In the fictional background, at night in Nanjing, Shen Zhaohua burned down the Shen family mansion with his own hands.
The firelight illuminated the bullet holes in her cheongsam - those were the bullets she blocked for her sister.
Three months later, at Paramount in Shanghai, she stepped into the box with her dancing shoes and smiled: "Mr. Chen, do you know my sister's fate?"
Behind her, Gu Chenzhou's gun pressed silently against her waist.
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Nanjing→Shanghai→Hong Kong
The down-and-out daughter Shen Zhaohua gets involved in the spy world as a Paramount singer, and together with Gu Chenzhou, a friend and foe, they destroy the Japanese biological and chemical weapons program.
Volume 1: Old Dream of Burning the City (Chapter 1-30)
Shen Zhaohua approached Chen Jingshan and discovered that his sister's death was related to the Japanese military's "Sakura Project".
With the help of Miyuki Takeuchi and Sister Rose, Raven and Crow counterattacked. Gu Chenzhou and Shen Zhaohua took the risk and faced biochemistry, and Shen Zhaohua was in danger.
Sister Shen Mingyu appears, not dead, and becomes the Japanese spy "White Fox".
Volume 2: Spy Romance (Chapter 31-60)
Gu Chenzhou and Shen Zhaohua teamed up to conduct an in-depth investigation. The secret of Shen Zhaohua's poisoned invasion of the "Symbiote" emerged, and the "Phoenix Nirvana" plan behind the Japanese "Sakura Project" surfaced. Gu Chenzhou united with new forces to jointly resist foreign aggression.
What is the relationship between Gu Chenzhou's father and the "Sakura Project"?
What is the relationship between Shen Zhaohua's biological mother and the "Phoenix Nirvana Project"?
Volume Three: Flowers Bloom on the Other Side (Chapter 61-90)
The cost of blowing up the Japanese virus database was heavy.
"Mark of Frost", piano, notes, "Community", N7...
Farewell, Shanghai. Goodbye, everything in the past.
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In the storyline, surreal elements such as genes, biochemical weapons, and fateful entanglement are used as metaphors:
A war of aggression is not only the plunder of territory, but also the systematic destruction of individuals, families, and the foundation of civilization; resistance is not only a battle on the front line, but also an ordinary person involved who uses all his life force - whether it is scientific knowledge, family secrets, physical will, or the ability to love - to protect the "dignity of being born as a human being."
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Purpose: National trauma and human dignity in the war