[Republic of China spy war × taboo sadomasochism | stage swordsman × cold-faced codebreaker]
"The rouge on her palm is a password, and the affection in his eyes is a lie."
In 1935, the most famous troupe leader in Shanghai died tragically on stage, leaving his only daughter Shen Zhiyan to dress as a man to inherit the mantle. No one knows that there is a dark network of intelligence connecting the north and the south hidden in those sentimental dramas.
When Military Intelligence's ace agent Lu Chen approached her disguised as a luthier, he thought the task was simple——
Until he discovered:
- The cinnabar on her eyebrows develops when heated, hiding the secrets of Japanese germ warfare
- The water sleeves she throws out are wrapped with steel wire, which can choke the enemy's throat
- The cinnabar mole at the end of her eye is the final key to unlocking the "Rouge Plan"
"The first meeting you thought was his deliberate intention."
He used Morse code to tap her wrist bones every night to convey love words, but when she fell in love with him, he received a kill order;
She had already figured out his identity, but she deliberately composed the encrypted information into "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix" and waited for him to steal it.
"Who is whose prey in this scene?"
◇ When she tore open the blood-stained costume, revealing the same stitches on her chest as her father's
◇ When he injected the strain venom, it was just to not forget the memory related to her
◇ When Bai Shutong drank the blue test tube, he smiled in the sea of fire and asked: "Master Shen, what do you think the color of your father's eyes were before he died?"
"Troubled times are like a stage. No one can escape until the end."
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? Secret report from the theater troupe: translating lyrics into Morse code/rouge imaging/transporting arms in the mezzanine of the theater box
? Biochemical espionage: human bacterial culture/aerosolized virus strain/memory phagocytic virus
? Extreme push and pull: misreading of intelligence leads to murder/faking death to deceive each other/injecting antidote in both directions
"If you and I are destined to be the actors in the drama——"
"Why don't we turn this troubled world into our "Palace of Eternal Life"?"
Intention: Have a good rest and eat well