All the gifts from Heaven have already been secretly marked with prices. Whoever wears the crown will be weighed and wounded.
Out of the mix, sooner or later to pay back. When a beautiful girl is no longer young, and the once wanton arrogance is replaced by the embarrassment of life and the emptiness of the soul, she wants to start over and find that it has long become a fantasy.
Lin Bichun
In 1971, in the distant small African country of Central Africa, the consul of the "consulate" of Taiwan Province received a call from a girl, who cried on the other end of the phone: "Please, save me, take me back to Taiwan..."
After hanging up the phone, the consul had mixed feelings, and he had heard about the girl's encounter: the 18-year-old Taiwanese waitress, who was favored by the African president, became the most favored "king's woman", with unlimited scenery and envy for others. However, only three years later, this "daughter of destiny" was ruthlessly abandoned, fell into the endless abyss, not only lost the freedom of life, but also threatened by the president: "If you want to regain your freedom, exchange your sister for it!" ”
Her name is Lin Bichun, and her name is no longer known in an era when exotic love and transnational marriages are no longer unusual. But the heartache she has experienced will still give some wake-up call to girls who want to marry into Africa on a moment's notice...
Taiwanese waitress meets African president
Lin Bichun was born in 1950 to an ordinary family in Taiwan. Lin Bichun's father was a native of Shandong, and after the defeat of the Kuomintang, he followed the troops to Taiwan, ran a small restaurant, and barely maintained the family's life.
At first, Lin Bichun could still get the favor of her parents, but with the birth of her brother, her family status plummeted, and any good things in the family had to be given to her brother to eat, and the sister and brother made mistakes, and the punishment was also that she was not her brother.
Lin Bichun has a good academic performance, but because her parents are unwilling to bear high tuition fees, she dropped out of school early and was forced to enter the society to work, she has been to Taichung and Taipei, sat on the assembly line, worked as a seamstress, and most of her meager salary had to be sent home for her brother to go to school.
In the blink of an eye, Lin Bichun grew to 18 years old, standing tall and beautiful. Tired of the tedious work day after day, she used her posture to enter the famous Yuanshan Hotel in Kaohsiung and worked as a waitress.
Bokassa
It was in the year that Lin Bichun entered the Yuanshan Hotel that a major event occurred in Taiwan Province: Bokassa, then president of the Central African Republic, accepted the invitation of the Taiwan authorities to visit Taiwan and stayed at the Yuanshan Hotel.
While entertaining Bokassa and his party, Lin Bichun, who was tall and tall and young and beautiful, appeared. The two only had a face-to-face look, and Bokassa was completely fascinated by the beauty of this girl, she looked sweet, and her face was hung with the shyness characteristic of oriental women, which made Bokassa fall in love with her at first sight.
Bokassa was full of affection, exchanged contact information with Lin Bichun on the spot, and at the first time of returning to China, he sent an invitation to Lin Bichun, hoping that she would go to Central Africa and take her to play Africa.
Clear-eyed people can see at a glance that Bokassa's invitation is actually a "request" from Taiwan for Lin Bichun to let the girl marry him. The Taiwan authorities naturally understood Bokassa's intentions, but instead of refusing, they actively contributed to the matter for the simple reason that this was an excellent opportunity to establish "diplomatic relations" with China and Africa.
Marrying far away from Africa, the scenery is unlimited
Although the Taiwan authorities intend to promote this "beautiful affair," after all, it is a major event related to Lin Bichun's life, and the decision-making power is still in her own hands.
Hearing that the African president had an interest in her, Lin Bichun panicked. After all, the age and status of the two are very different: Bokassa holds the power of life and death in a country, but he is already a 47-year-old middle-aged uncle; Lin Bichun is only 18 years old, just an "ugly duckling" who works as a waiter in a restaurant. With such a huge disparity, can life after marriage be happy?
But for a little girl who has just come of age and has never seen the market, the attraction of identity, wealth, and power is too strong, and the "ugly duckling" has become a fairy tale of "white swan", can she not be moved?
So, despite the advice of her family and friends to think twice, she did not hesitate to go straight to Africa, eager to run to the wider world.
Lin Bichun, who went in and out of Africa, received an extremely solemn courtesy from Bokassa, and he said to Lin Bichun on the spot: "This time when I pick you up, I will marry you as my princess and enjoy all the glory and wealth." ”
At that time, Lin Bichun simply got the queen's script. In order to please her, Bokassa built a splendid villa in Central Africa, gave her countless rare treasures, and luxurious and beautiful dresses, and obeyed her.
On the day of their wedding, Bokassa sent a special plane to pick up Lin Bichun's family from Taiwan to Central Africa, and specially airlifted fresh roses from the Netherlands to the whole machine, which was very valuable. Taiwan's local media, witnessing the fairy tale of the ugly duckling turning into a white swan, published news on the front page, using the headline "Love River Encounter, Fairy Tale" as the headline, and hyped it up.
