On the evening of March 7, 1935, Ruan Lingyu first went to Li Minwei's house to attend the dinner. At this time, her expression was normal, no different from usual.
She chatted and laughed like a flower during the meal. Then she went to the Yangzi Hotel to show off her charming dance posture.
However, the incident happened at this time.
On the way home, Tang Jishan and Ruan Lingyu had an argument. Tang Jishan slapped her in anger. This was the last straw that forced Ruan Lingyu to death.
Before his death, Ruan Lingyu left two suicide notes, took out the sleeping pills prepared in advance and swallowed them in one breath. She walked to the bed and asked her husband in tears: "Do you really love me?"
Why did the movie star of the generation of movie stars take the path of suicide? It all starts with two men.
Art career
On April 26, 1910, Ruan Lingyu was born in a working family in Zhujia Muqiao, Shanghai.
father works as a coolie in the Asia Oil Stack, goes out early and returns late every day to cross the river through Huangpu Pier, and his mother is a housewife.
She will always remember that late at night when she was 6 years old, her father fell in the water in front of the house, holding an earring made of colorful beads in his hand. This was the last gift he gave to his daughter.
In order to raise her daughter, the mother had to take her to the Zhang family's home in Guangdong as a servant.
She saves money and sends her daughter to a nearby school to study, hoping that her daughter can achieve success in her studies.
While my mother helped me with the servants, Ruan Lingyu met the fourth young master of the Zhang family, Zhang Damin. He is fair and suave, but he is an ignorant playboy.
Originally, the two of them were not in a good match and could not be together.
But the bond between fate is so strange.
Huarong fell in the cage
In early 1925, Ruan Lingyu's mother was suspected by the Zhang family's mistress, and stole things from the house and drove them out of the streets.
is Zhang Damin extending a helping hand to them, finding evidence to prove their innocence, and convincing his mother to leave the mother and daughter behind.
Ruan Lingyu, who lives at the bottom, is used to rolling her eyes and indifference. No one will help her. She has always been grateful to Zhang Damin.
She was already 15 years old at this time and was so charming.
Zhang Damin will help, and he is also attracted by her beauty and wants to pursue her.
Although she is in a position of being a subordinate, she is grateful and does not refuse Zhang Damin's pursuit. The two of them stage a scene where a rich boy falls in love with a poor maid.
Like many women, Ruan Lingyu also hopes that she can have a passionate and unbreakable relationship.
The two once naively believed that with the power of love, they could break through the barriers of feudal society and unequal class relations.
It’s just that when love returns to reality, everything seems pale and powerless.
Zhang Damin revealed his feelings for Ruan Lingyu to his mother and wanted to marry her as his wife.
Zhang Damin's mother insisted on feudal concepts and felt that the two had a huge gap in identity, so she advised them to cut off contact.
At this time, Zhang Damin was deeply involved in the beauty of love and was determined not to separate from Ruan Lingyu.
The sticks will not separate, and the sticks will naturally disperse. This is true for Zhang Damin and Ruan Lingyu.
The family's stoppage strengthened the determination to be together, but Zhang Damin obviously overestimated his ability to survive.
After repeated dissuasions failed, Zhang Damin's mother drove Ruan Lingyu and the others out of the Zhang family, hoping to separate the two.
The power of love is great.
In January 1926, Zhang Damin, who had no independent ability to survive, left his original family in a feverish mind and rented a house on Beisichuan Road.
Under his hard pursuit, Ruan Lingyu also dropped out of Chongde Girls' School and moved to live with Zhang Damin with her mother.
Although Zhang Damin left his family, he was still a child who had not grown up and could not support himself. All expenses depended on subsidies from his parents.
In order to help his younger brother Zhang Damin get rid of life difficulties, Zhang Huichong introduced Ruan Lingyu, who is naturally beautiful, to apply for a job at star film company .
Ruan Lingyu is like an eagle, lacking a sky that can spread its wings and fly high, and Zhang Huichong gave her a platform, allowing her to soar into the sky.
From then on, she entered the entertainment industry and became a big star.
At this time, fate once again let Ruan Lingyu see Zhang Damin's true face.
After the death of the old owner of the Zhang family, Zhang Damin, as one of the heirs, received a large inheritance. He was idle and took the money to the dance hall, casino, and racecourse to enjoy it. He soon squandered the inheritance.
