1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 592 The Wind Howls
When they first met, Saint-Exupéry was not yet famous, so Consuelo forced him to write a certain amount of text every day.

She discovered Saint-Exupéry's writing talent and trained him to become a writer.

Therefore, after Saint-Exupéry's first book, "Night Flight," was published and became a success, he felt that his wife's influence was no longer so important.

As a result, Saint-Exupéry gradually distanced himself from her and began associating with women who admired him.

This is the imagery of the unique roses and the garden of five thousand roses on the so-called planet B612.

Therefore, the article's speculation about Jiang Xian's promiscuity is not without merit.

Jiang Xian wanted to praise the editors of "Zhiyin" magazine, saying they did indeed have a special talent in a certain area.

Because that's exactly what the original author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, guessed.

In "Memories of Roses," Consuelo wrote a line in which she accuses:

"What he loves is the vast land, the wreckage of airplanes, and the fleeting glimpses of the past."

In a sense, this can be seen as the rose's response to the Little Prince, which readers have been curious about, and as a continuation of the Little Prince and the rose's story in reality.

As for the fox, just as the article speculated, it was indeed a "lover".

She was Saint-Exupéry's lover, not Jiang Xian's.

As the article speculates, this "fox" was someone Saint-Exupéry met while he was adrift overseas; she was a foreign woman he met in a foreign land.

The two first met at a party, where Sylvia, a newly divorced New York woman, met Saint-Exupéry for the first time and fell in love with him at first sight.

This is just like when the fox and the little prince first met, the fox asked the little prince to tame her.

It was love at first sight, just like before.

Just like the plot of the novel, Sylvia asked a French-speaking friend who was traveling with her to tell the man named Saint-Exupéry that she had fallen in love with him. She made a bold declaration of love and asked Saint-Exupéry to tame her.

And so, Sylvia became the "fox" in Saint-Exupéry's life.

It was during his numerous dates with Silvia that Saint-Exupéry completed most of the writing of "The Little Prince".

Of course, there is another version of the story, which says that the "fox" was actually Saint-Exupéry's close friend.

He and his close friend, who was also a pilot, flew missions together and experienced life-or-death moments together in a plane crash. He also recounted his friendship with Melmoz, Guillaume, and others in his autobiographical novel, "The Land of Man."

Therefore, from this friendship, Saint-Exupéry learned that the most comfortable way to get along is to tame each other, not to control one another.

However, compared to the term "close friend," "lover" seems more reliable and more in line with the identity of a "fox."

Because it is said that even the sentence in the book:

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."

That is, the fox's final words to the little prince: "The most precious things are invisible to the eye."

This quote also came from Saint-Exupéry's lover, Sylvia.

Furthermore, on the eve of Saint-Exupéry joining the Free Army in April 1943, he said to Silvia, "I want to give you something special, but this is all I have."

The "these" he mentioned are all the manuscripts and watercolor paintings of "The Little Prince," a total of 144 pieces.

Therefore, the character of "the fox" most likely originated from Saint-Exupéry's New York lover, Sylvia.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the "fox" is an image that combines multiple characters.

Because the so-called "taming" can be interpreted as either love or friendship.

Regardless, from an objective standpoint, Jiang Xian had to admit that the author's analysis in this article in "Zhiyin" was quite insightful, and it truly gave him a great shock when he first read it.

However, although this article has been meticulously analyzed, there are still omissions and oversights.

Besides the women "Rose" and "Fox," there was another woman who wasn't mentioned in the *Zhiyin* article.

--snake.

In Saint-Exupéry's life, besides Consuelo "Rose" and Silvia "Fox", there was another woman who had a profound influence on him.

This woman is Nelly.

Nelly was the daughter of a wealthy ceramics merchant. She was only 19 years old when she met Saint-Exupéry, who was already the wife of a count.

The two met through Saint-Exupéry's works and fame; she was a devoted fan of his.

Therefore, Nelly was able to tolerate all of Saint-Exupéry's bad habits, patiently deal with all his bad temper, and even tolerate him having all sorts of lovers.

This woman provided Saint-Exupéry with solid financial support, enabling his works to be published.

Besides providing financial support to Saint-Exupéry by helping him publish his books, she also wrote his biography under the pseudonym Pierre Chéfrière after his death.

