Rookie Agent Rouge
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Details
- Title: 胭脂 / Yan Zhi
- English title: Rookie Agent Rouge
- Genre: Espionage
- Episodes: 45
- Broadcast network: Dragon TV, ZJTV
- Broadcast period: 2016-Sep-27
Synopsis
Lan Rouge, a young dilettante and student in Shanghai in 1937, is recruited into the world of espionage after becoming accidentally involved in an incident. Her unusually acute perception and intelligence impress the Chinese secret service agency and she's assigned to spy on the parents of her best friend, Manna Feng. A division head in the Chinese military, Feng's father Zi Xiong is suspected of providing aid to the Japanese. While reluctant, she agrees to spy as long as her friend Manna is protected.
Rouge discovers that Feng Zi Xiong had a network of contacts hidden in a stamp book, narrowly escaping detection by the Fengs. Among these are several Chinese nationals, a Japanese military division head named Aoki, and a mysterious Japanesr sleeper agent codenamed Shadow.
Feng Zi Xiong, needing to send messages to Shadow, arranges for Manna to send letters as a prelude to engagement. Manna is unaware of her parent's subterfuges and accepts this.
A Chinese secret agent named Zhou Yu discovers Shadows true identity and kills him, then taking his place. Feng Xi Xiong is the only one who has actually met Shadow, and because it was a decade earlier Yu Zhou believes he can effectively step into the role.
Yu Zhou/Shadow arranges a face-to-face meeting with Manna at a dance Hall. Rouge, seeing an opportunity, manipulates the situation so that she goes to the meeting instead, intending to impersonate Manna. At the same time, she reports her findings to the Chinese secret agency.
Yu Zhou realizes that Rouge is not Manna and handcuffs her. While questioning her, they are interrupted by Manna showing up at the club, and the police showing up shortly thereafter to try to arrest Yu Zhou/Shadow. Yu Zhou knocks out Rouge and escapes.
The Chinese move to arrest the Fengs. During the arrest, however, both the parents are killed and Manna taken into custody. As her father dies, he tells Manna to seek out Aoki, who he says will protect her. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Manna is distraught over her parent's deaths and blames Lan Rouge, swearing to get revenge.
To be continued...
Cast
- Zhao Li Ying as Lan Yan Zhi
- Zhao Zhu Ting (赵姝婷) as younger Yan Zhi
- Lu Yi as Zhou Yu Hao
- Tao Xin Ran as Feng Man Na
- Yuan Wen Kang as Song Mian
- Shi Zhao Qi (石兆琪) as Feng Zi Xiong
- Li Meng Na (李梦男) as Wan Zhi Chao
- Ye Feng (叶峰) as Qing Mu Wu Zhong
- Qiu Lu Pan (邱璐璠) as Shen Lan Lan
- Liu Yan Qing (刘彦卿) as Lao Qiao
- Ma Can Can (马灿灿) as Lin Tian Mu
- Shu Yao Xuan as Lan Chang Ming
- Ma Xi Mi (马熙米) as Xiao Hong
- Sun Zhong Qiu (孙仲秋) as Zhu Cheng
- Wang Zi Chen (王子辰) as Zhang Guo Sheng