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- 151 My Espionage Comes with a Cheat 我的谍战有外挂 Shanghai, 1936. Chen Mo, a frail teacher, is the Military Statistics Bureau's most inconspicuous undercover agent, codenamed “Fat Wave.” One day, he awakens to the power of scanning, and nothing can escape his notice, friend or foe. With this “foresight,” he always avoids traps and quietly passes along vital intelligence. As Shanghai's world of spies disappears into a fog, only he can walk safely through the heart of the enemy, carrying an invisible light. 29.3kReads7.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 152 Passion Like a Tidal Wave 热血似狂潮 What if I’m the only thing standing between us and victory? Volume One: A modern special police officer transmigrates to the Songhu battlefield and becomes a company commander in the Central Training Regiment, leading his troops fearlessly into battle. The flag flies high, the horses whinny, rifles on our shoulders and blades at our waists, our hot blood surging like a tide! Volume Two: He will venture alone into an even deeper darkness, entering the forbidden depths of human nature. Alone, he s 214Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Espionage and War 谍与战 Wu Zimo, a police officer at the Xing'an Town Police Station in Manchukuo, transmigrates and awakens a talent for perceiving mental states. He can detect people's microexpressions in a fraction of a second, improving from one-fifth of a second to as fast as 1/25 of a second. By honing and refining his mental abilities in the field, Wu Zimo steadily becomes faster at recognizing and catching microexpressions. This gives Wu Zimo a foothold in the puppet Manchukuo police force and becomes the found 14Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 154 Espionage: The Special Higher Police Agency Is Gone, and You Still Call Him Loyal? 谍战：特高课都没了，你说他忠诚 1940. Dongye Ming transmigrates into the role of an action squad leader in the Special Higher Police Section at the Japanese Shanghai Headquarters. Dongye Ming thinks that transmigrating to 1940 means he can shoot the Japanese invaders, but he never expects that the first person he wants to shoot is himself. He cries, “I can’t become Japanese. I can’t betray our martyrs. I’m going to kill this Japanese devil right now.” Just as he points the gun at himself, an unexpected turn of events occurs. Y 8Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 155 Espionage: I Am Mapo Tofu 谍战：我是麻婆豆腐 [Spy warfare + agents + System + transmigration] (The rating has only just appeared. The plot is entirely original, so read with confidence.) Zhao, a popular livestreamer known as Treasure Hunter Lao Zhao, had just bought a metal detector. While treasure hunting, he was killed by a land mine left behind by the Japanese and transmigrated to 1937, during the Republican era. He took over the body of a patrol officer in the police station, who was also named Zhao Chunming. Zhao Chunming was also a m 3.2kReads6.6Score20814d adds
- 156 Espionage: At Last, I Make It to the Honey Trap 谍战：终于熬到美人计 Zhang Yuan transmigrated to Shanghai in 1937 and became an intelligence operative for our Party, working undercover in the city. From the start, he was trapped in a living hell and brutally tortured. Whips, pepper water, the tiger bench, the electric chair... With no other options, the Japanese resorted to a honey trap. A female agent in a graceful kimono, her smile beguiling, approached Zhang Yuan, battered and covered in wounds. 2.1kReads—Score15314d adds
- 157 Espionage: The Deep Cover Plan 谍战：深耕计划 In 1931, the three northeastern provinces fell to the Japanese. At this time, a “Japanese” named Kobayashi Daiyi arrived in Changchun to take up the post of police chief. At the same time, Dai Li, in Nanjing, received an encrypted message: “Spring Thunder has arrived. The Deep Roots Plan is in place…” The Japanese Special Services Division was also secretly keeping an eye on Kobayashi Daiyi, a Japanese citizen. Lin Yi… Looking at the future New Jing Police Bureau, Lin Yi began carrying out th 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Spy's Tolling Bell 钟声谍影 The story takes place during the War of Resistance Against Japan, as various forces vie for power in secret in Shanghai. The underground Communist organization, the Kuomintang’s Military Statistics Bureau, Japanese intelligence agencies, and Shanghai’s criminal syndicates are all entangled in a complex web, with the situation growing exceptionally tense. 116Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Espionage: The Days I Turned No. 76 Upside Down 谍战：在76号翻云覆雨的日子 “Heh heh heh, are you thinking about how to hurt me?” The icy question came wrapped in bone-chilling cold. The muscles on the left side of Liang Shaochun's face twitched wildly like twisted vines, while his right side remained frozen in a bizarre calm. He screamed himself hoarse in the empty schoolyard. Each sharp accusation was like a drawn blade, stabbing straight into the heart: “Tell me, are you a Juntong spy?” “One of you is a Juntong agent. Report on each other, now, immediately, this inst 38Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 160 Ice City's Hidden Blade 冰城暗刃 This is my first time writing, so I have no experience. I chose a spy drama I like and am writing a fanfic as a way to soothe the lingering disappointment I felt while watching it. The heroine is a special forces soldier reborn from the future. She has a golden finger and knows that courage alone cannot save the country, so, knowing how the story unfolds, she sets out to find comrades she can trust. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 I Save Zheng Yaoxian from the Start and Become Sixth Brother's Sworn Brother 开局救下郑耀先成为六哥结拜兄弟 Song Sicheng, a modern rich young man, accidentally transmigrates into the body of the third young master of the Kong family's main line. After living overseas for seven years, he returns to his war-torn homeland. After unexpectedly saving Zheng Yaoxian, the military intelligence agent known as Sixth Brother, a new story begins... 17Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 162 Two-Faced and Caught in the Middle 两面三刀，我身不由己啊 In his previous life, Heng Wu was transported to the East before the War of Resistance began after a plane crash. He became a spy for the Japanese Army’s logistics bureau and was sent to China to maintain a long-term undercover assignment. Before setting out, Heng Wu stole a list of agents assigned to long-term undercover work. After returning to China, he set out to eliminate the Japanese spies on the list. In a battle of wits and courage, he joined the Military Statistics Bureau to help the Co 11Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 163 Spy War: I Seem to Have Infiltrated the Enemy as an Imperial Prince 谍战，我好像潜伏成了鬼子亲王 Chen Mo, a modern special forces soldier and history-and-espionage enthusiast, unexpectedly becomes reborn in the body of a young Peking University student who shares his name, in Beiping shortly after its fall in 1937. He is bound to the “Civilization Guardian System” and gains a portable storage space. To save the country from disaster, he uses the “Perfect Identity Disguise” opportunity awarded by a System mission to assume the identity of a Japanese royal collateral prince who was about to v 2.3kReads—Score12214d adds
- 164 The Pretender: Kite 伪装者之风筝 In 1943, Shanghai seethed with intrigue under the Wang Jingwei puppet regime. Zheng Yaoxian, the ace agent known as “Ghost Six,” was ordered by the Military Statistics Bureau to infiltrate the puppet government’s Special Services Department under the codename “Kite.” In reality, he was a senior Communist agent. Ming Lou, meanwhile, became the puppet government’s chief financial adviser after returning from overseas with a degree in economics. Publicly, he was the Military Statistics Bureau’s “Vi 1.5kReads7.0Score10614d adds
- 165 Spying in Tianjin, Surrounded by Friends! 谍战天津卫，友人成堆堆！ Lin Wusheng transmigrates to another world, to Jintang, also known as Tianjin Wei. He brings along a stone stele he encountered while hiking, which seems to have formed a bond with him. But despite doing plenty of good deeds, he still can't discover what the stele does. It seems to be useless. Fortunately, as a low-ranking foot patrolman in the French Concession, he won't starve to death. Then, after accidentally saving Wang Jinzhong, an underground operative who is badly wounded and near death, 531Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 166 Espionage: The Death-Fearing Master of Survival Scares Boss Dai from the Start 谍战：怕死苟神，开局吓坏代老板 Lu Feng was a “legendary” spy in 2056, nicknamed the Runaway Third. During an operation, he was shot dead because he ran too fast, then transmigrated to Planet Alpha in a parallel world. Time moves slowly on this planet, which has only just reached the era of World War II. Lu Feng becomes a low-level intelligence officer in the Military Intelligence Bureau. All he wants is to stay alive in this chaotic age, but circumstances and the System force him to deliver one earth-shattering intelligence r 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Lone Boat in a Sea of Espionage 谍海孤舟 Xiang Yi is reborn in 1939 in the body of a Juntong agent who shares his name. But as soon as Xiang Yi is reborn, he discovers that his predecessor had already defected to the Japanese and their puppet regime, and had also given up a list of Juntong personnel in Beiping, dealing the organization a devastating blow there. It seems there’s no going back to Juntong. Unwilling to become a traitor, Xiang Yi decides to join the Communist Party. But when he searches his predecessor’s memories, he disco 30Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 168 A Battle of Wits in the Spy World 谍海智斗 After the War of Resistance Against Japan entered a stalemate, the secret front became a second battlefield, where “you were among us, and we were among you.” Spies from every side played their part in that turbulent chapter of history. Acting on orders from the organization, agent Chen Ziqiang goes undercover and engages in a battle of wits with Japanese spies and Chinese collaborators. This novel recounts his heroic deeds: his courage and resourcefulness, his passionate fight to defend his hom 448Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 169 Bright Sword: Why Do I Have Even More Soldiers Now? 