1922 Autumn, the poet Xu Zhimo returned from studying in Cambridge, England, and published Xu Zhimo's divorce notice for the first time. Before his title was widely spread, he immediately shocked China with this top news, resulting in the first Western-style divorce in modern history and challenging the feudal marriage system in China a hundred years ago. Xu Zhimo wrote such a passage at that time: "I want to find my only soul mate in the vast sea of people." I am lucky to get it; No, my life. "This can be said to be a footnote written by Xu Zhimo for his short life. The idea of "looking for a soul mate" has made Xu Zhimo experience three feelings in his 36-year life, crisscrossing the lives of three different typical women. They jointly created the poet Xu Zhimo, and because he changed their respective destinies. At the age of 20, Xu Zhimo was arranged by his parents and married a wife of 16 years old. After fulfilling the obligation of carrying on the family line, he went to the west to study. His wife Zhang Youyi, who stayed at home, thought that as long as she followed her husband's footsteps closely, she could seize his heart. However, when she came to England across the ocean, she found that Xu Zhimo met a talented and beautiful girl Lin during her trip to England. She didn't want to get involved in Xu Zhimo's marriage and hurried back to China with her father.
In order to resist the unreasonable marriage and thoughts in feudal society, Xu Zhimo resolutely put forward a divorce, and encouraged Zhang Youyi to live a new life in high like like him and become a pioneer in resisting feudal thoughts and transforming society. A stranger was pregnant and lost the courage to survive in isolation several times, but in the end she finally got strong and agreed to Zhimo's request, and decided to stay in a foreign land and start a new life. After the divorce, Zhang Youyi stayed in Germany to study. After returning to China, she took over Shanghai Women's Commercial Bank, but she never got out of Xu Zhimo's world. After that, she maintained a strange relationship with her in-laws, running a business together and supporting his parents. She even presided over the funeral.
Xu Zhimo returned to China with a brand-new future to pursue Lin. When he first arrived abroad, he heard that Lin accepted the arrangement of his parents and got engaged to Liang Sicheng, the son of his mentor. This is undoubtedly a fatal blow to Zhimo. The intertwined relationship, dilemma and tangled feelings have become the secrets of Zhimo and Yin Hui's life, which can only flow to poetry. Although Lin chose Liang Sicheng's marriage, she still can't forget her feelings with Xu Zhimo. This love is like a spring breeze, and that face is so amiable. Once you face forward, you can only hold it with sadness, and there can be no result. Xu zhimo is very painful. At this moment, Lu Xiaoman, the Beijing socialite, came with surprise. Although married, she had the same desire for love because of suffocation in feudal marriage, so she quickly echoed the poet's enthusiasm. So Xu Zhimo wanted to save her from the feudal marriage and create a beautiful life with two free souls. The two finally broke through the opposition of their families and the pressure of public opinion, and finally got a wedding that was not blessed. They fell in love, but most people said they ruined each other at that time. The fact is that Xu Zhimo is notorious for her, because she is at odds with her parents, because she works hard to make money, and because she is exhausted. She gave Xu Zhimo an answer to love and gave him a question mark in life. The poet's life was finally entangled in her. The unstable love life made Xu Zhimo feel endless hardships and depression in the years after marriage. His dreams were disillusioned, his poems dried up, and he even traveled all over the north and south to teach for a living. Finally, he ended his short life in a hurry with an accident-he crashed into a mountain to go to Beijing to listen to Lin's speech and ruined his life. Xu Zhimo, who was remembered by his friends for his urchin-like laughter, used such an abrupt farewell ceremony in his prime to paint a dying life for himself.
The relationship between Lin and Xu Zhimo has lasted for a lifetime, and therefore it has become a mystery for future generations. Even her husband Liang Sicheng's understanding and silence about her feelings has become another mystery. Liang Sicheng personally picked up the wreckage of a plane crash in Zhimo and left Lin on her desk until her death. A few years later, she continued to publish love poems to Xu Zhimo. Before she died, she asked to meet Zhang Youyi for the first time, but she didn't say anything. Zhang Youyi understood her love for Xu Zhimo.
Lu Xiaoman became another person after Xu Zhimo's death; She spent several years collecting his legacy, and never wore fancy clothes, never dressed up, and never went out to socialize, which made her gorgeous life disappear from this world. Determined to pursue true love, Xu Zhimo ended up with an unhappy marriage and an imperfect love life. But he used his whole life to eulogize the truth, goodness and beauty with his own soul and poetry, but it also touched everyone's heart. Perhaps this is why his story will be remembered by China people again and again.