Remember the 2005 family comedy "Family with Children" starring Song Dandan and Gao Yalin?
This is a story about Liu Mei and Xia Donghai, a halfway couple, who have children each but are happily married.
Have you seen the real-life version of "Family with Children"?
In 1997, Ru Ping and her ex-husband divorced and took her daughter alone; While Liu Zhibing had been divorced for 5 years and was alone with her son.
At that time, both of them were at the trough of their feelings, and a half-joking remark from a friend completely changed the lives of the two people and the fate of the two families.
Fate seems to be so wonderful, but everything is just right.
As a restructured family, how does the family overcome contradictions, break the mustard, and live happily together?
01
Like most actor couples, Liu Zhibing and Ru Ping did not escape the spell of "falling in love with the drama", but there was an unusual vignette before they filmed.
In fact, the two had known each other as early as 1995, when they co-starred in the movie "Behind enemy lines" filmed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance, which was also the first work they worked together for the first time.
In 1997, the two collaborated twice on the TV series "All the Way to the Wind and Rain", in which Liu Zhibing and Ru Ping played a pair of lovers, telling the story of their youth to old age.
Before filming, Liu Zhibing had made a phone call to Ru Ping to confirm whether Ru Ping also went to that play, and after getting Ru Ping's affirmative answer, Liu Zhibing put his mind at ease.
To everyone's surprise, this phone call became the beginning of their relationship.
Before the two received this play, Liu Zhibing had a good buddy who happened to be a colleague of Ru Ping's unit, and one day, this buddy called Liu Zhibing and wanted to ask Liu Zhibing what was going on recently.
Liu Zhibing was very confused and told him directly: "I have no situation recently." ”
As soon as the buddy listened, his interest came: "I told you that Ru Ping has a little situation recently, and I think you two are quite suitable." ”
This is a heavy new news for Liu Zhibing, who is surprised: "Huh? No way? ”
The buddy said, "Yes, it seems to be." ”
Liu Zhibing thought to himself, if this is the case, shouldn't it be a condolence? Looking for an opportunity by the way?
As if there was an arrangement in the dark, just at this time, the director of "All the Way to the Wind and Rain and One World" found Liu Zhibing and asked him and Ru Ping to star as male and female protagonists.
Liu Zhibing felt that this was also too coincidental, isn't this heaven helping me? I was worried about not knowing what reason to ask Ru Ping, it was really nowhere to step on the iron shoes, and it took no effort at all.
After a while, he called Ru Ping: "I'm Liu Zhibing, I want to ask when you will come to the crew?" ”
Ru Ping originally saw a strange number and felt a look of doubt, after connecting, she knew that it was Liu Zhibing who came, and she told him his own situation truthfully:
"There is a play in our troupe, I want to go to Beijing to perform, after the performance I told them that I will come over."
Liu Zhibing then asked, "Then I may go first, are you sure you are coming?" ”
Ru Ping thought it was just a greeting from her old friends before they met again, so she didn't think much about it: "I'm sure I'm coming." ”
Liu Zhibing was secretly happy in his heart, and then he and Ru Ping chatted for a while, and when they learned that Ru Ping was watching a football game, Liu Zhibing immediately became interested: "I am also watching the ball, which ball are you watching?" ”
Just like that, the more the two talked, the more speculative they became. Liu Zhibing is a fan, but what he did not expect is that Ru Ping is also a fan. This made his liking for Ru Ping deepen another step.
Just chatting and chatting, I found that Ru Ping is not that kind of superficial fan, but basically belongs to the kind of pseudo-fans, Liu Zhibing cried and laughed, thinking that this person is quite interesting.
Since they had talked so much, Liu Zhibing simply asked what he wanted to ask the most: "Ru Ping, I heard that you have changed a little recently. ”
Ru Ping said especially honestly, "Ah..... be. ”
Liu Zhibing did not expect Ru Ping to be so frank, and he continued to ask: "Is it true?" Ru Ping gave him a definite response.
In an instant, Liu Zhibing thought about the pain of his original divorce, he felt that a woman must be more difficult, he asked tentatively: "So how are you now?" ”
Ru Ping responded to him with a smile: "You see it's not very good now." ”
Liu Zhibing then relaxed his mind: "That's fine." ”
Liu Zhibing did not ask too much about this, he was worried that Ru Ping would recall the sad past again, and in this way, the two began to have initial contact.
