# The years in the flames of war are quiet and peaceful
#MyboyfriendistheOperationCaptain
#Today I am also using archives to save the world
#The collection of poems my mother left behind is a treasure map
#Monk teammates are better than Cavaliers
#little brother is so handsome guarding the mountains and forests
In 1937, Shanghai was on the eve of the fall.
Shen Shu, a female clerk in the Archives Bureau, has two choices: follow her fiancé Chen Zhilan to Hong Kong to escape disaster, or take over the codename "Qingluan" from her deceased mentor Tang Bingzhang and become the third person in charge of the underground intelligence network. She burned her ticket and chose the latter.
This is a spy novel of the Republic of China written in the first person, but it is also a soulful epic about archives, memory and redemption. It is not about how heroes were born, but how ordinary people used their best methods in extreme times - even by organizing documents and repairing paper - to participate in a silent but roaring war.
All the names buried deep in the files were once blazing and beating lives.
All stories that fall into silence are worthy of being remembered tenderly by future generations.
