"A smart woman can see the chess game clearly, only to realize that she is not even a chess piece - just a trace washed away by the rain on the chessboard."
A modern woman traveled back in time to the Anti-Japanese War and used knowledge, strategy and empathy to navigate troubled times. She foresees the outcome, but has to personally send her hope into the meat grinder of history.
Protagonist: Su Mingzhao
Identity: Scholar of international relations in the 2020s, specializing in the United Front of the Communist Party of China and wartime diplomacy. Unmarried, only daughter. Her mother was a war reporter and died of illness in Yugoslavia.
Personality: Cold observer, language genius (proficient in Japanese, English, Russian), habitual calculation of "optimal solution", emotional isolation
Opportunity to travel back in time: While reviewing the archives of the US military observation group in 1944 in the Yan'an Archives, I encountered a landslide and woke up in Nanjing in 1937.
