In 1946, Lu En and Wu Zuguang got married at the Meilong Hotel in Shanghai. Unlike other people’s grand weddings, the wedding of these two people seemed very hasty, from the confirmation of the wedding to the completion of the wedding in just three or four days.
Perhaps, this is also in the dark hint that their Life after Marriage will be very short. Everything is just in Time, they are just in the right time, become each other a suitable life passerby.
It is like two people who are not fully compatible, suddenly shoved together, their marriage did not love each other, their lives did not mingle, but rather highlight the various contradictions and conflicts.
Just five years later, Lu En divorced Wu Zuguang. Their marriage, which started hastily and ended decently, is considered to be a less embarrassing ending for this talented couple.
Wu Zuguang
It was only at the time of the divorce that Lü En felt that Wu Zuguang still had to become a director, so she gave him a camera. Lü En is a beauty lover, she is chic and sensual, but after years of marriage with Wu Zuguang, they have not taken a single photo. The camera was perhaps a relief for Lü En in a way.
But what was hard for Lü En to let go of was that Wu Zuguang sold the camera to raise money for the wedding when he took a new wife. For this reason, she was depressed in her heart and had a hard time for many years.
At that time, she was depressed, but could not say something. Thinking and thinking, then went to her best friend Yu Feng.
Yu Feng told her not to feel bad about it: “Since he gave it to him, he can do what he likes, so be it”. The first time I heard this, I thought it made sense, since she had already given it to someone else, how could she care what they did with it?
Lü En’s stage photo
In the decades that followed, even Lu En herself felt that she had reconciled with the matter. It wasn’t until years later when Wu Zuguang asked her to take a photo together that Lü En realized that she had actually been unable to let go of her feelings for so many years.
When it comes to their meeting, I don’t know if it was by chance or by chance. They should not have crossed paths, but they met because of Wu Zuguang’s hospitality.
Wu Zuguang was the secretary of a school principal in Chongqing at that time, and was also the school’s Mandarin teacher. At that time, Wu’s film “Phoenix” was a big success. Wu Zuguang was so happy that he invited guests to a banquet. Among those invited was Lu En, and this was the beginning of their relationship.
Lü En’s stage photo
Lü En was surprised because she and Wu Zuguang did not know each other, and Wu Zuguang was a person with talent and status at that time, while Lü En was just an unknown student. She couldn’t really think of a reason for Wu Zuguang to invite her.
But with respect for her teacher, Lu En went to the appointment.
After the banquet, Lü En found an opportunity to ask Wu Zuguang why he invited himself to attend, only Wu Zuguang’s answer was straightforward and bold, which surprised her greatly: “I like you”.
At that time, Lü En thought that it was just a joke that Wu Zuguang had drunk too much wine and did not take it seriously. After that, the two of them continued to live their respective lives of attending classes and teaching each other, without any unnecessary interactions.
Lü En (first from right) with Zhang Daqian and others
After graduating, Lü En joined the Central Youth Drama Club as a professional actor, while Wu Zuguang had left school to take up the position of choreographer and director in this club. By then, the relationship between the two turned from teacher and student to colleague, and they slowly crossed paths and became connected.
After that, the two of them collaborated on a play: “The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden”, and this collaboration brought them closer together. After the play was finished, Lu En returned to Chongqing and Wu Zuguang stayed behind.
Although they were separated from each other, they kept exchanging letters and they were attracted to each other and soon established their love relationship. It is worth mentioning that after they got married, they also relied on correspondence to convey information because of their lives.
Lü En
It may be that Lü En’s love was too insignificant, or that between the two of them, there was more respect than affection, and at that time, Lü En’s love for Wu Zuguang was not very strong. Even when Wu Zuguang wrote to her and also wrote to others to express his love, Lu En did not react much.
The object of Wu Zuguang’s letter is Qin Yi, who lives with Lu En. Qin Yi is very good-looking and generous, so it is normal for someone to write love letters. But Wu Zuguang did this thing is puzzling, because he did it for no other reason than to test Lu En’s love for him.
To this he had explained, “If Lü En is jealous, she has the meaning of loving me.”
Lü En
Unfortunately, Lu En was not only not jealous, she did not feel anything. This made Wu Zuguang a little lost, but the two still continued to keep their emotions in this way until they got married.
Before the wedding, Wu Zuguang went to Lv’s house overnight and had a long talk with Lv En’s mother, which finalized their marriage. Just three days later, the two held a wedding.
There were many people at the wedding, all celebrities in the literary and artistic circles at that time, it was very lively, Wu Zuguang and Lv En’s friends from Chongqing came to congratulate.
But Lü En did not have time to take a wedding photo, she did not say, but from the divorce she gave Wu Zuguang camera this thing, she actually have their own did not notice the regret.
Qin Yi
Long before the wedding, Lü En was already living with Wu Zuguang, but she didn’t think about getting married. The rush of this wedding also involved Lü En’s cousin.
At that time, Lü En’s cousin was sent to work in India, and he often exchanged letters with Lü En far away from Home, as a way to send his lonely feelings. His cousin had a marriage, but he reneged on it.
When the abandoned woman found out that someone was writing with him, she inquired and found out about Lü En, and took him as her rival. The story spreads to Lü En and his mother, and Lü En is extremely angry, but has no good countermeasure.
Stage photo of Lu En
It was at this time that Wu Zuguang went to meet with Lu En’s mother overnight and proposed the idea of marrying Lu En. At that time, Wu Zuguang already had quite a social status and talent, and his looks were good. After a long talk with him, Lu En’s mother felt that he was a person she could trust and agreed to marry him and Lu En.
But their marriage brought out their contradictions day by day. Wu Zuguang was three or four years older than Lü En, and their lifestyles were unusually different: one got up early and the other returned late. They could only tell each other where they were going by writing letters.
