Life is short-lived, ups and downs, and everything you encounter and see is a farce. The noble and luxurious identity, the flashy and luxurious life, finally disappeared in the war, leaving behind a sigh of lamentation.
As the last empress of the empress, WanRong was at odds with her husband, chose to commit adultery with the guards and had children, and became addicted to opium in her later years, and finally died tragically in prison. What happened to this, what made things devastated, plunged everyone into a deep quagmire, and led to a regrettable tragedy.
The illustrious family is destined for a graceful destiny
Guo Bro Wan Rong was born on November 13, 1906. Wanrong's biological mother was Ai Xinjue Luoshi, the granddaughter of Puxu the Prince of Dingjun and the fourth daughter of Yu Chang, who died tragically while giving birth to Wanrong, and her father, Guo Buluo Rongyuan, was then the Minister of internal affairs.
It can be said that Wanrong was born in a famous family, the family is prominent, as a young lady with extraordinary birth, the family is naturally very attentive to her cultivation, in order to comprehensively cultivate Wanrong also specially invited an American teacher to teach her English.
Because she was influenced by her family's education and culture since childhood, Wanrong's talent was outstanding, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, coupled with her dignified and generous appearance, so at the age of 16, she was elected to the palace to become the last empress in the history of the Qing Dynasty. From then on, her fate will be completely rewritten.
A marriage full of variables
However, at that time, when choosing an empress, the empress circled by Emperor Puyi was not Wanrong, but a plain-looking Wenxiu, but because Wenxiu was not as good as Wanrong regardless of family appearance or talent, coupled with the fact that Emperor Jin's noble concubines preferred Wanrong, Puyi finally chose Wanrong as an empress among the two, and Wenxiu became Puyi's concubine.
At first, the husband and wife relationship between Wanrong and Puyi did not say that they loved each other, but they were also respectful as guests, and Wanrong also had a good feeling for this man with a scholarly atmosphere and did not lose his royal prestige, in Wanrong's view, she was undoubtedly lucky, in the situation of not being able to control her marriage, she met a person she liked, and also became his wife, the mother of a country.
This is out of reach of many people. As everyone knows, entering the palace gate itself is a tragic choice, not to mention that the situation was turbulent at that time, and the people did not have a good life. Sure enough, it wasn't long before Feng Yuxiang launched the "Beijing Coup", Puyi was forced to expel from the Forbidden City, and Wanrong also left.
After that, Puyi went to Tianjin to live, and as soon as he left the palace, WanRong, who had been educated by Western culture since childhood, faded the complicated costumes in the palace, replaced them with fashionable cheongsam and high-heeled leather shoes, permed the hairstyles that were popular at that time, and became a very modern and attractive woman.
Wanrong spending money is even more generous, daily like to go shopping in department stores, like what to buy, which is more leading to Wenxiu's jealousy, began to compete with Wanrong for favors, Wanrong likes what Wenxiu also wants, which also makes Puyi feel headaches.
Gradually, Puyi's own weaknesses began to be exposed, and Puyi's body, which had been living in the deep palace for a long time, had long been hollowed out. Due to physiological problems, Wen Xiu chose to divorce Puyi, and the emperor was divorced, which was unprecedented at that time, which made Puyi angry and ashamed.
It even blamed Wen Xiu's departure on Wanrong's head, and the relationship between the two has since dropped to a freezing point. At that time, Wanrong was also addicted to marijuana and became mentally distracted, and Puyi turned a blind eye to her and let her fend for herself.
Wanrong's marriage evolved from full of expectations at the beginning to a devastation, which she herself did not expect, just like Mr. Lin Yutang said, all marriages, no matter how they are arranged, are gambling, are adventures in the vast sea.
In this gamble, WanRong is undoubtedly the one who lost the bet, but who can blame this? Since she was a child, she has been full of poetry and books, and she has been educated in the West, but she has not escaped the poison of traditional concepts, and the feudal foolishly believes that the times are the same as before, the royal world, reluctant to fame and fortune, unable to let go of her identity, all this is just her own choice, Wan Rong can only eat the consequences of herself.
