"Disappearing Her" prototype: 4 years after being pushed off a cliff, she has not yet divorced

In 2020, Chen Sicheng's team found Wang Nuannuan (pseudonym), a pregnant woman who was pushed off a cliff by her husband in Thailand. Her experience caused an uproar on the Internet, and Chen Sicheng saw the possibility of adapting it into a movie.

After 3 years of production, "Disappearing Her" will be released on June 22, 2023, setting off a huge wave in the cold film market, and has received more than 2.5 billion box office so far. Wang Nuannuan also re-entered the public eye.

In the movie, the protagonist Li Muzi is locked in a cage at the bottom of the sea by her husband. She saw the starry sky under the sea promised by her husband, but she did not close her eyes until she died.

In reality, 20 days before the release of the movie, the Royal Thai Court made a final judgment. Wang Nuannuan's husband, Yu Xiaodong, was sentenced to 33 years and 4 months in prison, and at the same time, Wang Nuannuan had to pay about 1.06 million yuan in civil compensation.

This is not the end of the story. I am afraid that at that time, Chen Sicheng did not expect that the pregnant woman who was pushed off the cliff from 34 meters, the victim who had not divorced until now, the woman who had 17 fractures all over her body and more than 200 stitches, stood up tenaciously.

The best directors can't make stories that are more wonderful than reality; The most imaginative screenwriter can't write a script that is more shocking than real humanity.

Wang Nuannuan has also become one of the few people who has survived the murder of his wife in recent years.

A few days after the release of "Disappearing Her", Wang Nuannuan finally plucked up the courage to enter the cinema and watch this movie adapted from her real experience.

She posted on social media, "Seeing Li Muzi left alone in a cage in the deep sea, I thought of the desperate feeling I felt lying at the bottom of the cliff. ”

When she decided to authorize the film, Wang Nuannuan had just been pulled back from the brink of death. She was bedridden for a long time, and after a little recovery, she still had to be in a wheelchair.

Wang Nuannuan

More than a hundred steel nails barely supported her life, and the pain made her desperate. During the rehabilitation process, because her legs could not move, she remembered the past countless times and broke down and cried. The therapist was helpless.

She agreed to authorize the adaptation of the film because when she was most helpless, she received too much encouragement from netizens, and she thought that her story would be the best result if it helped others.

After the movie was released, she supported it for the second time and thanked her fans who had accompanied her for many years on social platforms, saying that she gained a kind of rebirth power from it.

There are also fans who send her private messages, telling about the ups and downs and despair of the experience. She responded publicly:

"When you can't hold on, you come to see me, I used to have everything, career, family, health, overnight."

Today's Wang Nuannuan

The beginning of the story begins on June 9, 2019. Around this day, Wang Nuannuan's personal social platform judged the two.

In March of that year, Wang Nuannuan frequently posted videos on social platforms. Whether it's staying at a Thai Seaview Hotel or traveling around the world herself, she calls it "fairy days."

In April, after learning that she was pregnant, she renovated a new house in Thailand and had unlimited hopes for the future. She wrote: "I want him to grow up carefree in Thailand. ”

At that time, her husband Yu Xiaodong occasionally appeared in her videos, mostly dining and traveling together.

At that time, Yu Xiaodong was gentle and considerate. He will no longer pester Wang Nuannuan for money, nor will he quarrel again, but will cook for her and take care of her living.

Wang Nuannuan thought that it was the change brought about by the arrival of the child, and she also discussed with her husband that at the wedding of the two in the future, she would let the baby carry the wedding dress for herself.

Being able to live such a life, Wang Nuannuan is not easy.

In 2015, she quit her stable job and came to Bangkok, Thailand alone with her accumulated resources and all her possessions. Her first venture was a dried fruit business.

She personally went to farmers' homes to buy mangoes and contacted local processing plants to make dried mangoes. She thought everything was going well, but she didn't notice that just because the processing plant delayed production for a few days, the mangoes rotted in the warehouse.

