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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Tai, Chia, Chi entitled Lust, Caution?
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conversations.value: Lust, Caution (novella): In China, during the Japanese occupation in World War II, a young student and former actress named Wong Chia Chi has agreed to be the central figure in the assassination of a Japanese collaborator, Yee.\nUsing the alias of Mak Tai Tai (Mrs.\nMak) and the fictional mr Mak, Chia Chi befriends mr Yee's wife, Yee Tai Tai, and eventually seduces her husband in order to kill him.\nHowever, she falls in love with him and just before her comrades try to kill him, she warns him.\nHe escapes and has the whole group executed, including Wong Chia Chi.
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Yee, Chi, Chia entitled Lust, Caution? Start with the sentence 'Lust, Caution: Hong Kong 1938 During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a shy, inexperienced university student, Wong Chia Chi, travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong and attends her first year at Lingnan University'.
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conversations.value: Lust, Caution: Hong Kong 1938 During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a shy, inexperienced university student, Wong Chia Chi, travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong and attends her first year at Lingnan University.\nA male student, Kuang Yu Min, invites her to join his patriotic drama club, and soon she becomes a lead actress, inspiring both her audience and her colleagues.\nInspired by the troupe\'s patriotic plays, Kuang persuades the group to make a more concrete contribution to the war against Japan.\nHe devises a plan to assassinate mr Yee, a special agent and recruiter of the puppet government set up by the Japanese Government in China.\nThe beautiful Chia Chi is chosen to take on the undercover role of "Mrs.\nMai", the elegant wife of a trading company owner.\nShe manages to insert herself in the social circle of mrs Yee.\nChia Chi catches the eye of mr Yee and tries to lure him to a location where he can be assassinated.\nChia Chi is still a virgin, and she reluctantly consents to sleeping with another student involved in the plot in order to practice her role as a married woman if she were to sleep with Yee.\nKuang, who has feelings for Chia Chi, is upset by this, but agrees to the arrangement.\nAttracted to Chia Chi, Yee nearly falls for the trap but withdraws at the last minute.\nSoon after, mr and mrs Yee suddenly move back to Shanghai, leaving the students with no further chance to complete their assassination plan.\nWhile they are preparing to disband, an armed subordinate of Yee turns up unannounced and tells them he is aware of their plans.\nAfter a violent struggle, the university students kill the subordinate and then go into hiding.\nShanghai 1942 Three years later in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, Chia Chi again encounters Kuang, who is now an undercover agent of the KMT, which is seeking to overturn the Japanese occupation force and their puppet government.\nHe enlists her into a renewed assassination plan to kill Yee.\nBy this time, Yee has become the head of the secret police department under the puppet government and is responsible for capturing and executing Chinese resistance agents who are working for the KMT.\nEventually, Chia Chi becomes Yee\'s mistress.\nDuring their first encounter, Yee has very rough sex with her.\nOver the next few weeks, however, their sexual relationship becomes very passionate and deeply emotional, which causes conflicting feelings in Chia Chi who is still involved in the assassination plot.\nWhen Chia Chi reports to her KMT superior officer, she exhorts him to carry out the assassination soon, so that she will not have to continue her sexual liaisons with Yee, but she is told that the assassination needs to be delayed for strategic reasons.\nChia Chi describes the inhuman emotional conflict she is in—sexually and emotionally bound to a man who she is plotting to assassinate.\nWhen Yee sends Chia Chi to a jewellery store with a sealed envelope, she discovers that he has arranged for a large and extremely rare six carat pink diamond for her, to be mounted in a ring.\nThis provides the Chinese resistance with a chance to get at Yee when he is not accompanied by his bodyguards.\nSoon after, Chia Chi invites Yee to accompany her to collect the diamond ring.\nWhile entering the jewelry shop, she notices several resistance agents waiting outside.\nWhen she puts on the ring and sees Yee\'s obvious love for her, she is overcome by emotion and quietly urges him to "Go, now".\nUnderstanding her meaning, Yee flees the shop and escapes the assassination attempt.\nBy the end of the day, most of the resistance group are captured.\nYee\'s deputy was aware of the resistance cell, but did not inform Yee because he hoped to use the opportunity to catch the resistance cell leader.\nEmotionally in turmoil, Yee signs their death warrants and the resistance group members, including Chia Chi, are led out to a quarry and executed.\nSometime later, Yee sits on Chia Chi\'s empty bed in the family guest room and informs his wife that their house guest is gone, and that she should not ask any questions.