02
Liu Zhibing first arrived at the Chengdu crew to shoot, and in addition to filming, he also played a flying, special flight from Chengdu to Beijing to see the drama performed by Ru Ping.
After Ru Ping finished performing, she saw Liu Zhibing offstage, and she looked surprised: "Why are you here?" ”
Liu Zhibing told her: "I came to see the performance and learned. Although Ru Ping was half suspicious of Liu Zhibing's words, she didn't think much about it. The next day, the two flew back to Chengdu together and began filming the TV series.
After entering the crew, because the two played a couple in the play, and the whole time the female protagonist especially liked the male protagonist, she has been pursuing the male protagonist.
Even Ru Ping herself did not know when she had different feelings for Liu Zhibing, and the two came together in a vacuum, as if according to the development of the plot, it should be like this.
Liu Zhibing was like this, and finally hugged the beauty.
Not long after the two were together, they ushered in Ru Ping's first birthday, when both were in Shanghai, Ru Ping in love was like a little girl, fantasizing about many birthday scenes, maybe there will be candles, Western food, flowers and so on.
However, to Ru Ping's surprise, Liu Zhibing actually only took her to eat a bowl of Lanzhou ramen, thinking that his mother would also nest an egg in the noodles.
Just when Ru Ping was sullen and unhappy, Liu Zhibing took out a pair of shoes from behind, and a sentence of "I want to go all the way with you" completely captured Ru Ping's heart.
Until now, Ru Ping felt that it was the most comfortable pair she had worn since she was so old, and I thought it might be a pun. After all, marriage is like a shoe, and only your own feet know whether it is suitable or not.
03
The two came together so smoothly, but the huge difficulty in front of them was how to get along with each other's children, and how should the two children get along?
But in Ru Ping's view, it is excellent to have children in a family, and she has a daughter, and Liu Zhibing has a son, which just makes up a "good" word.
When the two children first met, they were only 8 years old, and Liu Zhibing's son Liu Sibo was just 100 days older than Ru Ping's daughter Xi Wang, when they met four people for the New Year.
Before the meeting, Liu Zhibing said to his son Liu Sibo: "The eldest 100 days is the brother, you have to let the younger sister." The son nodded, "I see." ”
But the younger sister Xi Wang was not happy after knowing this: "Why let me, if I am wrong, you still let me, is not used to my fault?" If so, why not listen to me? ”
When Liu Zhibing heard it, he liked this child in his heart, and since then he has silently thought in his heart that this child is my daughter-in-law.
Later, Liu Zhibing and Ru Ping decided to live together and establish a home in Hangzhou. The two bought their own house and then renovated it.
At that time, Xi Wang had not yet gone to school, and Liu Zhibing rode a bicycle from the east of Hangzhou to the west of the city to take her to busy with decoration, take her to dinner in the afternoon, swim, and then go home in the evening.
Getting along day after day, Xi Wang and this strange father gradually became acquainted, from sitting hard in the back seat of the bicycle at the beginning, to naturally wrapping around dad's waist later, and the small face was attached to dad's back.
She began to enjoy the fatherly love brought by Liu Zhibing, which also made Liu Zhibing feel very pleased, and his sincere efforts were finally rewarded.
On the first day of moving into the new house, the family of four chatted hotly, and the two children were not unfamiliar, and directly held a family version of the "Walk of Fame" at home, singing and acting sketches to celebrate the joy of housewarming.
Looking at the two pistachios in front of them, Liu Zhibing and Ru Ping did not mention how happy they were. Sometimes when two people quarrel and contradict each other, they do not expect that the two children have become the best conciliator between parents.
In this family of four, Ru Ping's daughter Xi Wang and Liu Zhibing are always on the same team, while Ru Ping is on the same team as Liu Zhibing's son Liu Sibo.
04
In 2010, Xi Wang, who was about to graduate from high school, wanted to become an actor like her parents, and she planned to apply for the acting department of an art college, and she told her mother about the idea.
Mother Ruping was very surprised: "Haven't you always wanted to learn to choreograph?" Why did you suddenly want to learn acting again? ”
Xi Wang put his arms around his mother, smiled and said, "It's not due to your genetics, I'm interested in acting now." ”
Ru Ping, as an old actor who has filmed dramas for decades, knows the hardships and difficulties behind the actors, and Ru Ping, who has always been gentle, hardened for the first time, she directly interrupted her daughter: "You can apply for any other major, but you can't learn acting." ”
Xi Wang was puzzled: "Why can you, I can't?" I am now an adult and I have the right to choose my future. ”
For a time, the mother and daughter debated each other and did not budge.
