“A clever woman can read the board, only to discover she isn’t even a chess piece. She is merely a mark on the board, washed away by the rain.”
A modern woman transmigrates to the years of the War of Resistance. Armed with knowledge, strategy, and empathy, she navigates a world in chaos. She can foresee the outcome, yet must send hope with her own hands into the meat grinder of history.
Protagonist: Su Mingzhao
Identity: An international relations scholar from the 2020s, specializing in the Chinese Communist Party’s united front and wartime diplomacy. Unmarried, an only child. Her mother, a war correspondent, died of illness in Yugoslavia.
Personality: A detached observer, a gifted linguist fluent in Japanese, English, and Russian, habitually calculating the “optimal solution,” and emotionally distant.
How she transmigrates: While consulting 1944 U.S. Army Observer Group archives at the Yan’an Archives, she is caught in a landslide and wakes up in Nanjing in 1937.
