[Period spy thriller + wartime military marriage + two powerful leads in disguise + love after marriage + fake spouses, real comrades + mutual secret crushes + bittersweet romance]
In 1937, Lu Tingwan is used by her family as a pawn in a marriage alliance and wed to Li Yanzhou, the young marshal of a northern warlord.
Everyone says she has a terrible fate: she's married to a living devil who kills without blinking and has no interest in women.
No one knows she's an underground intelligence agent codenamed White Dove. She married into the Li family to infiltrate the warlord's inner circle and steal top-secret intelligence.
On their wedding night, she drugs his tea to test him.
Li Yanzhou drinks it without a change in expression, then says mildly, “The tea is good, but the medicine is a little strong.”
She thinks he's an enemy.
Until one stormy night, after sending a telegram from the secret room, she turns and crashes into his chest.
He takes out a frequency crystal just like hers and says in a low voice:
“Comrade White Dove, this is Gray Falcon. I've heard a lot about you.”
The handler she'd been searching for over the past two years turns out to be her husband in name only.
From then on, the fake couple become real comrades.
In public, they act like an estranged couple.
In private, he builds her a secret room, clears her escape routes, and takes bullets for her; she stitches his wounds, passes along intelligence, and helps him out of impossible situations.
The Japanese invaders close in, a traitor lays a trap, and a spy within the warlord's ranks keeps tightening the net.
She once thought their marriage was only a mission.
Until he takes her hand in front of everyone and says:
“I already have a wife.”
At that moment, her heartbeat drowns out the storm raging through the hall.
