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- 151 Espionage: From the Start, I Teach Shen Jinzhen a Lesson 谍战：开局给沈近真上了一课 After watching the finale of the TV drama The Wind Rises from Luoyang, Wang Haishang finally breathed a sigh of relief when Wei Ruolai and Shen Tunan met again! The ending was all right, I guess! The two had joined forces once more. They weren't just teacher and student anymore, but comrades on the same side! Still, the drama left far too many things unresolved! Aunt Zhou went mad? Awen died? Kong Lingzheng died? Xu Nuo died? Shen Jinzhen died too? The eldest sister survived, Yu Shiqing survived 5.5kReads6.3Score519Shelves
- 152 1940: The Thin Line Between Life and Death in the War 1940：抗战生死线 In 1940, the flames of war engulf the land, and the smoke from the Hundred Regiments Offensive has yet to clear. Liu San has only seven bullets, while Ma Dazhuang keeps thinking about the half a flatbread tucked against his chest. In Zaolin County, right under the Japanese army’s nose, surviving until tomorrow is a victory. But what about the day after? This is no charge on the front lines. It is the harshest fight for survival behind enemy lines: every step requires calculation, and every mouth 724Reads6.3Score105Shelves
- 153 While Others Fight a Grueling War, You Crush a Million Japanese Invaders? 别人艰苦抗战，你横推百万倭寇？ [Transmigration to the War of Resistance, System-Summoned Troops, Overwhelming Firepower] Don't talk to me about tactical maneuvers, raids behind enemy lines, or spy infiltration. All I know is how to blanket the enemy with fire! Even if a wild boar wanders by, call in artillery support for me. Start with a quick three-round burst. What? A full-strength enemy division is attacking? Quick, call in reconnaissance aircraft, bombers, and paratroopers for support. Send three armored divisions to rein 8kReads8.2Score501Shelves
- 154 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
- 155 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
- 156 War of Faith: Reborn as Shen Jinzhen 追风者：重生之沈近真 [Adapted from the TV series The Wind Rises, starring Wang Yibo and Li Qin] “If you come, I'll take you with me to see the founding of New China!” Republican-era arc (complete), Long March arc (complete), wedding arc (complete), national salvation arc (complete), founding of New China arc (complete) Republican era + espionage + War of Resistance + founding of New China No System, no golden finger Hope the film Formed Police Unit is a box-office hit! 475Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 157 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
- 158 Not a Single Japanese Soldier Gets Away 一个鬼子都不许留 I woke up to find myself a “Japanese devil” on the battlefield of the War of Resistance. The transmigration of Fu Shuiheng, a military-industrial PhD, is a cold joke: dressed in a Japanese uniform, lying on the scorched earth of Shanxi in 1937. From using broken Japanese to save himself to trembling as he pulls the trigger for the first time; from being dismissed as a “madman with an education” to personally forming the “Blade” squad, a unit that strikes fear into the enemy, he throws himself in 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 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 827Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 160 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
- 161 The Flames of War Burn Again 烽火再续 [Realistic | No System | No Golden Finger] This is a war novel about resistance behind enemy lines. In occupied territory under the tight control of Japanese and puppet forces, the Eighth Route Army struggles to fight and survive amid shortages of food and medicine and constant casualties. They rely not on grand speeches, but on discipline, mutual support, and faith. In the harshest conditions, they hold on to their principles, keep their ranks together, and preserve the people's chance to survi 731Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Republican-Era Spy Shadow 民国谍影 [No System + No transmigration, not reborn. Ace agent Xu Lai, with five identities] Not a power fantasy. Readers who like power fantasies, proceed with caution! A thrilling spy saga in Shanghai’s foreign concessions: A spy among bandits, a double agent among spies, betrayal upon betrayal, one sellout after another! This story is dedicated to the unsung heroes who fought the Japanese invaders to the death for the rise of China! Also known as The Days I Spent as a Collaborator for the Japanese Pup 30Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 163 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