亮剑之我的兵怎么又多了 What? Li Ping'an's unit already has three battalions? Good grief, is he the regiment commander or am I? In the world of Bright Sword, Li Ping'an takes to the battlefield and unlocks the Merit System. From then on, he uses merit to recruit soldiers and acquire guns and ammunition, expanding his force from a handful of men into a platoon, company, battalion, regiment, and division. Many have fallen along the way. 3.2kReads5.7Score18114d adds
- 170 Silent Clear Wild Goose 清雁无声 In August 1948, Changchun is under siege. Zhou Song is the leader of Team Two in the Operations Section of the Changchun Office of the Ministry of National Defense’s Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. A Communist intelligence operative working undercover within the Kuomintang’s military intelligence network, he lost contact with his organization after an accident two years earlier. By chance, he rescues Deng Kun, a key underground Communist agent who was captured after his cover was blown. 373Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 171 Abyssal Impostor: King of Spies for Seven Years 深渊伪装者：七年间谍王 In late autumn 1938, on the eve of Wuhan's fall, Nationalist staff officer Chen Xing wakes amid a pile of corpses. In his arms is a top-secret document capable of shaking the course of the war: the “Minutes of the Secret Sino-Japanese Talks,” a treasonous pact. Behind it lies a clandestine deal between senior figures in the Nationalist government and the Japanese invaders. But his true identity is “Jingzhe,” a Communist agent operating behind enemy lines. Now the Japanese special forces, a Junt 2.9kReads7.2Score33514d adds
- 172 After I Transmigrated into a Japanese Noble Family, I Became a Hidden Spy 穿越日本贵族后，我成了谍战暗棋 Lin Yanchuan, a young man from the modern world, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Konoe Nobuhiko, the second son of Japan’s top aristocratic family, the Konoe clan, during World War II. He has no overpowered cheat, only one modest ability: by reading subtle descriptions of people’s psychology, he can see through their hidden emotions and intentions. When he first enters enemy territory, he treads carefully beneath the aura of his noble birth. As he mimics Japanese etiquette and naviga 47Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Shanghai 1937: Why Is a Mechanized Brigade Still Fighting with Bayonets? 淞沪1937，合成旅还拼刺刀？ A 2026 combined-arms brigade transmigrates to the eve of the Japanese landing at Jinshanwei in 1937. There are no satellites in the sky, and the electromagnetic environment on the ground is as clean as a blank sheet of paper. How do they fight? Blast them with artillery, charge in with tanks, then fight with bayonets? Come on, seriously? A combined-arms brigade commands the battlefield from start to finish, engaging across the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond visual range, without making cont 4.9kReads5.9Score47614d adds
- 174 Shadowless Spy War 谍战无影 A trainee from a military intelligence special training class is ordered to go undercover in occupied territory. By chance, however, Japanese spies recruit him as an informant, and he finds himself hunted by multiple sides, with traps at every turn... [Transmigration] [Espionage] [No System] [No pocket dimension] [No extraordinary abilities] 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Espionage: Daily Intelligence, and My Identity Is a Little Too High-Profile 谍战：每日情报，我的身份有点高 [Espionage] + [No female lead] + [Buying and selling for a profit] Lin Wentao returns to the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China and awakens a daily intelligence System. He captures Japanese spies, goes into business, and kills traitors, becoming the King of Spies through his identity and intelligence. Lin Wentao: At first, I only wanted to be a spoiled playboy! I wanted to be a playboy, but seeing our rivers and land occupied fills me with fury. If we don’t resist the war, how can there 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 I Was Transported to the Secret Service Headquarters in 1939 1939年穿到了特工总部 A fourth-year university student transmigrates to wartime Shanghai, only to find himself in the cells of the Wang Jingwei regime’s secret police headquarters. After getting out, he has no choice but to take a job at the same headquarters. We can’t become collaborators, can we? Just watch how we stir things up! 