The 25th year of the Republic of China, Nanjing Police Department Archives.
The daily job of transcriber Zhong Lizhe is to copy expired files and archive old files that no one cares about. Colleagues regard him as a stuttering nerd, and even the wolfdog raised by the director is more eye-catching than him.
Until a copy of the "Defense Amendment to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum" that was supposed to be destroyed was mysteriously leaked, and Japanese spies were in uninhabited territory outside Xiaoling Guard. Zhongli Che was temporarily captured to take the blame, put on death row, and executed three days later.
There are counting marks carved by former prisoners on the corners of the cell walls. Zhong Lizhe stared at those scratches for three days and nights, and then said his first complete sentence to the director of the Secret Service who interrogated him:
"The leak occurred at 3:17. The night guard at the archives that day changed the kerosene lamp at 2 a. M. The wick burned out at 3:17, and my lantern had its wick changed that night."
Three days later, the head of the Secretarial Section who framed him was imprisoned. Zhong Lizhe was secretly transferred to the Central Military Commission's confidential room and became a "non-staff clerk" dedicated to deciphering Japanese military and commercial secret messages.
On the eve of the Songhu Battle, the Japanese ace spy "Sakura" sent the ultimate strike coordinates to Tokyo. At the same moment, the door to the military command interrogation room was pushed open from the outside - the person who was interrogating Zhongli Che was the student he taught personally.
"Teacher, your transmission record is here. The evidence is ironclad."
Zhong Lizhe lowered his head, squeezed out the ink in the pen, and wrote an address on the back of the confession.
——What is hidden in the dark place under the lamp is not a ghost. What is hidden is the shadow that is all yin and yang but is never seen.
