After watching the spy war drama "Infernal" starring Jin Dong, Zhang Zhijian and Wang Zhiwen, I always had a feeling of unfinished thinking, and felt that it was necessary to briefly write about the fate of the main characters in the play in the years to come.
As for why Betty and Lu Feng are the protagonists of "Infernal Sequel 1-4", one is because they were colleagues for a short time, and at the turn of the times, everyone will make their own choices, and choices create people's destiny.
At the turn of the times, due to different choices, former friends will become enemies and part ways, and former enemies will also become friends and comrades because of the same choices.
The second is because after the dissolution of secret group 76, Betty's whereabouts are unknown, leaving a mystery that needs to be filled.
The third is because Lu Feng in the last episode, although he was shot, his life and death are unknown, leaving suspense, and he can continue to perform, and it is necessary to interpret.
Although "Infernal" is over, history will not stop its own steps, and it will always continue to shape the fate of people according to its deepest logic.
History, times and the survival and destiny of people is a grand theme, and I am just an ordinary audience, for the above reasons, I rely on my imagination to interpret, my own superficial understanding of the relationship between history and human destiny, wrote "Infernal Sequel 1-4", without many specific plots, is a framework.
Unexpectedly, many netizens gave likes and hoped to see the sequel, which gave me great encouragement.
The "Infernal Sequel 1-4" I wrote features Lu Feng and Betty as the protagonists, covering the period from after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to 1988.
The timeline of "Infernal" and the "Infernal Sequel" I wrote basically coincides with the timeline of the TV series "Father and Son", because Betty went to the United States, and the space line is also more consistent.
The period drama "Father and Son", originally written by Liang Xiaosheng and directed by Li Lu, is in the filming stage, which takes the fate of four generations of four families such as the Northeast Gao clan and the New York Zhao clan as a clue, connecting the vast time and space from the 30s to the 80s of the 20th century.
In "The Infernal Afterlife 4", my arrangement for Betty, Lu Feng, and Hua Xiangyu is that after the end of the Korean War, Betty returned to the United States, married a Chinese businessman surnamed Chen, had a son and a daughter, and later became a biologist. After returning to China, Lu Feng worked in intelligence and security for a long time, and later married Hua Xiangyu.
In 1982, Betty returned to the mainland to visit relatives and worship her ancestors, and met Lu Feng and Hua Xiangyu by chance. In 1988, Betty, Lu Feng, and Hua Xiangyu died in the same year.
Before her death, Betty wrote a book called "Three Years of Wind and Rain, No Flowers: My Shenyang Military Career".
After leading the Shangguan family to join the people's camp and participating in the People's Liberation War, what did Hua Xiangyu do? In "The Infernal 4", I didn't explain specifically.
From the Korean Armistice, to the chance encounter of Betty, Hua Xiangyu, and Lu Feng in 1982, and then to 1988, when the three died at the same time, more than 30 years have passed.
What has Betty been through and done in these 30 years? What did Hua Xiangyu and Lu Feng go through and do?
What kind of people have their children grown into in these 30 years?
Because I had the idea of writing a sequel to "Infernal" at that time, but I had not yet formed an idea, so the story of Hua Xiangyu and Betty was artificially vacated, and if I wanted to write a sequel to "Infernal", let their story be used as the prologue.
The hit of the TV series "The World" and the fact that "Father and Son" were put on the screen made me feel that works with a large span of time and space can open up a larger world for us and let us see the causal logical relationship of the fate of the characters more clearly.
The unexpected praise of netizens, the hit of "The World", and the audience's expectations for "Father and Son" encouraged me to restart my thoughts and prepare to conceive and write a sequel to "Infernal", although it is also in the nature of an outline framework.
In "Infernal Aftermath 4", Betty, Hua Xiangyu, and Lu Feng met by chance.
After 1982, what did their sons and daughters go through and do in the next 30 years?
What kind of people have their sons and daughters grown into in these 30 years?
After 2012, what will their sons and daughters experience in the new 30 years, and what will they do?
Also, the "shepherds" in "Infernal", Mrs. Oprah, what have they and their children and grandchildren experienced, and what else will they experience?
Betty, Flower Rain, Land Wind, "Shepherd", Mrs. Oprah, these characters who met in "Infernal", once wrote legends. Will they, including their children and grandchildren, still meet? Will there still be a story?
The story of their descendants is the main content of the sequel to "Infernal". However, the characters, events, and plots in the sequel are also fabricated.
In the sequel to "Infernal", it is no longer the small arms and armies of Shanghai in the 1944-1945 period, but an all-round contest of finance, science and technology, and civilization.
Timeline span, from 1982 to 2042.
Space span, from Earth to Mars.
Involving specific countries, regions, cities, institutions, etc., their names are all fictional, replaced by letters, these will be discussed later.
The prologue of the sequel of "Infernal", the name is: Hua Youti, silent, both sides of the ocean, both sides of the jungle, Hua Xiangyu, Betty continue to write the legend of Shanghai!
(Text/Horizon)