Late autumn, 1937. Shanghai has fallen, and the foreign concessions have become an "isolated island."
Shen Manni, the top showgirl at the Paramount Ballroom, smiles sweetly beneath the neon lights each night as she navigates between high-ranking Japanese collaborators and foreign trading-house compradors. No one knows that this woman, who seems to care only for romance and pleasure, is actually the most secretive intelligence agent in the Military Statistics Bureau's special operations unit.
When her lover is brutally killed by the enemy and her sisters lay down their lives for their country, she wipes away her tears and turns her cheongsam into armor. She gathers top-secret intelligence amid clinking glasses and dances on the edge of a blade.
From the dance halls of the isolated island to the heart of the Japanese puppet regime, from a woman dismissed as a "showgirl" to a "phantom" feared by the enemy, she proves with her intelligence and courage that the fate of the nation rests on everyone's shoulders. Whatever your profession, you can become a blade pointed at the enemy.
This is a legend sealed away by history, a story of faith, love, and sacrifice.
I would like to explain why one of the labels of this book is "Shuangwen". Many readers may feel that cool novels should not have so many deaths and the protagonist should not suffer so much. But what I want to say is that in that era, "satisfaction" was not about living, but dying well. Shen Manni's happiness is not the happiness of cheating all the way and achieving success. But when you are most desperate, it feels good to still grit your teeth and persevere. It's a pleasure to watch your comrades fall down one by one, but still stand up and continue fighting. It is the pleasure of saying goodbye to your beloved under the moonlight and turning around to move towards a new life. The real joy is not not getting hurt, but being able to stand up after getting hurt. The real hero is not immortal, but worthy of death. Everyone can make suggestions after reading it. The author is not a blind person. Currently preparing the next novel about the anti-Japanese war! If you like a baby, you can squat for a while.