Novels like Shanghai's Spies and Bandits
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- 51 Blood and Mountains of Guizhou 黔血山河 They were the Guizhou Army, nicknamed the “straw-sandal soldiers.” They were considered an “irregular force” in the Nationalist government’s ranks, with shoddy equipment and scarce supplies. Yet at the most perilous moment in the history of the Chinese nation, they shouldered their rifles and marched out of the mountains of Guizhou. Told through the eyes of Chen Erwa, an ordinary soldier, this novel spans a series of major campaigns, including Shanghai, Xuzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, and the Yunnan-Bu 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 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 1.2kReads6.3Score107Shelves
- 53 Transmigrated to 1940, I Cleaned Out the Enemy Camp 穿到四零，我搬空敌营 Rebirth + spatial powers + psychic abilities Feel-good story + alternate setting, similar to China in 1942 … Li Luo fights desperately against a zombie horde in the apocalypse, only to be pushed into the mass of zombies by her companions and perish. But when she wakes up, she has transmigrated to the war years and begins her journey of resistance against Japan. Being a spy is no big deal when you've got a golden finger. What, a sniper? Easy. That's my specialty. Infiltration? No problem, as lon 9Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 54 Transmigrating to the War of Resistance: The System Helps Me Stop Killing with Killing 穿越抗战，系统助我以杀止杀 [Transmigrating into the War of Resistance] [System Golden Finger] [Patriotism] [Passionate and Hard-Hitting] [Decisive and Ruthless] [System-Focused] [Karmic Ability] [Never Forget National Humiliation] Remember: This novel is set in an alternate history and a parallel world. It is entirely fictional. But never forget national humiliation! Ding Li transmigrates to Shanghai in a parallel world. He obtains a System, awakens a karmic ability, establishes the Hall of Karma, and builds an arms f 190Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Dark Surge 黑暗的涌动 During the War of Resistance, Red Party agent Li Ran used a “split personality” as his cover while infiltrating the Military Statistics Bureau, embarking on a difficult mission to resist the Japanese invasion! The Chinese nation paid a terrible price to win this victory. I hope everyone will cherish it and not let foreign powers invade us again! 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 War Against Japan: I’m Slaughtering My Way Through the Front Lines 抗日：我在前线杀疯了 Becoming a general is hard. But staying one is even harder! After enduring countless hardships, how does Zhang Qingshan rise from an ordinary man to a general amid the flames and smoke of war? 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves
- 57 Twin Blades: Impostors in the Demon Cave 双星齐刃：魔窟伪装者 After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, Liu Mingzhang, a secret Communist Party member codenamed Qiming, and Zheng Yaoxian, codenamed Kite, navigate the treacherous environment of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. With intelligence and courage, they pass along information and match wits with their foes. After a series of grueling challenges and brushes with death, they obtain vital intelligence and help the organization strike at the enemy. At last, they witne 219Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 58 The Doomsday War God Fights in the War of Resistance 末世战神在抗日 [War of Resistance + Espionage + Republican Era + Strong Female Lead + Spatial Ability + Earth and Wood Dual Powers + Sniper Rifle at Her Side] The more she thought about swallowing her anger, the angrier she got, so she went to get revenge that very night. She lives by one rule: never let a grudge carry over to the next day! 1.2kReads7.1Score110Shelves
- 59 Bright Sword: Special Operations Vanguard 亮剑之特战先锋 Modern scout Cao Xiao transmigrates into "Drawing Sword". He has no System or cheats, only his elite special-operations skills. With infiltration, sniping, raids, and tactical command, he helps Li Yunlong avoid costly detours and reduces casualties in the Independent Regiment. No over-the-top drama, no exaggeration: using modern special-operations thinking, he carves out a sharp force in northwestern Shanxi that makes the Japanese invaders tremble! