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- 51 Kite: Spy Games in Shanghai with Zheng Yaoxian, the Military Intelligence Agent 风筝：与军统六弟郑耀先谍战上海 Just scored! Republican-era setting + passionate ensemble cast + espionage + Military Statistics Bureau + undercover operations + battles of wits + no System + not reborn + the Military Statistics Bureau’s Sixth Brother In 1939, Chen Gongxing, a lieutenant colonel and deputy station chief in the Military Statistics Bureau, defected. At the time, the Shanghai Mei Agency and Wang Jingwei’s puppet regime’s Special Services Headquarters, Number 76, were opening their doors. Chen Gongxing became Num 5.1kReads7.4Score32314d adds
- 52 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 29.4kReads8.6Score2.9k14d adds
- 53 Red Countdown: Shanghai Spy Games, 1932 红色倒计时：上海谍影1932 [Decisive protagonist] [Thrilling spy story] [Multiple heroines] In all of Shanghai, there are only two kinds of Japanese spies: the ones Qin Zichen has killed, and the ones he's planning to sleep with before killing. When he raised his smoking gun barrel on the Bund, every Japanese person in the International Settlement wet their pants! 20Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 54 Blood and Intrigue 谍血风云 [Decisive and Ruthless] [Absolutely No Saintly Do-Gooder] [Fired with Passion] Returning to the war-torn Republic of China, the protagonist uses his slight head start to navigate between the various factions. On the secret front, every move is fraught with danger; between black and white, he repeatedly risks his life, earning achievements that no one will ever know about… 14Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 55 Falcon and Iron Eagle: Yan Shuangying Returns to the Southwest 猎隼铁鹰：燕双鹰重返大西南 No System | Hard-Core Espionage | Southwest Bandit Suppression | The Great Western Treasure | Invincible Protagonist “Only someone like you would believe there are bullets in your gun.” In 1950, just after the liberation of the Great Southwest, the region was shrouded in mystery. Remnants of the Kuomintang allied with bandits and local tyrants, launching the vicious Falcon Hunt Plan to overthrow the new regime. Then a mysterious treasure map to Zhang Xianzhong's hoard surfaced, drawing every f 124Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 56 The Con Artists’ Guild: Tales of the Old Guard 老千门之千门旧事 In those days, the world aboveboard was run by the government, merchant guilds, and the military. Beneath the surface lay an underworld order: The Three Teachings set the rules, the Nine Sects roamed the land, the Thousand Gates set their traps, and the Eight Generals wielded their blades. A young man was drawn into the game by a con on the snowy plains of the Northeast. He witnessed the Thousand Gates and Eight Generals firsthand at the docks of Tianjin, and eventually became a man who could se 146Reads—Score11114d adds
- 57 Undercover 3: The Ultimate Infiltration 暗斗3：终极渗透 The Japanese have been infiltrating our land of Huaxia for a thousand years. In modern times, Freemasonry also entered China in the late Qing dynasty. What conspiracy and purpose lie behind their frenzied infiltration? How far have they already infiltrated? Enemy spies and the traitors they cultivate are everywhere. Their plots are sinister and vicious. How should the descendants of Yan and Huang face this battle, one that concerns the survival of our nation? To deal with the claws of evil, he h 383Reads8.8Score11114d adds
- 58 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. 1.5kReads6.9Score10514d adds
- 59 Espionage: A New Superpower Every Month 谍战：我每月一个新异能 [Light System + independent development + no reliance on any faction + portable pocket dimension] Ye Zi'an becomes a junior agent for the Military Statistics Bureau and awakens a System that lets him switch to a brand-new supernatural ability every month. Identity Verification: Obtain information about a person's identity and interests. Puppeteer: Use another person's DNA to control them for a short time. Dreamweaver: Enter other people's dreams to find clues and gather intelligence. Psychologis 1.4kReads7.6Score12114d adds