, Zhang Damin, who can't make money, only spend money, lost to reality.
As a last resort, Ruan Lingyu could only bear the burden of supporting her family. She shot commercials day and night and filmed movies, wanting to earn more money to maintain the family’s expenses.
Poor and humble couples are mourning, and they often have quarrels over trivial matters.
One is a playboy who has no progress, and the other is an increasingly mature popular female star.
Zhang Damin couldn't ask for money from his parents, so he treated Ruan Lingyu as his money tree and asked for money from her more than once.
What’s even more hateful is that the money he asked for from his wife was used to play with women!
He is also very afraid of losing Ruan Lingyu. On the one hand, he is greedy for her beauty, and on the other hand, he is greedy for her property.
When Ruan Lingyu appeared in public, he deliberately unkemptly and attended with a poor appearance, which made Ruan Lingyu extremely embarrassed.
s0s have repeatedly advised her husband to turn back, and said that as long as he can turn back, she will build a happy family with him.
When I saw Ruan Lingyu's innocent appearance, Zhang Damin sneered: "Marry? You're too naive!
I never thought of marrying you. All I like is your beautiful face. If you marry me as a concubine, I think it has lowered my identity!"
He ruthlessly cut off Ruan Lingyu's hope, putting her in a desperate situation.
Zhang Damin was fired by the company for embezzling public funds. Ruan Lingyunian asked someone to find a job in Fujian in the past.
But Zhang Damin is a black hole that cannot be filled. He will never be satisfied and will only make a big move to ask Ruan Lingyu for money.
, who could not tolerate Ruan Lingyu, eventually signed a contract with him to live without cohabitation through a lawyer and gained her freedom.
Ruan Lingyu may have been smooth sailing in her career, but her love life is an absolute tragedy.
Before she completely got rid of Zhang Damin's control, she met another man who played with women as a fun thing.
After the "January 8th" Incident in 1932, many Shanghai rich people went to Hong Kong to take refuge, and Ruan Lingyu also brought her adopted daughter to live in Hong Kong.
Here, she met Tang Jishan, a married fellow villager who was 14 years older than her, and a tea businessman.
The second man Tang Jishan
Tang Jishan graduated from Shanghai Nanyang Public School in his early years and later went to study in the UK. He is one of the few overseas returnees.
After returning to China, his father invited several famous wealthy businessmen to raise 100,000 yuan to set up a Huacha company, which was handed over to Tang Jishan for management.
Tang Jishan is a business genius. In just 14 years, she developed Hua Tea Company into the largest tea business in China.
He is very business-minded in business, but he has never been serious about his feelings. In his opinion, women are just toys.
Tang Jishan is a typical Shanghai "white girl". She once crazily pursued China's first actress Zhang Zhiyun . After the freshness faded, she kicked her away.
For him, a woman is like a clothes, and she kicks her away when she gets tired of playing.
Tang Jishan only pursues the most popular actresses and female stars in society, so that he can satisfy his showing off.
Not long after he separated from Zhang Zhiyun, he began to pay attention to Ruan Lingyu.
Ruan Lingyu's beauty is recognized by the public, and Tang Jishan is also fascinated by it. After hearing about Ruan Lingyu's experience, he turned into a close brother and comforted her very much.
He knew that Ruan Lingyu liked to dance and often invited her to have fun in the most luxurious dance hall and was willing to buy all the luxury goods for her.
The strength and financial strength shown by Tang Jishan made Ruan Lingyu extremely admire, but she has not yet emerged from the haze of the previous relationship and does not consider developing a new relationship for the time being.
Tang Jishan has never lost her skills in pursuing women. Seeing that Ruan Lingyu's attitude has never changed, he often goes to the set to send her a bouquet of flowers and film with her.
Under his repeated attacks, Ruan Lingyu fell into confusion.
After seeing that her attitude changed, Tang Jishan did something that surprised Ruan Lingyu: he invested heavily in the film and television company where Ruan Lingyu worked and became one of the major shareholders.
Faced with the invitation from her boss, Ruan Lingyu naturally had no choice but to refuse. After a while, she finally fell.
After returning to Shanghai from Hong Kong, she moved to live with Tang Jishan.
Ruan Lingyu knew that Tang Jishan had a wife for a long time, but she didn't care. She once told her good friend: "Maybe it's life experience that makes me too soft-hearted, and I can't stand others being too kind to me.
