Metamorphosis

The country's first anti-Japanese business-war novel bursts onto the scene!

* Thrilling battles in the business world!

* Perilous undercover work in a sea of spies!

* A tragic, haunting tale of love, hatred, and separation!

As Japan's full-scale invasion of China erupts, Shanghai becomes a city cut off from the world! Japanese businessman Kawabata schemes to control Shanghai's economic lifelines. With the help of Qiao Bo, Huang Jie, and others, the An and Hong families wage a brutal, perilous business war against him!

Seizing docks, taking hostages, carrying out assassinations... The Japanese merchants are devious, every move treacherous. Opening banks, setting up pharmacies, taking over textile mills... The Chinese merchants are shrewd, carefully planning each step! But Kawabata joins forces with Colonel Xiutian of the Japanese army, tightening the noose and plotting to frame the An and Hong families. How will Qiao Bo and the others respond?

Meanwhile, in these war-torn years, when "the flames of war rage on for months," love and friendship among several young people become all the more precious. Yet the ravages of war and the bloodshed of the business world leave their already fragile romances hanging by a thread. Adrift in troubled times, with all the splendor faded, where can love go when caught between national and family vendettas?

With the nation in peril, the business world is a battlefield too! Socialites, performers, wealthy young masters, gang bosses... How will they defend the spirit of Chinese enterprise amid the smoke and flames of war?

On the eve of victory in the War of Resistance, two girls reunite in Shanghai, united by the same goal. Both perish, their blood staining the city as they depart like butterflies.