The Actress in the Flames of War

On the eve of the 1932 Battle of Shanghai, undercurrents churned beneath the surface of the French Concession. Lu Chengyan, an overseas Chinese returnee with a German doctorate in medicine and a mysterious mission, went undercover as a military doctor in the army of warlord Zhang Jingyao. Meanwhile, Xie Changan, a Kunqu opera star renowned throughout Jiangnan, secretly passed information to the underground resistance against Japan as the head of the Jinghong Society troupe. The two met during an unexpected assassination attempt, setting the wheels of fate turning in a new direction.