In 1939, Su Wanqing returned from studying abroad and stepped into the abyss on her very first day in Shanghai.
Japanese Major General Fujiwara Hiroki imprisoned her to use her as leverage over her older brother, Su Mingzhe.
Amid her humiliation, she discovered that her father's death had not been an accident. He had been murdered for refusing to collaborate with the Japanese.
Meanwhile, her childhood sweetheart, Shen Mo, was on a mission for the Military Statistics Bureau. Undercover at the 76th, he posed as a traitor while maneuvering among the upper ranks of the Japanese occupiers.
The two reunited amid peril: one awakened in a prison cell, while the other walked a knife's edge.
As personal vendettas intertwined with the fate of the nation, Su Wanqing took up her father's unfinished resistance in the darkness. Shen Mo, meanwhile, trod carefully between duty and love, knowing that every step might be their last.
In this occupied, isolated city, love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, resistance and oppression collided fiercely.
In their own ways, they waged a silent war in the heart of enemy territory.
[Reader's Guide]
This is not simply a romance for female readers. It involves historical warfare and espionage.
Recommended for readers with a basic understanding of modern Chinese history and a mature perspective on history and the world.
Theme: Love of country and family
