Chiang Kai-shek's Aide-de-Camp Office was known as the “Phoenix Pond.” It was the heart of power, a place ordinary people could never enter.
Chen Bulei was Chiang Kai-shek's chief speechwriter, but he harbored a secret about betraying a fellow student. Dai Li was the king of spies, yet secretly traded intelligence with the Japanese. Chen Lifu headed the CC Clique, but used the purge of the Communists as an excuse to eliminate his rivals.
Three men, three sets of secrets, three sides locked in a struggle. The speechwriter wielded his pen, the spy his gun, and the politician his network. In the Aide-de-Camp Office's closed world of power, there were no eternal friends, only eternal interests. Sometimes they joined forces, sometimes they stabbed each other in the back, and sometimes they joined forces to stab someone in the back.
From Nanjing to Chongqing, then from Chongqing to Taipei, this game of chess lasted eleven years. In the end, no one won. Because in the Phoenix Pond, there were never any winners, only those who made it out alive and those who died inside.
