Red

In November 1937, after three months of fighting, the Battle of Shanghai ended and the city fell. Xu Tian is an ordinary accountant at the Triangular Land Market, prone to fainting at the sight of blood and red-colorblind, seemingly utterly unremarkable. When he happens to intervene and helps one of the Party's cargo ships withdraw safely, the extraordinary talents he has long kept hidden are exposed, and he is immediately targeted by multiple forces: the Japanese officer Kagesa, the chief Chinese detective Lao Liao, and Jin Ye of the Green Gang. Schemes, contests, interrogations, and torture follow one after another, and a ruthless life-or-death showdown could erupt at any moment. To protect his most cherished mother, his good brother Tie Lin, and the girl he loves, Tian Dan, Xu Tian can only stake his own life and use meticulous calculation to set a trap that is nearly impossible to break. This book is adapted from the screenplay of the espionage drama Red, starring Zhang Luyi, and fills in and restores the complete content that could not be shown on screen. Taking the daily life of ordinary people as its entry point, it sketches a portrait of Shanghai under occupation in a time of chaos.