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- 51 Screen Worlds: I Can See Your Name 影综：我能看到你的名 Li Weigong, Wu Jingzhong, Zheng Yaoxian, Wang Tianfeng, and Tan Zhongshu are my colleagues. Yu Zecheng, Li Ya, Lu Qiaoshan, Xu Zhongyi, Ming Lou, Gong Shu, Lin Nansheng, Chi Tiecheng... are my students. How could I lose? Watch Gao Feng write his own legend in the world of master spies. We stand at the beginning of the story, watching them head toward their inevitable deaths. 3.2kReads7.4Score14714d adds
- 52 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... 131Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 53 Glory in the Shadow War 密战荣耀 Jiang Longcheng transmigrates through time to the international city of Shanghai in 1936, where his intelligence and courage make him shine in the currents of a changing era. Amid a web of spies, he moves like a sudden storm, risking everything to rescue underground Party members in danger. When Japanese aggressors provoke him, he responds with both courage and cunning, revealing the makings of a true hero. The military medals he earns are recognition of his extraordinary abilities and a tribute 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 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
- 55 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 144Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 You Were Supposed to Infiltrate, Not Become a Japanese Colonel! 让你潜伏，没让你当鬼子大佐呀！ [Smart Protagonist]+ [Corrupting the Japanese Army]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Master of Disguise] Transmigrate into a Japanese cannon-fodder soldier on the Songhu battlefield? No problem, I have a complete knowledge of history! A lost little agent from the Military Statistics Bureau infiltrates the Japanese army, planning to keep his head down until victory. Instead, he kills a sergeant, sells weapons, passes along intelligence, and accidentally becomes a Japanese general. Director Dai of the M 5.1kReads6.1Score33414d adds
- 57 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 2.9kReads7.0Score19614d adds
- 58 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. 622Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 59 Espionage Shadows on the Shanghai Bund 谍影上海滩 During the War of Resistance Against Japan, under the Wang Jingwei puppet regime, an engineering student transmigrates into the body of Yu Xia, director of the Special Operations Department at No. 76. Yu Xia, also known as the Smiling Tiger, is infamous as a living King of Hell. His ruthless methods make people tremble with fear at the mere mention of his name. See how Yu Xia, with blood on his hands, seeks redemption while trapped behind enemy lines. The story is full of twists and turns, so fa 531Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 60 The Spy Game: Gaze into the Abyss 谍海无涯之深渊凝视 When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. When you gaze into the abyss again, the abyss gets impatient: “What are you looking at?” Feng Gang, a modern historian, transmigrates to the Republic of China era. Born into a time of chaos, in the darkest hours before dawn, he discovers that he has no System or superpowers of any kind. All he has is a deep gaze that spans a century and sees through every illusion... 18.1kReads8.7Score2k14d adds
- 61 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 34Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 62 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... 4.6kReads8.9Score32314d adds
- 63 Shadows of Espionage: Enemy Agents in Action! 谍影重重：敌特在行动！ In the twenty-eighth year of the Republic, the whole nation was engulfed in the flames of the War of Resistance. Liu Zezhi had graduated from the Military Statistics Bureau's Qingpu training camp just over a year earlier when he was ordered to keep watch on Li Shiqun, who was suspected of planning to defect. Just as expected, Li Shiqun defected, and by a twist of fate, Liu Zezhi accidentally saved his life. Li Shiqun became the head of the 76th Division, the secret police organization of Wang Ji 3.7kReads8.8Score33014d adds
- 64 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?… 302Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 65 The Fog of Espionage 谍战迷雾 Liang Tianzhou, a medical intern who returned from studying in Japan, transmigrates to the Republic of China era and becomes one of our underground agents. Faced with misunderstanding from the woman he loves, the expectations of a young girl, and the passionate advances of a beautiful agent, what should he choose? You have one sinister plot after another, but I have a divine sword for breaking them apart. Amid truth and lies, illusion and reality, he skillfully outmaneuvers the enemy. With myste 212Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 66 Reborn as a Warlord's Fifth Concubine, I Conquered Republican-Era China with My Writing 穿成军阀五姨太，靠写文杀穿民国 When Shen Yanqing wakes up, she’s become the least remarkable of the governor’s five concubines in the Republic of China era. The original owner was timid and bullied, her family was destitute, and the governor’s residence was rife with hidden schemes. Everyone expected her to meet an untimely end. From the start, she’s bound to a cross-time love System and given permission to copy any text on the internet. With words flowing from her pen, she bursts onto the scene under the pen name Qing Yan! 116Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Espionage: Tortured from the Start, but I'm Really Not a Spy 谍战：开局遭酷刑，我真不是间谍 After arriving in a parallel era, he has a spy System and goes undercover in a Japanese stronghold. Other undercover agents keep a low profile and conceal their identities. Sun Lang throws his weight around and courts death, turning Haishi upside down. He gets everyone in the region so furious they could explode... Military Statistics Bureau: "Since this Sun Lang refuses to join us, he'll only be a menace if we let him live. Send someone to kill him." The Red Party: "This Sun Lang shot one of ou 9Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 68 Espionage: You Were Told to Go Undercover, So How Did You Become the Boss of Shanghai? 