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Shadows Over Shanghai: Reborn in the Republic to Save the Nation and Its People 沪上谍影：魂穿民国救国救民 [War of Resistance espionage] + [Single heroine] + [Soul swap] + [Soul transmigration] A graduate student in history transmigrates into the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and becomes Shen Yanzhi, a Juntong trainee agent. He navigates between Juntong, the Japanese collaborationist regime, and the underground Communist Party, walking a knife's edge with only fragmentary memories of history to guide him. There is no romance, only a yearning to hold on to his beliefs and survive. Can he preserve his convic 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Espionage: I Use Tianwen to Foretell Life and Death 谍战：我以天问预判生死 Wang Yike, a modern online writer whose stories never gained traction, transmigrates to become an underground peripheral intelligence agent for the Nationalist Army and awakens the “Tianwen System” hidden in his family's ancient jade. It can foresee fragments of the future and provide “Heaven's guidance.” With the Tianwen System's help, Wang Yike makes a fortune amid the chaos and repeatedly turns danger into safety on missions. He is forcibly appointed leader of the three-person Compass team, w 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Espionage: Code Name Beehive 谍战：代号蜂巢 In the Shanghai concessions in 1937, Lu Chen, a former special forces instructor, transmigrates into the body of Asano Akira, an ethnic Chinese employee of the Japanese military intelligence service. From the start, he faces an identity check, but his awakened Hive Intelligence System lets him turn the tables: by touching an object, he can extract information from the past 30 minutes, and by making contact with someone, he can unlock their hidden secrets! In the eyes of the Japanese, he is a cle 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Bloodbath of Resistance: 1937 喋血抗战1937 My new work is out! Please come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 After Reincarnating as the Tragic Heroine of a Spy Drama 当转生成谍战剧悲剧女主后 The day before Yin Yiyi was due to take part in her school’s math competition, she dreamed that she had become the tragic heroine of a spy drama. Completed so far: Watching the Wind, from The Plot Against, featuring the genius mathematician Huang Yiyi; A Rainbow Like the Journey Home, featuring the beautiful and talented Lin Jiayi. After escaping from the spy drama, Yin Yiyi died again, then was reborn! Who had framed her? Had her earlier experiences really been a dream, or had someone deliberat 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Shadow of the Thin-Bladed Knife 薄刀谍影 A secret buried for many years sparks a covert struggle and a web of schemes. A disgraced young man: the invading Japanese army says he’s the only son of a Japanese spy who went missing; the Military Statistics Bureau says he’s an agent with the codename “Thin Blade.” Good and evil in human nature, the warmth and coldness of family ties: living is a path to enlightenment. Justice has its way, the nation is held close to the heart, and a grown man sheds tears beneath the misty rain. 410Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Undercover in Military Intelligence, Yet You Become the Demon Den's God of Wealth 卧底军统，你竟成魔窟财神爷 Lin De transmigrates into a world combining spy dramas such as The Rebel, Kite, and The Disguiser, becoming the “God of Wealth of the Devil's Den,” a man with four separate identities. From then on, as an undercover agent with the codenames “Dark Sparrow” and “Lone Wolf,” Lin De commands the tides of power in Shendu. Zheng Yaoxian: “For all my careful calculations, I never imagined that Mr. Lin De would have four identities at once.” Ming Lou: “His alertness and adaptability fooled even me. The 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Drawing Sword: I Go Undercover, Then Ride Across the Land of Cherry Blossoms 亮剑从卧底开始马踏樱花 [A fresh take on Drawing Sword + Undercover Intrigue + Espionage and Turmoil + The Iron Tide!] A thunderous boom rings through the sky, and Captain Jia makes his dazzling debut. After transmigrating into the world of Drawing Sword, he awakens an Undercover System and starts out as a low-level spy, becoming a blade planted behind enemy lines. Watch Captain Jia toy with the Japanese invaders and trample the cherry blossoms! