That year, the spring in Beijing was extraordinarily moving. One weekend in early March, Jiang Wen was invited by a friend to attend a social gathering. The men and women in the venue were dancing enthusiastically, and Jiang Wen stood quietly aside, holding a wine glass and chatting.
At this moment, a flash of light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes - a tall foreign girl with outstanding temperament appeared in the middle of the dance floor.
Jiang Wen couldn't help but look at her a few more times, only to see that the girl had waist-length hair, glowing with a warm luster under the light. She wore a simple and generous skirt, and her gestures were full of bookish air and intellectual beauty.
Especially those clear eyes, flashing with a smart look, made Jiang Wen's heart move.
It turned out that the girl's name was Sandrine, from France, and she was 1 year younger than Jiang Wen. She has just received a doctorate degree from a prestigious university in France and came to China with an academic dream to study Xi research.
The two soon met at a dance party and fell in love at first sight. Sandrine is gentle and generous, Jiang Wen is handsome and chic, and both parties are also attracted to each other. Jiang Wen took the initiative to ask for Sandrine's contact information, and since then he has been pursuing it passionately.
In 1993, they registered as husband and wife. Jiang Wen happily announced to his friends that he had found the soulmate of this life. Friends also sincerely blessed him, hoping that the multinational couple would grow old together.
In the winter of 1994, a happy news came that Sandrine was pregnant! Jiang Wen was overjoyed and immediately decided to hire a nanny to decorate his home in Beijing in a warm and comfortable way, ready to welcome the arrival of a new life.
However, he never imagined that the pressure of being a father for the first time would be so great. Sandrine often has a short temper due to morning sickness and loss of appetite, and Jiang Wen's coaxing is ineffective.
Gradually, they quarreled over trivial matters, such as Sandrine's insistence on taking a shower during confinement, while the Chinese confinement nannies strongly objected.
Finally, on a sunny spring day, her daughter Jiang Yilang fell to the ground. Jiang Wen was so excited that he immediately picked up the camera to take pictures of his daughter. He selflessly hugged the baby princess and talked to the doctor about his daughter's condition, but he did not care about the mother Sandrine in the first place.
Sandrine angrily blamed Jiang Wen for not being considerate enough, and the two had a big quarrel.
Jiang Wen's parents, who have always loved their son, also complained about Sandrine's strange temper.
Sandrine is the quintessential smart and capable woman. In 1995, she finally earned her coveted doctorate in France. A new life beckons to her.
Sandrine can't wait to return to China to teach at her alma mater, the School of Political Science, and make the most of her professional strengths.
But at this juncture, she and Jiang Wen had serious differences. Jiang Wen strongly urged his wife to stay in Beijing and not leave him alone. However, Sandrine insisted that she had the right to do her duty and develop her career.
The two had a big argument about it. Sandrine angrily denounced Jiang Wen as unreasonable, and restricting women's development is a sign of backwardness. And Jiang Wen also asked bitterly, is career so important, does a female doctor have to go out to work?
In 1996, Sandrine chose to return to Paris, France, with her daughter, to teach at her alma mater, the École d'Etudes Politiques. Jiang Wen was once again reduced to a single, depressed at home in Beijing alone.
He would stare at the picture of his daughter on the wall, and he would cry alone in the middle of the night. He was worried that this marriage would come to an end, and whether his own expectations would be in vain.
In the days of separation from his wife, Jiang Wen felt unprecedented loneliness and emptiness. In 2001, during the filming of the new film "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", he met a special girl - actor Zhou Yun.
Zhou Yun and Jiang Wen are both students of the same drama academy, 15 years younger than Jiang Wen, and they are in the beautiful years of Fanghua. She is smart and lovely, open-minded, and like-minded with Jiang Wen.
The two often communicated during the filming process and slowly developed feelings.
In this way, Jiang Wen had an affair. He was ashamed of himself, but he couldn't help himself. Finally, this secret affair was revealed by the media in 2005.
Sandrine cried bitterly when she learned of her husband's empathy in France. She decided to take the initiative to file for divorce and end this doomed marriage with Jiang Wen.
And her daughter Jiang Ichiro was even more sad. She decided that it was Zhou Yun, a junior, who broke in, ruined her happy family, and took away her mother's happiness. Since then, she has developed a permanent hatred for this woman and has lost respect for her father.
Jiang Wen and Zhou Yun became husband and wife. But the joy of this newcomer did not infect Jiang Yilang. Every time the father and daughter video, she will directly ignore Zhou Yun in the picture, deliberately showing strong disgust and contempt.
During the Spring Festival of 2011, the family was reunited in Beijing. Jiang Yilang made a special call, only sending holiday greetings to his grandparents and other relatives, but deliberately ignoring Zhou Yun.
The atmosphere was instantly awkward and cold.
Zhou Yun confided in Jiang Wen sadly, not understanding how a little girl could have such great malice. Jiang Wen was in a dilemma and persuaded his newlywed wife not to be too careful, this is the willfulness of the child.
But he gradually felt powerless, and his daughter's hatred of her stepmother was too much beyond the norm.
In 2012, Jiang's father, who was critically ill, wanted to see his granddaughter for the last time, so Jiang Yilang reluctantly went to Beijing. But even so, she still said to Zhou Yun with a sneer: "I really hate women who pestering married men, what kind of happiness is this!" Jiang Wen could only beg his daughter not to hurt herself and her family with tears, and Jiang Yilang stopped verbally attacking her, but her stepmother will always be an abominable extramarital affair object for her.
Jiang Yilang gradually grew up, and now he is a 29-year-old mature woman. After obtaining her degree, she worked at a university and lived a stable life. However, she still has no idea of falling in love and getting married, which makes Jiang Wen feel anxious.
He has hinted to his daughter many times in the video that love and marriage are crucial at this age.
Such an abrupt question made Jiang Ichiro extremely disgusted. She denounced her father for not respecting people's choices, as if women were born to marry and have children. She stubbornly believes that love doesn't have to end in marriage; Women also have the right to choose to be single.
This is closely linked to the father's failed marriage.
Seeing his daughter resisting marriage so much, Jiang Wen was really anxious. In 2023, he is determined to go to France to exert pressure. Even if his daughter hates to see him cry the most, he has to use this killer trick - through the father's tears, he forces his daughter to talk about a boyfriend as soon as possible and enter the palace of marriage.
Faced with his daughter's reaction, Jiang Wen was uneasy. He couldn't help but reflect on whether his failed marriage really caused a trauma to his daughter's life and made her afraid of marriage.
If that's the case, he's to blame.
Jiang Wen is also regretting that he shouldn't have let go of Sandrine in such a hurry. Maybe I should listen more to her and understand her thoughts, and give this transnational marriage a chance to start over.
Now that his daughter is over 30 years old and desperately needs the warmth of the family, he hopes that she can find true love and live a happy life.
On the other hand, the incompatible state of the daughter and stepmother also gave Jiang Wen a headache. He genuinely loves two women and never wants them to be enemies. He begged his daughter for forgiveness over and over again, and begged his stepmother not to be like the child.
He hoped that they would be able to sit down calmly, communicate well, and reach a reconciliation.
Jiang Wen, who is middle-aged, is complex and full of expectations. He hoped that his daughter would find happiness; Looking forward to the harmonious relationship between wife and daughter; I hope that I still have the opportunity to make up for the mistakes of my youth, regain the understanding of my lover, and have a complete and harmonious home.