Naive Wong Chia Chi is a college student in 1938 Hong Kong, to where many mainland Chinese have escaped from the bloodshed of the Sino-Japanese War. Her widowed father, abandoning her in China, escapes himself to England with her younger brother. On campus, she innocently gets involved with the politically active theater troupe led by Kuang Yu Min. Their plays protest the war, with Yu Min’s stance particularly against any Chinese who collaborates with the Japanese. The productions’ primary goal is to raise money for the resistance. Many Chinese do collaborate with the Japanese in part to maintain their upper class lifestyle. No longer solely content to hear the chants of “China will not fall” from their anti-Japanese audiences, Yu Min wants to venture into more direct activism by killing one of those collaborating with the Japanese, namely a Shanghai bigwig hiding out in Hong Kong named Mr. Yee to who they can get access through an old friend of Yu Min’s. Despite all of them realizing that they know nothing about killing or espionage, they all agree. The expensive plot, funded by wealthy troupe member Liang Jun Sheng, involves Chia Chi acting as Mrs. Mak, the wife of a wealthy businessman, played by her fellow actor, Auyang Ling Wen. Although not originally the plan, Chia Chi becomes the center of the plot as she is the one who captures the attention of both Mr. and Mrs. Yee. The final act becomes more and more difficult to execute due to Mr. Yee’s extremely cautious nature and despite his overwhelming evident lust for Mrs. Mak. The plot, which eventually involves those in the resistance who may have more expertise in espionage and killing, which moves to Shanghai and which covers the span of four years, changes Chia Chi fundamentally as a person, especially due to her developing love/hate relationship with Mr. Yee.
参考翻译：
天真的黄家池是1938香港的一名大学生，在那里许多大陆人从中日战争的流血中逃走了。她丧偶的父亲在中国抛弃了她，和她的弟弟逃到了英国。在校园里，她天真地参与了由邝玉敏领导的政治活跃的剧团。剧团的剧目抗议战争，而俞敏的立场尤其反对任何与日本人合作的中国人。这些作品的主要目标是为抵抗运动筹集资金。许多中国人确实与日本人合作，部分是为了维持他们的上层阶级生活方式。于敏不再仅仅满足于听到他们的抗日听众高呼“中国不会倒下”，他想冒险采取更直接的行动，杀死一名与日本人合作的人，这是一个上海大佬，藏在香港，叫Yee先生，他们可以通过一个老朋友余民进入。尽管他们都意识到他们对杀戮和间谍一无所知，但他们都同意。这部耗资巨大的剧情由富有的剧团成员梁俊生出资，由贾琦扮演麦夫人，她是一位富商的妻子，由她的男演员欧阳玲雯扮演。虽然最初不是这个计划，但嘉琪成为了剧情的中心，因为她是吸引了叶先生和叶女士注意力的人。由于易先生极其谨慎的天性，尽管他对麦太太有着压倒性的明显欲望，但最终的表演变得越来越难执行。这一情节最终涉及到那些可能在间谍和杀戮方面更为专业的抵抗组织成员，该情节将迁往上海，持续四年。这一情节从根本上改变了嘉琪的个人形象，尤其是由于她与易先生之间不断发展的爱恨关系。
重点词汇释义
college student大学生
Hong Kong香港
younger brother弟弟; 小弟; 幼弟
raise money募款
upper class上流社会; 上等阶层
No longer不再
will not会; 要; 总是; 往往; 谈及将来; 烦劳别人做事时用; 命令时用; 意志; 意愿; 遗嘱; 毅力; 愿意; 决心; 想要; 希望
venture into冒险进入
