Novels like Shanghai's Spies and Bandits
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- 151 Anti-Japanese Special Forces 抗日特战队 To fight the Japanese, you need money, guns, territory, and real ability. Xu Jianfei has all of them. I truly admire the Japanese. How did they manage to last eight years under Xu Jianfei? Let’s see how the Japanese got through those eight years. 7.6kReads7.6Score677Shelves
- 152 Bright Sword: Are You Crazy? You Call This a Guerrilla Force? 亮剑：疯了吧，你管这叫游击队？ Special forces soldier Lin Feng transmigrates into a parallel world that combines several war-era television dramas, including The Bright Sword. He becomes the leader of a guerrilla squad! At this point, the Battle of Cangyun Ridge has yet to begin. Looking at his unit, which has only four old Hanyang rifles with one bullet per man, while everyone else has spears and broadswords, Lin Feng is completely dumbfounded! How is he supposed to fight the Japanese with a force like this? Fortunately, he 2kReads8.2Score116Shelves
- 153 There’s a Ghost Under the Bed 《床下有鬼》 There’s a Ghost Under the Bed 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 One Terrifying Night for a Haunted House Sleep Tester 《凶宅试睡员的惊魂一夜》 A Terrifying Night for a Haunted House Sleep Tester 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Sadako Returns 《贞子复活》 Sadako Comes Back to Life 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 The Price of My Wife’s Affair 《老婆出轨的代价》 The Price of My Wife’s Affair 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 Awakening After the Affair 《出墙后的醒悟》 Awakening After the Affair 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 Reborn into the War Against Japan: Flames of War, 1931 重生抗日：烽火1931 [War of Resistance Against Japan + Resistance War + Rousing + Satisfying Read + Story] This novel has no System. It is an original work set against the backdrop of the real battlefields and historical period of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Modern special forces soldier Ma Yunfeng is reborn in 1931. Determined to kill Japanese invaders, he enlists to fight and serve his country. With the land shattered and old national and family grudges to avenge, he answers blood with blood. Returned to 12Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 159 Fourteen Years of War: From Cook to Army Commander 抗战十四年，我从伙夫升军长 This novel is undoubtedly the most realistic anti-Japanese war story on the entire web. The author writes from a perspective that respects history. On September 18, 1931, Japan attacked Shenyang, and the September 18 Incident broke out. I was a cook in the 703rd Regiment of the Northeast Army's Seventh Division. Because the Northeast Army followed a policy of nonresistance, the entire Northeast fell within a few short months. I followed the army to Chengde, the provincial capital of Rehe, but as 254Reads—Score138Shelves
- 160 Counterespionage Storm 反谍风云 About the Story: A spy case threatens China. Luan Jianglong and Si Hongmei lead their team through the investigation, uncovering one clue after another as the case grows ever more complex. But the ending is completely unexpected... 272Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 161 Espionage: I Have a Double Possession, and You Want Me to Be an Informant? 谍战：我双重附体，让我做线人？ [Humorous and funny] [No romance, no do-gooder heroine] [Self-interest above all] [Feel free to dive in] Gou Dadan is timid and afraid of trouble. The chaos of wartime turns him into a fastidious egoist. From the start, he transmigrates to Shanghai in 1937, just before the nationwide resistance against Japan begins, and becomes an ordinary soldier. [Early story] Forced to become a secret agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, he brings along his blind younger sister. Military Statistics Burea 36Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 162 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—Shelves
- 163 War of Resistance: The All-Around Soldier King Vows to Slay Over a Million Japanese Invaders 抗战：全能兵王，誓杀鬼子过百万 Warrior king Yang Ming dies while saving someone and transmigrates to the War of Resistance era. Starting out as a militiaman, he steadily builds up his strength. With the System at his side, he kills Japanese invaders, roots out collaborators and punishes evil, turning the tide when all seems lost. 865Reads7.2Score107Shelves
