From head to toe, he was a carefully constructed illusion.
The military intelligence service considered him one of their own, and the Japanese and their collaborators treated him as one of them, too.
He could hear the echoes of history.
His name is nowhere to be found on the monument to the nameless martyrs. All that remains is a torn scrap of a telegram, dated August 9, 1945. Its contents reveal the Japanese military's top-secret deployment of chemical weapons. The sender's name bears two characters no one has ever spoken aloud: Gu Mang.
One lonely lamp, its light cold and pure.
