

Before Daybreak
2010-06-29 · 45 min / episode · ★ 8.7
Set in Shanghai in 1948. A traitor tells information about a high-level CCP undercover and Nationalist secret service tries to find him out.
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- Jiang Liu
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- Baination
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- China
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Wu XiuboLiu Xinjie
Lin YongjianTan Zhongshu
Lu JianminDuan Haiping
Zhang XilinQi Peilin
Ren ZhengbinSun Dapu
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