The story takes place in Vietnam under the French colony in 1929, and tells the love between the poor heroine Jane and the rich second generation male protagonist Tony. Fifteen-year-old white girls meet Chinese men by the Mekong River. He handed her a cigarette with trembling hands, and the two had a good chat, the man's family was in charge of some real estate in Vietnam, when Vietnam was a colony, and the white race was more noble than the yellow race.
Jane, the hostess, was a boarder, and she got in his car at his invitation to go to school. She lied to him that she was seventeen years old, when in fact she was only fifteen. Tony was thirty-two years old, and after the two of them slowly contacted each other, they found that there was a real call.
Jane and Tony
Jane's life was not good, and she studied with poor girls at her school in Saigon. Because her family was also very poor, their family moved from France to Vietnam, her father died when she was a few years old, and her mother fell into poverty because of the failure of investment, and since then, her mother's mental state has not been good. And her mother is partial to her eldest brother, the eldest brother has a bad temper, she and the second brother can only endure and dare not resist. She hated school and she hated family. Only Tony was her only salvation.
Jane begins dating Tony, whose driver takes them into an alley, and the two enter a room where the girl wants to be one of the many lovers of a man because she has already made her boundaries clear. In this bachelor's golden house, Simply encourages Tony to do the same thing to her as the other lovers. Tony hesitated, and he felt that Jane was too young to hurt her. But Simply plucked up enough courage to make himself a qualified lover.
Jane's life is not good, she shows her despair of life, and Tony is also desperate, because he wants to marry the girl who is the opposite of his own door, a woman he does not love.
Jane often waited for Tony's car at the school gate, and everyone saw her get into the car, and bad words came. She often sleeps out in order to stay with Tony, which is not allowed in school, so the matter is known to Jane's mother. Jane had no choice but to take Tony to see her parents. Unexpectedly, Jane's family did not take Tony seriously, because they were Caucasians who looked down on yellows even if they were poor.
Tony felt insulted, and he vented his anger on Jane. Jane asks Tony to treat her as a woman who asks for money and asks for five hundred oceans, which Jane gives to the school so that the school can lift Jane's punishment.
Tony really loves Jane, and Jane actually loves Tony too, but this love is blinded by money. Suddenly Tony's father was seriously ill, he was going to go back, and before leaving, he gave Jane the ring left by his mother, and Jane was very moved. But when Jane returns home, everyone tells him that the yellow race is not worthy of being with the white race, and Jane knows that she cannot break free from such family and racial bondage.
Upon Tony's return, she begins to show carelessness, and Tony becomes decadent when her father refuses to marry Jane. He really loved Jane, but nothing without his father's financial support. Jane reminds Tony from beginning to end that she only loves his money, and that she actually loves him too.
Jane's family is looked down upon by the local whites, who can't integrate into the yellow race and can't blend into the white race, and are very lonely in the face of the environment. They love each other, but they can't be together because of their circumstances. Since then, Tony has been smoking opium, becoming more and more decadent every day. But Tony paid off all the money Jane's big brother owed and sent him back to France.
Soon after Tony gets married, Jane looks at Tony in the crowd, and Tony sees her, but the two don't do anything, just silently listen to fate's arrangement. Jane went to the golden house where they had been before after Tony got married as agreed, but it was almost empty, and she waited until tony didn't come in the evening, and she gave up.
Later, Jane and her family took a ferry back to France, and she dressed and looked the same as Tony's first meeting. In fact, her carelessness was deliberately manifested in front of her family, and the boat slowly sailed ashore, and she saw the familiar black car, and the people in the car were looking at her decadently. The two didn't make any movements, just watched each other out of sight.
simple
Later she also got married, had children and divorced. Then write a book about your past experiences... By the time she wrote the book, she was already a white-haired woman.