The Nightingale Does Not Sing

In the spring of 1945, plum rain continued continuously in the occupied areas of Shanghai. The neon lights of the Paramount Ballroom are flashing. Lin Xiaoyan, a 17-year-old cigarette seller, is actually the "Nightingale", a senior spy of Japan's Super High School. She was ordered to eliminate the spy planted by the military commander in the Shenjia Coal Mine. The young master of the Shen family, Shen Yan, appears to be a playboy, but in fact he is a "duckweed" of the underground party of the Chinese Communist Party. When three "brothers" died tragically one after another, Shen Yanzhi followed the traces and started a life-and-death game with Lin Xiaoyan. The breath of daggers and menthol smoke intertwined in the throat, and the hunter and the prey tested each other in the Bourbon Paramount. Lin Xiaoyan carried out her mission cold-bloodedly, but when she handed over the pack of menthol cigarettes, she had undue hesitation towards the playboy in front of her; Shen Yanzhi walked step by step, and the moment he saw through her identity, what he saw was not an enemy, but an orphan girl whose soul had been crushed by war. After the war, Lin Xiaoyan went to Hong Kong to remain anonymous, while Shen Yanzhi stayed in Shanghai to build a new China. Under the sunset in Victoria Harbor, the reunion at the age of thirty-five is the farewell. Forty years later, the octogenarian Shen Yanzhi wrote in his memoirs: "She is a nightingale, singing in the dark; I am a duckweed, drifting with the tide. Loyalty and betrayal seem insignificant in the face of love, but the dust of history will eventually settle, and only the smell of that pack of menthol cigarettes will remain on the rainy night of 1945 forever."