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Espionage: The Ultimate Undercover Agent, Night Hawk of the Military Intelligence Bureau 谍战：最牛潜伏，军统夜鹰 [Original Characters + Intelligence + Assassinations + Sweeping Through Shanghai’s Foreign Concessions] Zhao Haifan transmigrates to Shanghai during the isolated-island era and becomes a Juntong agent, codename Night Hawk... The story strives for realism, and most characters are based on historical figures. The ten great female agents of Juntong, the ten female fiends of the 76th, and the Imperial Flowers of Japan’s Tokko. A heroine who supplies the Nationalist Army with vital resources. Chinese 9Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 61 Livestreaming the War of Resistance: From the Start, Viewers Crowdfund a Katyusha 直播抗日，开局观众众筹喀秋莎 [Transmigration] + [Power Fantasy] + [War of Resistance] Transmigrate to 1937 and land in the meat grinder of Shanghai: from the start, it’s hell! [One moment: short on medicine and supplies, with the position on the verge of falling!] [The next: a tip comes through, and M2 mortars pound the enemy with pinpoint accuracy!] From one man’s struggle to survive to leading an entire nation in defying fate and changing its future! This comeback is absolutely explosive!!! 429Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 62 Hunter of Shanghai 上海滩猎人 Chen Ke transmigrates into a world where espionage stories converge and gains a Spy-Hunting System. Report to the Chairman: Members of the Shanghai Black Dragon Society are disappearing one after another. Report to General Toihara: Our agents hidden in Shanghai have gone missing. 68Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 63 War of Resistance: One Penny to Instantly Kill, Commander-in-Chief of the Sichuan Army! 抗战：一分钱秒杀，川军总司令！ Li Feng transmigrates to the War of Resistance era and becomes a member of a Sichuan Army unit. He has a one-cent instant-purchase System that refreshes six items every day. Day One’s instant-purchase items: 1. Max-level physical enhancement. 2. Max-level battlefield skills. 3. Max-level command abilities for the army, navy, and air force. 4. A full battlefield map with a holographic view. 5. System storage. 6. Fifty crates of grenades. … Day Two’s instant-purchase items: 1. Three hundred Zhong 13.9kReads7.8Score1.2kShelves
- 64 From the Jiang Family Estate to a Retirement Home at Gongdelin: My War of Resistance 抗战从蒋家大院直达功德林养老 The buildup is fairly long. If you want to get straight to the main plot, it's recommended that you start after Chapter 88. The protagonist is reborn in the Republican era. He graduated from a prestigious military academy and is Nikolai's childhood friend. At first, he grovels to the brigade commander while quietly building up his strength. Then, well, we'll talk about that after a few hundred chapters. 748Reads7.3Score120Shelves
- 65 War of Resistance: The Soldier King Strikes 抗战之兵王出击 Planes, cannons, tanks, warships! We need every last one. War is won through logistics. When did our logistics forces grow larger than our combat forces? We’ll wipe out every last Japanese invader! The story of China’s first special forces team, dominating battlefields and driving out the Japanese. Chen Tianmin! A great hero of China! 99Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 66 Warlord of the Republican Era: More Children, More Blessings, So I Choose to Take Concubines 民国军阀：多子多福，我选择纳妾 Farming + more children, more blessings + the daily life of a warlord Reborn in 1920, Lu Jia becomes the only son of Governor Lu Yongxiang. It is a turbulent age, with warlords running rampant, battles breaking out everywhere, and the people living in misery. As someone from the future, Lu Jia knows full well that his new father’s future is far from promising. In these wartime years, if his father dies, he’ll be finished too. Just as Lu Jia is growing worried, the more children, more blessings S 1Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 67 War of Resistance: The Nanjing Photo Studio Spawns a Horde of Players 抗战：南京照相馆爆出大批玩家 [Fourth Calamity + Ensemble Cast + War of Resistance] Su Liuchang also transmigrates, arriving on the afternoon of December 12, 1937. Faced with Japanese soldiers swarming toward them, the players are thrilled. “We don’t need to eat. We’re here to eat bullets.” 201Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 68 War of Resistance: All Under Heaven Belongs to the Emperor 抗战普天之下莫非王土 Zhao Qiming inexplicably transmigrated to 1937, a time when the country was engulfed in war. A million Japanese troops were about to rampage southward. A hellish start? No. Watch an ordinary man gradually build a force of his own! German-equipped divisions, special forces, defending Nanjing and Jinling, resisting the Japanese and reclaiming lost territory! [Passionate + Patriotic + Loyal Souls ✔ Tragic ✘ System-based + Troop Building + No Angst + A Smooth Sweep in the Later Stages. Please read p 10Reads—Score103Shelves