When she stood in front of the warehouse door and saw that there were only 20 boxes of finished products in the end, Wang Nuannuan only felt that the world was spinning. In the end, that business cost her 220,000 yuan, almost all of her savings.

Starting from scratch has always been a word full of hardships.

In those years, she sacrificed almost all her sleep time without giving up. During the day, she connects business, talks with customers, and prepares logistics channels. At night, she also goes to night school to learn Thai, and can only sleep 3-4 hours a day.

She described herself as a "happy little motor," tired but happy.

With hard work, diligence and cleverness, Wang Nuannuan achieved financial independence and a good life before the age of 30.

She has her own physical store, homestay, Chinese restaurant in Thailand... It is famous in the Chinese circle in Thailand. She also set up a company in her hometown of Nanjing, and from time to time returned to China to reunite with friends and relatives.

At that time, many people often said that girls should not be too tired, and their parents also advised her to go home if she couldn't hold on. She is not willing to fail, believes that entrepreneurship is not only a more suitable thing for boys, and wants to break her own path.

"Men and women are equal, and many girls have their own ideas," she said. Only after economic independence can we have the ability to love ourselves and love others. ”

Perhaps she herself did not expect that when her career gradually improved, a man set eyes on her, and she would also have a premeditated love.

Group photo of Wang Nuannuan and Yu Xiaodong

At the end of May 2017, at a party, a man named Yu Xiaodong approached her to ask for contact information, and immediately confessed, but Wang Nuannuan did not agree.

But she also paid attention to this man who had a similar experience to her. They were both from Jiangsu, and Yu Xiaodong said he had come to Thailand to start a business.

In the following days, Yu Xiaodong launched a fierce pursuit of Wang Nuannuan.

He will send Wang Nuan a WeChat message and make an appointment for dinner without interruption. He will take every opportunity to establish a perfect personality of single-mindedness, loyalty and self-discipline in front of Wang Nuannuan. At the same time, he also uses false identities to prove that he is financially sound.

He will also remember the attractions that Wang Nuannuan casually mentioned, and quickly buy tickets and Ding Hao Hotel. Every day, he would bring Wang Nuannuan a different breakfast to show his thoughtfulness.

Seven days after they met, he sent Wang Nuannuan a hundred-character WeChat message with fiery feelings. It reads: "After I met you, I not only liked you, I wanted to fall in love with you, I wanted to marry you and grow old with you." ”

Wang Nuannuan was moved by this news and accepted Yu Xiaodong, and the other party quickly moved to Wang Nuannuan and lived with her.

Yu Xiaodong

For Wang Nuannuan at that time, she longed to have an intimate relationship. After staying in a foreign country for a long time, she endured the hardships of entrepreneurship. In order not to worry her parents, she chose to swallow these pains alone.

There are not many friends who can communicate around, and friends in China are gradually decreasing due to long-distance and busy work. She hopes to be able to talk to someone when she is tired, and she hopes to have someone to rely on in a foreign country.

In her heart, she longs for family, for love and to be loved.

Yu Xiaodong just broke into her life. In the past 7 days, he confessed to Wang Nuannuan many times. Although everything seems too fast in Wang Nuannuan, she still accepts the other party and considers it "love".

In July 2017, on Wang Nuannuan's 29th birthday, Yu Xiaodong stopped Wang Nuannuan, who wanted to go out to celebrate with friends, and proposed again. Wang Nuan's heart softened, and she said vaguely: "We'll discuss it when we come back." ”

This was considered by Yu Xiaodong to be tacit, and he quickly bought a ticket to return to China the next day. A few days later, the two registered their marriage in Nanjing.

Now I recall my marriage with Yu Xiaodong, many things can't withstand scrutiny, and Wang Nuannuan, who was in love at that time, ignored everything.

She said: "Business depends on intelligence, but emotional relationships rely on trust, and when I decide to marry you, I won't doubt you every day." ”

Before getting married, Yu Xiaodong once said that he had lived for a long time in a place without sunlight. Wang Nuannuan subconsciously asked him if he had been in prison?

