Novels like The Long River, Nameless
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- 51 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
- 52 Jinling's Hidden Blade 金陵暗刃 For twelve years of the Republic, the covert war raged without respite, and every corner of Jinling bristled with danger! Shen Jinghan is the highest-ranking agent planted deep inside the enemy's ranks by Yan'an. Breaking out of a deadly trap on the eve of Nanjing's fall, he advances step by step to the top of Wang Jingwei's puppet government's No. 76 and the Juntong's inner circle, locking horns in a battle to the death with Japanese spy king Miyamoto Koichi and traitor ringleader Wei Mingyuan. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 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
- 54 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
- 55 Intelligence Codename: I Am Candle Shadow 谍报代号我是烛影 He is the Chen family’s only son, a wealthy young master, fluent in several languages, a top expert, and equipped with memories from his rebirth and a portable pocket dimension. On the surface, he is a carefree playboy. Inside, he is a soldier driven by urgency and guilt after being reborn. He plays a multifaceted spy while cultivating ties with all sides. Love of country and family: the romance and moving spirit of a “lone hero.” 95Reads6.5Score1314d adds
- 56 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
- 57 Spycraft in the War of Resistance 抗战谍门 Shen Mobei has a secret: he can travel freely between the Republic of China era and 2026. Using modern supplies and his foreknowledge, Shen Mobei maneuvers among the various factions. He rescues the Red Party and joins the Military Statistics Bureau, becoming a mysterious figure everyone wants to recruit and eliminate. Dai Li calls him "Ghost Fox": a ghost for his uncanny comings and goings, a fox for his cunning and intelligence. The Japanese want to uncover where his supplies come from. The Wa 74Reads7.0Score1114d adds
- 58 Espionage: I Took Out the Tokko Chief from the Start 谍战：开局就干掉了特高科科长 (Spy thriller + Transmigration + System + Saving the nation and its people + Ruthless action + Feel-good power fantasy) A homebody transmigrated into the body of an ace agent codenamed Viper. As soon as he arrived, fate played a joke on him: almost as if in a dream, he killed the head of the Special Higher Police. He was thrown straight into the military police prison. But there was always a way out. With his life hanging in the balance, he turned the tables and walked out in spectacular fash 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 The Hidden Frontline III: The Strange Mysteries of Jinling 隐蔽战线三：金陵诡谲 After the August 15 victory, the Kuomintang launched frenzied attacks and plundered the revolutionary bases in an attempt to spark a civil war and seize the fruits of victory. It recruited large numbers of Japanese collaborators to serve its cause. Ye Yunsheng, a member of our Party who had infiltrated the Japanese Bamboo Agency's Special Higher Police, was among those targeted for recruitment. Both the Investigation and Statistics Bureau and the Military Statistics Bureau admired Ye Yunsheng's 587Reads9.5Score10714d adds
- 60 Republican Era: A Shadowy Web of Espionage 民国：谍影迷云 [Pocket Dimension + One Female Lead + Competent Characters + Consistent Logic + Historical Accuracy] The rating has just gone live, so please give it a chance. (Onion Orange salutes!) Su Xin, a historical researcher, transmigrates to the years of the War of Resistance and becomes a minor secret agent in the Military Statistics Bureau. The bureau gains an ace operative skilled at hunting down Japanese spies, while the Communist Party gains a “deep-cover agent” hidden in the enemy's heart! Trackin 422Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 61 The Infiltrator: Spy Hunter 潜伏者【猎谍】 A young man named Chen Heng is accidentally swept into a turbulent era by a copper pocket watch. Watch as he lies low in the shadows, builds an intelligence network, hunts spies, and works step by step toward the ideal he holds dear. 108Reads—Score10314d adds
- 62 Republican-Era Espionage: The Winds of Change 民国谍战之风起云涌 For the shame of the nation and the pain of our families, we will never rest until the Japanese invaders are defeated. Our blood soaks the scorched earth. We are sons of China, brave and true. This is a true story from the years of resistance against Japan. The King of Espionage emerges, reminding us never to forget the heroes of the unseen front. 