"In the case of the poet Gu Cheng's wife killing, the fatal mistake made by his wife Xie Ye buried his life"

As children, we were always envious of geniuses because they could get ahead of us and easily get everything we dreamed of with a different mind.

However, God is always fair, and while giving it comes something, it will also take something.

Some people say that geniuses are mostly paranoid, lonely or extreme, which is their implicit label.

Gu Cheng's wife, Xie Ye, once said: "Falling in love with a genius is happiness, and marrying a genius is unfortunate." And her encounter and acquaintance with the genius poet Gu Cheng did not wait for a happy ending.

Gu Cheng and Xie Ye

8 October 1993, Waiheke Island, New Zealand.

Gu Cheng and Xie Ye had a fierce conflict because of their emotional entanglement, and just as Xie Ye was packing his bags and preparing to leave, the disoriented Gu Cheng slashed at her with an axe...

A disheartened Gu Cheng then hanged himself from a large tree, and Xie Ye died a few hours later.

The once beautiful love between the two ended in this tragic way of burning jade. Xie Ye gave everything for her husband, but a "mistake" she personally cast in this tragic marriage made her life finally buried in her husband's hands.

Her life was short and ups and downs, leaving infinite emotions in vain.

1. Origin: Love that comes from encounters on the train

The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find the light.

——Gu Cheng, "A Generation"

When we think of the poet Gu Cheng, we will all think of this famous poem and think of this pair of "black eyes".

But Gu Cheng's life was not to use his wise eyes to find the light, but to take his wife into the dark abyss.

In the impression of his sister Gu Xiang, Gu Cheng has been lonely since childhood and does not like to join in the fun. In kindergarten, he was the most unsociable child, always liked to be alone in the corner looking at the trees and ants.

Affected by the Cultural Revolution, in 1968, at the age of 12, Gu Cheng dropped out of school at home. From an early age, he began to learn to write poetry, and a piece of paper and a pen were his whole world. He always just buried his head in writing his inner thoughts, and everything around him seemed to be on deaf ears. The atrocities of the Cultural Revolution had a huge impact on his heart, and he became more autistic and sensitive.

In 1969, Gu Cheng's family followed their father from Beijing to Guangbei, Shandong, where they stayed on a military farm for five years. Because of the language barrier, the Gu Cheng family rarely interacts with the locals.

The closed environment of the farm made Gu Cheng unable to contact his peers at all, and he became more reluctant to communicate with people. Throughout his adolescence, his only hobby was writing poetry.

Later, after returning to Beijing, several of Gu Cheng's poems were successfully published, and he began to show his prominence in the poetry world with his own works.

In 1979, the 23-year-old Gu Cheng became famous for his short poem "A Generation". The whole poem has only two sentences: the night gives me black eyes, but I use it to find the light.

For a moment, countless auras poured into him. He was regarded as a genius in the poetry world, and was also known as a "fairy tale poet", becoming an idol sought after by countless literary and artistic youth at that time.

It was also this year that Xie Ye, the most important woman in Gu Cheng's life, appeared. She and Gu Cheng inadvertently met, opening a lifelong love-hate entanglement.

In July 1979, Gu Cheng met Xie Ye on the train from Shanghai to Beijing that day, and she happened to be sitting opposite Gu Cheng. The breeze blew up Xie Ye's long hair, and also blew the girl's shadow into Gu Cheng's heart.

In Gu Cheng's love letter to Xie Ye, it is described as follows:

When you arrived at Nanjing Station, someone else occupied your seat, and you didn't speak, you stood next to me. I suddenly became strange, maybe I wanted to stand up, but when I stood up, I sat down again. I began to feel you, the fine hair fluttering behind your neck. I took out my brush and drew old people and children, a couple, young chemical factory youth sitting across from me with obscure faces. I painted everyone around you, but I didn't draw you. I think you're so bright that I can't keep my eyes off. ......

Xie Ye is also a young woman in literature and art, who loves to write poetry, and Gu Cheng's literary talent makes her admire. Maybe it was love at first sight, or maybe it was the same heart that loved literature and art, and the two of them regarded each other as confidants in life and fell into a sweet and crazy love.