- 60 Espionage: The Military Intelligence Bureau's Judge, the Nightmare of Japanese Spies 谍战：军统判官，活成日谍噩梦 [Espionage + identity detection + assassination + System] Reborn in 1936, Lin Mu, a graduate of Whampoa Military Academy, is unexpectedly assigned to the Special Service Department. He soon becomes Japanese spies’ worst nightmare! Kawashima Yoshiko: “Damn it, the assassination plan has been foiled again!” Tsuchihashi: “The Judge is everyone’s worst nightmare.” He kills Japanese invaders, captures Japanese spies, and takes Shanghai by storm, becoming a traitor’s worst nightmare! “I have nothing t 58Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 61 I Led My Troops in a Raid on the Imperial Capital, and Dad Called Me Crazy 带队掀了帝都城，爹说我疯了 Reborn on the eve of a looming war, I watched my elder brother fawn over actors while my father put his faith in shady wanderers. I’d had enough. I emptied the family coffers to buy a System, spending 500,000 silver dollars to build a heavily armed German-style brigade. The day I surrounded the marshal’s residence, a hundred heavy cannons took aim at Yangcheng. Father smashed his teacup. “Third Son, are you trying to kill your old man?” I slapped an abdication letter down in front of him. “Fathe 30Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 62 Transmigrating to 1936: Between Night and Dawn 穿越1936：暗夜与黎明 A modern young man arrives in the war-torn Republic of China. From the start, he's a graduate of Whampoa Military Academy. A golden finger? What can he possibly do? The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, underground organizations, Japanese invaders, collaborators, moles, and more... —Reads—Score3k14d adds
- 63 Secrets of the Spy War: The Japanese Translator 谍海秘事之鬼子翻译官 From the start, Liu Dongyang worked as an interpreter for the Japanese army, matching wits with the enemy and treading carefully at every turn. He also faced constant threats from collaborators and traitors, with danger lurking everywhere. Yet he always managed to escape trouble and obtain vital intelligence for his side. 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 64 Espionage: If You Got This Script, Would You Take It? 谍战：这剧本给你你要不要？ [No System + No female lead] [Hellscript, Volume 2] Transmigrating into a spy thriller, Long Yan finds himself holding a hellish script and posing as a Japanese officer?! After attending the same military academy as Zhou Weiguo, entering into a partnership with the Ming Corporation before parting ways, and facing life and death on the battlefield alongside Takeshita Shun, Long Yan finally finds his organization. Three years later, he returns to Shanghai. This time, he's an agent embedded in the 831Reads8.2Score10114d adds
- 65 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. 1.5kReads8.1Score10814d adds
- 66 Espionage: The Ultimate Agent, Starting by Becoming Zheng Yaoxian's Disciple 谍战：最强特工，开局拜师郑耀先 Su Minming turned his head and looked at the somewhat timid girl before him. A smile unconsciously tugged at his lips. She stood beside him in a plain white dress, her hair outlined by the moonlight, soft as clouds. Her large, bright eyes were like the clear water of a pond, able to see straight through to the stirrings in his heart. 213Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 67 Espionage: I Am a Parrot 谍战之我是鹦鹉 Not a bleeding heart, not invincible, a master of keeping his head down. A model citizen born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze, he suddenly finds himself in the war-torn year of 1938. He has plenty of passion but no courage, and has always believed that keeping a low profile is the way to survive. After gaining a parrot double, he thrives in the secret service. You think I'm Juntong? You think I'm a traitor? You think I'm with the Red Party? No! I'm a parrot. 634Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 68 Night Hawk: Espionage in Shanghai from Five Factions 夜鹰，五方谍战上海滩 He is the manager of a trading company in the foreign concessions, a smooth and well-connected socialite, a codebreaking expert courted by the Military Statistics Bureau, a welcome guest at No. 76, and even a sworn brother to a Green Gang boss. Beneath all those layers of disguise, he has only one true identity: an underground Communist Party operative, codenamed “Night Hawk.” Shanghai in 1941 is an isolated island, but it's also a living hell. The Japanese collaborators, the Special Higher Poli 6.3kReads7.2Score49214d adds
- 69 Don't Arrest Me! The Kempeitai Translator's Online Friends Keep Me Alive 别抓我！特高课翻译靠网友保命 [The rating just came out, and it's set to rise] [War of Resistance espionage]➕ [Transmigration]➕ [Livestream] I transmigrate to Shanghai in 1937, now under occupation, and awaken a cross-era Livestream System. Every viewer is a netizen from the future. Each hour of viewing earns one point, which can be exchanged for firearms, skills, and all kinds of modern supplies. For the first three days, nobody watches my livestream. I save up points to learn Japanese, then pose as a timid translator and i 4.7kReads6.9Score51614d adds
