Drama Theory

Rich girl Yun Lingruo x storyteller Wen Jingxu On the day Yun Lingruo got married, the whole city was singing "The Story of a Thousand Gold." The sedan chair passed through the long street, the red silk was overwhelming, and the gongs and drums shook people's eardrums. She was sitting in the sedan chair and heard someone outside shouting at the top of their lungs: "Miss Yun San is so grand, and she is singing "The Story of a Thousand Gold"!" Others laughed: "That's not true, her husband is the talented man who wrote this drama. After being admitted to the imperial examination, he was admitted to the imperial examination at a young age. It's a double happiness." The sedan curtain was lifted by the wind, and she glanced into the crowd. The person who wrote the drama was walking back with his head lowered. His cloth shoes stepped into the mud puddle, and the clean uppers were completely dirty. "The Story of a Thousand Golds" was written by Wen Jingxu. The manuscript was spread out on the table. He just went out to drink a glass of wine and disappeared when he came back. A few days later, the song spread all over the city, and it was signed as Wang Jinheng, the son-in-law of the silk and satin shop. Wang Jinheng won the first prize in the poetry competition and won the favor of Yun's father, so he arranged to marry into the Yun family. No one knows that it was written by Wen Jingxu. It's like no one knew that Yun Lingruo used to sneak out every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year and sit in the corner of the teahouse to listen to his opera. She said she loved "The Peony Pavilion" the most, and said that Liu Mengmei and Du Liniang were like that, they would be together for life and death. She begged him to write a perfect play and a happy ending for Wang Qianjin and the poor scholar to finally get married. He wrote. He wrote everything he dared not think about into the play. Then the manuscript was stolen. She went to find him, and he sat in front of ashes and said only four words: That's it. She wanted to tell her father that I should go and explain it clearly, but she swallowed it back when the words reached her lips. So what if we make it clear? Wang Jinheng has become a talented man, her father has already confirmed the marriage, and Wen Jingxu is just a storyteller. She often wondered later if she had said those words that day, would everything have been different. But she didn't. After marrying into the Wang family, she discovered that Wang Jinheng knew nothing about opera. After a certain banquet, he drank too much. When he was complimented, he waved his hands and said vaguely, "That book... Is not mine." She listened to "The Story of a Thousand Gold" over and over again, and the words became more and more familiar to her. The sentence "He has written all the love affairs in the world, but he cannot write about the little obsessions in his heart", which was clearly a casual sentence she said when she was polishing her ink, "Sir, you have written about so many obsessed people, you are obsessed with it or not." He did not answer, and later it became a line in the play. She pulled out the corner of the burnt paper in her sleeve. There was only one character "Ruo" on it, which was the name of Wang Qianjin in the play, and it was also hers. There are two words on the back, which are "gift if" written by Wen Jingxu. She remembered that he had said that when the play was finished, he would leave a mark with the word "narrative" on the last page. She looked through the printed copies in Wang Jinheng's study and found that the last pages were clean. She knows everything. But she said nothing. Later, she asked someone to inquire about Wen Jingxu's whereabouts, and learned that he had left the city long ago and was nowhere to be found. A few years later, she went back to her parents' home to visit relatives and passed by that old alley. The flower seller is still there, and she still has a bouquet of gardenias for two cents, but her hair is much grayer. The mother-in-law looked at her with squinted eyes and said that Mr. Wen had returned a few days ago and was still living in the same place. Her heart beat painfully, but she didn't go to him. She is already married, and he has been gone for so long. What can she do if she sees him? She only asked someone to pass on one sentence: Miss Yun invites you to listen to the play. She was sitting in the teahouse back then. The stage was empty and she was the only one in the audience. She waited for a long time, but he didn't come. Before she left, she stuffed something into the crack of the door, a piece of burned paper with the word "Gift Ruo" facing up on the back. Many years later she heard that Wen Jingxu was dead. He died in that old alley with only a wooden box beside him. Inside the box is a manuscript of "The Story of a Thousand Golds", with the words on the cover - "Gift to Lingruo. The happy ending is with you." There is that little "Xu" printed on the last page. A piece of paper fell out of the folder, with only one line of words on it, and the ink was very light: "On the day she got married, the whole city was singing the play I wrote. She probably didn't know that it was the dowry I wrote for her." Yun Lingruo had the manuscript burned and the ashes thrown into the moat. She stood by the river, and the cinnabar mole between her eyebrows was so red that it seemed to be dripping in the dusk. She whispered three words. After that day, no one in the city sang "The Story of a Thousand Gold". "I know." Intention: There is always a lot of love, but it is never said