- 【Preface】
In fairy tales, a girl also has to go through various ups and downs before she becomes a princess.
But in 1968, an 18-year-old Taiwanese girl achieved this goal "easily."
She seemed to be favored by the goddess of destiny, and at the age of 18, she transformed from an ordinary hotel employee into a high-ranking African princess. Her husband was extremely fond of her, gave her supreme power, and specially ordered someone to build her a luxurious palace. Even her family lived an aristocratic life.
Such a life is what many people dream of, but they can't ask for. But what people did not expect was that after only two years, she frantically tried everything she could, even if she left her two young daughters, to cry and return to China.
What is the hidden feeling behind this move?
Lin Bichun
- 【Cinderella in reality】】
The girl's name was Lin Bichun, and she came from an ordinary family. She is the second child in the family and has an older brother on top.
The family was poor and patriarchal, and her mother often whispered in her ear that the family was too poor, so she quickly went out to work to subsidize the family. There was really no way, she stepped into society early after graduating from junior high school.
In order to earn money, Lin Bichun has distributed leaflets, worked as a worker, and has to get up early every day to get dark. But even if you are busy all day, you get a very small salary, only enough to make ends meet.
The heavy work makes Lin Bichun more and more tired, she wants to take a break, does not want to be overwhelmed by work every day, but family and life make her almost no time to rest.
As a result, Lin Bichun has been trying to find a job that is easy and more expensive.
It sounded like a fool's dream, but it really made her find it.
With her hard work and her excellent facial features, Lin Bichun successfully found a job as a waiter at the Round Hill Hotel. Due to his outstanding work ability, Lin Bichun was quickly valued by the leaders.
Round Hill Hotel
Her life was much better than before, but she was still worried all day long. People's desires are endless, and Lin Bichun is naturally not exempt from vulgarity. In her days at the Round Hill Hotel, she saw brightly dressed figures with heads and faces every day. Some of the things they casually discarded were things that Lin Bichun had saved for a long time and could not buy them.
After truly seeing the huge economic gap between the rich and the poor, Lin Bichun is more yearning for the life of the rich. She is no longer satisfied with her current life, and often fantasizes that she can meet a rich man and marry herself into the door in a beautiful way.
Although Lin Bichun thought like this, she also knew in her heart that this was unrealistic.
But what she did not expect was that the appearance of a person made her fantasies shine into reality.
That person is the former President of Central Africa, Bokassa.
Bokassa
In 1968, Bokassa visited Taiwan and stayed at the Round Hill Hotel. Bokassa's visit is related to politics, and Taiwan attaches great importance to him, and specially arranges a group of young and beautiful waiters with outstanding professional ability to take care of him. Lin Bichun is one of them.
The first time they met, Bokassa was attracted by Lin Bichun, who was full of youth and good looks. His gaze also began to move silently with Lin Bichun. After several contacts, Bokassa became more and more fond of Lin Bichun and simply expressed to the Taiwan authorities that he wanted to marry Lin Bichun.
So they specifically approached Lin Bichun and her family and began lobbying them to agree to the affair.
Lin Bichun was very surprised. Although she wanted to marry into the rich, she did not expect the opportunity to come so quickly, and she did not fantasize about Bokassa as a beautiful way to marry her own Prince Charming. Because Bokassa was nearly half a hundred years old at that time, he was even older than Lin Bichun's father. Bokassa, who has a dark complexion and rugged facial features, is not the type that Lin Bichun likes at all.
But in the end, Lin Bichun still agreed.
Her family yearned for the life of a drunken fan, and was even more insane about the proposal to marry her daughter to Africa.
And Lin Bichun herself also understands that this is estimated to be her closest opportunity to the giants. If you miss it, it is estimated that there will be no more in the future. Moreover, the other party is very powerful, and if it refuses, it is afraid of retaliation. Therefore, the three parties happily reached a reunification, and Lin Bichun also successfully married to Africa with her family.
But will Bokassa give her the life she wants?