- 69 Slay the Invaders and Become a God 杀鬼子成神 A chef armed with a cleaver accidentally arrives in a parallel world: Shanghai, the Far East’s greatest city in the 1930s. It’s a dazzling world where a man can become a god or a demon, and in the end, he becomes a god who slaughters the Japanese invaders and Chinese collaborators. 9Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 70 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—Shelves
- 71 Starting with the First Sino-Japanese War, I Slay Enemies and Loot Gear 从甲午开始杀敌爆装 Yang Xingfei is a disgruntled young man of the new century, still troubled by the suffering his compatriots endured throughout history. One day, while playing a Chinese-made resistance war game, he falls asleep. When he wakes, he finds himself in the era of the First Sino-Japanese War, and begins a journey through time. First stop: the Jiawu year at the end of the nineteenth century. He arrives at Huayuankou in Zhuanghe Hall, Liaodong, just as more than twenty thousand Japanese troops land and i 24Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 72 War of Resistance in Jinling: A Tiger Tank from the Start 金陵抗战，开局一辆虎式坦克 [Newly rated, so the score is low] [System-driven] [Fighting the Japanese invaders head-on] [Independent development] [Hardcore] [No female lead] After an accident, Chen Shi becomes bound to a future war base and transmigrates to a parallel world much like Blue Star. Here, Zijin Mountain is ablaze, and Nanjing’s defenses have fallen. Determined to rescue as many of his compatriots as possible from this hell on earth, Chen Shi resolutely takes the Tiger tank the base gave him for free and heads t 399Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 73 Espionage: Slaying Enemies Gets Me Gear, and I’ve Gone on a Killing Spree 谍战：杀敌爆装备我真杀疯了 (For fans of Spy Shadow Storm, from a platinum-level author on another site, feel-good fiction, multiple heroines, and readers who love spy-war masterminds: add this to your bookshelf) The System grants me lofty ambitions, and my wife helps me reach the summit After passing the civil service exam three times, he was so excited that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and transmigrated into the Republic of China in 1939, becoming an abandoned pawn of the Military Statistics Bureau. Just after Gao H 235Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 74 War of Resistance: Blasting the Japanese Invaders to Pieces 抗战：烽火硝烟之打爆小鬼子 No System, no brainless characters, no rebirth, and a lightly ensemble cast! Xiao Hongya: An orphan adopted by the Independent Regiment, she belongs to the regiment and loves fighting the Japanese. All she knows is the smoke and fire of war, and her fate is inseparable from the battlefield. Zhao Heihu: A veteran of many years on the battlefield. He doesn’t want to fight, but he can’t escape the battlefield. All he wants is to put down his gun, yet fate forces him to pick it up again! Zhao Youcai 3.9kReads8.8Score263Shelves
- 75 Espionage: I Ran Amok in the Juntong 谍战：我在军统杀疯了 [Invisibility + pocket dimension + ruthless decisiveness + sharp intellect + steady growth] He is the most inconspicuous nobody at the bottom of the Juntong, and no one knows his true identity. Ordered to infiltrate the Japanese and puppet secret service agencies, he spends every day outwitting the enemy to obtain intelligence, dancing on the edge of a blade. He is also an elusive master assassin who never shows mercy to his enemies. He eliminates traitors and kills Japanese invaders. Known as t 4.2kReads6.6Score215Shelves
- 76 War of Resistance: I Am the King of Snipers 抗战：我是狙击之王 On the northeastern battlefield, amid the White Mountains and Black Waters, Xiao Yunfei, a legendary soldier, unexpectedly transmigrates into this world. From that day on, the puppet troops and the Japanese invaders have a new nightmare. (This novel has no System. It is set in an alternate history and is entirely fictional. Please do not read it as referring to real people or events.) 1.6kReads7.4Score113Shelves