With a firm look in his eyes, he asked Wang Nuannuan: Do you think I look like a person who is a criminal officer?

Yu Xiaodong

In the following days, he proposed to Wang Nuannuan in succession, but was rejected. In a gesture of sincerity, he confessed his past. He said that he had been imprisoned for eight years by a friend, and he had an unhappy marriage, and after the divorce, the custody of the children was given to his ex-wife.

Wang Nuannuan did not treat him differently, but was moved by his sincerity. Yu Xiaodong and Wang Nuannuan's economic strength is huge, and Wang Nuannuan doesn't care.

After registering the marriage, Yu Xiaodong postponed the wedding on the grounds of poor economic conditions, and at the same time hoped that Wang Nuannuan would not tell her parents about the marriage, only saying that the two were in love.

The reason is that his "job is unstable and his business is not successful".

In 2 months of flash marriage, Wang Nuannuan was also worried, but the sincerity of Yu Xiaodong's performance still made Wang Nuannuan choose to believe.

After getting married, Wang Nuannuan and her husband lived in Nanjing for a while. Yu Xiaodong often comes to the company to pick up Wang Nuannuan from work. Although he does not communicate much with the company's employees, everyone has a very good impression of him:

"He's good, almost a man without faults."

At that time, Yu Xiaodong treated people sincerely and thoughtfully to Wang Nuannuan, and Wang Nuannuan thought that she had found the love of her life.

The rift appeared in the second month after marriage because of money.

At the beginning, Wang Nuannuan gave Yu Xiaodong 20,000 yuan of pocket money every month, but Yu Xiaodong felt that it was not enough to spend, and asked Wang Nuannuan for it in the name of "borrowing".

After Wang Nuannuan refused many times, Yu Xiaodong borrowed money from her friends and neighbors in the name of his wife. From tens of thousands, slowly accumulated to hundreds of thousands.

The contradiction of money turned into endless quarrels. Wang Nuannuan almost connected all her resources to Yu Xiaodong, she hoped that her husband could get better, have something to do, and accumulate a sense of achievement, but Yu Xiaodong was becoming more and more "not doing business".

Let him take care of the Chinese restaurant, he feels that there are too many trivial matters and refuses. Help him find a job, he would rather lie at home and play games.

In 2018, Wang Nuannuan's company was transformed and returned to Nanjing, and Yu Xiaodong stayed in the company every day to play games. Wang Nuannuan was sick, and Yu Xiaodong didn't pay attention.

At that time, Wang Nuannuan's parents often visited their daughter at the company, and when they saw Yu Xiaodong's appearance, they persuaded their daughter to break up with her boyfriend. Wang Nuannuan did not dare to tell her parents, in fact, they were already married.

Later, when the parents learned the truth, they did not hesitate to persuade their daughter to divorce on the grounds of severing the relationship between mother and son, but still did not separate the two.

Wang Nuannuan and Yu Xiaodong

Wang Nuannuan is a woman who easily does not admit defeat, and treats career and love like this.

She held her breath in her heart, unwilling to have a failed marriage. "I put in so much time, energy, and money, once I get divorced, it will come to naught, I'm like the person at the gambling table, I can't get down."

I have witnessed the divorce of many friends, and it did not make Wang Nuannuan waver. Even when the stubbornness in her heart comes up, she will think that she has suffered a lot of hardships in doing business, and how difficult customers have been happy to cooperate, and she does not believe that she cannot change her husband.

"Don't get a divorce until last resort." She persuaded herself.

Yu Xiaodong and Wang Nuannuan

Wang Nuannuan still underestimated Yu Xiaodong - he gambled.

Yu Xiaodong not only participated in game gambling on the Internet, but even flew to Macau to gamble. After the two lived together, Yu Xiaodong often received debt collection calls, from hundreds of thousands at the beginning to more than 3 million later, he asked Wang Nuannuan to repay for him, saying that this was a joint debt of husband and wife.

