Novels like The Years in Xinjing
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Years in Xinjing, best match first.
- 1 Rebuild the Red Great Qin, Call Me Comrade Ziying 再造红色大秦，请叫我子婴同志 [Transmigration to Great Qin] [Ruthless and Decisive] [Ensemble Cast] [Red Ideology] [Dynastic Struggle] Transmigrate into a doomed ruler of a fallen dynasty? Become Ying Ziying, the most ill-fated Qin king in history, and face the most hopeless trial period from the start. Fail, and Zhao Gao kills you. Pass, and Xiang Yu cuts you down. Ying Ziying slaps the dragon throne. “I don’t want to be this Qin king. Call me Comrade Ziying!” Starting with a tiny “Mutual Farming Society,” he kindles the re 129Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 King of Espionage: My Deadly Simulations 谍战之王：我能夺命模拟 Tang San obtains a Spy King System with five major categories of skills. First, killing enemies earns him their remaining lifespan. Second, the lifespan he gains can extend his own life. Third, he can spend lifespan to avert disasters and injuries that would otherwise befall him. Fourth, he can use lifespan to simulate lives, not only his own but other people's as well. Fifth, it has other incredible functions. 292Reads7.3Score108Shelves
- 3 The Nameless Long River: Thirty Years Behind Enemy Lines 长河无名，敌营三十载 Japan, the Military Statistics Bureau, the Chinese Communist Party, the Soviet Union, the United States, and South Korea: six identities at once, and thirty years embedded in enemy ranks. From the covert battles in Shanghai and the Hangzhou Incident to code-breaking intrigues, the smoke of Nomonhan, espionage in the Far East, and power struggles in a world at war, he hides his real name and bears the burden of his country and people under an assumed identity. His name is absent from the history 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Four Hundred Men Held the Rear, and for 14 Years, No Order to Retreat Came 四百人断后，14年没有撤退命令 Dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's victory in the Long March, and to the brave souls who risked everything in the people's war. You laid down your lives to pave the road to a brighter future. With a devotion that will never fade, we honor every undying spirit of loyalty. I believe the opening chapters will draw huge traffic, because the story is even more explosive. [War of Resistance Espionage · History · Spy Thriller · Special Forces · No Female Lead · Power Struggle · No Ha 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 5 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 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 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 149Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 7 Different Paths, Same Source 殊途归源 Returning to the Source by Different Paths: Synopsis Shanghai, 1935. She is a singer at the Paramount Ballroom, dressed in a qipao and hiding her identity as an underground Communist Party member. He is a well-mannered banker, elegant and charming, but secretly an ace agent for the Military Statistics Bureau. One mission brings two impostors together. He is ordered to investigate her, but falls for her while testing her loyalties. She means to use him, but finds herself falling for him amid her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Jinling's Hidden Blade 金陵暗刃 For twelve years of the Republic, the covert war raged without respite, and every corner of Jinling bristled with danger! Shen Jinghan is the highest-ranking agent planted deep inside the enemy's ranks by Yan'an. Breaking out of a deadly trap on the eve of Nanjing's fall, he advances step by step to the top of Wang Jingwei's puppet government's No. 76 and the Juntong's inner circle, locking horns in a battle to the death with Japanese spy king Miyamoto Koichi and traitor ringleader Wei Mingyuan. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Shanghai, 1937: The Silent Stitch 抗日上海1937：无声的针脚 In 1943, the occupied districts of Shanghai appear calm on the surface, but beneath it, undercurrents swirl. Shen Yanqiu, a Communist underground operative codenamed “Tailor,” goes undercover as the owner of an upscale tailor shop in the French Concession, tasked with rebuilding a shattered intelligence network. His adversaries are Sato Ichiro, the newly appointed chief of the Japanese secret police, and a mysterious double agent known as “Shadow.” When Shen Yanqiu discovers that his contact is 2.4kReads6.6Score297Shelves
- 10 Espionage: A Transmigrator Just Trying to Stay Alive 谍战，想要活下去的穿越者 (Espionage + personal growth + interests + the Green Gang + behind-the-scenes intrigue + adapted in part from real historical events) Wang Erhe transmigrates to the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan. In this extraordinary time, he arrives in Shanghai and, through his own efforts and with the help of various factions, navigates the competing forces and expands his influence. Step by step, he grows from an insignificant nobody into someone no faction can afford to ignore. In Shanghai, 1.1kReads7.0Score103Shelves