- 70 The Spy Blade: 1933 谍刃1933 No transmigration + no System + no heroine + slow pace + strives to stay close to historical fact Li Mo, an orphan from a Shanghai lane, is taken to the Northeast by a guide working for the Communist Party and becomes a policeman in the puppet state of Manchukuo. Through a twist of fate, he earns the favor of senior Kwantung Army officers. Relying on his own abilities, he rises step by step from a low-ranking policeman in the puppet Manchukuo government to deputy director of the police departmen 87Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 71 Lost in Love and Greed 《爱与贪婪的迷途》 The Lost Path of Love and Greed 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Starting with Lurk, I Fight My Way Through Spy Dramas 从潜伏开始，杀穿谍战剧 Spy thrillers: + + + + + + + ... A thrilling spy novel packed with adrenaline, wits, and daring clashes. If you don't like the opening setup, you can start with Volume Two, Shanghai in Turmoil. He transmigrates into the life of a small-time gangster in Tianjin, and his fiancée is killed from the start. He swears to take revenge, and is lucky enough to awaken a System. Completing System missions earns him rewar 4.4kReads7.1Score20614d adds
- 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 550Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 74 Espionage: I Can See People's Identities 谍战我能看到身份信息 He graduated from the Qingpu Special Training Class, a rookie on the intelligence battlefield. He will defend his country and protect it to the death. The Japanese invaders have already destroyed his home. Now all that remains is to defend the nation! Along the way, he uses his ability to investigate people’s identities to kill collaborators and eliminate Japanese spies. To the warriors on the covert front, your achievements will live forever. 3.4kReads8.4Score27214d adds
- 75 Espionage: Three Years, Then Three More, Until I Became an Enemy Nation’s General 谍战：三年又三年，我成敌国将帅 Jiang Chen transmigrates into a world where spy dramas like Kite, The Disguiser, and The Message have merged. From the start, he becomes the favored disciple of Zheng Yaoxian, the Sixth Brother of the Juntong. After training under Zheng Yaoxian, Jiang Chen infiltrates the Special Higher Police Agency once again. And so, a triple agent who strikes terror into the hearts of Japanese and puppet-government spies emerges. The three Ming brothers: Jiang Chen is my handler. I'm convinced! Zheng Yaoxian 3.4kReads7.1Score23314d adds
- 76 Heaven Threw Me into the 1940s to Set Things Right 老天把我扔四十年代收割不平事 [Transmigrating to the Republic of China era + both virgins + resistance-war espionage + chicken-dinner System + strong heroine + mutual devotion + multiple identities] Lu Xiangxiang is timid and easily frightened, but she loves martial arts and has trained with her father in the mountains since childhood. She’s majoring in foreign languages, so why insist on joining a film crew as a stunt double? Timid and easily frightened, she spent college as a complete nobody. And now… this? All Lu Xiangxia 375Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 77 Espionage: Every Female Agent Is My Informant 谍战：女特务都是我的内线 [Espionage + Multiple Heroines + System + Hearing Their Inner Thoughts] Whenever he comes into contact with a beautiful woman, he learns her memories, experiences, inner thoughts, schemes, and secrets, giving him leverage over her. Handsome and devilishly charming, he lies low in enemy territory and finds himself surrounded by one romantic encounter after another, as if he were strolling through a land of women. He cons and deceives, spinning one outrageous tale after another until the enemy's f 2.3kReads7.2Score17514d adds
- 78 Spy Games: Starting with a Female Spy Taking Me Home 谍战风云：从被女特务捡回家开始 His soul transmigrates to Jinling in 1936, and from the start, the ravishing female secret agent Ye Jieqing “picks him up” after he passes out. They meet again two years later, only for him to discover that she has become the wife of Li Shiqun, head of the 76th Office. Will their old romance be rekindled, or will he use the opportunity to infiltrate enemy territory? Armed with multiple golden fingers, including enhanced physical abilities, a portable space, and a radar that scans for evil, Chen 52.1kReads8.2Score4.6k14d adds
- 79 Espionage Agent: From the Start, I Was Just a Nobody in the Juntong 谍战特工，开局军统当混子 [Republic-era espionage + building an independent power + a male lead who never takes a loss + special operations] Shen Lang bites the dust and unexpectedly is reborn in the Republic of China era. The descendant of a veteran of the War of Resistance, he is determined to become a Communist spy. But the original owner of his body was a useless errand boy in the military intelligence service... A complete deadweight, too... And now someone has a gun to his head, about to use him as a scapegoat... H 461Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 80 Snow Leopard: I Am Yan Shuangying 雪豹之我是燕双鹰 Middle school student Qin Feng is bullied by a group of thugs on the playground. He expects things to go as they always have, but this time he transmigrates, possessing the body of Yan Shuangying. He also transmigrates into Zhou Weiguo’s world. Because of his arrival, Xiao Ya and Fan Xiaoyu survive and join the Falcon Assassination Squad he forms. Fang Shengli survives too, becoming the captain of the Snow Leopard Special Forces. 412Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 The Truth Hidden Behind the Scenes 《隐藏在背后的真相》 The Truth Hidden Behind the Scenes 12Reads—Score114d adds
