In the autumn of 1931, Gu Shichen, the economic advisor of the Nanjing government, and Shen Mo, the young leader of the Tianjin Youth Gang, met each other for the first time at a banquet where they drank and drank together. One is gentle and the other is sharp-edged. No one knows that the former is an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party who has been hiding for ten years, and the latter is a prodigal who has just been recruited by the military commander.
That night, snowflakes fell on the shoulders of the two of them, and a nineteen-year entanglement began.
They are "traitors" and "bandits" in the eyes of their enemies, they are the "protagonists with broken sleeves" that street tabloids are vying to compile, and they are the only ones who dare to hand over their backs to each other.
Shen Mo avenged his father and traveled through mountains and seas of fire, but his eyes turned red in front of his ex-fiancée's blood-stained pocket watch. Gu Shichen's younger brother disappeared in the Northeast Icefield, his mentor died due to a traitor's report, and he had to laugh and have a drink with the Japanese leader Yamamoto.
They faked death, disguised themselves, and cooperated in the air. They passed a piece of tissue paper at gunpoint, carried each other on their backs when they were unconscious due to high fever in heavy rain and flash floods, and held each other's hands tightly in the smoke of gunfire.
"Let me go crazy one day and die next year."
From Peking to Suzhou, from Wuhan to Hong Kong, from youthful temptation to life and death. The mountains and rivers were shattered in twenty years, and the escape route was twenty thousand miles. They never said a word "love", but they carved each other into their bones and blood.
When the dock whistle sounds in peacetime, when the wintersweet that has been dusted for 19 years reappears in the palm of your hand, all the silent affection finally comes:
"Still alive."
"I promised you, I'll try my best."
An 800,000-word espionage epic of the Republic of China, the emotional pinnacle of the two male protagonists. In the torrent of the times, two pretenders spent their lives answering the same question——
Faith or love, who is more immortal?
Intention: See deep love in silence, keep faith in troubled times. The two pretenders spent twenty years in silence, answering what is home and country and what is a confidant.