- 11 Espionage: A One-Man-Army for the Military Statistics Bureau 碟战：军统特工一刀流 [Espionage + Multiple Secret-Agent Identities + System + Transmigration] Qian Fei transmigrates to the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, taking over the body of a language prodigy named Qian Fei. His original body was a member of the Military Statistics Bureau. His transmigration comes with a game System that lets him use Investigation to uncover people's identities. Investigating... Identity confirmed. Windstep activated... Essential for making a getaway. Deadly Strike unleashed... 787Reads5.6Score116Shelves
- 12 Glory in the Dust 尘埃里的荣耀 Anti-Japanese War spy intrigue + espionage, history + agents, powerful figures + power struggles, face-slapping Late autumn, 1948. The operations room of the Xuzhou Suppression Headquarters. Just as Section Chief Guo Zhun, a major general, reaches for the gun in his desk drawer, Shen Xingzhi, a special agent from the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, walks in. He says he’s there for a cup of tea, but his eyes are fixed on Guo Zhun’s shoes. Hidden in the heel is a roll of microfilm that co 4.3kReads8.0Score323Shelves
- 13 King of Espionage: Four Identities, Dancing on the Blade's Edge in Shanghai 谍战之王四重身份上海滩刀尖跳舞 [Espionage + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Multiple Heroines + Fourfold Identity] After I transmigrate to Shanghai, I take on four undercover identities: one with the Japanese army, one with 76, one with the Juntong, and one with the Red faction! On a stormy night, all four sides close in on me. With a gun pointed at my back, I use a single badge to drive off a Juntong sniper, talk circles around a 76 agent, and exploit the Japanese army’s power to break out of a deadly trap! Other people risk their —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Espionage: My Codename Is Demon-Mirror 谍战：我代号照妖镜 After a car accident, Shen Qingyun, a university psychology student, woke up in 1939 in someone else's body, that of a clerk in the Military Statistics Bureau's interrogation department. In the Zaosibao torture chamber, a Japanese spy kept his mouth shut, refusing to confess even under severe torture. With the section chief and director at their wits' end, Shen Qingyun used microexpression psychology to find the spy's weak spot and pry open his ironclad lips! When Dai Li heard about it, he was d 936Reads6.3Score107Shelves
- 15 A Match for Her Rival: The White Plum Agent's Comeback 棋逢敌手，白梅特工的逆袭 Character Outline for A Match for the Master: The White Plum Agent's Comeback Main Character - Su Jin - Identity: An agent of the White Plum organization, code name “White Plum,” and daughter of Lin Shen. She is a math whiz who can do three-digit multiplication in her head and speaks seven languages. Originally an agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, she is drawn into a conspiracy involving multiple factions. With exceptional intelligence and courage, she continually seeks the truth in a co 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 War of Resistance: The Dark Zone Veteran Crushes the Japanese Invaders 抗战：暗区老六横扫日寇 The red flag flies, rising in the East! “Comrades, victory is within reach!” “All members of the special task force, follow me!” “Fix bayonets! Charge!” “For the people!” 941Reads—Score103Shelves
- 17 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 31kReads8.6Score3kShelves
- 18 Espionage! My Female Instructor in the Military Statistics Bureau Is a Force to Be Reckoned With 谍战！我的军统女教官太猛辣 This work is dedicated to the eightieth anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance. [War of Resistance] [Espionage] [Reborn] [Transmigration] [System] Xiao Zhan, a firefighter from the twenty-first century, is tragically engulfed by flames. But he is reborn from the fire and transmigrates to the Battle of Shanghai in August 1937. He becomes a member of a special operations squad under Ye Lei, a female instructor at the Lixing Society’s Secret Service Division, and fights the Japanese invad 1.8kReads7.6Score211Shelves
- 19 Return to the Nest: Code Name Lone Goose 归巢：代号孤雁 In 1946, during the Central Plains Breakout, dawn rose red with blood. Lu Huaijin, our Party’s top undercover agent, codenamed “Lone Goose,” carried a top-secret list that held the lives of hundreds of comrades. Amid the chaos, he lost contact with his only superior, “Star Shepherd,” and vanished without a trace. Within the organization, his file was stamped “suspected defector” and sealed away in a fog of uncertainty. Twelve years later, in 1958, an old-fashioned coded message that seemed to be 26Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 20 Espionage: Starting in 1936 谍战：从1936开始 In 1936, the land lies shattered, and dark clouds gather over the nation. Modern special police officer Wang Xinjie transmigrates to the Shanghai concessions and becomes the most unremarkable Chinese constable, awakening a portable storage space