谍战：让你潜伏，你成淞沪大佬？ [Espionage + no System + no brainless plot + loyal revolutionary roots + multiple identities] In the twentieth year of the Republic of China, the head of the Red Party's Third Special Section was arrested and immediately defected. Overnight, around a hundred outstanding Red Party comrades were arrested. Within a year, spies had uncovered nearly all of the Red Party's secret safe houses in Shanghai. Whenever the nation is in peril, heroes always step forward. Zhang Mingxue, only twenty-five years 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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
- 70 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 12.2kReads7.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 71 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 5.5kReads7.4Score34314d adds
- 72 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 13.1kReads7.5Score1.5k14d adds
- 73 The Little Spy's Successful Comeback 谍战小特务的成功逆袭 The extraordinary life of a little spy: I can identify and control spies. The great demon Li Shiqun of No. 76, the Eastern Witch Yoshiko Kawashima, and the Empire's Flower, Yun Zi Nanzō, all turn pale when they see this little spy. 81Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 74 Espionage: Telling Jokes in Republican-Era China 谍战：我在民国说段子 After staying up all night ranting about spy dramas, 996 office drone Cheng Ming wakes up having transmigrated to Shanghai in 1938, now under occupation! From the start, he's an abandoned pawn of the military intelligence service, pursued by traitors at No. 76 and surrounded by Japanese agents. He just transmigrated, and already he's about to get himself killed? Fortunately, he awakens a historical-commentary golden finger. While others rely on marksmanship and strategy to go undercover, he uses 43Reads—Score314d adds
- 75 Espionage: Starting from Above the Cliff 谍战：从悬崖之上开始 Though the nation lies broken, its mountains and rivers remain. Ding Ran transmigrates to a hundred years in the past and becomes a triple agent. The island nation: “That man is a demon, an out-and-out demon.” The Baldies: “How can someone so perfect exist in this world?” The Beautiful Country: “Get his identity at any cost.” In the end, Ding Ran writes his own legend in that era. 2.5kReads8.7Score14814d adds
- 76 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 2.3kReads7.2Score17014d adds
- 77 Years Without Regrets 无悔岁月 In 1936, dusk settled over Xiangcheng, steeping it in the smell of rust and blood. The late-autumn wind cut like a knife, piercing to the bone. Xu Chengyang tugged down the brim of his police cap. The collar of his coarse wool uniform chafed his neck raw. This black uniform was both his prison and his armor… 456Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Back to 1937: Kill Japanese Invaders to Recharge the Nation's Fortune 重回1937，杀鬼子充值国运 Transmigration to 1937 Shanghai + a light System element + espionage + resistance against Japan + urban warfare and purging traitors + no romance. If you don’t mind the protagonist being a woman, this book is for readers of all genders. You could call it a female-led story. A lecturer at the police university transmigrates to 1937. She has 72 hours to complete her mission, or she dies. By day, she’s an angel in white, saving lives. By night, she’s a grim judge, delivering death. She kills Japane 5.2kReads7.6Score50614d adds
- 79 Back on the Execution Ground: Yang Kaizhi's Beiyang Years 刑场重开：杨凯之的北洋生涯 I open my eyes and find myself reborn as Yang Kaizhi from As If We Had Just Met. In this life, I hold the literary works of the future in my left hand, while the course of Republican-era political intrigue flows at my fingertips in my right. I will stir the currents of this turbulent age with one timeless masterpiece after another. When the world finally realizes what is happening, those in power will discover that I control both the empire's purse strings and the literary scene among the peo 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Just Like His Father and Grandfather Once Were 就像他父辈和祖辈曾经的模样 (From World War I to World War II) (Slow burn, with the focus mainly on the period after World War I) (A note for readers who may want to pass: It's slow-paced. It has some wish-fulfillment, but nothing too outrageous.) (Alternate history) “Deceivers and doers aren't necessarily opposites. Deception takes many forms. If my actions make you believe that this is who I am, then I've succeeded in deceiving you. As for being a doer, I deceived you all and then made my deception a reality.” Humphryck 5Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 81 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 1.5kReads8.2Score19514d adds
- 82 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 1.5kReads6.9Score10014d adds
- 83 Railway Archives: Infiltration, Espionage, and the Shocking Case of Liaoshen 谍战潜伏铁路档案辽沈惊蛰 Espionage, agents, undercover work, urban life, history, mystery, hard-core railway detail, war, the Republic of China era, and passion. In the thirty-sixth year of the Republic, on the eve of the Liaoshen Campaign, undercurrents swirled along the railway lines at Jinzhou, Siping, and Meihekou. Ye Tian, a Communist underground agent codenamed Jingzhe, went undercover as a railway traffic dispatcher. He gathered military intelligence and disrupted Nationalist transport, providing crucial support 5Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 84 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—14d adds