14.6kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 63 Espionage: The Many-Faced Yama, I Became the Juntong's Faith 谍战：千面阎罗，我活成军统信仰 [Master of Disguise]+ [Espionage]+ [System]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [One Female Lead] Ling Yunzhi transmigrates to Shanghai in 1939 and becomes a deputy captain of the 76th Division's direct-action squad. Backed by a system, he is decisive and ruthless, and completing missions is a breeze. In the Juntong, he is known as the Faceless Yama. To the Communist Party, he is the Dragon's Thorn. One high-ranking Japanese intelligence officer after another, along with army and navy officers and members 80Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 64 War of Resistance: Raising Hell in Kyoto 抗战：从大闹京都开始 Japanese generals: “From now on, whenever you run into Gongsun Hao, keep your distance. He’s shameless.” Japanese military intelligence: “Why can’t we ever kill him? What is he made of?” The upper ranks of the Shancheng Army: “That slippery rascal’s causing trouble again. Who did he kill this time? What a menace.” The upper ranks of the Juntong: “Hurry and bring Gongsun Hao here. He’ll know what to do.” The world powers: “Gongsun Hao is nothing but a profiteer. He’s not someone you want to mess 21Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 65 The Years in Xinjing 新京岁月 Chang Letian was born and raised in Northeast China. As a boy, he witnessed the Japanese occupation of the region. As a young man, he enrolled at Datong Academy in the puppet state of Manchukuo. The more he saw of the world, the more clearly he recognized the brutal oppression of the Japanese invaders. His national consciousness gradually awakened, and he embarked on the path of resistance and national salvation. 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 A Barber's Diary in Times of Chaos 乱世的理发师日记 The story begins in a seaside city known as the Paris of the East. Gunshots and screams rang out from the Red Rose Hair Salon, which was supposed to serve the public. Moments later, people saw the owner and apprentices fleeing in panic, covered in blood...! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Espionage: Lost in the Dust 谍战：隐入尘埃 [Republican Era, Realism, Spy Thriller] That winter, the volunteer army’s spy network in Mudanjiang is hit by a major purge carried out by the Japanese. The organization is almost completely destroyed, and agent Chen Hui, codenamed “Dust,” who is embedded in the Mudanjiang Police Bureau, faces a momentous decision: stay or leave. 657Reads7.4Score10014d adds
- 68 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 3.2kReads6.6Score20314d adds
- 69 Espionage: From the Start, I'm a Rebel. Who's More Badass Than Me? 谍战：开局叛逆者，谁有我更拽！ Meng Haochuan’s soul transmigrates into the World War II era. On the most covert front, he holds fast to his red faith! Plum blossoms cling to a few branches in the corner, blooming alone in the bitter cold. He is Plum Blossom, the military intelligence agency’s ace agent, both loved and hated by Boss Dai! The bright moon startles magpies from their branches; cicadas sing in the midnight breeze. He is Autumn Cicada, enduring humiliation and hardship, lying low for years as he waits for the right 56Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 70 The Age of War 烽火年代 “I would burn my body and become a bolt of lightning, To tear apart the endless, pitch-black night. Even if I could bring only a fleeting moment of light, It would still illuminate and warm this beautiful world.” A vital piece of intelligence, an uncanny photograph, and a world where enemies and allies are hard to tell apart and danger lurks everywhere. A brutal war of raging flames and flying bullets; a tense spy struggle rife with deception and intrigue. Loyalty and betrayal, reunion and sepa 139Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 71 Espionage: I Handle Logistics at Headquarters 76 谍战：我在76号管后勤 Li Zongheng, a college student from the 21st century, transmigrates to the Republican era and becomes the head of the supplies allocation section at Wang Jingwei’s 76th Division. Looking at the den of evil before him, Li Zongheng gives a cold laugh. This lucrative cushy job will make the perfect cover for fighting the Japanese! With control of supplies, he manages ammunition and medicine above, and food and fuel below. The foreign firms in the concessions are his supply stations, and the 76th Di 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 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 243Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Infiltrating the Military Statistics Bureau, I Accidentally Built an Arms Empire 我在军统搞渗透，竟造出军火帝国 After transmigrating to a world of espionage, Ren Pingsheng becomes a nobody in the archives room. After accidentally activating the [Mission Lottery System], Ren Pingsheng mows down people like grass and blows up buildings like he’s setting off firecrackers! Zheng Yaoxian treats him like a brother, while the higher-ups are completely wrapped around his finger. Everyone thinks Ren Pingsheng rose through the ranks by sucking up to powerful people. Who would have guessed that, in the blink of an e 780Reads5.9Score10114d adds
- 74 Espionage: From the Start, I'm Told to Investigate My Own Communist Party 谍战：开局让我一个红党查红党 A leak at the newly established Zhejiang branch of the Fuxing Society led to a failed arrest. Acting on Dai’s orders, Lin Mingyu, a Communist Party member undercover at the Central Army Officer Academy, heads to the Zhejiang branch to secretly investigate the Communist Party infiltrators. 381Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Silent Glory: Blade Against Time 沉默的荣耀之逆时之刃 A spin-off novel in the "Glory of Silence" series, telling the story of an unlucky man who transmigrates into a spy thriller with a System. Follow him as he navigates Taiwan during the White Terror and makes it out unscathed. 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 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
