Emma Luo is the only daughter of a rich grange owner, Father Luo. She lost her mother at the age of 13, and her father chose a way for her to climb into the upper class, and sent her to the monastery in Yuxu Village to learn the manners of aristocratic children and receive the education of aristocratic thoughts. Father Luo pinned all his hopes for the future on his daughter.
At first, Emma not only didn't find life in the monastery boring, but liked to get along with nuns. After a long time, she was dissatisfied with the life in the monastery: she secretly read works describing love, marriage, lovers, lovers, etc., which aroused the waves of love in her heart.
When she read Scott's historical novels, she admired the life of an ancient lady even more. How she wished she lived in an old manor, like those women manor owners with thin waist, under the three-leaf dome all day, with a stone on her elbow and chin in her hand, overlooking a white knight riding a dark horse, galloping from the distance of the field. The secluded monastery life made Emma not understand the reality of French capitalist society, completely immersed in medieval fantasies, and became a girl who tried her best to seek excitement and pursue love. Because she didn't respect the common life of the monastery later, "it seems that the monastery is out of tune with her temperament", so her father had to take her away from the monastery.
Charlie Bovary, a village doctor, was decided by his parents to marry Dubik, a widow. Bovary thought that he would be free after marriage, but the married doctor Bovary was like a shackle, because the old bride was very strict with him, and even often eavesdropped on Dr. Bovary's treatment of female patients through the wall, but she could rest assured that her husband had always been an honest man. However, the next spring, the old bride died of illness.
The lonely doctor Bovary still leads a quiet life. And an accidental visit made him know Father Luo and fell in love with Father Luo's daughter Emma. At this time, Emma has grown very beautiful: her hair is black and bright, her face is rosy, her eyes are beautiful, and her eyelashes are touching. She looks at you with no scruples, and she looks innocent and daring. Soon, Dr. Bovary proposed to Emma. At this time, Luo's father went bankrupt and had to marry his daughter to Dr. Bovary, who was not demanding about marriage.
Emma's longing for a new life and innocence have kept her in a fantasy. However, after marrying a postdoctoral fellow in Bovary, her fantasy became a bubble. Dr. Bovary is a plain-looking, vulgar-minded, plain-spoken, complacent person who can't inspire laughter or dreams. After marrying Emma, he was satisfied. He ate scallion beef, peeled off cold skin, chewed off an apple, drank up his crystal bottle, then went to bed, straightened up and began to snore.
Emma, full of romance and infatuation with fantasy, was disappointed and could not feel her husband's pleasure, enthusiasm and love. She hates Dr. Bovary's rock-solid stability and calm dullness, and tries to get rid of this mediocre life and suffocating social environment and find the happiness of dreams to meet her emotional needs.
While Emma was depressed, Marquis de Weng Delville invited the Bovary couple to the dance. This dance is a turning point in Emma's life. The dance was held in Zhuang Leifeng. Emma was fascinated by the marquis's luxurious style, elegant guests and glittering dance floor. She looked at the well-dressed ladies with envy and imagined that she could live that life-Emma felt extremely happy when a handsome viscount asked her to dance. She didn't leave the dance until morning. On the way home, she saw a cigar box left by a partner intentionally or unintentionally, which aroused her nostalgia for her partner. Back home, Emma tried to stay awake, just to let the feeling of dancing stay in her mind for a while.
The trip to the ball cut a hole in her life, just like those big cracks in the mountain, and a storm completely changed her appearance in just one night. Since then, Emma has changed from pursuing medieval love to yearning for corrupt, false and vulgar Paris love. At the same time, Xiao Dao's temper is getting worse and worse, and he is more bored with his husband. She kept blaming the local climate and urged to move to another place.
Bovary couldn't stand Emma's repeated persuasion and finally moved to Yongzheng. On the first day of eating, Emma met a young intern with blond hair-Ryan. Emma hit it off the first time she met him: they have the same interests, both like traveling and music. After that, the two often talked about romantic novels and fashion dramas, and gradually became familiar with each other.
At this time, Rene, a cunning clothing merchant, saw that Emma was a vanity woman who loved decoration, and took the initiative to solicit business and satisfy Emma's vanity on credit. Ryan showed affection for Emma, but because of his young age, he seemed to flinch from his actions. Emma also fell in love with Ryan, and she dared not deviate. In order to get rid of this trouble, Emma began to care about housework and went to church to confess on time, but the indifference of the priest made her even more upset. In order to get rid of the pain, Ryan left Yongzhen to go to school in Paris. When they broke up, they tried to suppress their sadness.
Emma felt bored after Ryan left. One day, Rudolph, the owner of a nearby manor, went to see a doctor at Dr. Bovary's house. The veteran in the field of romance saw through Emma's mind at a glance and had the idea of seducing this beautiful housewife. It happened that there was an exhibition in Yongzheng, and Rudolph took Emma to attend. Neither of them cared about the exhibition, but they took this opportunity to talk about love. Rudolph expressed his pain and yearning for love and deeply touched Emma's heart.
After the exhibition, Rudolph deliberately appeared in front of Emma six weeks later-he knew what psychological impact this would have on Emma. Sure enough, Emma obediently became his mistress. They kept a secret from Dr. Bovary, and Emma's feelings developed to a fever pitch. She asked Rudolph to take her away. She would rather give up her family and children and run away with him.
Rudolph, however, is just a person who takes part in accidental amusement. Tired of Emma's health, he decided to abandon Emma and go to Rouen to find another mistress. Before he left, he wrote a letter to Emma, saying that he had to leave without saying goodbye in order not to hurt her. In order to show reluctance, he also spilled water on stationery as tears. Emma was mad when she received the letter, but she could only watch Rudolph's carriage rush out of Yongzhen under the cover of night.
After that, she was seriously ill. After recovery, she wants to turn over a new leaf and start a new life. In order to distract Emma, poor doctor Bovary took her to Rouen to watch a play, and happened to meet Leon, who Emma was deeply moved by, in the theater. So, the two rekindled their old love, and before the play was over, Emma found an excuse to talk to Ryan on the dock. After three years of separation, Ryan has become a person with rich social experience. He didn't want to miss this opportunity, and they finally reunited.
After returning to Yongzheng, Emma went to Rouen to meet Ryan once a week-her excuse was to learn the piano, and the honest doctor Bovary never doubted her. Emma poured all her feelings into Ryan and indulged in the joy of love. To this end, she bought a lot of clothes on credit from Rene, a clothing dealer, and her debts continued to accumulate.
One day, the cunning Rene discovered Emma's secret and decided to blackmail Emma severely. He forced Emma to mortgage the property without telling her husband. However, in order to maintain the relationship with Ryan, Emma continued to buy clothes on credit from businessmen, so that she kept borrowing and pawning, and soon squandered her property. Rene's door-to-door debt collection failed, so he went to court to sue and seized all the things of Bovary's family.
Emma was in trouble at this moment, and she asked her lover for help. However, Leon first stabilized her with lies and then hid without a trace; At Rudolph's residence, when she offered to borrow money, Rudolph, kneeling at her feet, quietly stood up and said, "I have no money." Emma realized that love is just a game in a dream, and the interests will shrink if they cross the border. Emma is desperate.
Back home, Emma swallowed arsenic and left this world painfully. In order to pay off his debts, Dr. Bovary sold all his property. After too many blows, the poor honest man also died. He and Emma's daughter were adopted by a distant aunt and later sent to a cotton mill.