If they are kind to me, I will spare no effort to love him."
The hardships of childhood made her long for other people's kindness. Once others treat her well, she will give it back to the other party twice.
It was this personality that ultimately forced her into a desperate situation.
On April 9 of the same year, Zhang Damin went on a business trip from Fujian to Nanjing and passed by Shanghai. He came to the house he rented on Beisichuan Road to visit Ruan Lingyu, but found that the building was empty.
After a while, he found out that Ruan Lingyu and Tang Jishan were together, and Zhang Damin, who was betrayed, was very angry.
He has never encountered such a great shame in his life.
He came to , 9, Qinyuan Village, to negotiate with Ruan Lingyu.
After bargaining, the two parties finally signed the "Deal of Leaving Cohabitation". The contract requires Ruan Lingyu to pay Zhang Damin up to 100 yuan per month for two years.
originally thought that this matter would be settled.
But the insatiable Zhang Damin is unsatisfied with desire.
He saw Ruan Lingyu's value increase, and his mentality became increasingly unbalanced, so he actually entrusted a lawyer to sue Ruan Lingyu.
The reason is: "Stolen property, encroach on clothing, and privately engrave the seal of the Zhang family." He claimed that these things are worth more than 3,000 yuan and asked Ruan Lingyu to return them.
Originally, Ruan Lingyu did not intend to make a big deal. After all, she is a kind person, and it would be harmful to her reputation after the big deal.
But Tang Jishan is a businessman and will not show mercy to people like Zhang Damin. He advocates asking a lawyer to sue him.
The court has not yet opened the court, and this scandal has put Ruan Lingyu at the forefront. She has no courage to face this situation and refuses to appear in court.
In the end, Zhang Damin won and Ruan Lingyu compensated for the losses.
If you can really get happiness, so what if you pay this money?
It’s a pity that she didn’t expect that she had just climbed out of hell and fell into the abyss, and this abyss was enough to swallow her.
Not long after living together, Tang Jishan's true form was revealed.
The image of elegance, steady, elegant and caring care disappeared, and was replaced by moody and elusive.
He always overbears the ruling and restricts Ruan Lingyu's actions, prevents her from participating in social activities and social engagements, and controls her mentally.
Every time Ruan Lingyu wants to attend a social event, he will always say, "I don't want you to leave me tonight, can you stay with me, okay?"
If Ruan Lingyu doesn't obey him, he will look at Ruan Lingyu with a gloomy face and say nothing.
This feeling is like being stared at by a poisonous snake and beast. She often can't control her sweat and her hair is standing upside down.
Once, she was locked at the door by Tang Jishan because she came back a few hours late on filming on the crew. No matter how hard she begged, Tang Jishan was indifferent.
If it weren't for the neighbor Liang Saizhen's sisters who saw this scene after they came back from the dance hall and kindly took her home to stay, Ruan Lingyu could only sleep in the corridor that night.
This incident hurt her heart and her spirit suffered a great blow.
Tang Jishan is frivolous and frivolous, often hang out with young and beautiful dancers outside; he has a hideous face and often house-breaking , regardless of occasion; he controls Ruan Lingyu mentally, making her feel ashamed of him.
Ruan Lingyu, forced into a dead end,
For Zhang Damin, as long as Ruan Lingyu is not dead, he will pester her like a shadow.
When Zhang Damin came to ask for money for the second time, Tang Jishan scolded him, but he didn't get a penny.
Since then, some tabloids have often published reports that are not conducive to Ruan Lingyu. Tang Jishan is worried that this incident will affect his reputation and his company, so she directly plays "missing".
Ruan Lingyu couldn't find him by phone, and she couldn't find him when she arrived at his house. The company prohibited her from entering. Only then did she realize that the man was not reliable at all.
What made her even more unbearable was that the tabloids' articles falsely accused her continued to increase, but the articles never mentioned Tang Jishan's name again.
It turns out that Tang Jishan and Zhang Damin reached an agreement: Tang Jishan will no longer interfere with Zhang Damin and Ruan Lingyu's affairs. Zhang Damin can provide Ruan Lingyu's situation to the newspapers at will, but Tang Jishan cannot be involved.
The two men Ruan Lingyu once loved deeply, one was crazy about money and used any means; the other was timid for reputation and pushed her out as a shield.
Both men don’t understand what love is, they just play with her.
