After a performance ended, the entire theater hall shouted the names of the leading actors and actresses.
People lined up to go on stage and shake hands with the actors, including some nobles. Although the nobles looked down on actors when choosing marriage partners, it did not prevent them from chasing stars on weekdays. Several barons among them personally brought flowers to Vivien Leigh.
Ornis looked at his daughter with a smile. He turned to Zhou Hexuan and said, "Zhou, Mary is an excellent girl. I hope you treat her well."
"I will." Zhou Hexuan smiled.
Ornish has thought it through completely and decided to respect his daughter's choice and neither support nor oppose it.
Well, the main reason is that business is hard to do now, and Ornis is reluctant to give up a rare good opportunity. As for the trouble between his daughter and Zhou Hexuan, Ornis can't interfere even if he wants to, how can he stop it?
Backstage at the theater, Vivien Leigh had just changed her clothes when the staff came in holding two bouquets of flowers and said: "Miss Vivian, your gift."
"Thank you." Vivien Leigh took the flowers, picked up the card on the flower branch, looked at it, and put it back with a smile.
During this period of time, Vivien Leigh received various gifts every day, among which roses were the most numerous, so many that she could take them back to the flower shop.
Vivien Leigh picked up her bag, waved goodbye to the other actors, and got into Zhou Hexuan's car through the back door of the theater.
"Are you tired?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
Vivien Leigh rubbed her eyebrows and said: "A little bit."
Zhou Hexuan suggested: "You can reduce the number of performances, one performance a day is too much, not to mention you still have to study."
Vivien Leigh smiled and said: "The audience is so enthusiastic. I don't want to disappoint them."
The two returned to their villa in the suburbs of London. Vivien Leigh hung up her bag and hugged Zhou Hexuan from behind: "Xuan, let's go shopping together tomorrow weekend."
Zhou Hexuan said: "Someone will come to visit tomorrow and I can't leave."
"That's it," Vivien Leigh was a little disappointed, and then smiled, "Then I will stay at home with you."
Feeling that the heat was almost over, Zhou Hexuan turned around to face Vivien Leigh, looked at her affectionately and said, "Mary, I'm going back to China in a few days, are you willing to come with me?"
"So soon?" Vivien Leigh felt very entangled. She didn't want to give up her studies, nor did she want to give up the fame she had gained in London, but she also didn't want to separate from Zhou Hexuan. This kind of thing made it difficult for her to make a choice.
Zhou Hexuan said truthfully: "I have a wife in China."
Vivien Leigh lowered her head in despair and said nothing for a long time before saying: "Dad told me."
"I hope you can accept that this kind of thing is nothing in China." Zhou Hexuan tried his best to deceive.
"Can I think about it again?" Vivien Leigh said painfully.
"Of course." Zhou Hexuan held Vivien Leigh in his arms, leaned over and kissed her forehead.
Zhou Hexuan also knew that he was shameless. In order to satisfy his possessive desire, he used tricks to deceive a pure girl away. But he was very good at comforting himself and constantly reminded himself that he was saving Vivien Leigh's life.
Vivien Leigh in history will marry a lawyer at the end of this year, and her married life is not very happy. A few years later, she met the famous actor Oliver, and the two had a passionate affair and had an underground affair. Then they abandoned their families and eloped to Hollywood in the United States.
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Olivier quickly became famous in Hollywood, but his cheating habit returned and he had ambiguous relationships with other women behind Vivien Leigh's back. Vivien endured her husband's betrayal (the two were already married at this time) while facing the fierce competition in Hollywood.
As a result, her temper became more and more irritable and she became neurotic. She had to smoke five packs of cigarettes a day to relieve her depression, and she contracted tuberculosis as a result.
By the 1950s, Vivien Leigh was severely depressed, and her tuberculosis was constantly cured and relapsed. She quarreled with Oliver every day, and often got angry on the set. Especially when she suffered two consecutive miscarriages, she suffered from depression for half a year.
In the end, Vivien Leigh chose to divorce Oliver, and lived with Meriwell, who cared for her for a long time in her later years. She died of depression and tuberculosis at the age of 54.
Throughout Vivien Leigh's life, it was very tragic. Mental illness and tuberculosis had plagued her for 20 years. She was lucky not to go completely crazy.