- 77 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
- 78 Transmigrating to 1936: Between Night and Dawn 穿越1936：暗夜与黎明 A modern young man arrives in the war-torn Republic of China. From the start, he's a graduate of Whampoa Military Academy. A golden finger? What can he possibly do? The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, underground organizations, Japanese invaders, collaborators, moles, and more... —Reads—Score3k14d adds
- 79 Espionage: From the Start, I Shoot a Secret Agent from the Special High Police 谍战：开局击毙特高课特务 Liu Wentao transmigrates to the Republic of China era. Every Japanese soldier he kills earns him a reward, which he uses to buy weapons and help resist the invasion. Many people wonder who killed the chief of the Japanese Special Service Agency and blew up the counterfeit banknote printing plant. No one knows it was him. Liu Wentao keeps a low profile, moving along the edge of life and death as he carries out the boldest missions! Rumble! An explosion echoes as black smoke billows from the Speci 2.3kReads7.3Score13914d adds
- 80 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
- 81 I Can Rewind Five Minutes, and I Became a Spy-Killing Demon 回档五分钟，我成了谍战杀神 I rewound five minutes, crawled back from hell, and became Second Young Master Zhang, a spoiled heir in Shancheng. The Japanese have my father’s command post surrounded by a massive force. I’ll save him! The Special Higher Police have sprung a deadly four-stage trap. I’ll break it! I came back to life to kill the Japanese and root out the collaborators! A tactical pen with a triangular blade, stained with blood and deadly at the throat, lets me steal other people’s skills. A pair of blood-red do 40Reads5.9Score714d adds
- 82 Espionage: Starting Out as a Nobody 谍战：从小人开始 A modern young man is reborn in 1937 with a System. From a timid young secret agent to a renowned anti-Japanese hero, it only takes a few short months. Along the way, Ye Chen has killed no shortage of Japanese soldiers. If the System weren't holding him back, Ye Chen really would have kept killing until... 1.2kReads6.6Score10014d adds
- 83 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
- 84 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
- 85 Spy Games: A Fight to the Death 谍战，生死较量 I transmigrated to Jiangcheng in 1936, on the eve of the full-scale War of Resistance, and became an action team member of the Lixingshe. At this critical moment, when the nation’s very survival was at stake, I couldn’t change the course of history. But I would still do everything in my power, using my talents to shed my blood for our country’s victory in the war against Japan. 90Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 86 War of Resistance: The Chinese Medicine Spy 抗战：中医特工 He went up the mountain to gather herbs and saved a beautiful woman. Who could have guessed that she would drag him into a secret agent training group for deadly training… Fireworks fade fast, but a Chinese medicine practitioner never backs down. See how Lin Yun transforms from a wandering street doctor into an elite fighter on the front lines of the resistance against Japan and the struggle to save the nation… 1.7kReads7.6Score14414d adds
- 87 Code Name: Migratory Bird 代号候鸟 A heart-pounding covert war, as deep as the ocean! The most enduring declaration of love in the world is staying by someone’s side… 1kReads7.7Score10314d adds
- 88 Espionage: Slapping a Chinese Traitor from the Start and Wiping Out the Whole Field 谍战：开局怒扇大汉奸，爆杀全场 [Espionage + transmigration + System + power fantasy + multiple heroines] Food delivery driver Chen Jiu transmigrates into the body of the head of General Affairs at No. 76 and awakens the Emotional Critical Hit System. Slap a traitor in the face, and get a critical-hit reward: [Expertise in Disassembling Firearms]! Rescue an arrested student, and get a hundredfold reward: [Codebreaking Skills]! When a Japanese female agent says Chen Jiu reminds her of her first love, he immediately unlocks [Tri 181Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Hearts of Iron IV: Total War 暗斗4：全面战争 Total war has long been raging right beside us! Our enemies use methods more brutal than ever, and China faces a calamity without precedent. Whether we can escape this disaster will determine the course of human civilization, and may even decide whether humanity lives or dies! The Jews, the most vile people of all, have finally bared their sharp fangs… 136Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 90 Behind the Bullet 子弹的背后 Zhong Xianghui and Zhong Xiangyu were brothers, but their parents held different political beliefs, so they were forced to live apart from an early age. The elder brother followed their father and joined the Military Statistics Bureau, where he earned the favor of Ding Enze, its head in Shanghai. The younger brother, Zhong Xiangyu, joined the Communist Party with their mother as a child and infiltrated the Bureau's Linli training program. There, he unexpectedly reunited with his brother, but bec 255Reads9.5Score—14d adds
