Mask (starring Zu Feng, Hou Yong, Mei Ting)

Mask (starring Zu Feng, Hou Yong, Mei Ting)

by Wang Xiaoqiang

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About This Novel

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month in 1948, Li Chunqiu, a Kuomintang agent lurking in the Harbin Public Security Bureau, was suddenly awakened. His superiors asked him to make a bomb immediately to help cooperate with the top-secret "Black Tiger Project." Li Chunqiu, who had been lurking for ten years, had almost forgotten his mission. With a happy and ordinary life, he was unwilling to abandon his wife and children, so he began to think of ways to escape from the control of the Secrecy Bureau. In addition to dealing with his cruel and cruel former comrades, Li Chunqiu is also being suspected and tempted by his current colleague, detective Ke Ding and Warring States. Li Chunqiu was under great pressure both internally and externally. In the end, the two protagonists in the story, Li Chunqiu and Ding Zhanguo, a pair of rivals wearing different masks, came to different fates on New Year's Eve of this year...

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I Don't Know Where I Am in the Clouds93mo ago

It is said that although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. This novel is very short, with only 32 chapters, and the first chapter only has one short sentence: There is no sin more than anger, and no more difficult things can be tolerated. But this sentence is the finishing touch, and the content of the novel is definitely no less than other novels, because it writes the struggle between Li Chunqiu and Ding Zhanguo in great detail.

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Cold93mo ago

I once heard that if a person wears a mask for a long enough time that he or she forgets when he put it on, then the mask will slowly fuse with the skin, and the person will never be able to take off the mask. Even if he can barely take off the mask, he will feel very uncomfortable and will be eager to put it on again. Li Chunqiu and Ding Zhanguo must be in this state.

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User 53890052630793mo ago

mask

Very nice, I like it!

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I Don't Know Where I Am in the Clouds93mo ago

I like Yao Lan very much. She is the head nurse of the hospital. She saves lives and heals the wounded. She is a well-deserved angel in white. In addition, she is kind-hearted and treats Ding Meixi, the daughter of her husband's colleague Ding Zhanguo, as her own and takes more care of her.

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like

Watching TV series!

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It's great to watch and I highly recommend the TV series. I like it

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Miraitowany43mo ago

Reality - Comment on "Mask"

After wearing the mask for a long time, it becomes impossible to take it off. Because you have been living in this identity for a long time, and many times, you no longer know what kind of person you are. A mask covers your past, and you do your own thing with a new identity. However, suddenly one day, the identity is taken off, and just living is already very difficult. "Mask" tells the story of the bright and dark struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Northeast China in 1948, which had not yet been completely liberated. The peaceful life of Li Chunqiu, a Kuomintang agent who had been lurking for ten years, was suddenly broken. His superiors asked him to perform a top-secret task. Facing the peaceful life he was accustomed to, Li Chunqiu struggled painfully. He quit and walked step by step. He found that there were too many mistakes, so he wanted to choose another way of life, so he abandoned the secret life and turned to the light. The story is just such a story, but it takes place before liberation, when the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is at its most intense. Every choice he makes will cost him his life. The author portrays Li Chunqiu's struggle and helplessness very accurately. As a Kuomintang agent, his identity is shady. In the past ten years, he has had his own wife and children, and his life has been very peaceful. He also hopes that life can continue to be this peaceful. However, some things are just what we expect. When his peaceful life is broken, he must accept his own mission and avoid being traced by the Communists. The battle of wits and courage between Li Chunqiu and Ding Zhanguo is also very exciting. In addition, one of the biggest reasons why I like this book is that there is finally a book that explains that period of history from a different visual perspective. Most of the movies, TV shows, and novels I watched before described Communist Party members lurking in the Kuomintang for the complete liberation of the motherland. They voluntarily and unshirkably shouldered their responsibilities. This book takes a lurking Kuomintang agent as the protagonist and tells his story. Perhaps in many cases, only in this way can we understand the essence of things more completely and comprehensively. Moreover, when shaping the character of Li Chunqiu, we saw Li Chunqiu's imperfection and helplessness when making choices. It is this kind of person who is closer to an ordinary person. It would be great to continue living a peaceful life without the identity of a Kuomintang agent. Everyone in the book has their own beliefs. They are either great or selfish, but they are also the most ordinary desires. I missed it when the TV series was released, so I came to read the paper book. Film and television are the language of the lens, and words are the lens of language. With a larger imagination space and more detailed descriptions, we see two opponents on the edge of life and death, a thrilling journey. The cover of "Mask" reads, "The mask is written with stubborn tenacity, and underneath the mask is engraved with the warmth of faith." Perhaps each of us longs for authenticity but has to rely on masks to live.

