dirty Work 卧底的我只想活下去却被迫干狠活 [Subtle golden finger] + [Spy thriller, undercover agent] + [Multiple women] + [Survival] + [Financial empire] + [Forced to do ruthless things] + [Anything is possible] Wan Qing, a 007 office drone, transmigrated to the eve of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. He gained the abilities of perfect recall and advanced insight. A Shanghai native, he was ordered to go deep undercover and wait for the right moment, under the codename Chick. But even the greatest hero can be defeated by a lack of mone 11.3kReads7.5Score765Shelves
- 88 I Can Rewind Five Minutes, and I Became a Spy-Killing Demon 回档五分钟，我成了谍战杀神 I rewound five minutes, crawled back from hell, and became Second Young Master Zhang, a spoiled heir in Shancheng. The Japanese have my father’s command post surrounded by a massive force. I’ll save him! The Special Higher Police have sprung a deadly four-stage trap. I’ll break it! I came back to life to kill the Japanese and root out the collaborators! A tactical pen with a triangular blade, stained with blood and deadly at the throat, lets me steal other people’s skills. A pair of blood-red do 39Reads5.9Score117Shelves
- 89 Espionage: I Sign In at the Military Police Headquarters from the Start 谍战：开局我在宪兵队签到 Note: The early part of this book focuses on espionage among the nobility. After the protagonist takes control of Sakura, the story enters a worldline similar to The Man in the High Castle! [Sign-In] + [A Plausible Noble Identity] + [Moles Within the Enemy's Ranks] + [Doesn't Return Home After the War] + [A Different Kind of Resistance Against Japan] (This story won't leave you feeling frustrated. The protagonist has powerful connections in the navy, army, and Foreign Ministry, so feel free to g 2kReads8.9Score132Shelves
- 90 Espionage: Slaying Enemies Gets Me Gear, and I’ve Gone on a Killing Spree 谍战：杀敌爆装备我真杀疯了 (For fans of Spy Shadow Storm, from a platinum-level author on another site, feel-good fiction, multiple heroines, and readers who love spy-war masterminds: add this to your bookshelf) The System grants me lofty ambitions, and my wife helps me reach the summit After passing the civil service exam three times, he was so excited that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and transmigrated into the Republic of China in 1939, becoming an abandoned pawn of the Military Statistics Bureau. Just after Gao H 258Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 91 Espionage: Colonel, Stop Guessing, I'm Really a Spy 谍战：大佐别猜了，我真是卧底 One morning, Li Changfeng woke up to find he had transmigrated to the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, where he unexpectedly awakened the strongest intelligence System. With the System's help, he rose step by step from a minor agent at No. 76 to the top. He became a translator for the Plum Blossom Society, Boss Dai's favorite student, and the feared leader of the Dragon King Corps, codenamed Poison Stinger. Boss Dai: “I trust Li Changfeng. He is the very soul of the Military Statist 10.3kReads8.0Score545Shelves
- 92 Espionage: Every Animal Is My Inside Man 谍战：动物都是我的内线 After transmigrating into the 28th year of the Republic of China, Gao Lingyu discovered that he had become a low-ranking intelligence officer in the Intelligence Division of the 76th Special Agent Headquarters, under the New Government. In short, he'd become a traitorous dog who had thrown in his lot with the Japanese. But aside from being a traitorous secret agent, he discovered that he had another identity: he was an undercover agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, stationed at the 76th on 4.5kReads8.2Score289Shelves
- 93 The Poor Become Rich Through Their Own Reversal 穷人逆转才是富 After retiring from the special forces, Ye Tianxuan takes on espionage networks and creates the Veterans Group. Working with his partner Xiao Yue, he turns it into a world-class corporation. Together, they tackle social tensions and cutthroat business competition while resisting interference from foreign forces. He also fights criminal organizations through corporate espionage in the modern business world. This story is entirely fictional, yet reality lies hidden within its fiction. 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Who Let Him Join the Military Statistics Bureau? 谁让他来军统的？ Transmigrating to the years of the War of Resistance, He Yuan takes on two identities and four faces, moving between light and darkness. To the Communist Party, he is an elusive master at eliminating traitors and its greatest source of funding. To the Nationalist government, he is the “Japanese Spy Ender” and the “Whampoa Military Academy’s God of Wealth.” To the Japanese, he is a “demonic asura” who stops at nothing! 23.8kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves
- 95 Bloodshed in America: I'm a CIA Defector 喋血美利坚，我是CIA叛徒 [Traditional style, no System, no mindless power fantasy, hard-edged and realistic espionage thriller] Chen Tao, a Chinese anti-narcotics officer. He opens his eyes aboard a vehicle bound for a terrorist attack. His memories are fragmented, and he has become the CIA’s most wanted traitor. The vehicle is packed with poison gas. Ninety minutes remain on the countdown. The target: Staples Center, with twenty thousand lives at stake. His superiors want him silenced, the CIA wants him alive, and the 8kReads7.0Score900Shelves
- 96 Bane of Japanese Spies: From the Start, I Awaken a Lie Detector System 日谍克星，开局觉醒测谎仪系统 Before he was reborn, those damned secret agents acted with impunity, buying off traitors and trading intelligence, causing one battlefield defeat after another as brave men died in vain. After he was reborn, the damned secret agents wailed in agony and trembled in fear, shouting that they wanted to go home. Warning, warning. Lie detected, lie detected. Accept the mission?… 324Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 97 Atonement 弥罪 I fell through the darkness and saw my own eyes in the reflection. The more someone fears trouble, the more trouble comes looking for them. We are all creatures struggling to survive among the thorns, reaching out our guilty hands in the direction time flows. And now, what can I use to make amends for my sins? 872Reads9.1Score125Shelves
- 98 A Suffocating Fog of Mystery 窒息迷云 While investigating an illegal gambling ring operating in an abandoned mansion, police officer Chu Xiaonian accidentally discovers a secret passage beneath the building. Searching inside, he finds a skeleton and eventually confirms that it belongs to his sister, Chu Yang, who disappeared twenty years ago. The discovery reopens a notorious cold case and makes headlines once more. Meanwhile, the victim’s only son, Chu Ming, is a successful urban professional who has spent years convinced that his 338Reads—Score102Shelves
- 99 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. 7.6kReads7.6Score677Shelves
- 100 Siheyuan: From the Start in 1944, I Married a Female Spy 四合院：1944开局娶了女特务 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 91.7kReads8.2Score6.6kShelves