She finally realized that she was in a loss, but there is no medicine for regret in the world, and she was once again in pain and couldn't extricate herself.
Yu Sheng Xiang
For Ruan Lingyu, the meaning of life lies in: career, reputation, love.
When she encounters setbacks in her relationship, she tries to find the joy of life at work and creates one moving role after another.
She is a very good actress. Every role she portrays is deeply rooted in people's hearts and her career is booming.
But because of her appearance in the progressive film "New Women", she angered the reactionary forces and made her life worse.
In order to teach her a lesson, the reactionaries found Zhang Damin and gave him a large sum of money to instigate him to deny having a cohabitation relationship with Ruan Lingyu, and sued Ruan Lingyu in the name of adultery and bigamy.
Zhang Damin is a man who has no moral bottom line and is profit-oriented. When he sees money, he will do it naturally.
The Shanghai District Court also helped the evildoer and soon accepted the fake case of Tang Jishan and Ruan Lingyu's adultery and escape. After the news of
spread, newspapers and magazines of all sizes in Shanghai reported on the matter and promoted it heavily. Some tabloids even fabricated fake news in order to attract attention.
They described Ruan Lingyu as a watery poplar and extravagant woman. For a time, almost everyone in Shanghai knew about this.
Even the children selling newspapers on the road were filled with Ruan Lingyu's unbearable scolding, and the image she had accumulated over the years was ruined.
All kinds of pressure swept over, and the court also issued a notice asking Ruan Lingyu to appear on time. In addition to these, Ruan Lingyu was also asked to stand in a square wooden barrel with a chest height.
How can Ruan Lingyu bear this humiliation? She refused to appear in court.
But reactionaries have already prepared countermeasures, and all reports have come, and the articles have turned into sharp blades and poked on her body.
She has always been kind-hearted, but she became a sinner overnight and could no longer raise her head.
She is no longer a young girl, but has become a shameless slut in the mouths of the people, and is a beauty who cannot be punished for her crime.
What is Tang Jishan doing when she is most difficult and helpless?
Although Tang Jishan appeared, she did not have a word of comfort, but instead accused her of affecting her reputation and image.
Reputation plummeted, career encountered difficulties, and love encountered setbacks.
For Ruan Lingyu, she couldn't find a reason to survive. Instead of being pointed at her nose, she would rather die!
On March 7, 1935, she finished filming several scenes of "National Style" as usual, and took the initiative to attend a family banquet hosted by the company's general manager Li Minwei.
During this period, she frequently raised glasses with the people at the banquet and chatted and laughed. After the banquet, she hugged and said goodbye to the people present one by one.
They returned to their home in Qinyuan Village at one o'clock in the morning on the 8th, and they were almost quarreling all the way back home.
No one knows what a miserable woman who is about to say goodbye to this world is thinking, but so far, no one can see her abnormality.
She walked to the desk, wrote two suicide notes, then took out the sleeping pills that had been prepared in advance, and swallowed 30 tablets in one mouthful.
She walked to the bed in a daze, woke Tang Jishan up, and asked with an abnormal expression: "Do you really love me?"
Tang Jishan saw her crying and quickly sat up. Then he noticed the abnormality and hurriedly took Ruan Lingyu to the hospital.
God also failed to leave this star who insisted on seeking death.
It’s a pity that Ruan Lingyu met a bad person in her life, which led to such an ending.
Her friend doesn't understand why she insists on being with Tang Jishan, who is a married man, but as a bystander, perhaps the author can understand.
Ruan Lingyu's childhood was unfortunate. After losing her father at the age of 6, she had been living a difficult life with her mother.
But no matter how much my mother gives, she can't replace her father, and she can't make up for the fatherly love she lacks.
What Ruan Lingyu lacked in childhood is more eager to have when she becomes an adult.
Although she is very successful in her career, she is still a little girl in her heart. As a veteran in love, Tang Jishan knows best what Ruan Lingyu needs.
When she needed it the most, he appeared beside Ruan Lingyu with a gentleman face and a close brother.
How can Ruan Lingyu, who has never experienced love, resist?
In the face of love, girls just ignore it. She knew that Tang Jishan was not the good person who could be entrusted to her life, but she was still willing to go through fire and water for that one percent possibility.
It’s a pity that she lost the bet.
. END.
text: ink dyed single gui
Editing and layout: Xiaoyuan
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