On the day Shen Tinglan, a surgeon who studied abroad, returned to China, the person waiting for her on the pier was not holding a famous invitation from Jie Feng—but a gun.
Her father is dead. Said it was a "severe illness". Shen's house is sealed, and no old friends are left.
The man who picked her up was named Lu Zhaolin, the commander of the Shanghai garrison. He wants the key in her hand,
She needed his military power. A mutually exploiting relationship, she thought, was the worst.
Until the safe opens. There was a page missing from the list inside, and the man who tore out the page was standing next to him.
"Not me," he said.
"I know." She said.
But knowing does not mean being able to forgive.
On the day when the war reached Shanghai, she stood in front of the operating table, and his defense line was outside the city.
Two choices, two roads. She gave herself half a year - she would come back after the construction was completed.
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