In 1906, the sound of a baby crying rang through Prince Su's mansion. A girl named Aisin Gioro Xianshu came into the world, and her birth brought a glimmer of life to the long-oppressed household. Yet no one could have imagined the storms she would stir up in China's political arena over the next forty years.
In 1912, the founding of the Republic of China dealt a heavy blow to this late Qing family. Prince Su Shanqi, a senior minister devoted to preserving the dynasty, sent his children abroad. Xianshu could not escape this fate. In order to “exert all her strength and give her whole heart” to the cause of Manchurian independence, she was sent to Japan, where she became the adopted daughter of Kawashima Namihiko and took the name Kawashima Yoshiko. She later studied at Matsumoto Higher Girls' School and received training related to espionage.
In 1924, at just seventeen, Kawashima Yoshiko was raped by her adoptive father. In her diary, she denounced his crime: “On October 6, 1924, I settled accounts with womanhood forever!” The next day, she posed for a farewell photograph in women's clothing, cut her hair short like a man's, and left her female identity behind.
In 1928, after returning to her homeland, Kawashima Yoshiko met Ono Kikuko, who had been abandoned by the secret service. And so the story begins.
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