- 85 The Sand of Theseus 忒修斯之砂 The Sand of Theseus is a post-apocalyptic allegory blending sci-fi suspense with philosophical speculation. While investigating a series of severed-finger murders, Detective Lin Xia accidentally uncovers her father’s legacy: a quantum utopia project. The entire city is actually a virtual cage imprisoning human consciousness, and every case is a cruel enactment of the System’s self-checking procedure. When she discovers that her memories have been altered and her body pieced together from forty-t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 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 567Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 87 Espionage: Harbin, 1941 谍战：哈尔滨1941 In 1939, Harbin was a vast maze of spies. Zhou Jinyu, a cool-headed ace agent, and Gu Wanru, a rookie, were ordered to pose as husband and wife and infiltrate the heart of the Japanese puppet regime. From an identity crisis that began in hell to an unshakable trust forged through life and death, they treaded carefully under the ever-watchful suspicion of Ichiro Shimizu. As the mystery of the “Shadow Protocol” closed in and their own names appeared on the “elimination list,” Zhou Jinyu realized t 5.6kReads7.5Score43914d adds
- 88 A Glamorous Waiter’s Rise to Power, Conquering Shanghai 纸醉金迷侍应生，逆袭横扫上海滩 Shanghai in a time of turmoil, with an unconventional tale of espionage and resistance against Japan. Wei Tianhao transmigrates to the Republic of China era with a billion rolls of toilet paper and takes a job as a waiter at the Jindongkai Song and Dance Hall in Shanghai. Before long, the dance hall manager seduces him and makes him her lover. Soon, female agents from foreign consulates are flocking to his side. Most outrageous of all, he actually trades toilet paper for a Japanese female spy~~ 229Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 A Lone Boat in the Espionage World 谍海孤舟 [Espionage] + [Woman Disguised as a Man] + [Multiple Secret Identities] + [Two Powerful Leads] In 1937, Jinling fell. Sixteen-year-old Xu Qingru, born into a scholarly family, witnessed the Japanese invaders slaughter her entire family. Carrying a blood debt and a top-secret list, she abandoned her maiden name and stepped into the endless darkness, transforming into an elite agent known as "Petrel." Back in isolated Shanghai, she becomes a double agent who walks the knife's edge. On one side, sh 1.4kReads8.8Score15014d adds
- 90 Republican Era: A Web of Spies 民国：谍影重重 (Republican-era China + espionage + covert operations + hunting Japanese spies) Zhang Yao returns to the turbulent Shanghai of a bygone era. By a twist of fate, he joins the Military Statistics Bureau, where he crosses paths with Gui Zi Liu, Zheng Yaoxian; Emei Feng, Yu Zecheng; and Xiao Er, Xu Zhongyi. Despite countless obstacles, he manages to pass on the intelligence he gathers and capture Japanese spies one after another. In this turbulent age, he gives his life for his country without a mom 215Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 91 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
- 92 Espionage: From Agent to Japanese Aristocrat 谍战：从特工到鬼子贵族 “Who am I? …Chen Lin? …Or Konoe Ichiro? …Chinese? Or Japanese?…” “You are Konoe Ichiro, heir to Japan’s Konoe family, one of the Five Regent Houses, and Konoe Fumimaro’s eldest grandson. You are Japanese!!!” “That’s right, I’m Konoe Ichiro… Konoe Ichiro… I am Konoe Ichiro… I’m Japanese… Then who are you?” “Me? My name is Chen Lin! I’m Chinese… Chen Lin!” 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Spy War: Code Name Ant, Moving Expert 谍战，代号蚂蚁，搬家小能手 Espionage? No need to go undercover. It may look safe, and in fact it isn't dangerous at all. All you have to do is slowly empty the enemy's storehouses, leaving them without supplies or support. Then victory is as good as yours! 19kReads7.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 94 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. 11.1kReads6.6Score68414d adds
- 95 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
- 96 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 4kReads9.2Score47514d adds
- 97 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
- 98 Undercover in 1936: Call Me King of Hell Ning 谍战1936：请叫我宁阎王 Straight-laced version: Ning Yan is reborn, back in 1936 Nanjing, as a student at the Army Officer Academy. It is assignment season, and through a twist of fate, Ning Yan saves a Japanese member of the Communist Party and obtains an identity badge. From then on, he joins the Military Statistics Bureau, assumes the identity of Ito Hirobumi, and launches the Cuckoo Plan! Bearing the hopes of the Ito family’s revival, he undertakes a decades-long infiltration deep in enemy territory. The Military S 86Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 99 Undercover in Ice City 潜伏冰城 In 1938, in Xinjing, Manchukuo, top CCP agent Lin Feng goes undercover at the Manchukuo Police Bureau under an assumed name. Posing as a married couple with Wang Dan, a young radio operator, he moves into the tiger’s den to wage a secret war. They face the sinister, suspicious intelligence chief Li Mozhi and the relentless schemes of Ma Kui. From awkward beginnings to standing by each other through life and death, they walk a knife’s edge as they navigate crises, turn the tables with wiretaps, f —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 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 6.5kReads7.2Score48314d adds