Because the two are in a long-distance relationship, they can only rely on letters on weekdays. During this period of love, Gu Cheng wrote many letters to Xie Ye, with sincere words and heartfelt sentences.

But Xie Ye's parents did not like Gu Cheng. They were quite critical of Gu Cheng's "poet profession", believing that the boy was not doing his job and opposing his daughter's association with him.

Unexpectedly, this triggered the paranoid side of Gu Cheng's heart, and he actually slept in the door of the Xie family with the cover in his arms, and he had the posture of not giving up until he reached his goal. Over time, Xie Ye's parents were also impressed by Gu Cheng's patience and persistence, and agreed to his marriage with Xie Ye.

Xie Ye's parents' permission to the marriage made Xie Ye overjoyed, but she did not expect that this would be the beginning of a tragedy.

2. After marriage: the dark side behind the poetic life

In 1983, Gu Cheng and Xie Ye were officially married. In the first few years after marriage, the husband and wife were harmonious and inseparable.

Gu Cheng is very talented in poetry creation, but he is a complete "low-energy child" in life and family affairs.

He often didn't even take care of his own clothes and appearance, let alone cook and do housework. In addition, it is difficult for him to control his emotions, and he will fall to the ground and play with his words.

Gu Cheng described himself as a "wayward child" and "a paranoid person who likes absolutes."

But the kind and gentle Xie Ye tolerated Gu Cheng's shortcomings, and she let Gu Cheng concentrate on creation and took care of all the housework herself. Like a child, she takes care of Gu Cheng's daily life.

It is precisely because of Xie Ye's existence that Gu Cheng can write his poems without any worries.

His wife's intimate care and wholehearted care have caused Gu Cheng to have a serious dependence. His life is completely inseparable from Xie Ye, and even asked his wife to quit her original job and take care of him at home. Gu Cheng's heart hoped that his wife Xie Ye would give him the same love as a nanny.

Incomprehensible paranoia, gloomy and lonely personality, and no hands-on ability, can not take care of people... Such a Gu Cheng is really not a good husband.

But Xie Ye, who has a deep admiration for her husband, still obeys his unreasonable demands. She really loves Gu Cheng too much, and is willing to sacrifice her career to be the woman behind her husband.

In 1988, Gu Cheng was hired as a researcher in the Department of Asian Languages at the University of Auckland and went to New Zealand to teach classical Chinese literature, and it was also this year that Gu Cheng and Xie Ye's son Mu Er was born.

Disgusted by the noisy urban environment and the complicated chores at work, the paranoid Gu Cheng quit his job and asked Xie Ye to live with him on Waihek Island in New Zealand.

Gu Cheng's bones have a stubborn Qinggao, unwilling to associate his poetry with money. In desperation, Xie Ye took on the heavy responsibility of supporting his family.

This well-educated Shanghai girl had to support this small family by raising chickens, selling eggs and selling spring rolls.

Gu Cheng, still living in the world of poetry he fantasized about, did not ask about the world at all. He can't drive, he can't type, he can't cook, and everything in his life depends on Xie Ye.

And Xie Ye, still endlessly tolerates what her husband does, willing to sacrifice herself and carry the family's livelihood with her weak shoulders.

3. Absurdity: The intervention of a third person

In 1986, at a poetry meeting, some people sharply criticized the Obscure Poetry School and Gu Cheng. A girl shot up on the spot and fought back to support Gu Cheng. She was the third person who later intervened in Gu Cheng's marriage, Li Ying.

Li Ying's move made Gu Cheng and his wife very grateful, and the three of them also formed a friendship since then.

Xie Ye regarded Li Ying as his good friend, and told her a lot of love trivia about himself and Gu Cheng, and the speaker had no intention of listening, and Li Ying, who had originally admired Gu Cheng, secretly fell in love with Gu Cheng in his heart.

Li Ying became an avid fan of Gu Cheng, she deeply admired Gu Cheng, like a moth to put out a fire, so impulsive, ethics and morality were all discarded by her.

