Good People

My name is Chen Mo, formerly known as Chen Heigou, and I was born in a poor peasant family in northern Hebei Province during the Republic of China. He changed his name to Chen Mo for the sake of dignity and has lived a silent life ever since. Since I was a child, I was taught to keep my peace and keep my head down and endure humiliation. I thought that by following the rules, I would be able to live a stable life. After the Japanese invasion, the mountains and rivers were in turmoil. Some people rose up to resist, while others rushed to the revolution. My classmates once invited me to join them in saving the country, but due to cowardice and cowardice, I insisted on sticking to my status as a "good citizen" and rejected all possibilities to change my destiny. In order to survive, I compromised step by step and took on a false position in humiliation. I was reviled and my heart became numb day by day. I was deeply shocked until one of the captured Communists preferred death to surrender. I finally learned that the classmate who persuaded me to resist had already died a heroic death. Having lived half my life in silence and half my life, my heart began to collapse and awaken. This is the fall and redemption of a little man in troubled times. I spent half my life being obedient in order to survive, but in silence I slowly regained my integrity as a human being, and finally faced the decisive echo of fate.