Raised by a maid, she is very unfamiliar with her birth mother Hye Sook, but she loves her with romantic feelings. The birth mother is a foreign student, and her every move is full of foreign atmosphere. When she was young, she hoped that her birth mother would stay with her, but her birth mother was like a passer-by in her life, occasionally appearing and separated for a long time.
Fortunately, she was born into an aristocratic family, and there were countless servants in the family, although there was no mother in the family, there were servants to take care of her, and she lived a life of fine clothes and food from an early age.
Xi Ling's father was the grandson of the Qing Dynasty Zhongtang, and his literary talent was also good, but he was busy eating and drinking (female tickets) (shellers) smoking big (tobacco), and did not do a little serious work. Xi Ling received a good education from a young age, and once carried the verse "Merchant girls do not know the hatred of the country, and sing backyard flowers across the river" on the knees of a Qing Dynasty widow.
At that time, Xi Ling was only four years old, and he did not understand what it meant to be "a merchant girl who does not know the hatred of the country, and sings backyard flowers across the river", and only saw the sad tears on the face of the Qing Dynasty widow. She heard from the servants that the Qing Dynasty had fallen and that her family was no longer aristocratic.
But her family was still so wealthy that her father had so much money to spend. When Xi Ling was three years old, her mother Hui Shu went abroad with her sister-in-law to study, and her father Feng Yi took her aunt from Qinglou home to live.
The aunt could not give birth to a son, did not like Xi Ling's younger brother, but treated Xi Ling very well, made a lot of beautiful new clothes for Xi Ling, and took Xi Ling to the World Grand Hotel to watch dancing and eat cake.
Xi Ling once regarded her aunt as her mother, and later when her aunt got into an argument with her father and was thrown out of the house, she learned that it was only her aunt and that her mother was in a foreign country.
After her birth mother, Hye Sook, returned to China, the family of four lived a good life for two years. But the parents were not all the way and eventually divorced. Xi Ling once again saw that her birth mother was gone, and she hoped that her birth mother would take her away, but her birth mother did not want to take her little baggage.
Her father's opium addiction was getting worse and worse, and the smell of smoke filled the house, and it was dark everywhere like an ancient tomb. Her father often stood on the balcony, his head covered with a white towel, a sick face, sweat droplets dripping from his forehead, and his face was full of anxiety.
Xi Ling was afraid that her father would die, but this was too much to worry about. Not only did her father not die, but he also married her stepmother.
When she was twelve, she had a stepmother, and she didn't like her stepmother, who treated her as well as her father's former aunt. Her stepmother brought her a box of gifts, a box of old clothes to wear. Xi Ling was very angry, where are the old clothes as gifts? My aunt also knew how to make her beautiful new clothes.
The stepmother has a strong temper and has to ask questions about everything, and the control over Xi Ling and her brother is very strict. Xi Ling is in the rebellious period of the young girl, full of hostility towards this foreign woman, how can he be willing to be managed by her?
Xi Ling's birth mother returned to Shanghai to visit relatives and took her boyfriend to live in the World Grand Hotel, and Xi Ling went to visit her stepmother and did not greet her stepmother.
This can poke the honeycomb, the stepmother quarrels with her, and wants to slap her, but Xi Ling stops the stepmother's arm so that she can't hit anyone. The stepmother yelled at her daughter to beat her, and her father rushed over and punched and kicked her and locked her up.
Xi Ling took advantage of the fact that the servant who guarded her was not paying attention, ran away, and ran to the hotel where her mother was staying to ask for shelter, although her mother took her in, but her mother's boyfriend's face was very unhappy. With the financial support of her mother, Xi Ling went to university in Hong Kong, returned to Shanghai after graduation, and began to write novels and submit articles.
Her novels were popular, she became a famous writer, she met a writer who was older than her teenage years, Wu Guiyuan, the two fell in love, and Lightning married. After getting married, she found out that she had been deceived by Wu Guiyuan, who had been married twice, and divorced her second wife in order to marry her, and all the property was given to the second wife as alimony.
Xi Ling does not mind marrying a divorced man, as long as the other party loves her. However, Wu Guiyuan became a sexual being, and after marrying Xi Ling, he also had extramarital affairs with many women. He once fell in love with a beautiful young widow, the young widow was pregnant and came to the door, but he had no money to give the young widow a fetus, so He had to give the young widow a fetus with his own contribution fee.
Faced with the betrayal of her unscrupulous husband again and again, Xi Ling could not bear it, so she divorced Wu Guiyuan and returned to live with her aunt's house.
In 1952, Xi Ling felt that the situation was not good, so he left Shanghai for Hong Kong, and then from Hong Kong to the United States. At the age of 36, she married a 65-year-old American writer.
The old writer did not have much money, and the old writer said helplessly: "My ex-wife has already given birth to two children for me, I don't need children, not to mention that I can't afford to raise children now, you go to the fetus." ”
Xi Ling was very desperate in his heart, married a poor old husband, and could not even afford to raise children. But she didn't have much money at the time, and the novels she wrote were not popular in the United States and could not be sold. She can't even support herself, how can she afford to raise children? She could only get a tyre.
Her old husband soon suffered a stroke and was paralyzed, and Xie Ling not only had to take care of her old husband, but also earn money to support her family. Xi Ling felt that he was really tired.
Fortunately, the old husband died of a stroke a few years later, and the burden on Xi Ling's shoulders was relaxed. However, in the United States, she did not have a satisfactory life, only found a job with the help of friends, and later she suffered from depression in her later years, always thinking that the cockroaches in the apartment would bite her and get a rash all over her body, which was actually a psychological effect.
He died in the United States at the age of seventy-six, without a single relative.