The Yangtze Intercept
Mara Quinn · Season 1 · Oct 14, 2026
female protagonistgenius protagonistwartime intelligenceradio interceptcipher proceduralRepublican ChinaYangtze estuarylocked-room tensionbetrayalmoral costslow-burn dangerperiod drama
1944, the Yangtze blockade. Seventeen-year-old radio operator Lin Qiao decodes an enemy order to kidnap the one officer who must co-sign her report. Locked in the radio cabin, with unsigned decrypts counted as treason, she must find the leak before the window closes—and the only signal that can save him will expose her village's secret cipher.