“They were only a step apart, yet gazing at each other in the dark felt as if a distant lifetime lay between them.” The times are turbulent, and the people are suffering.
I am willing to descend into endless darkness,
if only the generations to come can walk toward the dawn.
“I want to love you, but my love for this land runs deeper.”
“I love you, so I have come to love this land you gave your life to protect.”
I can give my life to the nation, but not my hand to you.
I can only hope to go with you into the afterlife.
The White Fox Treads on Snow, the Camellia Blooms Alone
P.S. The story has no golden finger or System, and it's not a wish-fulfillment novel. You and I are ordinary people, and it is ordinary people like us, in their countless millions, who create one miracle after another.
The time period is fictional. Thank you for reading.
Setting: The era when a puppet government has been established and people seek to save the country through indirect means.
“The mission of an intelligence agent is to die on the eve of dawn.
The light has no need of us, and darkness scorns us...”
The story has a happy ending. Thank you for reading.