In "The Little Prince," the story begins with the Little Prince encountering a snake, and ends with the snake taking the Little Prince away.

It begins with the snake and ends with the snake.

So the snake is Nelly, a 19-year-old married woman.

This woman is exactly like the snake in "The Little Prince." She can take the Little Prince to wherever he wants to go, and when he wants to go back, she will appear in front of him again.

In conclusion, if this article in *Zhiyin* magazine is speculating about Saint-Exupéry's romantic history, then there's really not much of a problem, because Saint-Exupéry's love life certainly qualifies as romantic.

In love, although Saint-Exupéry loved both of his wives, neither of them remained faithful to each other.

His first wife chose to divorce him after he was injured in a plane crash.

His second wife and he distrusted each other, and each had numerous romantic affairs.

However, given the prevailing social norms abroad, a few romantic affairs are hardly considered a flaw.

After all that has been said, Saint-Exupéry was still surrounded by women, and his lifestyle was far from being considered promiscuous.

However, this seems rather difficult for Chinese people with more feudalistic ideas to accept.

Chinese people generally believe in pure and faithful love stories, such as "The Butterfly Lovers" and "The Legend of the White Snake".
Therefore, when Jiang Xian first heard about Saint-Exupéry's romantic affairs, he was quite disappointed, feeling that the author of "The Little Prince" should not be like that.

But then again, it's actually like that in Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince." The Little Prince can leave the "rose" whenever he wants, and he can leave the "fox" whenever he wants.
The Little Prince is actually "willful and heartless".

He never carried any burdens; he simply explored.

Moreover, the love depicted in "The Little Prince" is very realistic; real-life love is often like this:

There's always one person who loves more, one who falls in love with the other first. And it's impossible for your way of loving to be exactly what the other person wants. Often, we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone, and then we regret it too late.
After going through the whole thing from beginning to end, Jiang Xian was quite impressed with "Zhiyin" magazine. It was amazing that it could extract so many stories from a novel, and the things written in the articles were almost indistinguishable from reality.

These people are indeed quite capable; their writing is so brilliant that even Jiang Xian couldn't help but applaud them.

"Tch! But we still have to scold them!"

"Saint-Exupéry was the one who was a womanizer, what does that have to do with me, Jiang Xian?!"

"You dare to spread dirty rumors about me? You deserve to die!" Jiang Xian sat down at his desk and immediately started writing furiously, continuing until late at night before tiptoeing to bed.

When Zhu Lin got back to bed, she was already asleep, but she was a light sleeper. She felt Jiang Xian get into bed and immediately woke up from her dream.

"What are you writing about? You've been writing for so long."

"I wrote a response."

Jiang Xian stretched and said, "They've already thrown mud at me. I'm not a martial arts graduate. Why should I feel guilty about something I didn't do? Of course, I have to respond to them directly as soon as possible."

"How did you respond?"

"Hey, you'll see later." Jiang Xian yawned.

On a fine, sunny day, Jiang Xian packed up Feng Xiaogang and Zhu Hong and put them on a plane bound for the United States.

Both of them shed tears at the airport.

Zhu Hong was reluctant to leave her family, and the thought of her unknown life in the United States made her feel somewhat lost and hesitant.

In comparison, Feng Xiaogang cried even more bitterly.

Because Zhu Hong's life in the United States is at least secure, since she is going to become a company leader.

What about Feng Xiaogang?

He was indeed sent there by Jiang Xian to suffer.

That was truly a matter of life and death!
Therefore, she cried very sadly, reluctant to part with the good life she had in China.

Jiang Xian patted him on the shoulder to comfort him. Although Feng Xiaogang didn't speak the language and didn't have any life skills, he was smart. Moreover, America was a land of outstanding people and abundant resources. Feng Xiaogang wouldn't starve to death or be shot and killed in the street.

"The wind howls, the Yi River is cold, the hero departs, never to return." Jiang Xian recited two lines, slightly calming Feng Xiaogang's agitated emotions.

Feng Xiaogang also felt that his trip was a life-or-death situation, and begged Jiang Xian to take good care of his wife.

It's not Xu Fan.