Before, their correspondence was a flirtation and romance, but after they got married, their correspondence made their already difficult life more and more divided.
Lu En stage photo
At that time, there was a place called “Erliu Hall” in Shanghai, where the great celebrities spilled their ink and recited with abandon. Lü En and Wu Zuguang met many literati here, but outside of the “Erliu Hall”, the two of them had little in common.
Lü En liked lively and busy places, and she was happy dancing with people on the dance floor every day. Wu Zuguang, on the other hand, was completely different from her. He loved theater creation and places with a strong literary atmosphere, so he often went to places like the Pear Garden to listen to Music.
The social environment at that time had a better environment for something like theater to develop. Wu Zuguang as a theater creator, naturally also in the career flourishing. In this way, not only the gap between Lu En and Wu Zuguang’s life widened, even psychologically, Lu En was also a little unbalanced.
Wu Zuguang’s calligraphy
Because her character has always been like this, stubborn and strong, she has her own ideas and perseverance. Once, Lü En got sick from overworking for a performance and was stuck in Zigong. Because the crew did not have money to pay salaries, they only took care of the Food, and Lü En had to recuperate in the house by herself when she got sick.
At that time, Wu Zuguang’s “Youth Tour” and “Cowherd and Weaving Maiden” were released in Chongqing, and he made a lot of money.
So Wu Zuguang came to visit Lu En by car and told her, “You have to treat your illness. Let’s leave, I have money now.” But Lü En stubbornly said, “I can’t spend your money.” So the two stayed in Zigong and starred together in the theater company, “Drama Spring and Autumn,” and then took the money they earned from the performance to treat their illness.
Wu Zuguang
After her marriage to Wu Zuguang, the way she was addressed changed from Lu En to “Mrs. Wu”, which in itself was unpleasant to her. She did not want to be an accessory to others, nor did she want people to think that her career depended on Wu Zuguang, so Lu En always wanted to be called by her real name, not Mrs. Wu.
That’s how the two of them drifted apart after they got married. It’s not that they didn’t want to get along, but after everything, they both knew clearly that the two of them couldn’t grow old together and could only act as a passerby in each other’s lives.
At that time, Lu En had followed Wu Zuguang to go to the pear garden to watch the opera, only to see the opera half, she fell asleep. And Wu Zuguang also followed Lu En to her dancing place, but he could not join them, but only watched from the side, nothing to do. Instead, Lü En danced with these people, full of laughter.
Jo Kwang Oh in later years
They were attracted by each other’s personality and charm at first, and now they are separated by these. Lü En and Wu Zuguang’s marriage lasted only five years, and after five years, they divorced, maintaining respect and understanding for each other.
At the time of the divorce, Wu Zuguang was struggling to make ends meet. Thinking that he was going to be a director, Lu En gave him a camera, a newly purchased one.
She said to Wu Zuguang: “You are a director, go back to shooting scenes with”, in addition to the camera, Lu En also gave Wu Zuguang the money she got from mortgaging her house.
The two of them are divorced, but both still have respect and understanding for each other. Perhaps they were only meant to be friends who understood and supported each other.
Wu Zuguang’s second wife – Qi Baishi’s disciple Xin Fengxia
When Lu En and Wu Zuguang got married, they had the blessing of countless people, and when they divorced, they had the support of everyone. At that time, most of those masters and celebrities made a fuss after their divorce, but only Lü En and Wu Zuguang, when they divorced, were calm and relaxed.
After their divorce, Lu En found her own home, she and Hu Yixiang joined hands and grew old together, while Wu Zuguang also married Xin Fengxia.
At this time, Wu Zuguang is not as rich as before, he even had to sell the camera that Lu En gave him to plan the wedding. This was a move of necessity for him, but for Lü En, it was hard to understand and choked up in his heart.
Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia
Time passed, and in 1998, Tang Yu, the owner of Erliu Hall, held a birthday banquet for his 88th birthday, and Lü En and Wu Zuguang reunited at this banquet.
By this time, decades had passed since their divorce, but they had never had a photo together. This is ultimately a girl’s regret for a fashionable person like Lü En.
When the two met again, Wu Zuguang’s wife Xin Fengxia had passed away and he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Time has changed, and now they have long since lost their previous elegance, and the once talkative man now can’t even speak well.
After the banquet, Tang Yu’s wife said to Lu En, “Wu Zuguang wants to take a picture with you.”
Lü En was stunned. Since their marriage and divorce, and now, for decades, the matter of taking a picture had been choking her.
Lv En in her later years
At that time, she had sought guidance from Yu Feng, and since then, she has kept this matter deep in her heart, even she did not notice. It was only now that Wu Zuguang wanted to take a picture with her that Lu En realized that she had not let go of her feelings for so many years.
Wu Zuguang may also know, otherwise he wouldn’t have had someone convey the news that he wanted to take a picture with Lu En even after years, even though he had difficulty speaking.
Lü En later recalled, “After the meal, Tang Yu’s wife called me and said, “Wu Zuguang wants to take a picture with you. I was frozen for a moment. We’ve been friends for decades! He didn’t talk much then, just ate. Just like that he took my hand and took a picture with him.”
She added, “Wu Zuguang still has feelings for me.”
Wu Zuguang and Xin Fengxia in later years
This love affair, which could not go all the way, was thus rubbed into this short sentence.
Five years after this party, Wu Zuguang died, and this first photo became their last one.
This is the end of the story of this talented man, in this relationship, they may have their own regrets, have their own reluctance, but the two people are clear, they can not go together to the end of life, because there are many people in this world, will only become a passenger in the life of others, although they know each other but not to keep each other.
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