Bokassa
- 【Husband with a story】
Lin Bichun's life in Africa is completely dependent on Bokassa. If Bokassa is a good person, she will naturally have no worries about food and clothing, and she will reach the peak of her life in one fell swoop. But sadly, Bokassa was not a good husband, or even a good person.
To this day, there are still many Central Africans who hate him so much that he grits his teeth.
Bokassa was born into a wealthy family in Central Africa and grew up well. But when he was 6 years old, his father was killed and his mother committed suicide. The young Bokassa suddenly lost his affection and his life plummeted, and since then he has planted the seeds of hatred in his heart and become a little paranoid.
In 1939, Bokassa joined the French army and in 1944 crossed the ocean to participate in the Indochina War. By the end of World War II, he had been promoted to captain. After a variety of military achievements and honors, his life was smooth sailing, and in 1963 he was appointed chief of staff of the army.
This made many people start to deliberately curry favor with Bokassa, and also made him jealous of some people. Bokassa was a man who would not hide his sharp edge and acted without scruples. It is precisely because of this that President Dakowi, who is already jealous of his power, suspects that he intends to defect.
In 1965, President Dakowi finally couldn't bear it anymore and ordered someone to assassinate Bokassa at a dinner party one day. But Bokassa can go all the way and be safe, and naturally has his own skills. Before the assassination, Bokassa had already heard the news, simply launched a coup d'état and appointed himself president.
Bokassa
After becoming president, Bokassa was still not satisfied. In order to gain more power, he threatened the chairman of the only political party in Central Africa, the president of the National Congress of the "Black African Social Progress Movement", with a bayonet, forcing him to appoint himself as president for life.
In 1974, Bokassa was still frantically seizing power, single-handedly holding important positions in 14 countries. Two years later, he finally could not restrain his ambitions and officially became emperor.
After hearing that Bokassa was called emperor, many people sighed and could not sleep at night. Because long before Bokassa became emperor, his brutality was well known.
Bokassa had ordered that if someone stole something, one ear would be cut off the first time and the other a second. If someone steals for the third time, they have to cut off their hands and execute them in public for the fourth time. So, in 1968, 48 thieves in prison had their ears cut off.
In 1971, he also broke into the prison and killed 50 prisoners. Subsequently, he stripped 46 prisoners naked, tied their hands and feet, and ordered the soldiers to abuse them according to his requirements...
Now that Bokassa has become emperor, the means will certainly be more fierce.
As it turned out, they guessed correctly.
Because Bokassa himself came to power in a less bright way, this also made the already sensitive and suspicious him more and more suspicious, often feeling that he would be taken by others in the same way.
As a result, in order to consolidate his power, Bokassa acted more and more obediently and brutally.
Bokassa
Between 1966 and 1977, Bokassa reorganized his government more than 20 times. He replaced 4 prime ministers and 8 foreign ministers, including 3 officials of the ministerial level and above who were ordered to be executed. For Bokassa, there is no need for people who disagree politically with him.
Bokassa has a zoo that specializes in raising some ferocious beasts. When idle, he especially likes to feed crocodiles and lions with political prisoners. To facilitate access to the animals' food, a blood-stained interrogation room is located next to the VIP reception room. Fresh corpses would be placed in several two-meter-high freezers and used at will.
It is said that the human flesh was not only used by him to feed wild animals, but also sometimes eaten by himself, and even used by him to entertain foreign guests.
Lin Bichun married such a person, then her life in Africa, is it really as good as she imagined?
Bokassa
- 【Bumpy escape, things are not people】
In fact, Lin Bichun's life was quite good at the beginning. At that time, Bokassa was particularly fond of Lin Bichun and held a luxurious wedding for her. But Lin Bichun was not happy for long before he found himself deceived.
Originally, it was monogamous in China, but this was not the case in Central Africa. Bokassa already had eight wives before marrying Lin Bichun. According to traditional Chinese concepts, Lin Bichun is actually Bokassa's ninth concubine.
