In 1987, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li had a lucky encounter when filming the movie "Red Sorghum". The two soon met on the set, fell in love at first sight, and fell in love.
Zhang Yimou was a well-known director at that time, and he was full of enthusiasm and dreams for the film industry. Gong Li is a youthful actress who loves acting.
Both had a passion for the art of film, and they hit it off with their own hearts.
On the set, Zhang Yimou always carefully instructed Gong Li on how to better interpret the role. Gong Li also admires director Zhang Yimou's style. The two tacit together and found resonance in their work.
Gradually, outside of the set, they also became confidants in life.
The two have the same interests and hobbies, whether they talk about movies or life, there are always endless topics. In their spare time, they always like to talk about oriental cultural ideas and discuss the relationship between film and life.
They don't like to be busy, they prefer quiet. Walking, reading a book, and drinking tea are all their favorite leisure times.
Feelings sprout inadvertently. Zhang Yimou's admiration for Gong Li is beyond words. In order to be with Gong Li, he was determined to leave his original wife Xiao Hua, even if he was labeled as "abandoning his wife and daughter", he was willing.
In his eyes, Gong Li is a unique woman who deserves his love and cherishment at all costs.
The two fall in love and yearn to form a happy family together. They have many beautiful plans and want to work together to climb higher heights together on the road of film.
However, after all, they had no choice but to break up before they had time to realize these dreams, and their fate made people sad.
Zhang Weiping, on the surface, calls himself a "hardcore brother" with Zhang Yimou, and his words reveal his brotherhood, pretending that the two are like a family. But in fact, Zhang Weiping is not so close to Zhang Yimou, he just wants to use Zhang Yimou's influence in the film industry to realize his ambition to enter the entertainment industry.
Zhang Weiping is a professional in the pharmaceutical industry. Later, he decided to change careers and started to accumulate capital in business. By chance, he met Zhang Yimou through his girlfriend Zhang Jing, and Zhang Weiping keenly sniffed out that this was a great opportunity to climb up.
So he began to try his best to curry favor with Zhang Yimou, and kept calling him a "hardcore brother" to set Zhang Yimou's trust.
Zhang Weiping's true face is actually an extremely shameless speculator. He understands that Zhang Yimou's personality is relatively soft, easy to speak, and easy to be deceived. So Zhang Weiping clung to this "money tree" that could be developed, trying to get more benefits from Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Weiping noticed that the woman Gong Li beside Zhang Yimou had a strong personality and was decisive, and it was difficult to be at the mercy of herself. In order to control Zhang Yimou more smoothly in the future, Zhang Weiping decided to try to exclude Gong Li from Zhang Yimou's life circle.
So, this opportunistic man shows his bad nature and devises all kinds of intrigues to tear the two apart......
In order to achieve his goal, Zhang Weiping did not hesitate to resort to the next means and set a trap to separate Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
In 1995, Zhang Weiping instructed his girlfriend Zhang Jing to fabricate a scandal about Gong Li's affair with another actor Huang Hexiang, deliberately exaggerating in front of Zhang Yimou and shaking Zhang Yimou's trust in Gong Li.
Zhang Jing, a fan of Gong Li, deliberately guided Gong Li and Huang Hexiang to dance while the idol was drunk. Dancing is just a normal social etiquette, but Zhang Jing deliberately misinterpreted it and said that it was a kiss dance between the two in front of Zhang Yimou.
Zhang Yimou has a soft personality and admires Gong Li wholeheartedly, so it is difficult to judge the truth for a while. This gave Zhang Weiping an opportunity, he asked knowingly, and repeatedly mentioned this matter in front of Zhang Yimou, implying that Gong Li was disloyal, which made Zhang Yimou have doubts about Gong Li in his heart.
Later, Gong Li proposed to enter into marriage with Zhang Yimou and make a lifelong covenant. However, Zhang Yimou had been bewitched by Zhang Weiping's slanderous words at this time, and his loyalty to Gong Li was shaken.
He rejected Gong Li's marriage proposal on the grounds that "marriage is not important".
Gong Li has a straightforward personality, and she is inexplicable and annoyed by Zhang Yimou's reply. She categorically broke up with Zhang Yimou, and later even married Huang Hexiang, even though the two had no foundation for love.
So Zhang Weiping's conspiracy succeeded, and the love between the two was stillborn.
After this shocking blow, Zhang Yimou gradually recognized Zhang Weiping's true face. He began to reflect on whether the two were really like "hardcore brothers". At that time, Zhang Weiping's various words and deeds gradually became a conclusion, and Zhang Yimou realized that he was used and deceived by this opportunistic man.
The two finally broke up, and Zhang Yimou decisively cut off all contact with Zhang Weiping. He also took the initiative to return all the help and benefits given by Zhang Weiping before, as a sign of clarity.
encountered this change, Zhang Yimou's love broke down, and his life fell into a trough. However, he was not defeated and still had hope for the future. In the end, he met the virtuous Chen Ting, and the two got married and formed a happy family.
And after Gong Li experienced the blow of losing love, she also chose to continue to look forward. In 2009, she finally mustered up the courage to divorce her unloving husband Huang Hexiang.
After another nine years, Gong Li found love again, married French musician Michel, and started a new life.
Zhang Yimou and Gong Li were originally the most compatible pair, but they failed to gain a firm foothold because of the touchstone of love. They eventually go their separate ways and continue to pursue happiness on the other side of their lives.
There is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. They can only accept the reality and believe that good things will come again.
The story of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li reflects the helplessness of life and fate.
They were a couple who truly loved each other, but they were torn apart by the intrigues of unscrupulous people. Love comes and goes quickly, fleetingly. They have experienced the sweetness of love, but also tasted the pain of loss, and their fate is unpredictable.
In fact, in this changing life, who can say that love at first sight is a match made in heaven? Love is always intertwined with light and shadow, and both parties need to work together. We are destined to face all kinds of impermanence and variables, and only by persevering can we keep our sincerity.
Human nature is complex, and both love and hate have the power to deceive people's hearts. We often pay a terrible price for our momentary confusion and regret it. The choices made today will open up the fruits of the future.
We must be cautious, act and cherish.
Life is not as good as it should be, and we are destined to face all kinds of helplessness. Only by looking at some things and staying positive can we continue to move forward on the road of life.
I hope that Zhang Yimou and Gong Li can find happiness, and I also wish everyone who meets their own true love.