- 82 A Night at Wanjiazhai 《夜宿万家寨》 A Night at Wanjia Village 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 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 2.9kReads7.0Score18114d adds
- 84 Espionage: A Forensic Doctor Reincarnates as the Republican Era's Top Spy 谍战：法医魂穿，成民国第一特务 [Crossover of Film and TV Worlds + Triple-Identity Agent + Vivid Characterization + No System] A year ago, he was an invisible nobody at work, a rookie forensic examiner! A year later, Gu Mingzhe transmigrates into a new body and becomes the Republican Era's most formidable agent! As for ruthlessness, Wang Manchun is no match for me! As for schemes, even the Viper Ming Lou is nothing special! As for presence, even Nanda Yoko has to bow and scrape before me! Codebreaking, reconnaissance, business 1.1kReads5.7Score—14d adds
- 85 Transmigrated as the Villainess: My Whole Family Has a Secret Identity 穿越成恶毒女配：我全家都有马甲 Qin Yan transmigrates into a book set during the chaotic warlord era of the 1930s. The original owner is a vicious cannon-fodder female supporting character. Her whole family are lackeys of the Japanese, and she herself is a despicable, universally hated bully: a traitorous collaborator who used her power to abduct civilian women and men. Qin Yan? But soon, she realizes something is off. Her father: a secret intelligence agent Her stepmother: an undercover spy in Japan Her third uncle: a Communi 1.2kReads7.1Score10214d adds
- 86 There’s a Ghost Under the Bed 《床下有鬼》 There’s a Ghost Under the Bed 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 One Terrifying Night for a Haunted House Sleep Tester 《凶宅试睡员的惊魂一夜》 A Terrifying Night for a Haunted House Sleep Tester 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Sadako Returns 《贞子复活》 Sadako Comes Back to Life 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 The Price of My Wife’s Affair 《老婆出轨的代价》 The Price of My Wife’s Affair 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Awakening After the Affair 《出墙后的醒悟》 Awakening After the Affair 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 91 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! 2.1kReads8.1Score11314d adds
- 92 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... 1.2kReads7.3Score10214d adds
- 93 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—14d adds
- 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! 23.7kReads8.1Score2.2k14d adds
- 95 Shadows of Espionage: Starting as a Patrol Officer 谍影暗杀：从巡警开始 “Instant Mission: Kill Wang Mingchu, a traitor to the Fuxing Society. Reward: +50 combat skill experience.” Enhanced physique, martial arts, marksmanship, spatial abilities, disguise... When the Special High Commission discovers that collaborators are being killed one after another, when the Military Statistics Bureau cannot fathom how the Japanese army’s arsenal was blown up, and when the Red Party’s contact point suddenly receives an anonymous warning... No one would have guessed that the guy 20.1kReads7.3Score1.5k14d adds
- 96 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 5.3kReads8.3Score40614d adds
- 97 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...? 3.8kReads8.9Score37614d adds
- 98 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 1.4kReads6.9Score10014d adds
- 99 Espionage: The Killer in the Dead of Night 谍战：暗夜里的杀手 Liu Jianguo transmigrates to the war-torn Republic of China era. He belongs to no faction and is simply an ordinary peasant farmer. Even a humble farmer can wield great power. [Ding! Super-agent physique activated.] [Ding! Reconnaissance Eye acquired.] He becomes a ghostly messenger, a killer in the dead of night. Opium gang: “Who the hell shot up our cargo and killed our men?” 76th: “Forget chasing the underground party. We’ve got a mole of our own to deal with!” Special Higher Police: “We’ve h 7.3kReads7.2Score53314d adds
- 100 Espionage: I Can Talk to Animals! Torturing Japanese Spies 谍战：和动物交流的我！折磨日谍 When Bai Liang wakes up, he discovers he's become the lowest-ranking secret agent in occupied Shanghai, codenamed “Bagpipe.” From the start, the Special Higher Police Agency throws him into a death-row cell... Just as he's nearly lost all hope, Bai Liang awakens a special ability: he can understand what cats and dogs say. From that moment on, every cat and dog in the city becomes part of Bai Liang's intelligence network... He kills the Japanese invaders and eliminates traitors, rising step by st 1.1kReads6.2Score10314d adds
