Shadows of Espionage

An ordinary person acting as a spy without any special abilities would be dead within days. Besides, most of us who read novels are ordinary people; without these abilities, there's no sense of immersion. It's impossible for an ordinary person to travel back in time and dominate the world based on fragmented information gathered from TikTok.

Most of the aid the United States provided to the Nationalist government came after 1941. Not only was it expensive, but it also came with special terms, and some of it even involved the betrayal of national sovereignty! Before 1941, it was actually the Soviet Union that strongly supported the resistance against Japan.

The author shouldn't portray the people in the Military Intelligence Bureau as too weak; otherwise, there will be no rivals, and the story will lose its appeal. The author could refer to Shen Zui's memoirs and Dai Li's biography. Also, important figures are generally adept at concealing their emotions; don't portray Dai Li as too stupid. He was the king of East Asian spies at the time.

1. Dear author, if you're going to write about American companies later, you can refer to the book "1937 Global Express," and you can also write about penicillin. 2. The protagonist of the Battle of Nanjing was able to use his status to seize more than 400 ships that were originally burned by the Nanjing Command.

This book will most likely be abandoned. The protagonist's background as a salt merchant means he will have frequent contact with wealthy merchants of the same class. Even a small-time hoodlum knows that he is the second young master of the Han family. Is it possible for the author to have him do undercover work?

The covert operations are incredibly brutal. Why include so much romance? Is this child's play? For example, that guy surnamed Tang is superfluous later on. It's not that you can't have more female characters, but you can't use stereotypical templates. This is a spy novel. For instance, revealing the training base to Tang shows how confident the protagonist is in his charm.

If you don't love beautiful women and money while working in the Military Intelligence Bureau, who would dare to trust you? And yet, you're a robot-type protagonist again.

The writing is decent, passable, but the plot is illogical. The author, a wealthy salt merchant with connections, why not start by controlling a territory, developing industry and military power? And don't treat Dai Li like a fool, don't treat the Republic of China's spies like complete idiots.

Having read through Chapter Three, I found many confusing points; even basic common sense was wrong. A worker gets 20 silver dollars, a teacher gets 50—do you think silver dollars are copper coins? A rickshaw puller gets a reward of 10,000 silver dollars for a single message?

I think the author portrayed the Japanese spies and the Kuomintang agents as too weak. They solved cases too easily and smoothly, which is entirely due to the protagonist's overpowered plot armor. Moreover, I feel that the later parts will follow the same old formula as the first two parts.