Zhou Hexuan always comforts himself, maybe he can save Vivien Leigh's life.
At night, Vivien Leigh tossed and turned, too upset to sleep. She asked in the darkness: "Xuan, are you asleep?"
"No." Zhou Hexuan held Vivien Leigh in his arms.
Vivien Leigh pressed her face against Zhou Hexuan's chest and murmured: "I can go to China with you, but just to see. If life is unhappy, I will choose to return to England or go to the United States on the other side of the ocean."
"No matter what you choose, I will support you." Zhou Hexuan turned over and pressed Vivien Leigh down, looking for the petal-like lips and kissed her.
Vivien Leigh was actually very unhappy, but she still made the same choice as in history. At that time, Vivien Leigh had a husband, and Oliver also had a wife. Their affair and elopement were far more difficult choices than going to China with Zhou Hexuan.
This is a woman who looks weak and doesn't like to argue with others, but is desperate at critical moments.
Perhaps in order to relieve the depression in her heart, Vivien Leigh reacted very fiercely tonight. She wildly catered to Zhou Hexuan's movements, and in the end she even turned against him, riding on the man's body and twisting and bumping like a fairy.
In the early morning of the next day, Vivien Leigh was smiling happily again, and seemed to have completely forgotten yesterday's troubles. She was like a newlywed wife, getting up early to make breakfast for her husband, and humming an unknown ditty to tidy up the room decorations.
The person who is coming to visit today is the future British Prime Minister Churchill. The two have made an appointment in the letter.
Guo Taiqi showed up earlier than Churchill. He is now fully in the zone and will not miss any opportunity to make British friends. Some time ago, Churchill visited Germany, and Zhou Hexuan failed to take Guo Taiqi to visit, so he could only stay behind with regret.
Business card left.
Happily, after returning to London, Churchill saw the business card left by Zhou Hexuan and immediately wrote a letter to arrange a time to meet.
Churchill really wanted to meet Zhou Hexuan. The main reason was that Zhou Hexuan publicly opposed the spread of fascism, and the two of them had coincident views. Churchill's trip to Germany was equivalent to a trip, and he visited many ancient battlefield ruins. He wrote in his diary: "
When we passed through these beautiful areas and passed one famous ancient city after another, I naturally learned about Hitler's movements. I felt the aggressive atmosphere of fascism and found that this was the most important thing in every Nazi's mind."
At about nine o'clock in the morning, Churchill, who had already put on weight, appeared in Zhou Hexuan's villa. Comparing the photos of Churchill's handsome youth, one has to lament that time is like a butcher's knife.
"Hello, Mr. Churchill!" Zhou Hexuan shook hands warmly.
Guo Taiqi also stood up quickly and introduced himself: "Mr. Churchill, I am Guo Taiqi, the Chinese Minister to the United Kingdom. It is a pleasure to meet you."
After shaking hands with the two, Churchill took out the gift he brought: "Mr. Zhou, this is for you."
Zhou Hexuan opened it and saw that there were two gifts: one was a Dunhill cigar, and the other was a woolen vest.
Cigars are easy to understand, but what the hell is a wool vest?
Churchill seemed to see Zhou Hexuan's doubts. He laughed and said: "Mr. Zhou, I am also a descendant of the Wool family."
Zhou Hexuan was instantly embarrassed. Well, he scolded Earl Spencer at the prince's ball, and by the way, he scolded Churchill too.
Churchill's full name is Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, and his real surname is "Spencer-Churchill", which belongs to a branch of the Spencer family. At that time, "Churchill" belonged to a very noble family
Due to the loss of descendants, George Spencer, the fifth Duke of Marlborough, changed his surname to "Spencer-Churchill" in order to inherit the great glory of the Churchill family.
"Well, haha," Zhou Hexuan said with an awkward smile, "Mr. Churchill, I was just joking. Don't take it seriously."
Churchill lit his cigar and said: "No need to apologize. The ancestors of the Spencer family did make their fortune by selling wool and paying bribes. This is an indisputable fact. I am not ashamed to be a descendant of the Spencer family. Spencer
The honor of the family is the result of the efforts of generations of descendants, and I am willing to add glory to the Spencer family."
Guo Taiqi lost no time in flattering him: "What Mr. Churchill said is really admirable. Men should work hard!"
