Many years ago, "Beijing Love Story" was extremely popular, and the main actors in the play, Chen Sicheng, Li Chen, Zhang Yi, Tong Liya, Zhang Xinyi, etc. were all well known to the public to varying degrees, and Chen Sicheng captured Tong Liya's heart because of this drama, and the two entered the marriage hall.
Cheng Feng, played by Chen Sicheng, is a rich second generation, a playboy, at the top of society; Wu Di, played by Li Chen, comes from a reorganized civilian family, only a half-brother Wu Wei can be counted as a relative, he is the middle level of society; Shi Xiaomeng, played by Zhang Yi, is from a small town in Yunnan, and his family is farmers and at the bottom of society.
Among the three people, only Shi Xiaomeng was the one who had to rely on his own hands to do anything. Cheng Feng did not say, he was a clumsy disciple with a golden spoon, Wu Di seemed to be on a starting line with Shi Xiaomeng, but he was much better than Shi Xiaomeng's origin, not to mention that he also had an older brother Wu Wei behind him.
Shi Xiaomeng was born in the countryside, his family was poor, in order to get ahead, he desperately studied, but still missed 7 points and did not enter Tsinghua. Such college entrance examination results are enough to prove that Shi Xiaomeng is an excellent person.
He hopes that one day he will be able to get ahead, no longer face the loess like his parents, and be able to go out of the countryside. Shi Xiaomeng's idea should be the idea of the vast majority of rural students, but unfortunately, staying in a big city, or a big city like Beijing, is nothing more than a dream for Shi Xiaomeng.
After graduation, Shi Xiaomeng chose to stay in Beijing to work hard, desperately earning 3,000 yuan every month, and after paying the rent, there was little money left.
Shi Xiaomeng was a kind and honest man, four years of college, Cheng Feng and Wu Di helped him bit by bit, he wrote it down. He has a lover, Shen Bing, who hopes that one day the two of them will have a small nest in Beijing and live in a big city like Beijing in the future.
Shi Xiaomeng, as a high-achieving student from a ravine, is no worse than Wu Di and crazy people in terms of ability, and after three years of work, he has created a wealth of 9 million yuan for the company. For his work, he worked hard and complained, and he did not complain about overtime. He is also grateful to his friends.
What he pursues is only a small house of 38 square meters, he once simply thought that with his own efforts, he could give his lover a cottage, and there could be a rocking chair in the house, holding the hand of the son, and the son and the old, the two slowly grew old hand in hand. He thought that as long as he worked hard, these good wishes could be realized.
But reality woke him up hard.
His good friend Cheng Feng fell in love with his girlfriend Shen Bing at first sight.
His boss, Hu Rongqiang, wants to use Shi Xiaomeng to get Cheng Feng's father's Dade Group's huge amount of advertising business. Therefore, Hu Rongqiang used Shi Xiaomeng's lost advertising plan as an excuse to withhold Xiaomeng's bonus.
Once, Shi Xiaomeng got the bonus, the first thing was to buy a ring for Shen Bing, and then paid the deposit for the house, but Hu Rongqiang told him that the bonus could be recovered, Shi Xiaomeng did not have money to pay the down payment of the house, even the deposit was also lost, and he had already taken the money to buy the ring, Shi Xiaomeng was forced to a desperate situation.
Hu Rongqiang said that as long as Shi Xiaomeng can get the advertising business of Dade Group, he will be able to get a larger bonus and promotion.
His good friend Cheng Feng knelt down and begged him to give up his girlfriend (the original words were: I am willing to exchange everything I have with you), but he refused.
Cheng Feng's rich father also came forward to give him conditions, either taking away Dade's notice of hiring him with the annual advertisement, or not taking it.
Shi Xiaomeng once wanted to insist, he really loved Shen Bing, so Shi Xiaomeng, who had been gentle and caring for Shen Bing and imagining the future with her, would become sensitive and suspicious, as long as Cheng Feng touched Shen Bing, he would be suspicious.
He would doubt whether Shen Bing would give up on him for money and give up the relationship between the two, in fact, they had been together for so many years, how could he not know in his heart that she was not that kind of person. However, he has lost his sense of security and has lost trust in people.
Therefore, Shi Xiaomeng finally chose to break up, and he broke up with Shen Bing on the phone in the attic, while crying bitterly and watching countless people cry.
