400-Word synopsis of "Beautiful Lady: Huangpu Iron Blood"
In 1937, the war of all-out resistance was raging across the Central Plains. Shen Yanzhi and Su Wan, graduates of the 14th batch of Huangpu Military Academy, met in the flow of people fleeing. At that time, the iron hooves of the Japanese army crushed their home, Shen Yanzhi's Nanjing family was trapped in the dangerous city, and Su Wan's relatives and friends in Kaifeng died in the massacre of the village. The two people, who shared the hatred of their country and their family, joined forces with their fellow alumni to form the "Iron-Blooded Student Corps" - this student army that was independent of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Everyone was proficient in Japanese and many foreign languages, and they used their youth to shoulder the banner of resistance to the enemy.
They refused to be co-opted by the party, but became allies with the New Fourth Army. From the first battle to destroy the Japanese transport lines, to sneaking into Nanjing to witness the blood sacrifice of 300,000 compatriots, to going deep into North China to expose the crimes against humanity committed by Unit 731, they were on the verge of life and death every step of the way. The blood of their comrades, the cries of the common people, and their own pain allowed these students who once had ideals to lose their youthfulness in the flames of war and grow into determined fighters.
After ten years of war, victory finally came, but the smoke of civil war started again. Faced with the dilemma of brothers fighting against each other, they adhered to their original intention of "protecting the people" and chose their destination amidst the turmoil. From the Huangpu campus to the battlefield, from the anti-Japanese front line to the dawn of peace, they wrote an epic of struggle for young people in troubled times with their iron-blooded determination, and also witnessed the turbulent years of a nation's rebirth in suffering.