- 164 Espionage: Gravely Wounded from the Start, I Must Kill Japanese Soldiers to Stay Alive 谍战：开局重伤，必须杀鬼子续命 [Espionage + System + Schemer + All Villains + Ruthless] How long can an ordinary person survive after transmigrating to Beiping during the War of Resistance? Song Wenyuan has the answer from personal experience: Three days! He was nearly killed by bandits right after arriving, but luckily someone rescued him and brought him to Beiping. After begging for food for three days, the Japanese caught sight of him. As a gleaming bayonet pierced his chest, Song Wenyuan died with regrets! At the moment o 22kReads8.5Score1.8kShelves
- 165 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
- 166 Code Name: Wick 谍战代号灯芯 Espionage · play the pig to eat the tiger · battles of wits · cool-headed and composed · fake marriage · love of country In 1936 Shanghai, everyone at the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics station knew Lu Xingzhou was a “deadweight”: he dozed at work, was always the last to handle a case, went weak in the knees at the sight of blood, and ranked dead last in every annual performance review. No one knew that he had quietly handed over half the “meritorious achievements” on Director Dai’s desk 12.8kReads7.5Score1.4kShelves
- 167 Rising to Power in the War of Resistance, Starting with Ambushes 抗战从打伏击开始崛起 As a 21st-century military enthusiast, Zhou Yi transmigrates into the world of "Bright Sword" and becomes a battalion commander in the Eighth Route Army... Facing the Japanese invaders who have come to ravage China, and especially tempted by the chance to earn a place at the head of a page in his family genealogy, he has just one word for the Japanese: kill! As the saying goes, a dead Japanese soldier is the best kind! 430Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 168 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. 638Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 169 The Greenwood Resistance 绿林的抗战 In the winter of 1950, Guandong bandit Zheng Sanpao, bearing remorse for his crimes against the people, was led to the execution ground. After the People's Liberation Army shot him, he transmigrated back to 1938, to Wolf Ridge in the Guandong Mountains. He woke to find himself once again the peerless marksman who had once struck fear across Guandong: Zheng Sanpao! Since he had a chance to live his life over, this time he would become a hero of the resistance against Japan! He would punish the wi 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Why Should I Put Up with This? I'm Zhou Weiguo 为何要忍，我是周卫国 While carrying out a mission, special forces soldier Zhou Weiguo was ambushed by a traitor and killed by a sniper's bullet. He unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of Snow Leopard, taking over the body of Zhou Wen, the Zhou family's second young master, who shares his name. Thus begins an extraordinary journey. Since this is such a passionate era, Zhou Weiguo decides he will live an extraordinary life and never back down. 47Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 171 The War of Resistance in Jingbei 靖北的抗战 Cao Jingbei was a company commander in a unit of the former Northeastern Army. On the night of the September 18 Incident in 1931, he led his men in a desperate defense of the flank of Beidaying, fighting the Japanese to the last bullet. After battling his way out, he fled alone into the mountains of northern Liaoning. He traveled far and wide, rallying scattered brothers-in-arms and volunteer fighters from the wilderness. Using the terrain to his advantage, he repeatedly laid clever ambushes, ta 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Espionage: A Republic-Era Spy Surviving Between the Cracks 谍战：夹缝生存中的民国小特务 [Transmigration + bloodshed + survival] He was just an ordinary college student, but an accident turned him into the lowest-ranking secret agent in the Military Statistics Bureau. He had planned to keep his head down and survive, but he couldn't bear the torment of his conscience. So he made his move... And found himself struggling to survive in the maelstrom of history! —Reads—Score2.1kShelves
- 173 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
- 174 One Man’s War of Resistance: My Blade Is No Less Sharp 一个人的抗战：我的刀也未尝不利 [Resistance War espionage + no System + illustrations + joins no faction + goes it alone + heads to the Northeast + heads south to Nanyang] Chen Beixuan, a former elite lone-wolf operative and lieutenant colonel forced into a desk job by an injury, is reassigned by his superiors to maintain an S-class wartime safe house directly under military intelligence headquarters. It looks like he's still being entrusted with important work, but Chen Beixuan knows better: it's practically an early retireme 12.3kReads8.1Score981Shelves
