I'm not a drama freak, I can really see through the script

Chapter 251, Who Says Only Living People Can Transmit Intelligence?
At this point, filming for the "Listening to the Wind" episode was completely finished.

Ah Bing's life came to an end here, and it even became a scar in An Zaitian's life—this scar.

Instead, the dust of time slowly covers up those past years, that great victory, and that personal tragedy.

Time and destiny roll ever onward, and people must always move forward.

An Zaitian arrived at Abing's grave, feeling a pang of guilt, offered flowers, and then continued on his way without looking back.

The timeframe is between 60 and 62.

This was the most difficult time for the country. Internally, there was a food shortage caused by natural disasters, and externally, there was a falling out with the Soviet Union, its former good brother, and the United States, which was one of the two poles of the world. In this pole, the Soviet Union gradually forgot the Bolshevik era and gradually became domineering.

Internal and external troubles
Meanwhile, the bald man who was entrenched on the island received help from his former big brother and cooperated with the Soviets to silence all the radios that were sending messages once again. This time, however, he changed all the codes, from 'Purple Gold' to 'Restoration One'.

It is the most advanced and sophisticated code that the bald men have ever used, developed by the Soviet female scientist Leleva Skins.

Last time, my ears were covered; this time, my eyes are covered.

Last time it was about finding ears; this time it's about finding eyes—eyes that can see the hidden code.

You can ask me for anything—but you can't say it can't be done.

"I need mathematicians, excellent mathematicians."

An Zaitian made his request—he needed mathematicians.

After meeting with people from the mathematics research institute, I also received a recommendation from this mathematics expert.
There was another woman, whom An Zaitian met in the cafeteria. She was a bold and fashionable woman who looked very different from most of the people in the mathematics research institute. While everyone else was wearing formal Zhongshan suits, she was the only one wearing an American-style leather jacket.

It looks completely out of place.

At this moment, An Zaitian looked at the woman who seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally attracting his attention.

"Find me?"

"Yes."

"doing what?"

"Aren't you guys hiring?"

"what is your job?"

"Take a guess~"

"I won't guess."

This is Huang Yiyi, also known as Director Sun. She was not recommended, but she is a female mathematician with exceptional personal abilities and a background studying in the United States. She is a genius with outstanding personal abilities and has worked in codebreaking.

This genius, however, was not among those recommended by Director Sun.
Later, An Zaitian went to ask her where she came from.

His resume is very strong; he was once John von Neumann's assistant.

But why was she excluded from the list of candidates?
Director Sun said tactfully—she had a nickname in the Soviet Union: the Volga Fish.

This local proverb isn't meant as a compliment, but rather to say that she's quite open about her behavior, especially in terms of reproduction and sexuality, which aligns with the species' tendencies.

This is also why Director Sun did not recommend Huang Yiyi.

She has outstanding personal abilities, but her behavior is improper and her personal conduct is not good—she also has a bad family background. How can such a person participate in the work of deciphering codes?

The other candidate was Xie Xingguo.

Director Sun also praised this person highly when introducing him.

He came from a poor peasant family, had the political affiliation of a Party member, and was of good social standing.
When these compliments came, An Zaitian responded with a smile.
Choose between these two people.

In the end, Huang Yiyi naturally got the position.

When Director Sun recommended Xie Xingguo, he had ulterior motives. Xie Xingguo's abilities were not as good as Huang Yiyi's, but he did have five people to support and was indeed struggling. If he were to join the classified unit, his family of five would no longer have to worry about food shortages. By the way, there were originally seven people in the family, but two of them had already starved to death.

Deciphering codes is a brutal process, and only the talented are chosen; even the most powerful would not show favoritism.

The fate of the nation, and the experiences of the individual.
Perhaps Xie Xingguo's family will have to tighten their belts since he wasn't selected.

They might starve to death.

But that's where the difficulty lies.

It's always cruel.

"Deciphering codes is cruel; it demands that glimmer of light, which is as delicate as a gossamer thread."

Mai Jia simply stated the cruelty of codebreaking.

Or rather, the cruelty of fighting in the dark lies in its anti-human nature; you cannot let your empathy influence your judgment.
Director Sun's humanity.

Huang Yiyi's humanity, a humanity as fiery as fire.
Her humanity was so intense, so passionate.
Chen Shu's portrayal of Huang Yiyi is truly excellent; it's so good that neither the director nor the screenwriter could find any fault with it.

She's really alluring and charming.

She told An Zaitian, "It wasn't the state apparatus that took me away, but a man."

It was a charm that even made Liu Guanglong want to run away and replace the current An Zaitian.

