"Mysterious Hostage" is a spy war drama set in the 1948 civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which tells the story of the high-level ** Yan Wenchuan who returned to his hometown Jiangcheng with a major secret mission, but encountered a thrilling catastrophe and inadvertently became the central figure of the secret struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The show premiered on CCTV 8 in October 2013, and the ratings soared, arousing heated discussions and attention from the audience.
In the play, the most worrying thing is the emotional entanglement between Yan Wenchuan and the fourth child. The fourth child is Yan Wenchuan's colleague and his friend, and the two have performed many dangerous missions together, trusting and respecting each other. However, the fourth child has an unknown secret, he is actually an undercover agent of the Kuomintang, responsible for reporting to Chen Gongru, the head of the military command, and secretly sabotaging the actions of the Communist Party. The true identity of the fourth child has not been discovered until episode 25, when Yan Wenchuan unexpectedly revealed his true colors.
In episode 25, Yan Wenchuan and the fourth child went to investigate the basement of the Yan family and found a corpse, which was Yan Wenchuan's father, Yan Gong. Yan Wenchuan was grief-stricken, and at the same time suspected who had killed his father. He suddenly remembered some of the fourth child's previous suspicious actions, such as when the Yan family was arrested, the fourth child escaped unnoticed, and in the basement of the Yan family, the fourth child always deliberately delayed time and did not let him dig. Yan Wenchuan was furious, snatched the fourth child's gun, pointed it at his head, and asked him if he was an undercover agent of the Kuomintang. The fourth child was forced to be helpless, so he had to admit his identity, and also said an even more shocking fact, he was actually Yan Wenchuan's biological brother and the illegitimate son of Yan Gong.
It turned out that the mother of the fourth child was Yan Gong's old lover, and Yan Gong sent her to the territory of the Kuomintang in order to protect her, and later she gave birth to the fourth child, but Yan Gong did not know. Before he died, the fourth child's mother told the fourth child about his life experience and asked him to find Yan Gong. In order to find his biological father, the fourth child joined the Kuomintang and became Chen Gongru's subordinate, and later was sent to the underground party organization of the Communist Party and became Yan Wenchuan's colleague. The fourth child has always wanted to find a chance to recognize Yan Gong, but he found that Yan Gong had been killed, and it was Chen Gongru. The fourth child was full of guilt and sorrow in his heart, and he didn't want to be an enemy of Yan Wenchuan anymore, but he couldn't help himself, so he could only continue to do undercover work.
Yan Wenchuan felt extremely shocked and painful when he heard the words of the fourth child, he couldn't believe that his friend was actually his brother and his enemy. He didn't know how to deal with this complicated emotion, so he could only temporarily lock up the fourth child and wait for the underground party to deal with it. However, the fourth child was not forgiven, but was sentenced to death, and Yan Wenchuan could not save his life. When the fourth child was shot, Yan Wenchuan and another female ** Chen Gongru came to worship him and shoot him off, expressing their condolences and respect for the fourth child.
In "Mysterious Hostage", Yan Wenchuan discovered the true identity of the fourth child, which was a climax and turning point of the play, and it was also a shocking revelation, which made the audience moved and sighed. Through the emotional entanglement between Yan Wenchuan and Lao Si, the play shows the tragedy of human nature and fate during the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and also reflects the complexity and cruelty of that turbulent era. The play not only has a tense and exciting spy war plot, but also a profound and touching character portrayal, which is an excellent work worth watching. 100 Helping Programs