The night before Gu Cheng and his wife planned to go to New Zealand, she actually rushed to Gu Cheng's side and confessed to Gu Cheng in front of Xie Ye.

In the face of Li Ying's pursuit, Gu Cheng did not refuse, and also asked his wife Xie Ye to accept the "cohabitation life of three people" and agree to Li Ying's existence. And Xie Ye actually acquiesced!

In 1990, Li Ying was also taken to Rapids Island by Gu Cheng and officially became Gu Cheng's lover.

Gu Cheng, Xie Ye, and Li Ying, as husbands, wives, and lovers, began a life of "cohabitation" that was not unusual and bizarre.

As a wife, Xie Ye was actually able to tolerate the existence of a third party, which was beyond a woman's normal emotional range. But Xie Ye said that she loved Gu Cheng too much, and would allow Gu Cheng to have the woman he loved.

Gu Cheng once talked to his friend about this matter: "Do you know that Li Ying is on the island, and Xie Ye is so good to her?" Li Ying's clothes were all washed by Xie Ye with his hands. ”

But this illusory life of Eden will eventually be shattered by the harsh reality.

Perhaps out of guilt for interfering in other people's marriages, or perhaps because of the misery of life on the island, when Gu Cheng and his wife were invited to give a lecture in Germany, Li Ying did not say goodbye and has never heard from him since.

After Li Ying disappeared, Gu Cheng had been muddy, and the whole person had been immersed in the sadness of losing Li Ying, paying no attention to Xie Ye's mood.

When Xie Ye found that Li Ying's departure not only did not save her husband's heart, but made him worse, Xie Ye's heart also sank little by little, she gradually lost patience with Gu Cheng, and also began to find that her marriage was a joke at all.

At this time, Xie Ye met a suitor, "Big Fish", a doctor of mechanics from China.

The personality of the big fish is very different from Gu Cheng, he respects Xie Ye, loves Xie Ye, and he puts Xie Ye on the same level. In Xie Ye's view, this equal respect had never been given from Gu Cheng.

But later, Gu Cheng discovered Xie Ye's private communication with Dayu, and he was furious and frustrated, and he fiercely moved his hands on Xie Ye.

Gu Cheng's suspicion and violence, as well as his attitude of ignoring his son, made Xie Ye completely chill.

At first, after having his son Xiaomu'er, Gu Cheng thought that the child would affect his wife's care for him, and under his repeated requests, poor Xie Ye had to put the child in a New Zealand indigenous Maori family.

Recalling the hard work of so many years, recalling the countless times of tolerance and tolerance for her husband, and the pain of sending her son to the fence, Xie Ye's disappointment in Gu Cheng's heart is increasing day by day, and she thinks of ending this painful marriage.

This was a fatal blow to Gu Cheng, who was already accustomed to relying on Xie Ye for everything. At this time, Gu Cheng gradually woke up, and he wanted to save Xie Ye, but Xie Ye had already decided to divorce.

On October 8, 1993, the two had a fierce conflict over the divorce, and just as Xie Ye was packing his bags and preparing to leave, the disoriented Gu Cheng slashed at her with an axe...

Disheartened, Gu Cheng also chose to end his life in a self-hanging way, and the once beautiful love eventually lost both and ended in a tragic way of burning jade.

Genius and madness are often separated by only a line, and this tragic marriage is of course caused by Gu Cheng's lack of morality and the dark and paranoid side of his personality.

But there is another reason for the deep investigation, that is, the "mistake" cast by Xie Ye herself: her excessive blind love for her husband, and her unprincipled protection and tolerance for her husband.

Xie Ye's unprincipled sacrifice of himself made Gu Cheng completely become a "giant baby" in life, and from Xie Ye acquiescing to Li Ying's intervention, not preventing a third party from interfering in his family, this is the biggest mistake.

Xie Ye's whole life has been making wedding clothes for others, but he has never really lived for himself, and this kind of love and marriage that has lost himself and principles has finally buried his life.