A Heart Ablaze Amid the Flames of War, Together Toward a Glorious Age

"A Republic of China-era story written by a fan for Zibao" In November 1905, Yang Xinyue was born into a wealthy merchant family in a small city in the southwest. From childhood, influenced by her older brothers' progressive ideas, she carried the seeds of revolution in her heart. At seventeen, Yang Xinyue resolutely joined a student strike and petition demanding independent funding for education, and was expelled from the Provincial No. 1 Girls' Normal School. After moving from place to place, she enrolled at the Chongqing Girls' Normal School, where, guided by progressive activists, she continued to charge into the student movement. At nineteen, fate opened a new door for her: Yang Xinyue was admitted to Shanghai University’s Department of Sociology. That same year, she joined the Communist Youth League, and soon became a member of the Communist Party of China, throwing herself enthusiastically into Shanghai's workers' and students' movements. At twenty-one, dispatched by the Party to return to her hometown, Yang Xinyue took on heavy responsibilities as Minister of Women's Affairs for the provincial Kuomintang Party headquarters and founded the Women's Federation of All Sectors. That same year, she was selected as a delegate to the National Women's Congress. At twenty-two, she was chosen by the southwestern electoral district as a delegate to the Party's Fifth Congress and attended the meeting. At twenty-five, she took part in a major uprising. Hope briefly flared, only for the uprising to end in disastrous failure. After the uprising was defeated, Yang Xinyue went underground locally. In that perilous environment, she became a guardian of communism, quietly devoting her strength to the revolutionary cause. After the founding of New China, she continued to devote herself to education, witnessing the country's immense transformation with wholehearted sincerity and ultimately welcoming an age of prosperity. See how a coming-of-age heroine grows from a pampered young heiress into a steadfast communist fighter, and from an innocent, adorable girl into a captivating double agent who moves with ease in enemy territory!