Episode 21 recap: During the time Ou Xiao An spent with Lingzi, he found her to be a kind-hearted girl, completely different from her father Dajiang
Lingzi planned to help Ou Xiao An escape from prison while Dajiang was away Ou Xiao An killed two Japanese guards, changed into their uniforms, and prepared to jump out the window to leave He planned to take Lingzi with him, but she decided to stay behind
As the Japanese colonel was approaching, Ou Xiao An remembered that he had not yet taken the letter from Ye Xuan Min. Lingzi told Ou Xiao An to jump out the window first, and she would go get the letter. When Ou Xiao An was leaving, he reminded Lingzi to be careful. Ye Xuan Min had asked Ou Xiao An to help deliver the letter to the family members, and specifically told him to remember the address and destroy the letter before leaving.
Dajiang noticed that Lingzi had been in a good mood lately, but she accused him of breaking his promise and secretly using Ou Xiao An as an experimental subject. Dajiang felt Ou Xiao An was not worthy of being with Lingzi, and urged her to marry a Japanese nobleman. Angered by this, Lingzi said she was Chinese, which made Dajiang angry and he locked her up.
Ou Xiao An came to visit Lingzi again, and she had the guards release his restraints. Then she proposed dancing with Ou Xiao An, planning to use the dance as an opportunity to help him escape, knowing Dajiang would not let him go.
Ou Xiao An told Ye Xuan Min about the opening of the China-India highway and drew an escape route, saying they would act on the 10th. Ye Xuan Min was concerned about the address on the letter, and Ou Xiao An said he had remembered it. He handed the letter to Lingzi to keep safe, planning to take it himself and deliver it directly to the family when he left.
Wei Qing Ming looked at the letters and felt they contained communist beliefs, suspecting Ou Xiao An was helping the communists transmit the letters. He also knew Ou Xiao An had an exceptional memory.
Ou Xiao An was wrongfully accused and felt upset about it. Wei Qing Ming thought only Ou Xiao An could freely enter and exit the prison, but Ou Xiao An refuted this, saying the medical staff and workers could also go in and out. Wei Qing Ming discovered the letters had no addresses, guessing Ou Xiao An must have been able to remember them. Ou Xiao An pretended he couldn't remember the addresses due to being drugged, but in reality he had been diligently memorizing them so as not to betray his fellow prisoners' trust.
Ou Xiao An could not find Ye Xuan Min during the exercise period, and later learned that he had been selected as the experiment subject and had been locked up. Ou Xiao An took the opportunity of cleaning to go see Ye Xuan Min and encouraged him to persevere. But Ye Xuan Min did not want to escape, as he hoped that Ou Xiao An could take 9548 away, because only he could expose the Japanese army's virus experiment. He also handed over the virus vaccine to Ou Xiao An.
Ling Zi deliberately did not take the medicine and inquired about the soldiers' whereabouts from the colonel, learning that the colonel had gone to the bridge for a meeting in the morning. She threatened the soldiers and insisted on seeing Ou Xiao An. The soldiers had no choice but to take her to the prison. Ling Zi saw Ou Xiao An and the others during the exercise period and rushed in to find him. The inmates took the opportunity to create chaos, allowing Ou Xiao An and Ling Zi to escape.
But the Japanese soldiers arrived and sprayed them with machine guns. Ou Xiao An was deeply saddened to see his compatriots falling. With Ling Zi's help, Ou Xiao An had a chance to escape, but he remembered that he had not yet taken the letter. Ling Zi told him to leave first, and she would go get the letter. But Ou Xiao An waited for a long time and Ling Zi did not come back, and 9548 urged him to leave quickly.
Ling Zi got the letter and was about to leave when she was almost discovered by the colonel. The colonel, angered by Ou Xiao An's escape, shot and killed the soldier, but blamed Ling Zi. Ling Zi felt that she was a Chinese, so she argued with the colonel and ultimately chose to commit suicide.
Wei Qing Ming knew that Ling Zi was Chinese, and asked Ou Xiao An to recall the address in the letter. But Ou Xiao An couldn't remember, so Wei Qing Ming had Qin Mo Qing read the contents of the letter and observe Ou Xiao An's reaction. Listening to the last words of the inmates, Ou Xiao An felt deeply sad, as he thought of his comrades who had sacrificed for their beliefs. Wen Yi Shan asked to stop reading the letter, and Qin Mo Qing left the room under the pretext of washing her hands, as she was also saddened by the sacrifice of the comrades. Wei Qing Ming had always suspected that Ou Xiao An was a communist, and the atmosphere between them was tense. Ou Xiao An finally could not hold back and directly admitted that he was a communist, accusing Wei Qing Ming of constantly targeting him.
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