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User 53260006498593mo ago

Is it a spy drama? It should be good.

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It's Time to Change Your Name88mo ago

Are you willing to take off your mask?

The bright makeup is a thick mask. The flood of compliments is the "raw material" that nourishes the mask. No one knows what we look like behind the mask. Each of us is just like the protagonist Li Chunqiu in the novel "Mask", living with a thick mask. Li Chunqiu, a Kuomintang agent, was asked to lurk in Harbin. Ten years later, he was suddenly awakened by his superiors and asked to implement the Black Tiger Plan. Having long been accustomed to a peaceful life, he hesitated and wavered between his family and his mission. Identity anxiety, marriage anxiety, faith anxiety, mission anxiety, various factors surround him, affecting him. The story under the "mask" slowly unfolds... He and Ding Zhanguo battled wits and courage. He faced a mid-life crisis, children's education problems, and marriage itch. They were truly and completely presented to the readers, with a strong sense of reality. But in the end, inspired by the Communists, he abandoned the darkness and turned to the light. He finally took off the mask and found inner peace. So in life, are you willing to take off your mask?

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Xiao Zisheng87mo ago

The mask is written with stubbornness and hardness, and underneath the mask is engraved with the warmth of faith.

"The hardness of stubbornness is written on the mask, and the warmth of faith is engraved under the mask." This is a sentence on the cover of the book Mask, and the word "mask" is also a clue throughout the entire text. The article relies on the historical background of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, uses the overt and covert struggle between the two protagonists Li Chunqiu and Ding Zhanguo as the overt line, and uses the Kuomintang's top-secret "Black Tiger Project" on New Year's Eve as the undercurrent. It creates two opponents who are constantly struggling on the edge of life and death, and narrates a thrilling espionage story. The article focuses on the experience of Li Chunqiu, a Kuomintang agent lurking in the Harbin Public Security Bureau. As the story unfolds, the article changes from a simple cat-and-mouse game to a Bourne Identity puzzle. I like Wang Xiaoqiang's mask the most in spy novels because every character in the article wears a mask. Regardless of the protagonist or the supporting role, they all wear masks, they live hypocritically, they constantly test others, and they constantly accept temptations, but they will not take off the masks on their faces, because they dare not, let alone cannot. In many online works, and even in the process of writing my own articles, I often encounter a problem, that is, once there are too many chapters in a series, I will write them before and then forget them. Readers have to fill in many holes by themselves, and there may even be self-contradictions. However, this book "Mask" perfectly avoids this problem. For example, the death of Zhao Bingyi at the beginning of the story echoes the death of Teng Dafei later; for example, the echo between Ye Xiang's reporting of the crime at the beginning of the story and Ye Xiang's defection to the Communist Party later in the story. There are many such echoes in the article. This not only prevents readers from being confused when reading, but also echoes from beginning to end, making the article compact and coherent. I really like Li Chunqiu in the article. Although his hands are stained with blood, he is more like a kind-hearted person compared to the cold and cruel opponent Ding Zhanguo. In order to make the patients in the hospital less painful, he put the hard-earned explosives into the empty box; in order to give the girl who was deceived by him more comfort, he agreed to get married after the New Year; in order to make the people of Harbin less miserable, he joined the Communist Party and turned against his superiors... This is Li Chunqiu, and this is his belief. Although the author writes that he has quick thinking and skill, he will also make mistakes and sometimes his actions will fail. He is not a god. Even if he is more sensitive than ordinary people, he is just a mortal. He has flesh and blood, pain and tears, but even if the mission requires it, even if the situation forces him, he will do his best to alleviate the pain of others. His kindness is the soft warmth in the frost and snow all over Harbin; his kindness is the warmth flowing in the cold words. Even though he had eaten cold and warm and tasted all kinds of joys and sorrows, he never gave up on the kindness in his heart. His heart was still as warm as soup in the cold wind of the north.

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