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During the cruel Japanese occupation of Mainland China, at the time of World War II; a beautiful young woman of aristocratic origin fights for the freedom of her nation.

Fate sets a trap for them as she is caught by the violent passion of an attractive enemy military man. Both succumb to each other. Without renouncing their ideologies and beliefs, they will face all kinds of dangers, to live the most dangerous adventure. To save the one they love.

An adventure that began and ended on two continents.

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Novel Action, War, Romance, Adventure.

Ages 15+.

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Marina Leung Ba

Author Edgar R Perez C

CHAPTER I

On December 3, 1922 at one o'clock in the morning, Marina Leung Ba was born. This is according to the birth certificate of St. Francis Xavier Chapel in Nanjing. Her father, Mr. Wang Leung, a distinguished merchant descendant of the Han family, who lived in the permanent exaltation of enjoying all the changes that were happening in the nation.

. The civil war of the war barons was raging in China. The Japanese troops intervened more and more brazenly in the region. The British from Hong Kong and in Shanghai were holding back. Just in case. But to the great Mr. Wang Leung none of this seemed extraordinary. He, too, was in a clan of warlords and profited from it. Sometimes there were rumors of Bolshevik-inspired peasant uprisings. A young officer from the right wing of the Kuomintang was known to have wanted to follow a pro-Western line. The emperor had been ousted from the palace and no one was really sure who was in charge in the country....

Lord Wang was particularly pro-Japanese. He wanted modernity and advancement in China, but assumed it would be better from an Asian point of view, despite the rivalry between the two peoples. He traded directly with many Japanese houses in Yokohama and the consul general was a regular at his lavish residence. Likewise the Belgian priests of the order of the Vincentians were extremely intimate with him. That is why he was a fanatic catholic and when the GIRL was born he IMMEDIATELY BAPTIZED HER. MODERN TIMES were insinuated in China. It was not known whether the emperor was in Shanghai or New York, for all that mattered, much less to him, fascinated with the fourth child.

--It is a bad number,--said Na Li, his wife, who with a smile received the child, ---I am willing to procreate another so that it will be five, which is a better number.

--Superstitions,---said the great Leung Ba with joy, ---only the power of our Lord Jesus Christ is what matters.

---Why Marina? It's a Russian name,--asked the woman, looking rapturously at the creature. Someday it will be very strong. One never knows and that name will lead us directly to a good link.

--!For God's Wang! She's only two hours old and you're already thinking about business,---exclaimed his wife with an exhausted smile.

The man kissed his wife's forehead. A child is a child. And he didn't care at all that it was a female.

The years went by. The girl grew up healthy, healthy, learning Western customs, studied English, was quite fluent in Japanese and understood French perfectly. She had a beautiful mezzo-soprano voice; she was already in her 6th year of piano studies. She was a western lady to the satisfaction of the powerful lord.

....More years passed quietly, the fortune increased; the children had the common children's diseases, the Japanese were stronger and stronger, intervening directly from Manchuria.

Until a day came when the Great Leung's excitement was very great. His house was decked out to receive Japan's plenipotentiary representative in Nanjing. It was well into 1934. The Japanese were everywhere, despite the massacres of civilians for no reason, in every Chinese town and city in every province.

Mr. Leung gave his precise instructions according to protocol. No comment was allowed to be made about the Japanese military acts. The temperature of the sake had to be correct, the way to sit and the places of protocol. And so it was. At 8 p.m. on a summer evening the Ambassador Plenipotentiary arrived, square and rude, contemptuous Japanese officials masked in icy politeness, the commercial representatives haughty and ruthless. A young man of western race accompanied them; his appearance was jovial and he looked like a boy amused to be present in every situation.

All this Mr. Leung had accepted from years before; all for business. He formally taught the Japanese each of his sons. The eldest son Po Leung, who would soon leave for the Hiroshima Naval Academy, renouncing his Chinese nationality; accepting a second-class Japanese citizenship, more or less equal to the status of Koreans.

He would never be a Vice Admiral, but he wanted to be Japanese, as his attitude and haircut showed. This drew a nod of approval from the Japanese with closed lips. The great Leung showed his second daughter, Virginia Leung, in her bridal habit from the Belgian Catholic seminary in Tientsin. The young girl was greeted with icy Japanese politeness. The third son was not taught, as he died of typhus in 1927, and Mr. Leung Ba introduced Marina Leung Ba, soon to be 12 years old.

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