People always say that love that can't be obtained is the best love. In fact, it's all lust. Gu Jiegang is a famous historian and linguist in China. He has made great achievements in his life, but he has many emotional difficulties. He married three wives in his life, but it was not until the end that people discovered that Gu Jiegang really loved not one of the three, but another.
Gu Jiegang, a modest gentleman, was born in a scholarly family, a large family in Suzhou, and Gu Jiegang was the only child in the family. His parents naturally placed great hopes on him, and he received a strict education since childhood, which laid a solid foundation for his academic research when he grew up.
At that time, Gu Jiegang, as the only child in the family, naturally could not avoid the important task of continuing the family incense, so Gu Jiegang's parents decided to marry early when he was 13 years old, and he married his wife Wu Zhenglan, who was four years older than him. Gu Jiegang is a filial person, and his wife Wu Zhenglan is also a virtuous person. The married life of the young couple is calm and comfortable, and there are no big waves. But soon Wu Zhenglan died after giving birth to a daughter.
Gu Jiegang and his second wife don't get along very well. At that time, Gu Jiegang was going to Beiping for development, and his wife needed to stay at home to take care of her elderly parents and young children. The emotional communication between them depends entirely on communication. It's just that one person is exposed to a brand-new world every day, while another person is trapped in a small world in the backyard. There are fewer and fewer common topics between them, which is followed by more and more contradictions. Especially at this juncture, Gu Jiegang fell in love with a female student Tan Muyu while growing up, but family responsibilities and public opinion made him give up making this idea public, so he chose to suppress his feelings and write all those loves in his diary.
Gu Jiegang buried his love in his heart for nearly forty years. During this time, he did his duty as a good father to his children. He did his duty as a good son for his parents. But for his wife, he was heavily in debt and always had another woman in his heart.
After living with Yin Lv 'an for 24 years, his second wife died of illness. After taking care of his wife's affairs, he felt relieved after her death 16 days, so he wrote to student Tan Muyu. He told her how much he admired her and fell in love with her at first sight from a long time ago. He has never forgotten her for so many years.
Unlike Gu Jiegang, who is deeply rooted, Tan Muyu has no affection for Gu Jiegang. In her opinion, Gu Jiegang is just an ordinary friend. Besides, she has decided to fight for the people of China all her life. Such Tan Muyu is doomed not to accept Gu Jiegang's feelings.
In her reply, she euphemistically rejected Gu Caizi: "For you, you must have a son. For me, I am an active person and can't manage housework. " It is conceivable how much this reply has hit Gu Jiegang. A talented person who failed in courtship can only swallow the bitter fruit silently and bury this relationship in his heart again.
In the face of Tan Muyu's refusal, Gu Jiegang was just helpless. Soon, under the introduction of friends, he married Zhang Jingqiu again. This is the third and last marriage in his life. Zhang Jingqiu is also his third wife, and they will spend the rest of their lives together. 1980, Gu Jiegang died at the age of 87, and his love came to an end. Tan Muyu, the favorite woman in his life, gave a short speech on her centenary birthday. After all, the two of them have been lovelorn and heartless.