Lin Bichun did not like Bokassa, completely for the sake of glory and wealth to go away, seeing that the reality was different from what she imagined, she felt cheated and depressed all day.
But Lin Bichun also understood that Bokassa was really good to her. Not only did he build a luxurious palace specifically for her, but he also gave her a lot of power. When she was unhappy, Bokassa also accompanied her all day, spending thousands of dollars just to make her smile.
Even her family, Bokassa, was properly placed. With Bokassa's financial support, Lin Bichun's eldest brother opened a Chinese restaurant, and the business was booming, and he became a wealthy bourgeoisie. Because of Lin Bichun's relationship, the family can almost walk sideways in Central Africa.
This kind of treatment is not available to other princesses. This made Lin Bichun breathe a little relief, and also gave her an illusion. She naively thought that she would be a special case, Bokassa's true love. But it didn't occur to her at the time that in Africa she would have to live on Bokassa's pampering. And once this love is lost, the drunken gold fans in front of her will dissipate like a dream bubble.
Maybe Lin Bichun had also thought about it, but she probably didn't think that this result would come so quickly.
In just two years, Lin Bichun's life has undergone earth-shaking changes.
It turned out that Bokassa did like her, but that liking was only superficial.
With the passage of time, Lin Bichun has fully adapted to the life of the princess of Central Africa and has given birth to two daughters to Bokassa. She thought she would live like this forever, but she didn't expect that fairy tales were just fairy tales.
In the process of getting along, Bokassa's nature is increasingly exposed. He looked at Lin Bichun, who was out of shape and did not look like before after giving birth to the child, and resolutely withdrew his favor. He also immediately found another object that made him give affection and pampering.
When Bokassa was on a mission to Romania, the local officials knew that Bokassa was good at this, so they carefully selected a Romanian beauty to give to Bokassa. And that woman also became Bokassa's tenth wife, and the pampering she enjoyed was not at all inferior to That's Lin Bichun at that time.
The sad Lin Bichun originally wanted to use the child to win back Bokassa's heart, but he had more than 50 heirs, and he did not care at all about the two daughters that Lin Bichun bore him. Long-term pampering has long made Lin Bichun become a little pampered and blind, and she has not recognized the reality, and she has quarreled with Bokassa to win back his attention.
As a result, Bokassa ruthlessly withdrew all the favor and power previously given to her, and even imprisoned her in the palace. Lin Bichun's life is still like this, and her family's life has plummeted. At the behest of Bokassa, Lin Bichun's big brother's restaurant could not continue, and other family members were ostracized everywhere.
What made Lin Bichun even more sad was that Bokassa even wanted to marry her sister. Lin Bichun himself had seen through Bokassa's ruthlessness, and it was naturally impossible to push his sister into the fire pit. But it also made her more anxious, and began to miss the ordinary but happy life before.
Lin Bichun wanted to return to China, but she had been strictly guarded by Bokassa, her freedom was restricted, and she had no chance to ask for help. It was not until Bokassa suffered a political crisis that Lin Bichun found an opportunity to send a message to Taiwan for help.
At that time, Taiwan's foreign policy made some adjustments. After much deliberation, they agreed to Lin Bichun's request. Soon, they brought Lin Bichun back to Taiwan on the pretext of treating skin diseases.
In order to escape from the demon cave, Lin Bichun did not even have time to say goodbye to his two biological daughters, so he left them and left.
After this encounter, Lin Bichun felt more and more confused. She prefers a plain, ordinary life to the rich and prosperous.
Although Bokassa repeatedly tempted Lin Bichun to return after claiming the title of empress, Lin Bichun, who had seen through Bokassa's nature, did not waver. After that, Lin Bichun converted to Buddhism and practiced at home all day, not asking about the world.
Becoming a princess is the dream of many girls. But most of these dreams are based on fairy tales, where the king and prince are rich and handsome, but they love the girl of the ordinary family. But fairy tales are fairy tales after all, where in reality is there such a pie in the sky?
Therefore, when encountering this kind of thing, we must have a clear mind, and not every prince and king is like in a fairy tale.