- 164 Kite: Spy Games in Shanghai with Zheng Yaoxian, the Military Intelligence Agent 风筝：与军统六弟郑耀先谍战上海 Just scored! Republican-era setting + passionate ensemble cast + espionage + Military Statistics Bureau + undercover operations + battles of wits + no System + not reborn + the Military Statistics Bureau’s Sixth Brother In 1939, Chen Gongxing, a lieutenant colonel and deputy station chief in the Military Statistics Bureau, defected. At the time, the Shanghai Mei Agency and Wang Jingwei’s puppet regime’s Special Services Headquarters, Number 76, were opening their doors. Chen Gongxing became Num 5.1kReads7.4Score323Shelves
- 165 War of Resistance: Rising from Being a Japanese Translator 抗战：从鬼子翻译官开始崛起 Chu Feng transmigrates to 1937, during the War of Resistance, and becomes a Japanese interpreter in An County. But he has several secrets no one knows. First, he's an intelligence agent sent by the First Military Subdistrict of the Eighth Route Army's Jin-Cha-Ji Base Area to infiltrate An County. Second, his predecessor in this body died of an illness, and he himself is a transmigrator. Third, he has a System that rewards him whenever he completes a mission. Chu Feng had originally planned to le 33Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 166 Superpowered Heroes Beat Up the Japanese Invaders 异能者暴揍鬼子 Wang Lu possesses the Dragon Soul Divine Cauldron, whose blessing grants him supernatural powers to hunt Japanese soldiers and collect Sin Points. He forms a league of superpowered fighters and leads them in killing, sabotaging, and destroying, carrying out one bloody atrocity after another to fill the Japanese with fear and dread. 344Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Espionage: Rewinding for Intelligence Made Me the Military Statistics Bureau's Faith 谍战：回档情报，我成了军统信仰 After waking up, Lin Chen, a death-row prisoner, was forcibly recruited by Dai Chunfeng, head of the Military Statistics Bureau, to impersonate a Japanese spy. He was assigned the “Parcel” plan, a mission with almost no chance of survival, and became a doomed agent tasked with feeding false intelligence to the Japanese. Just when he was on the verge of despair, he discovered that he could receive intelligence about deaths. And so… Director Dai: He’s my death-row prisoner, the one I both love and 9.5kReads8.2Score720Shelves
- 168 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 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 Reborn Impostor 重生伪装者 With exceptional skills and an outlook far ahead of his time, Liu Zhenhua serves his country under several layers of assumed identities. He gives everything he has for his 455 million countrymen. If I must die on the battlefield for my country, why should I care whether my body is brought home in a horsehide shroud? 496Reads7.4Score102Shelves
- 170 I Used a Hundred Ways to Kill Japanese Soldiers and Prolong My Life 我用百种方法杀鬼子续命 He Shouye, an actor in a hit TV drama, is shot in the heart with a prop gun and wakes up in the Republican era as He Shouye, a ginseng porter. He has no lifespan to spare after his transmigration, but a System that lets him extend his life by killing Japanese invaders arrives and binds itself to him. Follow He Shouye through the many lives he leads as he fights the invaders to stay alive. 2.5kReads—Score171Shelves
- 171 Lone Wanderer, 1937 独行1937 One man, two dogs, three eagles, four horses, Kill the Japanese invaders, execute the traitors, gather intelligence, bring warmth and hope, Across North China, fighting in the south, the mountains roar, the rivers rage, Swords and guns, blood and fire, heedless of life and death, fighting for survival. 192Reads8.4Score120Shelves
- 172 The Military Statistics Bureau's Iron Wall: The Japanese High Command's Lament 军统之铁壁：日军大本营的哀叹 Rebirth and transmigration + military intelligence + golden finger: Churchill: We’re broke. Fine, give him two million pounds’ worth of weapons for those two pieces of intelligence. He can pick them up himself; no delivery. Hitler: How did he find out that our Japanese allies are holding secret talks with the Soviets? Fine, let’s buy the meeting notes. Roosevelt: He can get us a Zero fighter? Write him a check, and ask if he’d like to switch sides while we’re at it. The Japanese: Who on earth le 1.6kReads7.8Score102Shelves
