A different kind of Lou Chun - "The Pretender" colleague

Minglou Manchun first met in 1927, during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.Man Chun is actually an orphan of a martyr. Her parents and younger brother were secretly killed by reactionary warlords.Ming Lou mentioned more than once that Man Chun had been progressive since she was a child, because she had lived with her (Communist/Party) parents for 15 years after all.Afterwards, Wang Fuqu's actions and teachings did not affect her at all.

Minglou was 20 years old at the time and was studying at university.Wang Fuqu was his teacher, so Manchun kept calling him senior brother.But in fact, they never went to the same school.By the time Manchun went to college, Minglou had already graduated.

Ah Cheng is one year younger than Man Chun, and she goes to school and plays with her. They are real senior sisters and juniors, and they have a close relationship.

Mingtai was five or six years younger than Ah Cheng, and he was just a kid back then.Because he was about the same age as Manchun's dead brother, Manchun always treated him as his own brother.

Five years later was the period of the White Terror of 1932.Manchun is 20 years old and goes to college.Minglou is 25 years old, a young professor in the university and a secret party member.They started talking about marriage in earnest, but unexpectedly encountered ruthless opposition from the elder sister.It turned out that Ming Lou went to Europe to study for a Ph. D., accompanied by Ah Cheng, and then Ming Tai also went (in middle school?).After Dr. Minglou graduated, he continued to work as a professor in the university, at least on the surface, until he returned to Shanghai.

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And Manchun was picked up by Nantian after Minglou left (just look at Lone Wolf and Manchun, Nantian likes to develop women who have lost love and been injured as spies.) After graduating from university, he was sent to Japan to train three Year.Until the war against China officially started, he returned to Shanghai to work for the Wang puppet government.

The story told in the article happened from the end of 39 to the spring of 40, that is, eight years after Minglou Manchun left.At this time, Minglou is 33, Manchun is 28, Ah Cheng is 27, and Mingtai is 22.

In this way, the five years when Minglou and Manchun were together were the most critical period in the formation of their outlook on life.When they separated, both of them were mature enough and knew each other deeply enough, so they still believed in each other deeply after many years of separation in the text.Compared with the setting of the original book (students in their teens?), it is understandable that the characters have remained unchanged or changed drastically in terms of temperament and pursuit, as well as the depth of the relationship between the two.

The author has something to say:

Straighten out the timeline, the context is clearer.