He is not a traitor. Not a hero either. He just survived.
In 1937, with the smoke of the Songhu Battle still lingering, military special agent Lin Mu accepted an impossible task - to fake a defection and infiltrate the "Plum Agency", the highest intelligence agency of the Japanese army. The condition is: he must personally destroy his reputation and hand over the "letter of surrender" to the Japanese, including the life of an old classmate.
From then on, his name was listed alongside "traitor", he was hunted down by his comrades, and he was forgotten by history.
In the underground archives of the Mei Agency, in the dark chess game of counterfeit money trading, on the backroom negotiation table of secret peace talks - he dealt with the suspicion of the military commander, the temptation of the Chinese Communist Party, and the suspicion of the Japanese army. He never had a good night's sleep in fourteen years. His boss is a Japanese spy who is obsessed with Chinese culture, his contact is a female underground member of the Chinese Communist Party who believes to death, and his old classmates are separated from him on the battlefield, and no one dares to recognize each other.
He personally delivered information that turned the tide of the war, and he also watched helplessly as his compatriots were executed without any action. He has saved the lives of innocent people and been an accomplice of power. Every choice was correct at the time, but the sum of the correct choices constituted an indefensible mistake.
Japan surrendered in 1945, ending the war. No one welcomed him back. His name is not in any files, and no one can vouch for his achievements. He walked alone into the streets of New China, like a man who had slipped through the cracks of history.
This is not a heroic epic. This is the story of how an ordinary person, in an inhuman era, used lies to protect himself and witnessed everything with silence.