Bad choices lead to ill-fated lives
Due to Puyi's indifference, WanRong, who is not willing to be lonely, smokes crows every day. At that time, Puyi had a bodyguard named Li Tiyu, who had always been devoted to her because of her beautiful and dignified appearance. Just when Puyi snubbed Wanrong, but Li Sports took very good care of Wanrong, Wanrong naturally knew that Li Sports had a heart of admiration for herself.
On the one hand, out of revenge for Puyi's indifference to himself, on the other hand, out of his own physiological needs. Wan Rong and Li Tiyu had a relationship, puyi has not known about it all the time, and the relationship between the two lasted until Puyi sent Li Tiyu to study abroad.
After Li Tiyu left, Wanrong had an improper relationship with another bodyguard named Qi Jizhong around Puyi, Qi Jizhong was a powerful assistant that Puyi trusted very much, and Puyi also valued him quite much, and even handed over his financial power to Qi Jizhong to take charge, and also sent him to Japan for further study, but he never expected that even Qi Jizhong eventually betrayed himself.
After Li Tiyu left, Wanrong was still frantically smoking opium, while Qi Jizhong often helped Wanrong to buy opium, and the two gradually developed a good feeling. Qi Jizhong often bought the next person around Wanrong to facilitate his contact with Wanrong. This unseemly relationship did not start quietly like the previous relationship and then quietly ended.
Soon after Wanrong became pregnant, Wanrong planned to give birth to a child, so she kept it a secret from Puyi, until Wanrong was about to give birth, Puyi learned about it, and later Wanrong gave birth to a baby girl, but Puyi threw the child into the furnace in order to maintain her face. Wanrong lied that she had given the child to her brother to raise, and Wanrong did not know until she died that her child was brutally killed at birth.
After learning of the fact that his wife and two of his most trusted bodyguards had an affair, Puyi recalled Qi Jizhong and Li Sports, gave them 400 silver dollars, and let them leave with this disgraceful secret.
After Li Tiyu and Qi Jizhong got the money, Li Tiyu chose to marry and have children, living a stable and peaceful life, it is reported that Li Tiyu met Puyi after that, and the two did not mention anything about the past, Li Tiyu still honored Puyi and said: "Emperor." ”
Qi Jizhong chose a road of no return, because during his study in Japan, Qi Jizhong learned some combat knowledge, and then went to North China to do the puppet army that aided and abetted abuse, with a lot of Chinese blood on his hands, and finally he was arrested by the police, sentenced to death, and a gunshot ended Qi Jizhong's evil life.
For Wanrong Puyi, she did not have any marital affection, and the only thing left was contempt and disgust, Puyi wrote in the book "The First Half of My Life", "In 1935, because she was pregnant and nearly delivered, I found the problem. I was angry and unwilling to let the Japanese know, and the only way to vent my anger was to vent my anger on her.
In addition to expelling all those who were related to her or suspected, I also decided to divorce her. However, the Kwantung Army did not allow it at that time, and I did not dare to offend the Japanese. Because the situation still needs the identity of Wanrong, the empress, Puyi cannot divorce Wanrong, so he imprisons Wanrong in the cold palace, and finally dies tragically in prison.
Everything needed for life is not expensive and luxurious, expensive and simple; not expensive and rich, expensive and elegant; not expensive, expensive and suitable. Wanrong mistakenly chose a life that was not suitable for herself, and finally died a miserable death. Qi Jizhong coveted fame and fortune, killed innocents indiscriminately, and finally could not die well. And Puyi is not struggling in a life that is not suitable for him, in order to continue to compile his dream of the emperor, he has made a lifelong marionette.
Life is to face different choices again and again, to look far ahead so as not to be mired in the mire, everyone is the same, these well-read poetry books, well-dressed and jade children are just like this, for fame and fortune to tie up their own life, it is really regrettable.