- 173 I Stumbled Upon My Aunt's Secret 我偶然发现小婶的秘密 I Accidentally Discovered My Aunt's Secret —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Reborn: Starting at Huangpu 重生从黄埔开始 [No System + No Cheats + Realistic + Transmigration + Farming + Saving the Nation] On October 10, 1911, the Wuchang Uprising broke out. The revolutionaries overthrew the Qing government, only for the Beiyang warlords to steal the fruits of the revolution. From then on, China was plunged into warlord conflict, and the people suffered terribly. Having learned painful lessons, the Father of the Republic founded the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou in 1924. A generation of great commanders then 1.3kReads8.2Score184Shelves
- 175 Ning Wei Transmigrates into Zhou Weiguo, Killing the Japanese and Saving the Nation 宁伟穿越周卫国，杀倭救国 A gunshot rang out, bringing the tragic life of Ning Wei, hailed as the “Jungle Killer,” to an end. When he opened his eyes again, Ning Wei found himself in a world that was both familiar and strange. At the same time, a jumble of memories flooded into his mind. Zhou Wen, son of Zhou Jixian, a Confucian businessman of great standing in Suzhou and an early member of the Tongmenghui, had also adopted two stepsons: Liu Yuan and Liu Zhihui. The story is set in the early period before the outbreak of 2.8kReads8.3Score213Shelves
- 176 Espionage in Republican-Era China: Big Brother, Why Make Me a Spy? 民国谍影：大哥，为啥让我做特工 [Ruthless traitor hunting + political intrigue + wits and strategy + multiple identities + pulse-pounding] This is an age of despair, and an age filled with hope. An age of silence and endurance, and an age of cries of resistance. An age of trust, and an age of doubt. We have everything before us, and nothing before us. We are all bound for Heaven, and we are all bound for Hell... This is the Republican Era! It is the twenty-eighth year of the Republican Era. Japanese invaders are ravaging China 16.9kReads8.3Score1.3kShelves
- 177 The Making of a Top Assassin 顶级杀手的成长历程 Northeast China, 1933. Snow dyes the world a ghastly white, and the icy wind can gnaw the flesh from your bones. A young man in a thin shirt, skinny as a stick and shivering uncontrollably, stumbles into an earthen temple. He nearly trips over something at his feet: a corpse that is still warm. Beside the body, a spot of golden light flickers faintly, like a star buried in the snow. He reaches for it with trembling hands. The instant his fingertip touches it, a cold voice suddenly rings out in h 402Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 178 Underhanded Struggle 暗斗 He was hailed as Asia’s greatest spy, and was also the king of secret agents. His death remains shrouded in mystery to this day, and the truth behind it has long fascinated people. What seemed like an ordinary accident concealed a story chilling to the bone. How many masked infiltrators fought over it in the shadows, and how many nameless heroes left us lamenting their loss... His death was both an inevitability of history and a historical accident. The true culprit behind it is still shaping th 6.3kReads9.2Score580Shelves
- 179 Espionage: You Were Told to Go Undercover, but You're Thriving 谍战：让你潜伏，你混得风生水起 [Spy thriller + no female lead] Lin Jiang transmigrates into the body of a peripheral operative at the Shanghai station of the Military Statistics Bureau, code-named Catfish. His handler is killed, the Shanghai station is wiped out, and the new station chief is another notorious traitor to the Bureau, at least according to Lin Jiang's memories! [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on awakening the Big Data Deduction System!] Special Higher Police School: “Who exactly is Catfish?” Military Statistics Bu 19.2kReads7.9Score1.4kShelves
- 180 A Sea of Spycraft and Mystery 谍雾谜海 When faced with known history, some follow it faithfully, while others want to change it! This is a war between two transmigrators! A contest between light and shadow! But who will emerge victorious in the end...? 3.8kReads8.9Score376Shelves
