Supplement to the book outline (about 300 words)
This book is set in Harbin, Manchukuo in 1943. It tells the story of CCP agent Lin Dahui who sneaked into the Japanese and puppet secret service as a "Bingcheng Society translator" and used regionally distinctive disguise methods such as Northeastern dialect, frozen pears, green onions, and Errenzhuan to start a several-year intelligence tug-of-war with the Japanese secret service chief Yamada Ichiro.
The eight volumes of the book revolve around the Japanese military's secret plan "Operation Frozen Soil", which is advanced step by step: from Lin Dachui's first foothold in the Bingcheng Society to the establishment of the "Frozen Pear Intelligence Network" with ordinary people as the core; from the "chaotic stew" pattern of dealing with military commanders, central commanders, and Soviet intelligence agents, to the head-on decisive battle after his identity is exposed. On the surface, Lin Dachui is absurd and talkative, but in fact, he is meticulous and has every strategy, using the most "unfashionable" method to tear open the enemy's most "hard" line of defense.
The story repeatedly jumps between comedy and suspense. Lin Dachui's every action is like a "Northeastern talk show", but behind the laughter is a deadly game dancing on the tip of a knife. His real relationship with Bai Lu as a fake couple, his loyalty to Ermatai as a businessman, his calculations with Zhao DaNeng, and his life-and-death confrontation with Yamada Ichiro all together form a web full of human touch and tears for his family and country.
In the ending, Lin Dachui destroyed the "Permafrost Project" in an almost joking way and left Harbin in the heavy snow, leaving only a pair of torn insoles and the sentence "I put it here for your fun", becoming an immortal legend in Ice City for ten years. The core sentence of the book: A real hero does not need to look like a hero.
