A Spy's Bond of Life and Death

After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Beiping stood on the brink of disaster! Lu Zheng, a Peking University student, and Xu Meijiao fell in love amid the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Because Lu Zheng was fluent in Japanese and skilled in martial arts, the commander of the Nanyuan garrison specially recruited him as a scout and appointed him a second lieutenant platoon leader. He was sent to the Japanese military headquarters in Tianjin to investigate their battle plans. Before departing on his mission, Lu Zheng met Xu Meijiao at the military camp. She wanted him to know that the underground Communist Party organization had selected him as a potential recruit, but with his mission about to begin, she never got the chance. After Lu Zheng completed his reconnaissance mission, Beiping fell, and he and Xu Meijiao were forced to part. A year later, they met again at an anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines in the Taihang Mountains. By then, Xu Meijiao had joined a brigade of the Eighth Route Army on the recommendation of the Party organization. This passionate young couple made defending their homeland and protecting grain their mission in the Taihang Mountains. Together, they fought the head of the Japanese military police, who had been lying low in an ancient town while seizing grain for years, and struck back at the traitors and collaborators. Disguised as dance partners, they entered the city to scout enemy positions, beheaded a Japanese military police lieutenant colonel, and burned down a Japanese grain depot. After victory in the War of Resistance, Lu Zheng donated his entire family fortune to the anti-Japanese democratic government and was elected county magistrate under its leadership. He also successfully persuaded his former espionage mentor, now a regimental commander in a Northwestern Army unit of the Kuomintang, to switch sides. After fighting Japanese spies to the death, Xu Meijiao returned to the world of espionage following the war’s end, infiltrating the upper ranks of the Kuomintang military to gather intelligence. Witness the espionage legend of two passionate young lovers amid the flames of resistance against Japan!