from the start. A Japanese ronin kills someone in broad daylight? He snaps the man's wrist and sends him flying with a shoulder strike! A foreign superior sides with the Japanese invaders? He exploits public anger to put the man in his place, leaving him 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Espionage: I Can Eavesdrop on Everything 谍战：我能窃听万物 He's an agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, yet his superiors have ordered him to save the son of a Japanese military bigwig. He's a marginal figure in enemy intelligence circles, yet time and again he gets wind of the Japanese side's top-secret plans. He's timid, greedy, and lecherous, yet he repeatedly becomes the key to foiling the enemy's schemes. And the only reason he can do all this is that he has an extraordinary pair of ears, able to hear the sounds around him... 9Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 22 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 6.3kReads7.2Score500Shelves
- 23 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
- 24 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
- 25 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 20.1kReads7.3Score1.5kShelves
- 26 1936: A Crow’s Years as a Spy 1936：一只乌鸦的谍战岁月 [Secret identity]+ [Clones]+ [Spatial relocation]+ [Infrastructure and factories]+ [Building a team] He transmigrated to 1936 and became a crow with a pocket dimension. He thought this was just how his life would be from now on, until the crow discovered he could continually condense mental seeds and take the identities of people on the brink of death. A military intelligence agent who repairs bicycles... A Japanese noble serving in the military justice department... A Yunnan Army company comman 1.1kReads5.8Score103Shelves
- 27 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
- 28 Shadow War 2: Phantom Storm, the Spy Demon Returns 暗斗2：魅影风云之谍魔再世 Sequel to Dark Struggle: espionage, mind games, suspense, spies, and intellectual battles. Enemy agents are everywhere. Almost everyone around us has the enemy's shadow lurking nearby. The terrifying part isn't the secret agents lying low. Even more shocking is how the Japanese have infiltrated and corrupted us for a thousand years. Our elite agents stop at nothing to root them out completely, only to discover that the real enemy is the band of traitors who've been bought off! Little do they kno 2.5kReads9.3Score261Shelves
- 29 Shanghai 1949: Silent 上海1949：无声 October 1948. At the scene of his father's supposed “fatal car accident,” Gu Yansheng discovers a pocket watch stopped at 3:17, the time the bank closes for business in the afternoon. At the memorial held inside the bank, Shen Mozhi gives a eulogy, his gaze sweeping over Gu Yansheng like a knife. While sorting through his father's belongings, Gu Yansheng finds his father's handwriting beside a problem dated March 17, 1937, in Practical Bank Accounting: “Debit: Dawn. Credit: Long Night.” His firs 2.3kReads—Score161Shelves
- 30 Fallen Leaves Return to Their Roots: Code Name Lone Boat 落叶归根：代号孤舟 In 1949, forestry expert Shen Feng could have evacuated, but instead he took on the identity of low-level clerk Lin Qisheng and infiltrated the Taitung Forestry Farm to rebuild the “Tree-Ring” intelligence network. He wasn't the only one operating undercover. The mole codenamed “Night Owl” and the shrewd opponent Chen Huaiyuan drove him and his comrades into a desperate situation. Three years later, a new recruit's betrayal destroyed the group. With the help of A Hui, a local young woman who gav 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Broken Thorn 断刺 When the Japanese invaders strike, a rebellious young man runs away from home and is swept by the tides of history from one perilous situation to another. He maneuvers between military intelligence agents, underworld gangs, and Japanese spies; makes choices between conflicting beliefs; sacrifices love and friendship; and transforms as he grows through loneliness... 140Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 32 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 1.4kReads6.8Score105Shelves
- 33 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 250Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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
- 35 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 138Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 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
- 37 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
- 38 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
- 39 Fuzhou: Blades and Bloodshed in 1949 福州：刀光血影一九四九 A few words in a local dialect, as indistinguishable as the wind. Once their eyes meet, the hunt and counterhunt begin. Messages whispered on the wind, blood and chaos, a fight to the death... At the end of February 1949, the Huacha secret team, entrusted with a vital mission, encountered an accident on its way to Rong. Team leader Hu Dayi vanished without a trace, and his guard, Wu Erzhu, was captured. At the same time, the Kuomintang's Secrecy Bureau System was carrying out its covert Thunder 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 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, 720Reads6.3Score104Shelves
