During the Republic of China period, although everyone began to pursue new ideas, they were still bound by the traditional concept of marriage in terms of feelings and marriage, and many men still had three wives and four concubines, and lived a good life. The girl we are talking about today is named Gu Ruiyu, and her husband is Zhang Xueliang, who is well known to everyone.
Zhang Xueliang is a talented, handsome-looking, and has inextricably linked relationships with many women in his life. And Gu Ruiyu is his second woman. Gu Ruiyu is a mixture of Chinese and Russian blood, white and beautiful, tall, and some plump, so she is also known as "Yang Dama", which is used to praise her good figure and tall. Gu Ruiyu's ancestors were merchants, and her family was still very wealthy, but Gu Ruiyu fell into the middle of the family road not long after she was born, and when she was a child, her family was still relatively rich, which could provide her with reading and literacy.
So Gu Ruiyu grew up and went to the countryside to become a teacher. However, at that time, the northeast was not very peaceful, and the bandit plague was very serious. Once the bandits entered the village again to do evil, and when they arrived at the school, they found her figure, when in order to cover the students to escape first, Gu Ruiyu took a step late and was forcibly taken back, and the bandits wanted her to be the cottage lady.
Just when Gu Ruiyu was trying to escape, Zhang Xueliang came with people and horses to suppress the bandits and rescued Gu Ruiyu. The plot that often appears in the novel happened, the young and handsome boy stepped forward and rescued the beautiful girl, and there was a spark between the young boy and the girl immediately, but at that time, the situation was tense, Zhang Xueliang did not have much time to cultivate feelings for Gu Ruiyu, and went to the front.
In the war-torn era, Gu Ruiyu, who was only 20 years old, defied the opposition of his family and went to the front line alone to find his beloved. When Zhang Xueliang saw Gu Ruiyu, he was touched by the girl's courage, and the march was basically carried with her. And Gu Ruiyu also paid his own efforts, Zhang Xueliang often vomited on the march, all night, Gu Ruiyu accompanied by careful care, this feeling of sharing happiness and suffering made the relationship between the two heat up rapidly.
Although the original wife later strongly opposed Zhang Xueliang's concubine, and his father Zhang Zuolin did not explicitly agree, he still insisted on marrying Gu Ruiyu in Tianjin, but Gu Ruiyu did not get the approval of the original wife until the divorce, and naturally did not step into the Zhang family Shuai Mansion. But in order to make up for Gu Ruiyu, Zhang Xueliang bought her a small Western-style building outside for her to live in.
The love between the two came and went quickly, and the contradictions in personality after marriage made the two often quarrel, and the feelings also produced rifts. At that time, Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling had contacts, and Guo greatly admired Zhang Xueliang's second wife, that is, Gu Ruiyu, especially her act of sacrificing her life to save students was even more admirable. Therefore, Guo's wife and Gu Ruiyu often exchange letters, which also became a hidden danger for Gu Ruiyu and Zhang Xueliang's divorce in the future.
After his father Zhang Zuolin and Guo Songling fell out, Zhang Zuolin killed Guo, and found these letters in Guo's home, Zhang Zuolin became angry with Gu Ruiyu and ordered his son to divorce Gu Ruiyu. Under the strong pressure of his father, Zhang Xueliang chose to divorce himself, he knew that he was in a loss, and gave Gu Ruiyu a small bungalow and 100,000 living expenses, but also put forward two demands, Gu Ruiyu could remarry, but could not be a prostitute.
After Gu Ruiyu divorced, he lived a dashing and comfortable life, lived out of himself, and also worked as a professor in the Physics Department of Nankai University until his retirement, but Gu Ruiyu did not choose to remarry.