"Our young actress really did a great job," Liu Guanglong said with some emotion, looking at Huang Yiyi. "She truly brought the character to life."

Angel, devil, freedom, unrestrainedness, wisdom—these qualities are all embodied in one character.

She longed for something called love, and demanded it from An Zaitian. It could be said that if her purpose in joining Bureau 701 was for the country, then that would be a misinterpretation—at least initially, she did not join Bureau 701 for the sake of the country.

Just like Xie Xingguo, his initial purpose was not so pure. It was because two of his seven family members had starved to death, rather than because he really wanted to use his talents or some kind of 'ideal'.

"Only when you're well-fed can you talk about ideals. We can't expect everyone to be 'starving' to talk about ideals. She returned from studying in the US; she has her own thoughts and will. As long as her lifestyle doesn't affect others, we have no right to interfere."

An Zaitian felt uncomfortable even using the whistleblower letter sent to Huang Yiyi within the department as if it were toilet paper.

As a student who had studied in the Soviet Union, his thinking was clearly more open-minded—

At that time, it was quite interesting that the United States felt that the Soviet Union was too conservative, while the Soviet Union's atmosphere was considered a bit extreme by the US.

Huang Yiyi, whose personality has become Westernized, is an oddball here, an oddball that no one dares to mess with.

Huang Yiyi never beat around the bush; from the very first day she arrived, she expressed her love for An Zaitian.

Intense and direct.

But An Zaitian always refused directly and decisively.

Huang Yiyi possesses the passion and directness of Westerners.
"You are the man I fell in love with at first sight."

I am not some chaste and virtuous woman, nor will I erect a monument to my chastity. I will only express my love for what I consider to be passionate love.

Bold.

Scorching hot.

But this time, it really wasn't the right occasion.

An Zaitian got angry.

“Saying these things in front of my wife’s ashes makes me feel utterly ashamed.”

This also made Huang Yiyi feel extremely ashamed.

It wasn't just the shame she felt towards An Zaitian's wife, but also the disappointment she felt at An Zaitian's repeated rejections. It seemed she had truly realized that the man she had fallen for at first sight had no interest in her.
The focus of the "Watching the Wind" episode is not so much on breaking the code, but on the characterization of Huang Yiyi.

The female protagonist of the Wind Watcher arc is free-spirited and unruly. In the work of cracking codes, although she does not obey the group, she does produce real results, and she receives one letter of denunciation after another. Of course, in the end, the accusations against her are not unfounded.

An Zaitian's tolerance and protection of her were based on her 'freedom' to achieve results without undermining other people's marriages.

"I want to escape the cage of love."

These are the words Huang Yiyi said to An Zaitian.
She thought another relationship would allow her to escape the cage of love, but the other person only said that it was just a matter of 'between men and women'.

It wasn't because I loved her, but because I loved her youth, her beauty, her breathtaking beauty.

It wasn't even a straw.

Her personality also destined her to tragedy. In the end, due to a misunderstanding, she was made into a vegetable by the wife of one of the confidential staff members. She lay quietly in An Zaitian's home for two years before passing away.

At the very end, at the crematorium, An Zaitian filled in his name in the family section.

“He felt that the tragedy was all his own doing, but in fact, he was not wrong. It’s ridiculous that the ‘I’ who said those things in front of his dead wife was also spouting nonsense.”

Only at this point did Chen Shu partially detach herself from the role.
Only half of them were still immersed in Huang Yiyi's empathy.

She is not perfect.
Chen Shu even feels that, from today's perspective, she is a flawed angel; she lacks love but seeks it in the most inappropriate way.

In her eyes, 'love' is free, and nothing can bind it—including marriage, which is not something that can bind love.

So even though she knew from the beginning that the man was married, she still felt that he loved her, and that it was precisely because he loved her that he was sent to the countryside. The final disillusionment came when he got together with the widow next door during his time in the countryside.

"Even we didn't know when he started hooking up with that widow—"

That's what the soldiers on guard said.

He was very immersed in the role.

Chen Shu acted very well because she was deeply immersed in the role, and the empathy she conveyed allowed her acting skills to shine through.

But at the same time, it also makes it difficult for her to break out of character.

This symptom is difficulty in breaking out of the scene.
That's what immersion is all about.

Perhaps not necessarily an immersive type.

Instead, they became 'immersed' in it.

After all, an actor's career is so long that they will always encounter roles that allow them to immerse themselves deeply, and they can also immerse themselves in those roles.

This depends on the understanding of the character.

And the situation of substitution.