- 91 Different Paths, Same Source 殊途归源 Returning to the Source by Different Paths: Synopsis Shanghai, 1935. She is a singer at the Paramount Ballroom, dressed in a qipao and hiding her identity as an underground Communist Party member. He is a well-mannered banker, elegant and charming, but secretly an ace agent for the Military Statistics Bureau. One mission brings two impostors together. He is ordered to investigate her, but falls for her while testing her loyalties. She means to use him, but finds herself falling for him amid her 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Espionage in the Besieged City: Codename Gardener 谍影围城：代号园丁 (Traditional spy thriller, no transmigration or golden finger. If that’s not your thing, please don’t flame the author.) In the autumn of 1941, at Rong Manor, an isolated compound in Shanghai’s occupied zone, five “guests” from very different walks of life are trapped by a feast worthy of a trap. They are a glamorous nightclub singer, a timid official, a cold-faced police officer, a shrewd editor-in-chief, and a mysterious Japanese section chief. The manor is under constant surveillance. They ar 869Reads6.7Score10414d adds
- 93 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 2.4kReads—Score16614d adds
- 94 At Headquarters 76: One God-Tier Trait Every Day 人在76号：每天一个神级词条 After transmigrating to Shanghai during the isolated-island period, Su Chen became a low-ranking spy in the 76th, with no connections and no backing. The moment he arrived, he was already facing a brutal purge by the Japanese invaders! At that very moment, the Daily Keyword System activated. [Today's Keyword: Lockpicking] He could turn the Special Higher Police's classified archives into his own backyard. [Today's Keyword: Firearms Master] Even an old, battered pistol could make a precise shot f 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Espionage: The Invincible Agent Who Wipes Out Every Japanese Spy 谍战：无敌特工，日谍全杀光 (Spy thriller, fierce fighting against the enemy, War of Resistance, power fantasy) Chen Ming transmigrates into the role of a Juntong intelligence team captain, but all he wants is to lie flat and enjoy life. Then an accident forces him to strive for more. He builds up his own forces, establishes an unprecedented record of service, and becomes an invincible agent. Intelligence agents: How did Chen Ming discover our contacts and methods of communication? Boss Dai: Chen Ming is the pride of Junto 376Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 96 Espionage: The KMT's Living Yama, Slayer of Japanese Devils 谍战：军统活阎王，专杀小鬼子 My name is Chu Feng, and my military intelligence codename is “Living Yama.” I have just one rule: kill the Japanese invaders and the traitors, every last one of them. I have an intelligence System. I know every secret the Japanese are hiding. Want to know why I’m so ruthless? Because I came from the future, and I’m here specifically to send them all to hell! 1kReads7.1Score10814d adds
- 97 Espionage: Caught at the Meeting? Reveal My Special Higher Police Identity 谍战：接头被抓？亮出特高科身份 [Spy thriller + Republican era + 20,000 words daily + triple agent + no female lead + System] Good news: I transmigrated, and I even got a System. Bad news: I got arrested from the start while trying to make contact. My memories awakened during interrogation, and it turned out I was a well-connected insider at the Special High Police Agency, with powerful backing. So no problem. Then came more bad news: I was assigned to infiltrate the Military Statistics Bureau, forcing me to become a triple ag 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Republican Era: I Come from the Modern Age 民国：我来自现代 Volume One: Fighting for Victory. Song Xiaotang is a modern soul who accidentally transmigrates to 1938, during the Republican era, into the body of a six-year-old girl named Song Xiaotang. She isn't a Nationalist agent or a Communist underground operative. She only came here to help her parents, who are working undercover in Shanghai. But before long, she ends up becoming one of them... Volume Two: Raising Funds for the Nation. This volume tells the story of a family of three sent to Hong K 6.7kReads8.6Score71014d adds
- 99 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
- 100 The Dead Man's Stand-In 替死人 On the verge of death, actor Gu Changsheng picked up the face of a dead man. From then on, he lived in place of the dead and died in place of the living. Wearing the face of a Japanese interpreter, he infiltrated the Special Services Section, serving the Nationalist intelligence service while passing information to the underground Communist Party. In the three-way struggle, he turned Shanghai upside down, one borrowed face at a time. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
