Espionage: I Can Steal Coded Messages

[Transmigration] [Golden Finger] [No Female Lead]

Autumn 1936, Shanghai. Su Yuan, an IT communications engineer, wakes up as a junior proofreader at the Dadong Newspaper.

He brings no knowledge of the future, only an ordinary mortal's body and a mind capable of "hearing" radio waves and tampering with the flow of information. Within a radius of sixty meters, no telegram, telephone call, or coded wireless message can escape his notice.

At three in the afternoon, a coded signal always flashes from the second floor of the silk shop across Fuzhou Road from the newspaper office. Every night after work, veteran proofreader Zhou Ziheng goes there to sit for a few minutes, then delivers a message to Shiliupu Wharf late at night. Old Gu, the owner of the cigarette-paper shop, has set up a low-power radio transmitter on his own second floor, using a different code.

A piece of military intelligence about the Yangtze River is traveling along this covert line into the hands of an unknown sailor.

He remembers the river blockade leak case two years later and the Battle of Shanghai four years later. But what he doesn't know is that the undercurrents of this city conceal his own future. Will he use these "all-seeing eyes" to seize an immense fortune, or stake his life on the true course of history?