After Liu Zhibing returned from the unit, he looked at the two women with displeasure and asked strangely, "What's wrong with you two?" ”
Xi Wang glanced at his mother, not wanting to speak. Ru Ping told Liu Zhibing about the matter one by one, and she was anxious to let Liu Zhibing help her do the work of Xi Wang.
After dinner, Liu Zhibing chatted with his stepdaughter about the day, and he told Xi Wang about their hardships in filming, as well as the anxiety and passivity of being an actor, and advised her to dispel the dream of an actor.
But in the end, Xi Wang was still admitted to the acting department of the Central Academy of Drama without hesitation, and became an actor like his parents.
When the family recalled this past again, Liu Zhibing pretended to be angry and said: "If you are my own child, I will beat you like this." ”
Xi Wang said triumphantly, "So, you are helpless at this time." ”
In this family, parents and children get along more like friends, they will occasionally call the name directly, xi hope sometimes on a whim, directly call Liu Zhibing "Liu Laogen", Liu Zhibing is also crying and laughing.
For their sons Liu Sibo, Liu Zhibing and Ru Ping hoped that he would study finance or law in the future, but in the end his son was admitted to the People's Liberation Army Academy of Arts.
Sometimes liu sibo did not listen to his father's advice and had his own opinions, Liu Zhibing would be angry, and whenever xi wang would come to his brother as a lobbyist:
"The little brother actually thinks the same thing as you think, you sometimes in front of me and my mother, or together with us, what you say is actually very harsh, you make him feel very uncomfortable with self-esteem." 」 He has already given you enough face, and I guess I have already turned my face for another person. ”
How to say that the daughters are daddy's little lovers, Liu Zhibing listened, felt very reasonable, so he asked Xi Wang to communicate with his brother about this matter, xi Wang also happily agreed.
Younger sister Xi Wang and older brother Liu Sibo
05
One spring in 2016, Xi Wang met his own Prince Charming Guo Xiaoran at a party in Beijing, who, like Xi Wang, was an actor.
Both graduated from the Central Academy of Drama, Guo Xiaoran is from Shandong, 9 years older than Xi Wang, and the two who are both singles came together not long after.
Guo Xiaoran's care and thoughtfulness are deeply infected by Xi Wang, and for a while Liu Zhibing found that her daughter always held her mobile phone and was always very happy.
Liu Zhibing smiled and said, "What a happy thing, say it, let dad also be happy." Only then did he know that his daughter was talking about a boyfriend.
As a father, Liu Zhibing is happy for his daughter, but his heart is not a taste, thinking about when he will meet the young man in his daughter's mouth, he must do a good job for his daughter.
In this way, Liu Zhibing took Guo Xiaoran to another café, and the two chatted for a long time that day, and Guo Xiaoran's frankness and sincerity also made a big stone in Liu Zhibing's heart finally land.
Guo Xiaoran
In 2017, Xi Wang is about to enter the palace of marriage.
Just the night before Xi Wang's marriage, Liu Zhibing couldn't sleep all night, and he had to sigh and sigh for half a day when he turned over, but his mother Ru Ping was very wide-hearted: "Look at your appearance, you are not out of the ordinary, and you will not be able to see your daughter in the future." ”
On the day of Xi Wang's marriage, Liu Zhibing, who has always shown the image of a tough guy, still left tears in his eyes, and he solemnly handed over his daughter's hand to Guo Xiaoran's hand and told him: "I must be good to my girlfriend, or I can't spare you." ”
Looking at the old father in front of her, Xi Wang felt that she was particularly happy, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes for her father, gave Liu Zhibing a big hug, and comforted him: "Rest assured, Dad." ”
epilogue
Today, Xi Wang also has his own daughter, Liu Zhibing and Ru Ping are also promoted by their father-in-law and mother-in-law, and the family is happy and harmonious.
In fact, whether it is a primitive family or a reorganized family, it should have its own way of getting along.
If it is conducive to the happiness of the family, even if it can be said or not, it must be expressed diligently,
For words that are not conducive to family happiness, if it can be said or not, then we must try to swallow it back.
More understanding and tolerance, more respect and sincerity, the closer the family relationship can be closer.
After all, the happiness of a family does not depend on the efforts of one person, but requires the whole family to be able to be happy all the time.
Halfway couples, reorganizing the family, along the way, it is not easy, bless them!