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The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find the light.
Many people will sing this sentence when they see it, I believe that even if you have never used a Huawei mobile phone, you have heard Huawei's call ringtone, and the default is this "Glory" by default. However, this article is not an advertisement, but another story that is intended to tell this sentence, from the story of a poet.
As a poet, he was very successful, and he was known as a representative of the Misty Poetry School, writing beautiful poems that were recited countless times. His works have been recognized by many people, leading many people to find their "dream hometown".
However, the poet did something that made many people shudder, and in the fantasy of many people, he should live very happily, and the dream life surrounded him. But such a person actually hacked his wife to death with an axe, and then chose to hang himself. He is Gu Cheng, an inscrutable person.
Image: Stills from Gu Cheng's sketch
Gu Cheng was born in Beijing in 1956, and his father was also a poet. As a father who was quite famous in the literary world at that time, Gu Cheng grew up under the strong cultural influence since he was a child, and coupled with his father's education, Gu Cheng was different from other children since he was a child.
When others were climbing trees and touching bird eggs, Gu Cheng liked to sit alone under the trees and watch the ants. Compared with other children, Gu Cheng has been very quiet since he was a child, and it is this kind of character that makes Gu Cheng able to read some books patiently since he was a child. When he was in kindergarten, Gu Cheng had already finished reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he could vividly tell the story to his classmates.
Image: Stills from climbing a tree and touching a bird's egg
The innocent child is very yearning for stories, which also gives Gu Cheng the name of the king of stories. But Gu Cheng doesn't like this, he likes to tell stories, but he doesn't like that when he tells stories, there are so many people around, what he wants to do is not to tell stories to others, but to tell stories.
Tired of the onlookers of his classmates, Gu Cheng chose to tell his sister stories at home, but his sister was often very busy and had no time to listen to him, so Gu Cheng could only tell stories against the wall alone in an empty house, perhaps it was this kind of character that led him to become a poet later.
When Gu Cheng was 12 years old, he dropped out of school and went home, and in his spare time on weekdays raising pigs, Gu Cheng would try to write some poems, and he didn't like to show others when he wrote them, he just wanted to write them and write what he thought.
However, the ensuing era made this young child feel what is called pain, and the torture he suffered in this era made this child, who was already very withdrawn, more sensitive and more reluctant to contact people.
The next year, Gu Cheng's father was sent to Shandong, Gu Cheng lived here with his father for five years, this kind of life made Gu Cheng feel very uncomfortable, this kind of hard work and the life in his heart are very different, the strong gap makes his originally sensitive heart very painful.
Image: Writing poetry stills in his spare time
Everyone's growth journey is a little different, and it is these differences that cause each of us to have a different life. Gu Cheng's life in his early years made him very resistant to the world, which also indirectly led him to look forward to the fantasy life even more.
It was not until 1973 that Gu Cheng began to formally compose poetry. In the following years, Gu Cheng's works appeared in various newspapers and periodicals, which attracted great attention from the literary circles at that time, and in 1977, he was known as the representative poet of the Hazy Poetry School.
Poets are always romantic, and naturally a romantic love is indispensable. One day, when Gu Cheng was taking a train from his hometown of Shanghai to Beijing, he met a woman on the train, this woman was called Xie Ye, and the two hit it off at first sight, so the two fell in love.
Perhaps it was the romance of love that prompted Gu Cheng to appear like a blowout in those few years. After four years, the two people who love each other finally go to the palace of marriage. For his wife, Gu Cheng is the best poet in the world, and she can give everything she has for her husband.
Picture: Screenshot of Xie Ye and Gu Cheng's information
Xie Ye's idea was good, but perhaps it was her consistent connivance that led to a series of things that followed. is not to impose some contradictions on Xie Ye, but simply feel that there is no difference between doting in love and doting in family affection, and most of them are signposts to a tragic end.
Gu Cheng is machismo, in his heart, his wife not only has to support his pursuit of the spiritual world, but also to ensure his satisfaction in real life, which is very strict for Xie Ye, but Xie Ye has always been close to him and tolerated him, so that Xie Ye has lived himself into two likes, he is a good wife and mother in Gu Cheng's real life, and he is also a saint fairy in the spiritual world.
Gu Cheng was later tired of the troubles of the world, and finally chose to leave China and came to Waiheke Island. This place is isolated from the world, few outsiders enter, at least there are not many people who know him, Gu Cheng feels very comfortable here, and it is also very quiet.
But for Xie Ye, the already tired life was even more exhausting. Gu Cheng, who had no idea about life, couldn't take care of himself after coming to a foreign country, which led to his dependence on Xie Ye becoming more and more serious.
Picture: Screenshot of Xie Ye's information
Slowly, Xie Ye is no longer his wife, but his mother, his sister, for Xie Ye, he is not taking care of a husband of the same age, but an older child of the same age as himself.
Gu Cheng is a person who lives in fantasy, he only pursues what he likes, even if he takes the initiative to come to Waiheke Island and wants to separate himself from the outside world, he will write letters to a woman named Ying'er from time to time. The correspondence between the two men was frequent, and the language involved was quite explicit.
Perhaps it was blind forbearance that made Xie Ye a Xi, and he actually agreed to Gu Cheng's request to let Ying'er come and live together. So not long after, with a woman coming to Waiheke Island, the life of the three of them began.
Compared with Xie Ye, who was already crazy, Ying'er was about to go crazy soon after she arrived, and Gu Cheng made her unbearable in reality, so when Gu Cheng and his wife went to give lectures in other places, Ying'er, who was alone at home, chose to elope with a German man who was more than 30 years older than herself.
Picture: Screenshot of old photos of Xie Ye and Gu Cheng
This is not surprising, after all, when she left, just as she came, she did something incredible for the longing in her heart. When Gu Cheng came back, he found that his feelings had been betrayed, and he had nowhere to vent, so he punched and kicked Xie Ye. For Xie Ye, the unhappiness between the two was not domestic violence, but because he did not give birth to a child.
Gu Cheng didn't want to have children, he was afraid that the children would be too troublesome, but in the end, under Xie Ye's constant requests, Gu Cheng finally agreed to conceive their children, but he didn't like them, and even threw the children to the local residents to raise.
Picture: Screenshot of Gu Cheng's photo with his friends
Perhaps it was his mother's love that diluted his paranoia about Gu Cheng, and slowly Xie Ye couldn't bear her husband's life, so soon after, Xie Ye filed for divorce from Gu Cheng. Gu Cheng's life is an imaginary dream, although this dream is built on the pain of others, but he is comfortable in this life, and will never allow others to ruin his wonderful life.
Once, a dispute broke out between the two here, and the extremely angry Gu Cheng picked up an axe and cut his wife, and hanged himself after leaving four suicide notes, and his wife Xie Ye died regrettably even after a few hours of rescue.
Image: Stills from being slashed
Regarding Gu Cheng, it is difficult for us to characterize his life, he is a walker of an era, and he is also a shackle of an era, he can describe the world in his heart with beautiful words, but he has never really opened his eyes to see the real world.
He is a selfish person, extreme machismo, dreaming of everything he thinks is good, mature but extremely naïve, himself is a contradiction, quiet like a child, but he will become a demon king in the next second.