“‘Receiving Dew’ takes up a stage actor's name; ‘Butterfly's Demise’ withers this unclean body.”
Early in 1944, the youngest major in the American army was ordered to serve at the consulate in Huaicheng. In the midst of a suspicious military arms-trafficking case, he was reunited with an old acquaintance. The child had grown into a stage actor. One was an official seated in honor, the other a prisoner below the steps. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, after rouge and powder had been applied and a performance of Broken Bridge had ended, the two of them would be drawn into the tangled love and hate, and struggles over profit, involving the Feng family of Feng Alley, the Yang family of Yang Village, the Jiang family of Jiang Hamlet, and the Mei family of Mei County. When the snow had melted, all would be settled. Who would be the one to put on makeup?
This novel will officially launch on Jinjiang Literature City on the eighth day of the first lunar month (February 19).
Theme: We find a way to survive when trapped in hypocrisy.