After he broke up with Shen Bing, he cried and brought the ring to his little thumb, perhaps, from that moment on, he was no longer the stone Xiaomeng he used to be.
Therefore, Shi Xiaomeng knew that Cheng Feng was pursuing Shen Bing, and he could also tell Cheng Feng about Shen Bing's preferences and help Cheng Feng chase Shen Bing.
He chose to exchange Shen Bing for his future, but he also knew that Lin Xia loved Cheng Feng, so he sexually assaulted Lin Xia to retaliate against Cheng Feng.
He could not be trusted in the Dade Group, so he joined forces with Liang Junzheng, the deputy general manager of the company, to embezzle the Cheng family's property.
Shi Xiaomeng, who lost Shen Bing, became unprincipled, without a bottom line, selfish, and dirty.
Shi Xiaomeng has many advantages, such as his diligence, hard-working, goal, willingness to struggle, if he was born in a wealthy family, he will be a successful person. Unfortunately, his starting point was too low, and what he wanted was far from what he could get.
Shi Xiaomeng's body also has many shortcomings, because of his birth, because he is poor, he has higher self-esteem than others, and he is inferior, sensitive, and vulnerable in his bones. Therefore, he was not willing to accept the help of others easily, even if he was close to Cheng Feng and Wu Di, who were like brothers and sisters, he was afraid of owing them human kindness. Cheng Feng could have let him enter the Dade Group, but he couldn't let go of his dignity and didn't go. He didn't have the money to borrow money from a friend when he didn't have the money to make a down payment, and he didn't do it either.
He thought he could bear everything, but he didn't know how he could gain a firm foothold in Beijing by relying on the strength of only one person.
Shi Xiaomeng underestimated the cruelty and reality of society, and also overestimated his own ability and overestimated human nature. Shi Xiaomeng's tragedy is doomed.
Shi Xiaomeng thought that if he had money, he would be able to exchange it for Shen Bing, but Shen Bing really fell in love with Cheng Feng. When Shi Xiaomeng finally had money, fame and fortune, and status, he stood in his house and looked at him, but he had nothing.
The lovers who were once green plum bamboo horses, the brothers who were once brothers and sisters, left him one by one. He stubbornly wanted to add a rocking chair in front of the window, and he still hadn't forgotten the promise he had made with Shen Bing to slowly grow old together, but there was no Shen Bing around him.
The girl who could suffer with him, who could take the bus with him and eat instant noodles without complaint, he lost forever.
Once, his work was not happy, Wu Di said that if you don't do it, your grades are so good, why give this kind of villain a life? But he didn't dare change jobs. Because he has no money, he has no choice, and before life and ideals, he wants to save.
Once, he said: When I was carefree, poverty for me was just the difference between eating steamed buns at night and eating steak, which did not affect my happiness. But when I fell in love with a girl, I deeply felt the inferiority brought about by poverty.
That Shi Xiaomeng, who has ideals and beliefs, finally lost himself under the tempering and destruction of life, who turned him into this?
Is it his former boss? Or cheng feng this good friend? Or Cheng Feng's father? Is it Shen Bing? Or the house?
Perhaps, the cruelty of life for the poor is not whether you can eat meat or wear new clothes, but that you have no choice at all, you can only be pushed forward by life.
Others can choose the job they like, and you can only ask for a job that can support the family, others can quit if they are unhappy with work, and you can only do it hard.
Why do the poor always have fewer ways out than the rich, and why are the poor always short-sighted?
The same is to get scholarships, the children of rich families can choose to buy laptops or buy new mobile phones, or go on a trip, but the children of poor families can only take half of them to send home to subsidize the family, and half stay as living expenses.
The same is the graduation of college, the children of rich families can choose whether to study abroad or graduate school, civil servants, while the children of poor families may only have to choose a high-paying job, or even go back to their hometown to work, convenient to take care of their families.
The same is the salary, some people spend not enough to get family subsidies, while some people have to send home, to the young siblings living expenses / tuition fees, can only leave a small part for themselves.
Sometimes, people who seem to be from the same starting point are actually starting from a completely different starting point.
Therefore, Shi Xiaomeng, who was born in poverty, became bad, and Cheng Feng, a disciple of The Poor, was happily with Shen Bing. And more people like Shi Xiaomeng have become migrant workers who have been lost in the crowd, and they have to catch up with Cheng Feng step by step and generation by generation.