Meeting the right person at the right time is a kind of fate; meeting the wrong person at the right time is a kind of misfortune; meeting the right person at the wrong time is a kind of helplessness; meeting the wrong person at the wrong time is a kind of cruelty.
Beautiful love is the yearning of most people, love and can not be or no disease, for every pair of lovers who love each other deeply are cruel, but also become a lifetime of regret.
As Zhang Ailing said, only when you meet the right person at the right time, so love is the most flawless, but unfortunately, too many people have not been able to have such luck in their lives.
During the Republic of China period, the stories of talented and beautiful people emerged in an endless stream, but beautiful love stories always occupied a minority, no matter whether these love men and women were born poor and rich, they often could not escape the ups and downs of the times, and their love was tested in many ways. Once, the love story of Sheng Aiyi and Song Ziwen, the daughter of the "Chinese Shang Father", made people regret, but we also felt the insurmountable fate of that era for countless people.
Family backgrounds that are very different from each other
As a representative figure of the Western affairs movement, Sheng Xuanhuai was an industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty, known as the "Father of Chinese Merchants", and during the Republic of China, he was also known as the richest man in the Republic of China.
The Sheng family has a big business, more silver dollars, more stocks, and many houses and land, which makes people very envious, but the Sheng family has many children, eight children and eight daughters, and the family business laid down is soon destroyed by these descendants.
Most of them are stupid children, have no concept of money, spend money like dirt, and under such profligacy, the family quickly goes bankrupt. The daughters of the Sheng family are more sensible than the boys, they are independent and have business acumen. When the brothers were poor, they were living well.
Among Sheng Xuanhuai's eight daughters, Sheng Aiyi was the most famous. Although she was born in everyone and is a boudoir lady, she has been exposed to a lot of new education and culture since she was a child, taught herself English, and when she grew up, she was also very thoughtful and has always taken the road she wants to go.
In that feudal era, she has always advocated equality between men and women, and the "first case of feminism in the Republic of China" is a lawsuit handled by Sheng Aiyi. She and her brothers had the right to inherit the property, and not only that, but she also founded the later Ballroom of the Paramount Hotel.
Unlike Sheng Enyi's family, Song Ziwen's father was only a missionary before, or because he made a fortune in business, he was known as a missionary who made a fortune in business, and the family conditions were much different from those of Sheng Enyi.
However, he himself is young and promising, Song Ziwen is a doctor at Columbia University, after graduation in Sheng Enyi's Han Zhiping company as the general manager's secretary, and because of this identity, he and Miss Sheng Qi's relationship.
Love at first sight is opposed by the elders
As a secretary, Song Ziwen is very dedicated, and every day during working hours, he will wait for the general manager at shengjia, often waiting until the afternoon. Slowly, he and Sheng Aiyi became acquainted, and later recalled the first time he saw Sheng Aiyi, he said that Sheng Aiyi was like a fairy.
Sheng Aiyi is six years younger than Song Ziwen, and she is also full of good feelings for Song Ziwen. Song Ziwen is a talented man who has returned from studying abroad, a talented and knowledgeable person, and he often talks about what he has seen and heard abroad, which makes Sheng Aiyi very envious. Later, he became Sheng Aiyi's English teacher, and the two had more opportunities to get along and secretly had feelings.
The Sheng family is a rich family, and Sheng Aiyi's mother has a pivotal position in the Sheng family, and her requirements for her children's partners are very high from family to individual.
Although Song Ziwen had excellent conditions himself, his father was only a missionary, and although he made a fortune by doing business, he was more than a little worse than the Sheng family. His mother had been a nanny and tutor in the Sheng family, Song Ziwen's sister was called Soong Ching Ling, and his brother-in-law was Sun Yat-sen, and under the circumstances of the time, these two were only revolutionaries with "empty titles".
In Mrs. Zhuang's view, these two people are not in the right household, and her daughter absolutely cannot marry such a person. She instructed her son to transfer Song Ziwen away and demanded that Song Ziwen and Sheng Aiyi no longer have any contact.
After a few days in Wuhan, Song Ziwen resigned and returned to Shanghai to start a financial company. Even so, he still loves Sheng Aiyi deeply, but Sheng Aiyi is still a boudoir lady with tradition, and she does not dare to respond enthusiastically to Song Ziwen's pursuit, and she does not dare to rebel in the face of her family's opposition. All she could do was reject her mother's blind date and break the connection with Song Ziwen.
Six years later, Song Ziwen was invited by his sister and brother-in-law to join Sun Yat-sen's Guangzhou government, and before leaving, Song Ziwen wanted to get an answer from Sheng Aiyi. He ran to the Qiantang River to find Miss Sheng Qi, saying that he had bought two tickets and hoped that Sheng Aiyi could go with him.
In the eyes of this boudoir lady, such a peer is tantamount to elopement. In the end, she still refused Song Ziwen's request, leaving only the three words "I am waiting for you".
Another new person is married but they miss each other
The lost Song Ziwen went south to Guangzhou, but within a few years, relying on his own ability, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee. On the way to Lushan, he met Zhang Leyi, the daughter of the owner of the construction site.
Compared with the subtle gentleness of Miss Shengqi, Zhang Leyi is lively and enthusiastic, young and fashionable, if Miss Shengqi is a flower with buds to be released, then Zhang Leyi is already in full bloom. Her enthusiasm and her new era of women's ideas all attract Song Ziwen.
Soon, Song Ziwen expressed his heart to the Zhang family and told Zhang Leyi about his past with Sheng Aiyi. For these, Zhang Leyi did not care.
Sheng jia is a traditional giant, and there are certain rules for doing anything. But the Zhang family is different, there is no so-called rule, and Song Ziwen obviously feels that he has received more respect in the Zhang family than the Sheng family. In this way, the two young men fell in love and married in 1928.
When Song Ziwen got married, Sheng Aiyi had just won the property lawsuit with the other brothers. At that time, Mrs. Zhuang had passed away, and the glory of the Sheng family had become a thing of the past. Upon learning the news of Song Ziwen's marriage, Sheng Aiyi was seriously ill.
After recovering, sheng aiyi, who was heartbroken, married Zhuang Zhujiu, whom her mother had always introduced to her. The two gave birth to a son and a daughter, named Zhuang Yuanduan and Zhuang Yuanzhen. Song Ziwen also has a family, and in order to commemorate his former relationship, he named his three daughters Song Qiongyi, Song Manyi and Song Ruiyi.
In his later years, Song Ziwen moved abroad with his wife and family. He often sent people to take care of the Sheng family and take care of Sheng Aiyi's life. Although Sheng Aiyi was not rich, she still had a calm and quiet expression, and as in the past, she wrote and painted without any change. And Song Ziwen and Sheng Aiyi have not been able to hold hands until they are old in their lives, and they will eventually be the biggest regret and pain in the hearts of the two lovers.