- 77 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. 82Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 78 Shadow Stalker: Chasing the Light 潜影：逐光 In 1943, Lin Xiuyuan, a staff officer in the Kuomintang Ministry of National Defense, grew disillusioned with the corrupt regime. Recruited by Shen Qinghe, an underground Communist Party member, he became the “Lone Star,” an agent embedded in the Kuomintang’s upper ranks. Using his position, he sent crucial military intelligence to Yan’an, helping secure victory in several campaigns. In 1949, Lin Xiuyuan was ordered to follow the Kuomintang to Taiwan and continue his covert work under the codena —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Blood and Steel in My Bones: A Chronicle of Love and Vengeance 金戈入骨：枕边恩仇录 The Record of Rising and Falling in a Sea of Desire is a hard-hitting urban comeback story set in the 1990s, featuring multiple heroines, business rivalries of the era, and realistic themes. From the start, Jiang Shijun faces a life-or-death choice: the brick he brings down on a construction boss will set off a tumultuous business saga that entangles him with four women for half his life. Luo Xiaoju's gold wedding ring, Wang Qiongfen's loan-seeking backroom dealings, Sun Juanjuan's deadly USB d —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Beacon Fires in Shuidong: Starting as a County Party Secretary 水东烽火，从县委书记开始 Shuidong, a place name you won’t find on a map, was nevertheless an important strategic location during the War of Resistance and the Liberation. In 1938, the dike at Huayuankou on the Yellow River was blown up. The river burst through and flowed south into the Huai River, creating a vast floodplain where Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu meet. The new course of the Yellow River split eastern Henan into two parts. Transmigrated into the role of a county Party secretary in the floodplain, how can he buil 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 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. 3.2kReads7.4Score150Shelves
- 82 Espionage: A Fight to the Death 谍战：生死较量 In early 1928, Su Ziwu, the son of a wealthy family, is arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang's Special Operations Group, then secretly trained as an agent. During an operation to crack a secret Japanese spy organization, a Chinese Communist underground operative sacrifices herself to protect Su Ziwu's identity. Stunned by this revelation, Su Ziwu makes an even greater discovery: the "Thousand Faces" instructor who has been training him in the Kuomintang unit is also a member of the Chinese 4.1kReads9.2Score478Shelves
- 83 Espionage: The Thousand-Faced Agent, a One-Man Army 谍战：千面特工，我一人成团 Li Fei transmigrates to Shanghai in a parallel world and awakens the Many-Faced Agent System. Every time he completes a mission, he gains a new face. From then on, Shanghai has a new elusive Communist agent: Many Faces. Captured courier who turned traitor: Every time I meet him, Many Faces has a different face. Military Statistics Bureau: Many Faces is an organization, maybe even a whole regiment. Our bureau has been infiltrated like a sieve. There are Many Faces everywhere. Special Higher Polic 2.2kReads8.5Score194Shelves
- 84 Espionage: A Rider in Manchuria 谍战之一个骑手在满洲 In his previous life, he was the most ordinary rickshaw puller. In this one, he’s a ruthless assassin! On the freezing nights when Japanese forces and their puppet regime run rampant, Ding Li relies on his extraordinary intelligence to repeatedly assassinate emperors, generals, and Manchurian officials... Single-handedly, Ding Li undermines the puppet state of Manchukuo, its order, and its economic lifelines... He gradually becomes a brave and steadfast patriot, and organizes a fierce, tenacious 4.3kReads8.8Score420Shelves
- 85 War of Resistance: From Nobody to Founding General! 抗战：从小人物到开国将军！ In early 1932, Luo Feng transmigrates to the Greater Khingan Mountains of the northeastern provinces in a parallel world. From the start, Japanese invaders kill his parents, and his elder brother dies in battle. It's hell mode right out of the gate! How can an ordinary man survive in a country torn apart by war? Should he hide in the vast mountains, keep company wit 213Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 86 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 1.4kReads7.6Score121Shelves
- 87 Espionage: From Cannon Fodder Deserter to King of Spies 谍战：从炮灰逃兵成为特工之王 In 1937, with war raging everywhere, He Yunfei transmigrates into the body of a deserter. Though he gets the worst possible start, with the System’s help, he carves out a new path in the world of espionage! A beautiful Japanese spy slips her arm through He Yunfei’s and strolls leisurely along the Huangpu River. Her cheeks flushed, she lowers her head and speaks in a barely audible voice: “Would you like to come to my place tonight?” Smack! He Yunfei turns and gives her a mighty slap! [Ding!] [T 210Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 88 Undercover at the Secret Service Bureau 潜伏在特务处 A traditional spy thriller: no golden fingers and no transmigration. Please don’t read if that’s not your thing. Spring 1941, Jiangcheng. Lin Yanzhou, a technician at Hanyang Ironworks, draws the attention of Japanese spy Nanzou Yun Zi after repairing a German diesel engine at the docks. Then Zhao Bingjun, deputy director of the Secret Service, coerces him into joining their ranks. As his three identities near exposure and the “Jiaogang Plan” sets its sights on Jiangcheng, he makes patience his 834Reads6.5Score111Shelves
