"Relics of the Republic of China": Nero, perhaps every story of Nero, can be called a cruel romance
The story takes place in the Republic of China. The protagonist of the story is a man, a very beautiful man. This man is not only very beautiful, but also loves beauty, and every day before going out, he will dress himself up as a fragrant rose, and hate that he can't attract butterflies and bees. This beautiful man did not like his name very much, Rong Xiang, because he always felt that his nickname "Xiao Xiang" sounded like the name of the apprentice in the shop, and he himself was not an ordinary young man, his identity and status were placed there, and he could not be trampled by others.
The story begins with an incestuous "uncle-in-law adultery". The little uncle slept with his second sister-in-law. His second brother was a smoker, and his second sister-in-law married like a widow, so there was this "forbidden love". The little uncle who seduced his sister-in-law was Rong Xiang. Rong Xiang is a warlord who sounds domineering. However, the great general on the mercenary side was actually an empty shelf with no real power. For the sake of power, he seduced and used his second sister-in-law and killed his father and brother. Even at the expense of committing himself to Secretary General Yi Zhongming, he became the lover of an old man at this age who could be his father.
After Yi Zhongming's death, he could not fight the Japanese, and he still picked up morphine, and could not stay in Manchuria, so he had to run to Xi'an with his army. Who knew that such a handsome and beautiful man was an unlucky egg with a bad fate. He himself will always be unlucky, and the people he likes and the people who like him will always follow him. Because anyone who wants to get close to him will hardly have a good ending. When he was thirteen years old, he fell in love with a little girl in his eldest sister-in-law's room, who knew that the little girl was used and framed by his eldest brother, and later hanged himself in the firewood room; he seduced the second sister-in-law Feng Huizhen, and she was well for almost a year, but Feng Huizhen was soon killed by Yi Zhongming's people.
Except for Xiao Meng. Xiao Meng's life was hard, from beginning to end, there was no trouble, and Rong Xiang could not restrain him. So in the end, there was only one Xiao Meng left by Rong Xiang's side. Xiao Meng inherited Fu Jingyuan's unfinished business and took Rong Xiang and Rong Xiang's son to Shanghai, where he continued to feed the father and son. The ending of the story is not good. Rong Xiang became a mute, and he was muted by Xiao Meng. He also became a fool because he was hunted down and retaliated by a White Russian, fell from the roof and broke his head, from this time confused, sometimes sober, all day long muddled, his heart was a mess. His life ended here.
In essence, Rong Xiang is a typical, unlearned playboy. He doesn't like to read, he doesn't like to listen to music, he doesn't like to watch movies, he doesn't like to play tennis, his fun is only between the theater garden and the dance hall. In addition to looking good, I really can't find any other advantages. He obviously has a very high self-esteem, but he is always self-contemptuous and self-deprecating. Rong Xiang seems to be sentimental, but in fact he is ruthless. Feng Huizhen died because of him, but he forgot about this person in the blink of an eye; Yan Guanglin died for him, but in exchange for him to cry... Many of his actions are sometimes chilling. Yi Zhongming's cold heart, Yan Guanglin's cold heart, Fu Jingyuan's cold heart, And Xiao Meng's cold heart. The people around him hated him the most for being ruthless and unjust.
He's been getting and he's been losing. He was blessed with his own conditions, and he should have lived like a tyrant like He Baoting or Gu Yunzhang, but in the end he achieved nothing and failed, and throughout his life, he lived a stubborn and nested life. When reading the article, I had a feeling of "hating iron not steel" for Rong Xiang. I think he is really pitiful and hateful, to use one word to describe, that is, "to do." Some readers feel that Rong Xiang's life is bitter, but I think he is still lucky, he has met so many people who treat him sincerely, and the evening scene has not been very desolate, and it can be regarded as a good ending. Just imagine, if he had grown a pig's eight-precept face, he would have been killed as early as fengtian.