- 175 Bright Sword: Li Yunlong Finds a Cybertronian Combat Engineer 亮剑：李云龙捡到赛博坦工程兵 Just took over the Independent Regiment, with nothing to its name. They even have to ration their bullets. One rainy night, a “strange man” covered in rust fell from the sky. He can’t speak. All he can do is shake his head. He can turn scrap metal into precision parts with his bare hands, and get a dilapidated arms factory running again overnight. “Can you build us some cannons?” He was silent for a long time, then managed one word: “...Yes.” 603Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 176 The Hunter's War of Resistance: After the War 猎人的抗战【战后篇】 In early September 1945, Japan announced its surrender. Some remnant forces were still conspiring with the reactionary Kuomintang on Chinese soil, relying on puppet troops and bandits to stir up trouble. Yan'an sent a telegram ordering Cao Xingguo, then commander-in-chief of the Northeast Allied Army, to lead his troops out once more and sweep away the remaining enemy forces... 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 I Woke Up on the Songhu Battlefield, Pulled Up the System Panel, and Beat the Japanese into the Ground 一觉穿到淞沪战场，我掏出系统面板，把鬼子按在地上打 I woke up on the Songhu battlefield, pulled up my System interface, and beat the Japanese invaders into the ground —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 When His Mask Was Knocked Off, She Learned Her Husband Was the King of Spies 面具被击落，夫君你竟是谍战之王 In 1940, Lin Xia transmigrates into the body of a dog of a secret-police chief in Binjiang City, Northeast China. In reality, he is one of the Party's ace agents, codenamed Shadow! His wife, Han Congxue, is a beautiful secret agent for the Nationalist military intelligence service. With his wife looking at him as if he were her sworn enemy, Lin Xia hides his identity and operates behind enemy lines. Wearing a Phantom Shadow mask and wielding dual Desert Eagles, he strikes terror into the enemy a 9.7kReads7.4Score699Shelves
- 179 Espionage: I Have an Intelligence System 谍战，我有一个情报系统 People usually play many roles in society. They may be a son in one family, an employee at one company, and a citizen of one country. Liu Songfeng is more than all that: one man with a thousand faces, surrounded by layers of intrigue. In this turbulent age, Liu Songfeng uses his intelligence and extraordinary courage to navigate between rival factions. Yet his identity is shrouded in mystery, impossible to pin down. No one knows his name, but his deeds will live forever. Liu Songfeng says, “I wa 6kReads8.6Score346Shelves
- 180 Espionage: It All Starts with Teaching a Colonel's Wife a Lesson! 谍战：从教训大佐夫人开始！ Chen Shaoan transmigrated to the years of the War of Resistance against Japan. Driven by fervent patriotism, he awakened the undercover System and embarked on the path to becoming an ace agent. As long as he was promoted or passed along important intelligence he had obtained, he would earn Anti-Japanese Points. He could use them to buy stamina, modern weapons, peerless martial arts, supernatural abilities, and more… His wife asked, “Is this what you wanted?” Chen Shaoan smiled but said nothing. 634Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 The Four Fierce Ones of the Northeast 关东四猛 This novel is based on records in the family genealogy and true stories about our ancestors. During the Guangxu era at the end of the Qing dynasty, four brothers from the Wan family of Ma Village in Ninghe County, Shuntian Prefecture, Wan Long, Wan Hu, Wan Bao, and Wan Xiong, set out to seek a better life. They resolutely left their home in Tianjin and embarked on the arduous journey to Manchuria. They braved storms and hardship along the way, eventually putting down roots in Manchuria, where th 3.1kReads7.1Score178Shelves
- 182 War of Resistance: The Iron Triangle Loves Made-in-the-Base Gear 抗战：铁三角就爱边区造 Reborn as a staff officer at a brigade headquarters, Chen Mingrui is appointed by the brigade commander to run an ordnance factory after the Yamazaki Detachment attacks it. At the factory, he acquires the Military Industry System, which grants him a reward for signing in each week. “Week One: A complete 7.92 mm bullet production line package.” “Week Two: A grenade production line package.” “Week Three: A map showing the locations of mineral deposits.” “…” Li Yunlong: “Even if I starve to death, 742Reads7.4Score112Shelves
- 183 Transmigrating to the War of Resistance: The Crazy Rickshaw 穿越抗战之疯狂黄包车 [Transmigration] + [System] + [Parallel Republic of China] + [Lighthearted power fantasy] + [War] + [Invincible] After transmigrating to a parallel world, the young Ma Chongjiu uses his System to crush everything in his path, killing gods and Buddhas alike. As the saying goes among the martial world: “When Lord Jiu pulls his rickshaw and looks back once, gang bosses shed tears. When Lord Jiu looks back twice, traitors and puppet troops are done for. When Lord Jiu looks back three times, every J 759Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 184 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
