But the drama on "Dramacool" was not a dry military log. It was a story of hearts, too. Episode 10 focused on a nurse named Meihua. She was brave, with a fierce smile and a bandage always tucked in her sleeve. In the drama, she fell in love with Lin Wei's character—the brooding intelligence officer who knew too much. Lin Wei, the real one, had never met her. But he saw her on the screen: volunteering at the St. Paul's Hospital, smuggling sulfa drugs past Japanese checkpoints, singing revolutionary songs in a voice that cracked with hope.
In the smoldering autumn of 1939, the city of Changsha braced itself for the third great trial by fire. Lin Wei, a young intelligence officer for the Chinese Nationalist forces, sat in a cramped, candlelit room above a noodle shop on Pozi Street. His only companion was a flickering wireless set and a dog-eared notebook filled with coded Japanese transmissions. battle of changsha dramacool
"Not this time," he said. "Today, we make a new story. No Dramacool. No script. Just us." But the drama on "Dramacool" was not a dry military log