Disguise in Shanghai—get close to Wang Manchun!
With the German under his control, Wang Yue quickly integrated into the upper echelons of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Before long, he and Yu Manli had become well-known merchants in the region.
Once their cover as Southeast Asian merchants was firmly established, Wang Yue and Yu Manli used the pretext of opening a freight route between East Asia and Southeast Asia to travel to Shanghai.
But after they arrived, Yu Manli kept looking at the Japanese soldiers guarding the area outside the foreign concessions and fighting the urge to pull out her gun.
During their six months outside Nanjing, Yu Manli had killed fewer people than Wang Yue, but she had still killed more than three thousand. She'd developed an instinctive urge to shoot any Japanese soldier whose face she saw.
Wang Yue was at a loss. He could only stop Yu Manli and try to talk her down. In the end, he promised her that if they got the chance, he'd let her kill as many as she wanted. Only then did she agree to hold back.
But after calming Yu Manli down, Wang Yue still had to figure out whether to approach Wang Manchun directly or make contact with Ming Lou. The assassination he'd promised her would have to wait.
Yu Manli saw that Wang Yue had been putting things off for days and asked in confusion, "Brother, didn't you bring me to Shanghai to kill some high-ranking Japanese officials? We've been here for ages. When can we get started?"
Seeing how impatient Yu Manli was, Wang Yue could only bluff. "I'm trying to work out how we can keep killing Japanese and puppet-government officials, while also drawing the Japanese' attention away from our country."
Sure enough, Yu Manli's attention