- 41 Espionage in the Besieged City: Codename Gardener 谍影围城：代号园丁 (Traditional spy thriller, no transmigration or golden finger. If that’s not your thing, please don’t flame the author.) In the autumn of 1941, at Rong Manor, an isolated compound in Shanghai’s occupied zone, five “guests” from very different walks of life are trapped by a feast worthy of a trap. They are a glamorous nightclub singer, a timid official, a cold-faced police officer, a shrewd editor-in-chief, and a mysterious Japanese section chief. The manor is under constant surveillance. They ar 861Reads6.7Score104Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 Espionage: Codename Wrecking Ball! Infinite Plunder! 谍战：代号大摆锤！无限掠夺！ [Spy warfare + gritty action + rooting out traitors + power fantasy + System + business + portable space] He is the most overlooked nobody in the Military Statistics Bureau, and the lowest-ranking Green Gang underling, living each day with death hanging over him. He is the shadowy boss controlling a vast family business, and a gangster, a scumbag, in the eyes of countless people. More than that, he is a secret agent who strikes fear into the hearts of traitors and Japanese spies. His codename: W 6kReads6.4Score436Shelves
- 44 Espionage: From the Start, I’m an Underground Party Agent, Leveling Up on My Own! 谍战：开局地下党，我独自升级！ The moment he opens his eyes, information security engineer Shen Ye finds that he has transmigrated to Shanghai in 1938, a city battered by war, and become an underground Party member on the verge of exposure! From the start, it’s a nightmare: within three days, he must infiltrate the Japanese military’s Tokko headquarters and steal a top-secret intelligence file that will decide the organization’s fate, right under the nose of Kenichi Sato, a “China expert”! Fortunately, the [Eye of Intellige 8Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 45 Republican Era Espionage: Code Name Crab 民国谍战之代号螃蟹 They endured a long, dark night, writing an indispensable page in China's War of Resistance with their blood. Some say your writing feels real, but who knows that the real world of espionage was even more brutal, too brutal to put into words. With this book, I pay tribute to all the heroes who gave their lives for their country on the intelligence front. 23.3kReads8.2Score2.2kShelves
- 46 Republican China: From Fake Young Master to Warlord 民国，从冒牌少爷到一方军阀 [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 12.1kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
- 47 The Phoenix-Eyed Agent: I Tear My Rotten Enemies Apart in Republican-Era China 凤眼女特工：我在民国手撕渣敌 I, Su Wanqing, am a small-time female thug at the bottom of the heap at Jiangcheng Wharf. My only talent is hearing other people’s thoughts. For three years, I used that ability to dodge countless assassination attempts, until I met a coachman who was nearly beaten to death. My heart skipped a beat: this man’s thoughts were actually pure. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Reborn as a Young Landlord in Republican-Era China 重生民国小地主 Reborn in the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China. Bai Zhu had only one thought: keep the Bai family alive through these chaotic times. A severe drought, the Yellow River bursting its banks, waves of refugees, an invasion by the Japanese... A few brief lines in a history book meant the despair of people dying every day for him. He had a pocket dimension, but he couldn’t risk letting anyone find out. Outwardly unruly, he secretly used its water to fight the drought and save the fields, wh 4kReads6.2Score177Shelves
- 49 Blood of the Land: Code of the Flames of War 山河血：烽火密码 In 1945, a Japanese military aircraft carrying a top-secret cipher machine crashes in the mountains of northern China. Liu Jiangong, a guerrilla commander; Shangguan Yufei, a female special envoy; and Lei Zifeng, a bandit chief, are three people with nothing in common, yet fate binds them together over a “black box.” They fight to seize, protect, and crack the secrets, going from distrust to fighting side by side, from a mountain stronghold to Tuancheng, and from a fake wedding to life-and-death 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Cliffhanger: The Butterfly at Dawn 【悬崖】续集破晓之蝶 The sequel to the spy classic The Brink! Hard-hitting espionage · historical mystery · a new chapter in the Ice City spy war In 1946, Harbin was liberated. Gu Qiuyan came back, carrying the echo of the gunshot that condemned her six years ago, and an obsession she could tell no one about. A rusted button was waiting for her in a crack in the wall of her old home. It was a deadly signal only she could understand. Was he still alive? Gao Bin, who once controlled everything, now wore a badge bear 3.3kReads8.8Score410Shelves