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Netherworld Tycoon: My Ghost Soldiers Can Devour Gods and Demons 幽冥巨贾：我的阴兵可吞鬼神 When Lin Yuan wakes, he has transmigrated to a strange world where ghosts and monsters run rampant and the laws of reality have crumbled. Survival is his first priority, and the “trillion-dollar inheritance” he has received isn't gold or silver, but an army of ghost soldiers lying dormant in the underworld! At first, he trembles in terror before hideous ghosts. Then he coolly commands his black-armored ghost soldiers as they test their strength. From a frail mortal, he rises to become a strange- 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Kite: The Prequel 风筝前传 In 1932, Communist intelligence agent Zheng Yaoxian, codenamed “Kite,” is ordered to go undercover in the Special Services Division of the Fuxing Society. Over eighteen years, he rises from a rookie agent to the high-ranking position of “Juntong Sixth Brother,” navigating Dai Li's suspicions, the Nationalist Central Organization Department's Party Affairs Investigation Bureau's crackdown, and pursuit by the Japanese. As “Guizi Liu,” he strikes fear into his enemies and eliminates traitors, while 633Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 187 The Covert Front II: Ingenious Plans on the Bund 隐蔽战线二：外滩妙算 After the August 13 Incident, the War of Resistance against Japan entered its most intense phase, and a reign of terror engulfed Shanghai. Underground Party member Ye Yunsheng infiltrates the Japanese invaders' Bamboo Agency, where only carefully selected elites gather. It is not only an exceptionally dangerous den of evil, but also an unfathomable abyss. The danger posed by the enemy here is ten times greater than it was at the Special Investigations Office of the Fengtian Police Headquarters! 761Reads9.5Score8314d adds
- 188 Super Virus, So Cute 超级病毒可爱捏 The supervirus is so cute! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Supporting the War Effort: I’m Bound to the Metro Escape System! 支援抗战，我绑定了地铁逃生系统! I went to support the War of Resistance, and got bound to the Subway Escape System! 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Li Yunlong Robs the Great Powers from the Start 李云龙开局打劫列强 The War of Resistance! Li Yunlong is reborn! The hand of Guandong Army commander Honjo Iifan, raised to slap him a second time, stopped in midair. His eyes widened. “Li Yunlong, that bastard! He took the Empire’s money, then not only refused to do the job, but ambushed the Empire. He’s dead for sure this time.” He snatched back the hand suspended in midair and slapped the doorframe. “Notify everyone. War room. Ten minutes.” 183Reads—Score10114d adds
- 191 The Money-Hungry Female Agent 财迷女特工 Hello, dearies! I'm the author of "The Money-Hungry Agent"! This is a fast-paced power fantasy about a Wall Street money lover who transmigrates into the Military Statistics Bureau! The heroine, Shen Dairuo, has no romantic delusions and relies purely on business savvy to counter espionage. She's a master of accounting, arbitrage, and building intelligence networks. She turns the tables from the brink of execution, amasses gold bars and builds her own team, then keeps Japanese agents and old han 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Me! The Number One Foolish Traitor, Actually the Ultimate Undercover Agent 我！头号蠢汉奸，实则潜伏天花板 [Resistance-war espionage + play the pig to eat the tiger + misunderstandings + double-agent infiltration + deep-cover spy + no abuse of the protagonist + long-form] The whole city curses Cao Liwen as a greedy, stupid traitor, yet the Japanese and the KMT’s secret service compete to promote and recruit him! Everyone laughs at him for being a brainless time-server. Little do they know that he has spent decades playing the fool while undercover, operating from Jiangcheng to the isolated island. He 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 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 238Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Espionage: From the Start, I’m an Underground Party Agent, Leveling Up on My Own! 谍战：开局地下党，我独自升级！ The moment he opens his eyes, information security engineer Shen Ye finds that he has transmigrated to Shanghai in 1938, a city battered by war, and become an underground Party member on the verge of exposure! From the start, it’s a nightmare: within three days, he must infiltrate the Japanese military’s Tokko headquarters and steal a top-secret intelligence file that will decide the organization’s fate, right under the nose of Kenichi Sato, a “China expert”! Fortunately, the [Eye of Intellige 8Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 195 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
- 196 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
- 197 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
- 198 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 1.1kReads5.8Score10314d adds
- 199 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 5.1kReads7.4Score32314d adds
- 200 Lone Hero of Yingxiong 孤胆雄英 Tags: Republic of China era, espionage, passionate, mind games, ruthless, warlord rivalries, love of family and country [Ruthless hero returns + espionage and mind games + decisive and ruthless + beauties of a chaotic age] Shanghai, a city awash in blood and turmoil. Chen Moyan awakens to find his fellow agents dead and himself a “lone ghost” with the Juntong’s guns trained on him. Kill his colleagues to earn their trust? He becomes Juntong’s sharpest blade, earning the nickname “Chen the King o 1.8kReads8.6Score16814d adds
