In 1939, Shanghai fell into an "isolated island". There is an undercurrent surging under the neon lights of the French Concession. Fang Shuyun, the daughter of a banker who has returned from studying in France, wears Parisian fashion and is full of hatred of the country and the family, and is dealing with various forces in this dangerous city.
When she accidentally rescued a boy who was all injured, he adopted him. The gears of fate began to turn. ' Shi Jingyao, an economics professor who returned from Moscow, appears to be a gentle scholar, but his sleeves always smell of unwashed gunpowder; Xi Hongwen, a smooth-tongued dandy, also has a patriotic heart. Even the Xi family, who was "entrusted with life and death" in his father's will, is inextricably linked to Wang's puppet regime.
Fang Shuyun didn't know why the Browning pistol taken out from the ancestral hall of her ancestral home had the same butterfly mark engraved on the handle of Shi Jingyao's pocket watch; nor did she know that when she was working at the Xiafei Road Hotel, the telescope outside the window had locked onto her figure.
This is a secret war in which jade earrings are used to convey passwords and French perfume is used to cover up the smoke. When night falls on the isolated island, everyone is a chess piece, and every heart hides a secret - and the real light can only be reached through the deepest darkness.
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I read this article before going to bed, and tears flowed down my face...
I read this article before going to bed, and tears flowed down my face...