- 185 Bright Sword: I'm a Force to Be Reckoned With in Logistics 亮剑：我做后勤很豪横 Ye Fan transmigrated to the world of "Bright Sword". With the help of an AI-powered manufacturing space, a boundless supply of weapons and ammunition, and outrageously lavish logistical support, he cured the Reds of their fear of insufficient firepower once and for all. “Brother Ye, how many bullets can you give us?” Ye Fan held up one finger to Li Yunlong. “One standard load? That’s enough, more than enough. You’re a real friend, brother!” “How could that possibly be enough? I mean… keep taking 3.9kReads8.8Score150Shelves
- 186 Part-Time Secret Agent 兼职小特务 Xu Shitou is a part-time secret agent. He owns a tattered silk painting that lets him lie in wait for prey like a spider, letting them walk right into his trap. Born with one leg shorter than the other, he is known to everyone who knows him as Crooked Five. He lives with his family on the banks of the Huangpu River... 13.5kReads7.7Score802Shelves
- 187 Iron-Blooded Shanxi Warlords, Not an Inch of Land Surrendered 铁血晋系，寸土不让 [War of Resistance] + [Republican Era] + [Industrial Development] + [Arms Industry] + [No System] Not a mindless power fantasy A recent college graduate wakes up in the body of Yan Baichuan in 1933. The War of Resistance? I, Yan Baichuan, am here to lend a hand! You say my Jin-Sui Army is backward? I want German, American, and French weapons, all of them! You say I'm stingy? These weapons are so expensive, we'll copy them ourselves at the Taiyuan Arsenal! You say I can't command? I'll show the J 747Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Espionage: After All This Time, I Finally Get to Use the Honey Trap 谍战：熬这么久，总算到美人计了 “You damn spy, you’re hurting me!” Just after transmigrating to the Republic of China era, Lu Chen is caught up in a massive conspiracy and tortured in prison. One day, a female officer stands before him with a whip in hand and asks, “Do you have a faith?” Lu Chen: “Not really... I guess.” The female officer says coldly, “Torture him! What’s the difference between someone without faith and a walking corpse?” Lu Chen: “???” I just transmigrated here. How am I supposed to have any faith? Female of 14.5kReads7.1Score1.1kShelves
- 189 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
- 190 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
- 191 Twin Eagles, I'm Your Phoenix Youngling 双鹰，我就是你的凤雏 I actually transmigrated into Flying Tigers and became sworn friends with Yan Shuangying. I bet your gun has no bullets, too. Yan Shuangying: Watch out for the brick behind him. Damn! You sneaky bastard, that's not how this works! 2.2kReads6.8Score144Shelves
- 192 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 55Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 193 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 4.7kReads7.4Score300Shelves
- 194 Bright Sword: Brother Li, I Just Love Border-Region-Made Goods 亮剑：咱老李就喜欢边区造 Li Yunlong said with a look of disdain, “The quality of these border-region grenades is really lousy. Sometimes they only explode into two pieces.” Zhang Wanhe said, “Don't like them? Then don't take any.” “Can't do that. No matter what, I'm taking ten boxes this time.” Li Yunlong immediately softened his tone. “If it can pull out the pus, it's a good ointment. Our troops really can't do without these things.” Just then, Wang Xingguo pushed open the door, holding a Type 56 submachine gun in one 34Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 195 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
- 196 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
- 197 Espionage: A Silent Struggle 谍战：一场无声的斗争 An ordinary aspiring writer unexpectedly finds himself in Republican-era China. Using his strengths, amid internal strife and foreign threats, he resolutely chooses a path of discretion, efficiency, and long-term undercover work for his people and his country. 6.3kReads8.2Score431Shelves
- 198 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
- 199 The Bizarre Murder at the Roadside Inn 大车店诡异命案 Bizarre murders, men and women in turbulent times, tangled love and hate, and the legend of the resistance. During the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, on the northern Manchurian frontier, stood a mountain called Big Butt Mountain. Two semicircular peaks joined together, and the locals were plainspoken: they named things exactly as they looked. For forty li in every direction, it was the only horse-cart inn around: the Big Butt Mountain Inn. Men and women shared the big northeastern kang beds 402Reads—Score100Shelves
- 200 Republican-Era Spy War 民国谍战 "Need to move people or cargo? I'll fix up a manure cart for you. Short on medicine? The military police hospital is ready to help. Food? Got it! Guns and ammunition? Got them! A tank? Come on, are you kidding me? The Republican era is full of remarkable people, and the righteous lead the way. Watch Lu Xiao turn the tide and show what a true hero is made of." 1.6kReads9.0Score159Shelves
