Cong Zhao

Set in Republican-era China, Bloody Way Out Taiping Town follows police captain Yao Tingsen as he ventures into the notorious Peace Town—a haven for murderers and bandits—where crime lord Tian Long rules with his Four Assassins. What begins as a mission to purge the town’s evil proves far more dangerous and complicated than Yao anticipated.

During the Southern Song dynasty, Guo Jing and Yang Kang, two boys orphaned by war, grow up on opposite paths—one becoming a patriotic hero, the other consumed by ambition and betrayal.

Set around the founding of the PRC, the story follows CCP undercover agent Zheng Chaoyang as he battles KMT operatives. After his cover is blown at the Peiping police station, he escapes with a critical list of KMT spies. Returning to Peiping post-liberation, Chaoyang faces a new challenge—elite KMT spies led by "Phoenix," who is revealed to be his estranged brother, Zheng Chaoshan.