Immersive artists are simply more delicate and sensitive in this respect, able to enter into more roles and more types of feelings.

With proper empathy and skillful output, it's easy to push your emotional state to its "maximum."

Huang Yiyi was like that, and so was A Bing.

They all understood and empathized with their roles.

So, what is the cost?

The price of immersion is a loss of mental coordination and control, an inability to distinguish between reality and illusion, and an inability to tell whether one is Huang Yiyi or Chen Shu, Wang Baoqiang or Abing.

Wang Baoqiang's symptoms were even milder.

Chen Shu, on the other hand, had more severe symptoms, and her eyes still held a sense of bewilderment.

She still couldn't let go of An Zaitian.

"You acted so well," Mai Jia said, glancing at Chen Shu.

"But her mental state is not very good."

At this moment, Liu Guanglong had a strange look on his face.

The costs and gains of immersing oneself in it.

As an actor, he knew this all too well.

"So do you think our An Zaitian will pay the price?"

If Chen Shu and Wang Baoqiang are both actors in this production team, then Li Xuan completely transformed himself, body and soul, into An Zaitian.

He was completely immersed. Flesh and blood, soul.

Even Mai Jia had to admit that looking at Li Xuan was like looking at his former colleague; the feeling was exactly the same.

This wasn't due to acting skills, but rather the feeling.

Just like Huang Yiyi, played by Chen Shu, that free and unrestrained, that liberal feeling is also so pure.

It has nothing to do with acting skills; it's just a kind of temperament, a feeling.

A feeling that is given to people.

Li Xuan has that kind of feeling; he can give people that kind of feeling.

That familiar scent, like that of his former colleagues.
In acting terms, he was completely immersed in the role.

And the price of getting immersed in it.

At this moment, Liu Guanglong looked at An Zaitian, whose face still showed sadness as he attended Huang Yiyi's funeral, and spoke with certainty.

"It's covered."

The timeline jumps to 2005.

Linghua Martyrs Cemetery in Shanghai.

Today is a special day for An Zaitian; it's called Declassification Day. Every underground worker has their own Declassification Day.

An Zaitian is now very old.

His face had lost all its sharpness, replaced only by calmness and kindness.

On this day, at this moment, in this second.

This An Zaitian is the real, true self, not the beast tamer who wears a mask of hypocrisy in Bureau 701 when conducting espionage work.

Here, only peace and tranquility remain.

When asked by reporters, An Zaitian also revealed the story from back then.

He happened to be here today to pay respects to his parents, Qian Zhijiang and Luo Xue.

The reporter was puzzled: Why is your father's surname Qian, but yours is An?

For the sake of the revolution, countless people have used various names in the field of espionage, and An Zaitian was merely one of his code names.
Names are the first thing underground workers abandon.

"However, in our line of work, my father, Qian Zhijiang, is the veteran. He was a party member in the early days of the party's establishment."

At this moment, An Zaitian smiled slightly.

“I was only 10 years old when he sacrificed his life, and he is still considered a martyr of the Kuomintang.”

In other words, he remained hidden within the enemy's ranks.

My thoughts drifted back to the past.

Let's go back to the very beginning.

That is the story of Qian Zhijiang.

Li Xuan needs to play two roles: An Zaitian and Qian Zhijiang.

A father and son.

They have similarities, yet they are different individuals.

One person plays two roles.

However, they are father and son, and both are underground workers. The director did not require the actor to differentiate himself from the role.

After all, it's quite natural for fathers and sons to resemble each other.

From the aging An Zaitian to the spirited Qian Zhijiang in his prime.

Just for a moment.

Li Xuan then completed the transformation of his role.

He completed the transformation from An Zaitian to Qian Zhijiang.

We've gone back to 1930.

He went from being a frail old man to a spirited Kuomintang officer.

But he was an underground agent codenamed Viper.

In this era of white terror, this elegant, talented, and promising cryptography expert was completely beyond suspicion. His nobility and elegance, like pride ingrained in his bones, made people subconsciously exclude him, feeling that such a person could not possibly associate with those peasants. Of course, this aristocratic air also allowed him to easily win the admiration of girls, such as Tang Yina, the secretary of the garrison command. Her father was a commander, of noble status, yet she was deeply in love with Qian Zhijiang.

It wasn't that others disliked him, but Qian Zhijiang was already married; his wife was a doctor at a military hospital and a member of the underground organization codenamed "Bull." Only Tang Yina dared to express her feelings without any reservations.

To this noble and extraordinary man.

To express joy.

At this moment, Qian Zhijiang, represented by Li Xuan, displayed a 'noble air' that was different from An Zaitian's.