At first, Wang Nuannuan still believed in her husband, as long as he could quit gambling, she was willing to help him repay. Later, the gambling debt increased, and Yu Xiaodong never repented.

The relationship between the two broke down because of the "5 million incident".

One morning, Yu Xiaodong told Wang Nuannuan that she was going to visit a client and left the office. Unexpectedly, for the next 7 days, Wang Nuannuan never contacted the other party again.

During this time, the company's accountant told her that there was a $5 million expense on the books. After Wang Nuannuan went to the bank to inquire, she learned that the money was transferred by her husband with the ID cards, marriage certificates and passwords of both parties at once.

Wang Nuannuan felt betrayed, "This feeling of deception and insult, I can hardly describe, mixed tastes." Wang Nuannuan chose to call the police, and when the Thai police found Yu Xiaodong 7 days later, 5 million had been lost by him.

He said that he had delayed his precious youth because he was in prison. He didn't want to work hard in his few remaining youths, hoping for a better life.

He said that his father had been idle all his life, relying on his mother to earn money to support the family. "This is great love, to find me a job, it means that you no longer love me."

At the police station, he held Wang Nuannuan's leg and cried and begged for forgiveness, Wang Nuannuan was helpless, "I really love him and hate him, we both hold a headache and cry."

Wang Nuannuan when she was young

Time faltered to April 2019, during which Wang Nuannuan, who had filed for divorce many times but failed to make the trip, became pregnant unexpectedly. She thought that perhaps the arrival of the child could change the relationship between the two.

After Yu Xiaodong learned this, he just said coldly: "If you want to be born, you will give birth, and if you don't want to be born, you will be killed." ”

Within a few days, Yu Xiaodong's attitude changed drastically. He became considerate again and began to take care of Wang Nuannuan's emotions. Wang Nuannuan believes that the child played a role, and also believes that Yu Xiaodong finally repented.

She ignored a detail: on the 10th day of pregnancy, he bought an accident insurance for Wang Nuannuan, and the beneficiary of the insurance policy was Yu Xiaodong.

Wang Nuannuan regarded this incident as the beginning of her husband's repentance and as a manifestation of his sense of responsibility.

She didn't expect that she was already standing next to the abyss.

Thailand's Padden Park is famous for its stunning sunrises, and the mountains and meandering Mekong River in the distance are particularly enchanting in the morning.

Many visitors here choose to climb the 34-meter-high cliffs of Pachanarai in the early morning, which is the best spot to see the sunrise.

In the early morning of June 9, 2019, Wang Nuannuan came here under the leadership of Yu Xiaodong. The itinerary was decided by Yu Xiaodong temporarily.

On June 1, Yu Xiaodong suddenly proposed to take Wang Nuannuan on a trip, he wanted to go to Padden Park, "I heard that the sunrise there is beautiful." Two days later, Yu Xiaodong adjusted his destination and went to Chiang Mai, and on the way back to Bangkok, he adjusted his destination again and went to Paden Park.

In the early morning of the 9th, the clouds were thick that day, and they waited until more than 8 o'clock, and the two still did not see the sunrise. The tourists around him had given up and left one after another, and Yu Xiaodong suddenly proposed to take Wang Nuannuan to the surroundings to see the human murals 3,000 years ago. They walked along the cliff and did not see until the end.

On the way back, Yu Xiaodong suddenly asked Wang Nuannuan, do you have any regrets in this life? Wang Nuannuan thought about it and said no. Then Yu Xiaodong hugged Wang Nuannuan from behind, kissed her on the cheek, and then said viciously: "You go to die." ”

He pushed Wang Nuannuan down a 34-meter-high cliff.

The precipice of the incident

After 3 years, on her social platform, Wang Nuannuan recalled this moment, still remembering Yu Xiaodong's tone when she spoke, she said:

"The cruel thing is that to this day, I still remember everything that happened."

In the process of falling, she was blocked by a branch and then fell to the ground. After waking up from a coma, her consciousness became clearer. She felt that her legs could not move, and there was a strong smell of blood around her.