Since then, Lin Bichun has become the ninth princess of Bokassa, enjoying the treatment of hugging and drunken fans who have never experienced before, and it feels so good to be a princess! At the same time, Lin Bichun's family also "chickens and dogs ascended to heaven", all staying in Africa, and her brother opened a large hotel in Central Africa, and the business was booming.
Soon, Lin Bichun gave birth to a lovely daughter to Bokassa, and her life ushered in the peak and most brilliant moment.
However, everything came and went quickly, and Lin Bichun, who thought he could dash for a lifetime, fell to the bottom in just two years of life.
The husband empathizes and the princess is imprisoned
Although Central Africa is nominally a "republic", the core is a feudal and backward empire, and Bokassa, as the head of a country, like a feudal monarch, also has the hobby of three wives and four concubines. Bokassa is temperamental and ruthless, and he will try every means to incorporate women he likes into the harem. Lin Bichun later realized that she was just one of Bokassa's many "concubines", and when her passion faded, she lost her value.
Shortly after giving birth to her first child, Lin Bichun became pregnant with her second child, and during her pregnancy, she looked haggard and could not care for Bokassa, and was gradually disliked. Bokassa could not get the comfort of Lin Bichun, and there were more and more women around him.
At that time, China and Africa had just become independent, and they were the object of the two major groups in the United States and the Soviet Union. In August 1970, Bokassa visited Romania at the invitation of the President of Romania. During this period, in order to gain the support of Central Africa, the Romanian president carefully selected and gave Bokassa a beautiful, blonde girl.
Like the pursuit of Lin Bichun in the past, Bokassa was fascinated at the first sight of the girl, and impatiently invited the girl back to Central Africa, promising her to become his princess.
The arrival of the blonde angered Lin Bichun, who believed in monogamy and was loyal to love, and she suddenly realized that from front to back, she played nothing more than a personal plaything of the president.
At the beginning, Lin Bichun also thought about being patient, comforting herself that this was the price of marrying far away from Africa and becoming a princess. However, what was difficult for her to accept was that this affectionate husband wanted to enjoy the blessings of the people and hit his own sister.
One day when Bokassa arrived, he saw a family portrait of Lin Bichun on the table, and a beautiful girl in the photo caught Bokassa's attention. He looked straight in the eye for a long time and asked Lin Bichun, "Who is this girl?" ”
Bokassa's eyes made Lin Bichun very scared, and she had to reply: "She is my sister, Lin Biyun." ”
After hearing this answer, a smile appeared on Bokassa's face, he patted Lin Bichun's shoulder, and said appreciatively: "Take her over, let's live together." ”
Lin Bichun was not willing to let her sister repeat the same mistakes and quarreled with Bokassa. Bokassa did not expect that this always weak wife would dare to rebel against his authority, and thundered, began to beat her, and then imprisoned her, not allowing her to go out.
The glory and wealth of the past were reduced to a pair of golden shackles, and Lin Bichun fell from the clouds and became a harem prisoner.
The princess fled and returned to Taiwan in a hurry
Lin Bichun finally figured out that if she continued to stay with Bokassa, she would fall into the abyss and affect her family. But Bokassa is on top and dictatorial, and it is not easy to divorce through formal means. The only way to do this is to ask for help from the "mother-in-law", and perhaps there is a glimmer of life.
As a result, the desperate Lin Bichun began to frequently ask for help from Taiwan's "consulate" in Central Africa, and after writing a letter for help, he dialed the "consulate" phone to talk about the coercion and abuse he had suffered in Central Africa.
In 1971, relations between Taiwan Province and Central Africa changed, and Lin Bichun was no longer regarded as a "marriage tool." Therefore, under the mediation of the Taiwan side, Lin Bichun returned to Taiwan Province with his family on the pretext of being seriously ill and returning to China for treatment. Before leaving, however, Bokassa did not agree to her taking her two daughters back, leaving them in Africa.
After three years, Lin Bichun re-embarked on the homeland of Taiwan and could not help but burst into tears. The experience of the past three years, like a dream, in that distant land, witnessed the glory of Lin Bichun, and also witnessed her falling like a meteor, and in the end, all she could carry was the pain and endless regret of her body.
Lin Bichun, who returned to Taiwan, looked back on this experience and could not help but sigh with emotion, she no longer coveted the powerful, anonymity, came to an ordinary mountain village, and lived an anonymous life.
On the other hand, Bokassa, who had a brief marriage with Lin Bichun, was ousted from power and fled abroad because his autocratic rule offended the people. During this period, Bokassa, who had nowhere to escape, remembered that he had a wife in Taiwan and wanted to come to him, but was directly rejected by the Taiwanese side.
In 1987, Bokassa was escorted back to China and spent the rest of his life in prison.
In 1996, Lin Bichun, who learned that her "ex-husband" died of a sudden heart attack and lived in seclusion in the countryside, had infinite emotions: If she still stayed in Africa and was accompanied by a tyrant, I am afraid that what awaited her would be a greater misfortune. The choice she made to return to China now seems to be a blessing in disguise.