They are similar, but not the same person.

This scene alone left Liu Guanglong in disbelief; his understanding of the character and his acting skills had actually managed to separate the two characters, An Zaitian and Qian Zhijiang.

Even if Liu Guanglong were to take the role himself, he would definitely play one "Da An Zai Tian" and the other "An Zai Tian".

Just how terrifying was his understanding of the role?
Qian Zhijiang and An Zaitian are two different individuals. They share some similarities, but they are absolutely different and distinct individuals.
To portray two completely different characters with the same face in a TV series is truly incredible.

That's quite incredible.

Liu Guanglong felt that he had completely escaped the 'inferior' position. Completely escaped it; at least, he couldn't differentiate himself as obviously as Qian Zhijiang in front of him.

"I've struck gold this time," Liu Guanglong murmured.

What shocked him even more was the script for the final chapter. It wasn't the original plot of "The Plot," but rather an adaptation of another novel by Mai Jia.

Against the backdrop of white terror, seven suspected individuals were imprisoned together.
Everyone knows that the 'venomous snake' that Director Dai Li is looking for is right here.

Qian Zhijiang had another purpose: to spread the intelligence.

In this place, surrounded by an impenetrable wall of people, they could transmit intelligence while ensuring their own undetected presence.

This is what Qian Zhijiang needs to do right now.
He was clever and almost succeeded in his goal, using one enemy to devour another, by pushing the identity of Viper onto Yan Jingsheng, one of the former enforcers of the White Terror.

Director Dai and Commander Liu almost believed him and resorted to traditional methods of torture to extract a confession. Yan Jingsheng's reaction was something Qian Zhijiang never expected.

This officer committed suicide by cutting his wrists and even wrote a letter in blood.

Prove yourself with blood.

My life is nothing to me, but I can't just give up on being a viper!
Here, it's not just the good guys who have 'faith,' the villains also have their own loyalty and morality.

Qian Zhijiang watched as Yan Jingshan's corpse was...
It was sent out intact.

There was no autopsy, only a solemn send-off.

Upon seeing this intact corpse.

Qian Zhijiang's eyes flickered slightly.

It seems that they admired the enemy's beliefs at the same time.

I also found this question.

Final solution.

“You are the ‘Viper,’ I know.”

Director Dai looked at Qian Zhijiang and smiled slightly, indicating that he was confident of victory.
He was absolutely certain that Qian Zhijiang was "Viper," a major spy hidden in the headquarters.

But he needed to find evidence—Qian Zhijiang was a key figure to Commander Liu, and to take action against him, he couldn't do what others did: arrest him first and then interrogate him. He could only arrest him if he found evidence.

This is not procedural justice, but fear.

This place was originally ruled by powerful warlords who controlled smaller ones. Commander Liu was a smaller warlord, and even people from Nanjing wouldn't dare to easily touch this warlord from Shanghai.

but.

What is certain is that Dai Li believes he will have the last laugh.

Because once the information about the Viper is used up tomorrow, it will be useless, and then we can slowly deal with this guy.

Qian Zhijiang responded confidently.

I will not lose.

They issued a final declaration of war against each other.

Just like the Feast at Hongmen, Qian Zhijiang and Tang Yina danced the tango one last time.
A cruel yet romantic dance.

The storm passed overnight.

The room was deathly silent.

Qian Zhijiang lay motionless on the bed; he was dead.

There were only two suicide notes.

Their loyalty to the enemy was expressed in blood.

The suicide note he left for his wife consisted of only two short sentences.

There was one more thing left out.

May Buddha bless my son so that he may grow into an adult.

Do not be sad, Buddha is in my heart.

Luo Xue finally got her husband.

However, it contained her husband's complete body and suicide note—ultimately, under the commander's influence, he was left with a whole body, just like Yan Jingsheng, the first to remonstrate with the country to the death. He left with dignity in the end.

Throughout the story, Luo Xue portrays herself as an appendage to her husband. In private and in public, towards her comrades, friends, and colleagues, she constantly expresses this frail woman's love for Qian Zhijiang. She is like a weak woman who cannot live without her husband.

In fact, she was indeed someone who loved Qian Zhijiang very much.

He is a comrade and a lover.

After crying as a lover.

He is a comrade.

In his suicide note.

There is such a saying.

Buddha resides in my heart.

Luo Xue knew what to do.

She dissected her husband and found the last piece of information inside his stomach.

In the dim light, I seemed to see Qian Zhijiang's smile, a smile of 'victory'.

Who said.

Only the living can transmit intelligence.

(End of this chapter)