Behind Enemy Lines
by Long Yi
About This Novel
This is the most embarrassing thing in my life. In the autumn of 1938, I had just gotten married. My wife, Guan Yuru, was 22 years old. She was beautiful and had almost no flaws in my opinion - except for superstition, of course. On the day I accepted the mission, Yuru forced me to have a fortune telling, right on the edge of the canal in Duliu Town. The hexagram master shook three copper coins loudly, and divined a "big animal" hexagram. Two or four lines were moved, and after changing the lines, it became the "li" hexagram. He said that this divination will bring bad luck to the south. Your wife will be ill within five days, and you will miss an opportunity to save yourself and others within a month. The most important thing is that you will suffer a bloody disaster before the twelfth lunar month... I have never believed in these deceptive things, but Yuru believed that she was born in a Manchu family. Except for foreign religions, her family believed in all the superstitions in daily life.
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