- 181 A Blood-Soaked Hero in the War of Resistance 抗战之浴血悍将 I’ve climbed mountains, crossed seas, and roamed the world in every direction. I’ve carried a gun and served in the army. I’ve never blinked while killing. My origins are a mystery, and my marksmanship is unmatched. I’ve never met my equal. Who am I? I’m Li Xuekun, the God of War who fights the Japanese invaders! I fought bloody battles in Nanjing, faced the enemy at Xuzhou, and led my troops to Wuhan, killing countless foes. Watch me fight for my country and help revitalize China! 66Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 182 The Fourth Cipher 第四套密码 The Fourth Cipher 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 Reborn as a Warlord's Young Marshal, I Get a Virtual Mining System 重生军阀少帅，获得虚拟挖矿系统 [Warlords] + [Struggle for supremacy] Bombers blanket the sky, roaring overhead as bombs rain down like a storm. Thousands upon thousands of tanks race across the ground, their long barrels bellowing without end. On the seas, monstrous warships cleave through the waves as fighter planes take off from aircraft carriers. In the deep ocean, submarines glide past like ghosts. Li Chengwen is reborn in the body of a warlord’s young marshal with the same name. In this era, warlords fight among themselv 2.9kReads6.8Score127Shelves
- 184 This Security Corps Is Way Too Good at Fighting the Japanese 这保安团，打鬼子太厉害了 Transmigrating to northeastern Shanxi in 1937, what should you do? Obviously, fight the Japanese invaders! If they don’t take my Security Regiment seriously, then it’s time to teach those Japanese devils a lesson! From then on, a mighty iron-blooded army that struck terror into the Japanese appeared across China, along with an undefeated god of war on the anti-Japanese battlefield. An armored battalion? What, Zhao Tianming has an armored battalion? He’s wiped out a whole Japanese tank company! 29.1kReads8.0Score2.4kShelves
- 185 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
- 186 With Cheats Unlocked, I Keep Bouncing Around Republican-Era China 开挂后，我在民国反复横跳 [Heroic Love Triangle + Character Growth + Laid-Back, Free-Spirited Heroine] What?! She has to survive a time of war with supplies covering dozens of soccer fields? Isn’t that just an easy mode for getting ahead? What can Le Yunjian do? Flirt with handsome men! Kick back and enjoy herself! She thought she’d spend this life alone again, but then someone suddenly told her she had several biological brothers?! Before she knew it, she’d become the beloved darling of the Xie family. Le Yunjian wo 247Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 187 1938: I Break Through the Encirclement with My Bangdi as a Blade 1938，我用梆笛为刃突出重围 [Strong Female Lead + Spy Thriller + Siblings Fighting to Survive + Love of Country and Family] March 1938, on the eve of the great search of Fengtian City. Three days before Su Wanqing’s sixteenth birthday, her mother presses a bangdi flute into her hands, while her father pushes her and her younger brother onto a mule cart headed out of the city. When a puppet policeman’s red nose presses against the cart curtain and a Japanese military policeman’s saber cleaves through the snow, the girl from 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 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—Shelves
- 189 War of Resistance: Starting by Rescuing Captured Female Soldiers 抗战：从拯救被俘女兵开始 [Portable Arsenal + Beat the Japanese Invaders to a Pulp + Build a Power Base + Infrastructure Maniac] He transmigrates into the War of Resistance and faces hellish difficulty from the start! He witnesses a troop of brave female soldiers being captured, on the verge of being violated! Fortunately, Lin Zhen binds himself to the Portable Arsenal System, unlocking infinite ammunition right away! While everyone else is still using Hanyang rifles, each of his brothers already has an AK-47! While 15.5kReads7.7Score1.6kShelves
- 190 The Republic-Era Spy King: I Can Collect Fragments of Memory 民国谍王之我能搜集记忆碎片 Back in the Republic of China era, Lin Qingfeng can collect fragments of memory from the newly dead. By piecing those memories together, Lin Qingfeng uncovers one crucial clue after another. From then on, the Japanese spies lurking in the country suffer precise, devastating blows. Like sweet potatoes buried beneath the ground, they are dug up one by one by Lin Qingfeng. 4.9kReads8.8Score354Shelves
