Splendor Amid the Flames of War

After the September 18 Incident, the Northeast fell under enemy occupation. The student Guan Jinglian lost both her parents and was forced to flee. The years of war brought hardship at every turn, but amid the smoke and fire of battle, she grew and came of age. As she found sincere love, she was swept into the tide of resistance against the Japanese and ultimately embarked on the path of revolution. Yet those years of youth amid the flames were only the beginning of her long, troubled life. Over the next half-century, the road ahead twisted and turned, and she struggled forward through countless hardships. In the fading light of the evening sun, she continued to write the story of life's joys and sorrows. And around her extraordinarily mysterious, legendary life, even more tales of love and hatred would unfold...