She realized that her husband wanted to kill herself, and her mind raced back to her life. She thought of a lot of regrets, she didn't become a good mother, she didn't honor her parents well... After all this was thought of, she still couldn't move, and no one responded to the call for help.

Completely desperate, she could only wait for death.

Later, from the rescue report, she learned that a lost tourist had found her and quickly called the police, and she was saved. At the same time, she also learned that Yu Xiaodong waited from the edge of the cliff for a while and confirmed that there was no movement below before leaving.

In the process of driving away, he saw an ambulance enter the scenic area, returned to the scene, hid in the crowd to observe, and did not step forward. When he learned that Wang Nuannuan's life was in danger, he called the police as soon as possible so that he could inherit Wang Nuannuan's inheritance.

That's what he really wants.

Staff are rescuing the fallen Wang Nuannuan

Even if admitted to the hospital, the danger is not relieved. Lying in the emergency room, her consciousness was clear, and she used all her strength, but she could only make a faint voice: "Why are you doing this to me?" ”

After Yu Xiaodong heard this, he quickly walked in front of her and warned her to shut up: "Don't shout, no one here can understand Chinese, there was no monitoring and no certificate at that time, the police will only take me away for questioning, and I will definitely not let you go after I return." ”

Subsequently, Yu Xiaodong kept looking at her from the hospital seat not far from her, "This kind of sobriety is very painful, I know everything, it is better not to be awake." Wang Nuan recalled.

She can only choose to show weakness. On the second day of hospitalization, Yu Xiaodong tried to forcibly take Wang Nuannuan away despite the hospital's objections, but was stopped by medical staff. On the third day, he stood by the hospital bed and watched Wang Nuannuan answer the police's questions.

Yu Xiaodong was in front of Wang Nuan's bed

Under fear, Wang Nuannuan could only say that she fell off the cliff because of dizziness, and under the show of weakness, she obtained Yu Xiaodong's consent to get in touch with their mutual friends. The friend flew to Thailand overnight that night.

Finally, with the help of this friend, Yu Xiaodong admitted that the oral evidence of pushing Wang Nuannuan off the cliff was secretly recorded and became the only physical evidence in the end.

Until the 5th day of hospitalization, taking advantage of Yu Xiaodong's opportunity to go out to buy breakfast, Wang Nuannuan explained the truth to the attending doctor and quickly called the police. In the following two days, the police secretly made notes, and finally arrested Yu Xiaodong on the 7th day.

Wang Nuannuan in first aid

As Wang Nuannuan slowly recovers, during the hospitalization, the desperate Wang Nuannuan learns another thing, which makes her even more devastated.

The initial acquaintance with Yu Xiaodong was a carefully prepared "pig killing plate". The real reason why Yu Xiaodong came to Thailand was to avoid debts.

He owed many online loans in China and fled to Thailand. He had many girlfriends in Thailand, but they broke up because they "couldn't provide him with resources."

Increasingly in debt, he searched around for wealthy Chinese women living in Thailand, and finally locked up Wang Nuannuan.

Yu Xiaodong was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, to a local sales company and doting on her son.

When he was in middle school, Yu Xiaodong was often hired to participate in fights and fights to earn extra money. At the age of 14, he was fined $200 for theft. The 16-year-old was detained for 15 days for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. At the age of 17, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for theft and robbery.

When he was released from prison in 2014, he was 25 years old.

His mother introduced him to a lot of work, but Yu Xiaodong did not insist on doing it, relying on the 1.2 million yuan that his mother had accumulated in 8 years. He often spends lavishly, and his clothes and daily necessities cost a lot.

Sadly, he became addicted to gambling. He quickly spent his family's savings and took on huge debts, so he traveled from Jiangsu to Thailand to avoid debts.

Yu Xiaodong

After the incident, Wang Nuannuan took Yu Xiaodong to court while enduring huge physical pain. The Thai court sentenced Yu Xiaodong to life imprisonment in the first instance, Yu Xiaodong appealed, and the second-instance judgment was commuted to 10 years in prison, because there was no physical evidence to show that Yu Xiaodong premeditated murder.