Before Xu Fan, he had a wife named Zhang Di, who was a nurse at a hospital.

Back then, Feng Xiaogang was quite young, only in his early twenties. He was somewhat educated and quite humorous. Although he wasn't very good-looking, people didn't care much about looks back then.

In short, after a while, he quickly won over Zhang Di, and the two began to discuss marriage.

However, Zhang Di's parents were quite hesitant at the time, feeling that Feng Xiaogang was not a very stable person. After all, the entertainment industry is quite unreliable. But in the end, their daughter insisted, and they couldn't persuade her otherwise.

And that's how the two of them got together.

As for Xu Fan, that happened later when Feng Xiaogang was filming "Da Sa Ba".

Have you all seen "Da Sa Ba"? It's also about going abroad. In it, Ge You's wife goes abroad, Xu Fan's husband goes abroad, and the two of them end up living together. It's a love story.

At that time, Feng Xiaogang had already achieved great success, and he and Xu Fan, who were exchanging glances, quickly became involved.

There's nothing we can do; the arts and entertainment industry is just that chaotic.

Moreover, it seems Feng Xiaogang wasn't exactly well-behaved afterward. He was even photographed going to a hotel with a female host and not leaving until the next day, looking incredibly refreshed.

Ugh, all in all, it was terrible.

However, this doesn't stop Feng Xiaogang from thinking about his wife right now.

Jiang Xian comforted him, "Alright, don't worry about it. If anything happens to you, I'll take care of your wife just like I would my own."

"what?"

Feng Xiaogang thought about it and realized that there seemed to be something wrong with what he said. But then he thought that if something really happened to him, and Jiang Xian treated his wife like his own wife, then it would be a blessing for his wife.

"Then, I'll go."

"Go."

Feng Xiaogang embarked on his journey to the United States with many hesitations and look back at him.

Jiang Xian comforted Zhu Hong's parents and Zhu Lin, who had come to see her off, "It's alright, it's alright. Zhu Hong can come back whenever she wants; it's just a matter of a plane ticket."

Zhu's mother waved her hand, "Xiao Jiang, don't be silly, flying around like that is too expensive!"

"Oh, Mom, this is nothing. Okay, okay, let's go back."

He led Zhu's parents and their family into his car. Rain was falling softly outside the window. It had been raining in Beijing for the past few days, and the weather was getting colder every day.

"Hey? Xiao Jiang, has 'The Last Emperor' been shown overseas?" Zhu's father suddenly inquired.

Bertolucci made "The Last Emperor" on such a grand scale, it was a massive undertaking.

At the time, just to film a scene with one soldier, 2000 people were mobilized. They were soldiers stationed nearby, brought in by the authorities. Each of them had their head shaved, and they would receive 30 yuan as payment after the job was done.

Has anyone ever counted how many extras were in the entire film?
1.9 people!

So this movie really caused a huge uproar in Beijing, and everyone knew about it.

Not to mention Mr. Zhu, whose daughter played an important role in the film. She went to Northeast China and Europe for the film, so she was naturally deeply impressed.

However, a long time has passed since filming of "The Last Emperor" was completed, so Zhu's father was naturally curious about the film's release.

“It’s already been released,” Jiang Xian said.

The film was released not long ago, but he still kept a letter from Ryuichi Sakamoto beforehand.

In his letter, Ryuichi Sakamoto complained to him that he had stayed up all night writing 44 pieces of music, but when he arrived in London, he was dumbfounded.

The piece of music that he had sent via satellite in advance was dismantled by Bertolucci and completely ruined.

What's even more infuriating is that Bertolucci kept revising the editing, changing it from one day to the next, forcing the music to change as well, making everything out of sync.

With the recording about to begin, it turns out that the music in many places is still out of sync.

Left with no other option, Ryuichi Sakamoto went back to his hotel and stayed up all night recalculating the beats to see how to match them to the visuals.

After much effort from Director Bei, Ms. Saka finally ended up in the hospital.

When he was invited to the preview screening, he almost fell off his chair.

The piece he had painstakingly composed was once again torn to pieces.

Of the 44 pieces I wrote while staying up all night, at least half were not adopted.

Ryuichi Sakamoto said he never wants to go to any more preview screenings.

(End of this chapter)