- 191 The Guerrilla Unit Behind Enemy Lines: The Timid Li Daring 敌后武工队：胆小的李大胆 A car mechanic accidentally transmigrates to the enemy's rear in the Taihang Mountains in 1942. His name is Li Dadan, but he was born timid, and even the sound of gunfire makes his heart race. When enemy troops sweep through the village, smoke fills the air and danger closes in. Terrified, he instinctively raises a hand to block. An invisible force suddenly bursts forth, and the attackers collapse on the spot. 199Reads—Score160Shelves
- 192 A Corporate Drone in the Great Qing: Peaceful Chicken Warriors 我在大清当社畜之核平精英 Ji Canghai thought the hardest part about transmigrating to the late Qing dynasty would be dealing with the foreign powers and the Qing court, until he saw his teammates: The assassin went to Siberia and became a commander; the political commissar joined the Qing court and became obsessed with getting promoted; the psychological warfare expert started telling Native Americans that a single spark can start a prairie fire. Their robotic dogs and drones transformed the battlefield, making artillery 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 Starting in the Republic of China, I Apply to the First Whampoa Class, and I'm from Fenghua 民国开局报考黄埔一期我是奉化的 Republican-era setting + Whampoa Military Academy + conventional front lines + no System. Surname: Liu. Given name: Xin. Courtesy name: Huaqiang. Native of Xikou, Fenghua. A modern military enthusiast and expert has been reborn. Of course he has to make up for history's regrets! Charge! 20.9kReads—Score2.1kShelves
- 194 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 5.4kReads7.5Score442Shelves
- 195 War Against Japan: The Enemy-Lines Suicide Squad 抗日之敌后敢死队 This is a spy thriller. There is no System, no transmigration into another person's body, no rebirth, no transmigration into a book, and no futuristic weapons to lend a hand. It's a story about using intelligence and the unique talents of extraordinary people to pull off one major operation after another that gives the Japanese invaders a headache. Since there are no futuristic weapons to help, the story moves a little slowly. I ask readers to be patient and enjoy it. The story takes place in Z 715Reads6.2Score100Shelves
- 196 War of Resistance: Sign-In for 100,000 Barretts and Bombard the Enemy 抗战：签到十万巴雷特，炮轰强敌 [Republican-era Warlords + Building Power Alone + Characters from Bright Sword + Artillery God Yang Zhihua + Snow Leopard Zhou Weiguo] He transmigrates to the warlord-ravaged Republic of China, becoming the commander of the Fengtian Army's 38th Regiment and activating a Kill Enemies, Get Loot System. Every enemy he kills earns him unlimited rewards! Ding-dong! Congratulations, Host, you have slain five thousand enemy troops and received an unlimited troop deployment reward: one hundred Tiger tan 906Reads5.7Score103Shelves
- 197 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
- 198 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—Score166Shelves
- 199 War of Resistance: I Transmigrated to Northwest Shanxi and Slaughtered a Million Japanese Invaders 抗战：穿越晋西北，屠鬼子百万 Lin Yue transmigrates into the world of Bright Sword and activates the Kill-to-Equip System! Whenever he or his men kill an enemy, equipment drops! The beginner’s gift pack gives him the sharpshooter skill, making every shot hit its mark within effective range. During the Battle of Cangyun Ridge, he kills over a hundred enemies, snatches the command post of the Sakamoto Regiment with a single shot, and saves Zhang Dabiao just in time during a bayonet charge. After the battle, he persuades Li 15.8kReads8.2Score1.2kShelves
- 200 The Anti-Japanese Campaign: A Sand Table Decides the Fate of the World 抗日征程：沙盘定乾坤 After transmigrating as a platoon leader on the Songhu battlefield, Gu Xiuyuan awakens a battlefield simulation System amid the fire and blood. In the three-dimensional sand table in his mind, he can see the deadly firing arcs of Japanese machine-gun nests, the tides of the Suzhou River three hours in the future, the desperate struggle in Nanjing, and the supply gaps around Taierzhuang. He can spot artillery blind spots and calculate casualty ratios. At critical moments, dramatic upgrades provi 1.6kReads7.3Score317Shelves