Hearing the results, Wang Nuannuan collapsed for 3 days and re-entered the hospital.

On June 2, 2023, after more than three years of trial and Wang Nuannuan's refusal to give up pursuit, the Thai court finally sentenced Yu Xiaodong to 33 years and 4 months in prison, and Wang Nuannuan breathed a sigh of relief.

She posted on social media that she only wanted Yu Xiaodong to be punished as she deserved and thanked the court that heard the case.

This is not the end of the story. Compared with the bad guys being punished, what is more important for Wang Nuannuan is that she got back on her own feet.

Wang Nuannuan in rehabilitation

After falling off a cliff in 2019, Wang Nuannuan fractured 17 times all over her body, received more than 200 stitches, and relied on hundreds of steel nails to support her life. She has no way to lie down like a normal person, and there is no way to eat normally.

At first, because of the poor medical conditions in Thailand, doctors set the treatment plan as saving her life, giving her hope of returning to normal life, and her child was forced to miscarry.

During the treatment, while suffering greatly physically, she also had to deal with a lawsuit with Yu Xiaodong. She lay on her hospital bed, talking to doctors on the phone to communicate details of the case. Even in a wheelchair, she insisted on coming to the trial site to confront Yu Xiaodong.

In 2019, Wang Nuannuan was transferred to a hospital for treatment due to her serious condition

In the past three years, she has undergone more than 8 surgeries. Many bones that were not attached at the time needed to be reoperated to connect them back in China.

Initially, no local hospital in Nanjing was willing to accept Wang Nuannuan, who was considered the one who could not be cured. Wang Nuannuan still chooses repeated treatment in different orthopedic hospitals, looking for a variety of rehabilitation methods.

In 3 years, she endured numerous breakdowns. At her worst, she collapsed several times a day because she found herself unable to complete even a simple sit up.

"This kind of action is normal for people, but I just can't do it, my body is not directed by the brain, I cry and can't stop." She recalled.

After crying, wiping away her tears, she still insisted on eating, trying to repeat simple movements.

At the beginning of 2023, on the short video platform, she posted a video to record the moment when she finally stood up, with joy and determination in her eyes.

No one could have imagined that she would be able to stand up after such a bumpy and huge setback. Behind the countless repetitive movements, she wanted to prove to herself that she could.

She said: "God let me survive in a desperate situation, and must wish I could do something." I hope that I can live as a warning sign to bring a wake-up call to more people. ”

Until today, the final trial of the case is over, and Wang Nuannuan can finally divorce. Previously, even if the relationship broke down, she still did not divorce, and legally, Yu Xiaodong was still his husband.

"If the criminal proceedings are not completed, there is no way to go through the civil proceedings. My divorce was initiated by a criminal case, and the outcome of the case plays a very critical role in the divorce proceedings. ”

The cycle is long, but no matter what, Wang Nuannuan will stick to it.

The reason that initially supported Wang Nuannuan's tenacious survival was for revenge. She is going to wait for the day when the bad guys are punished. Her lawyer remembers that at the first meeting, the lawyer offered to drive to pick her up, which she refused.

On her own volition, she took a taxi to the law firm, transitioned from wheelchair to crutches, stumbled into a conference room, and communicated details with her lawyer.

In court, she never cried, and the only time she sobbed was at the mention of the child, which was her weakness.

Now that Yu Xiaodong has received the punishment she deserves, Wang Nuannuan said she does not want to recall the past, saying that she still has a long way to go, "live hard and get better as soon as possible." ”

Having experienced a death, she may have seen life more broadly. She doesn't want to be the negative model of "don't get married."

It is not love and marriage that are wrong, but deception and disappointment.

She still wants to be loved and full of love. The difference is that this kind of love does not just refer to love.

Even if the world kissed her bitterly, she was still willing to sing in return.

Wang Nuannuan walked on the bridge