- 89 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—Shelves
- 90 Republican Era: I Can Enhance Anything 民国：我能强化万物 [Republican era + transmigration + enhancement + warlords + technology] In 1916, modern young man Li Feng transmigrates into the body of the sixteen-year-old young master of the Li family in Xiao County, northern Jiangsu, and obtains the [Item Enhancement System], which can enhance weapons. [Mauser C96 Broomhandle detected. Activate enhancement?] [Weapon name]: Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol [Core specifications]: - Material: High-quality alloy steel barrel, forged carbon-steel frame, walnut g 690Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 91 Brothers in Arms Against the Japanese 抗日之兄弟上阵 [War of Resistance + military industry + fighting the Japanese + rousing action + humor] Li Guan, a top soldier of the 21st century, is killed by an enemy shell while saving his comrade. To his surprise, he transmigrates back to the War of Resistance era and becomes an ordinary Eighth Route Army soldier. Li Guan quickly proves himself an exceptional fighter: he kills Japanese soldiers, seizes supplies, builds weapons, and is practically good at everything. He also has two close brothers-in-arm 138Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 92 War of Resistance: Rising from Guerrilla Squad Leader 抗战：从游击队长开始崛起 [War of Resistance] + [System] + [No Equipment Beyond Its Era] + [The Right Side of History] Zhang Zekun unexpectedly transmigrates into the Republic of China era. As a young man, he recruits local militia and forms the Red Guard. Over the following years, he fights countless battles, large and small. He survives the Long March and crosses the grasslands. When the full-scale War of Resistance breaks out, Zhang Zekun volunteers to establish a guerrilla base behind enemy lines, and his System awak 1.1kReads6.6Score109Shelves
- 93 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 1.5kReads6.8Score105Shelves
- 94 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 258Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Mysterious Spy 玄谍 Shanghai, 1943. In the shadows where gunfire and betrayal intertwine, a fortune-teller clutching the Book of Changes is using the oldest methods to write the most dangerous espionage legend. Chen Xuan is the director of the archives at the Wang puppet regime’s No. 76 intelligence headquarters. On the surface, he is “Chen the Half-Immortal,” obsessed with divination. In truth, he is a top agent for the Chinese Communist Party’s underground network, codenamed “Xuanwu.” Every day, he tells his col 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 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 730Reads6.3Score105Shelves
- 97 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 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Returning to the Republic of China with a System 带着系统回民国 Synopsis [Republican era + espionage + System + War of Resistance] Zhao Manman is brought by the System to the Republic of China in 1933, to the region beyond the Great Wall already occupied by the Japanese. Her task is to complete the missions issued by the System and return to her own world. At first, she truly does work hard just to get back. But gradually, she realizes that the stories she once read about in history books and watched on television are unfolding right here. She no longer thin 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 War of Resistance: Our Osaka Division Is Just Slacking Off 抗战：咱大阪师团，摆烂滴干活 The protagonist, Lin Zhengchun, transmigrates into the Osaka Fourth Division, becoming one of its members. There’s no way I’m risking my neck for anyone. My life belongs to me, so I’ll just sell off some goods and do business. If the price is right, I’d even sell the emperor’s throne! “Anyone interested in a Type 92 cannon? I’m selling, selling, selling!” “How about some intelligence on the southern advance?” … If it can make money, it can be sold. After losing the war, I’ll set up a stall and s 248Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 100 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
