Bai Lemen: Neon Hidden Blade, String Song of Troubled Times

In the early days of the fall of Shanghai in 1937, the "Bailemen Grand Ballroom" in the French Concession was a special existence in troubled times - on the surface, it flashed neon lights, sang and danced, intertwined with Western music and Pingtan, and celebrities and dignitaries hung out here. Su Manqing, the "top singer" who wears a moon-white cheongsam, always wears an old silver bracelet with the word "night" engraved on her left wrist - it is a token of her "Nightingale", an underground party of the Chinese Communist Party. Lu Zheng, who often hangs out in dance halls as a "foreign bank manager", wears a custom-made suit and gold-rimmed glasses, and looks obsessed with sex, but in fact he is the operations team leader of the Shanghai Station of the Military Reunion. He has a Browning pistol hidden in the pocket of his suit. The rhythm of unconsciously tapping the table when listening to Su Manqing's singing is the Morse code for deciphering intelligence. His mission is to assassinate the "old gun" on the line of the underground party, but in repeated confrontations, he is attracted by the "ice beauty" Su Manqing. When they first met, Su Manqing mistook Lu Zheng for a greasy dignitary and threw the invitation note he handed into the trash can; but when the Japanese soldiers harassed her, it was Lu Zheng who put on a body-warming suit and reminded her softly, "The silver bracelet is old, don't show it." When they met the patrol in a dark alley, it was Lu Zheng who covered her mouth and hid in the corner.