The glass of water on the table is still warm, and her daughter's suicide note shows her debt to her parents and despair of life.
"Mom and Dad, I'm sorry, I really can't live any longer. I am exhausted and I love you very much. " Every word shows Lin Rusi's despair and helplessness in life.
Lin Rusi, 1923 was born in Xiamen on May 6th. She is Lin Yutang's first child. Because she looks like Lin Yutang, she is regarded as the apple of Lin Yutang's eye.
Among the three daughters of the Lins, Lin Yutang is very fond of his eldest daughter, Lin Ruth. She inherited her father's looks and talents and began to write at the age of seven.
1In August, 936, Lin Yutang took his family to the United States, where he was going to concentrate on writing. /kloc-after arriving in the United States at the age of 0/3, Lin Rusi is still the best in school. She persisted in writing and translated some famous works by China.
/kloc-at the age of 0/6, she wrote a review of her father's Clouds in Beijing, which was nearly 2,000 words and was very talented.
Lin Rusi returned to China on 1943 after completing her studies in the United States. She took an active part in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and worked as a nurse in Kunming Field Hospital. Later, because she was proficient in English, she was sent to the Red Cross as a secretary.
At work, Lin Rusi met the young king who sacrificed himself. In contact, the two fell in love and agreed to get married after the end of the Anti-Japanese War under the witness of their parents.
However, Lin Yutang did not expect that his daughter, who had always been proud of him, would make him lose face.
On the day before the engagement, Ruth Lin eloped with a man who was none other than Dick, the younger brother of a classmate of Ruth Lin's in America.
What puzzled Lin Yutang was how his daughter fell in love with such a gangster.
Ruth Lin and Dick fled to Boston together and got married there. Lin Yutang was worried about her daughter, but repeated persuasion did not make her determined to come back.
Ruth Lin is crazy about this gangster Dick. Her decision made her father Lin Yutang very puzzled, why the daughter who was so obedient at the beginning has now become another person.
As a father, watching his beloved daughter marry a worthless gangster must be extremely anxious. At this moment, he can only pray to God that they can live a good life.
But after marriage, Dick gradually exposed his love rat nature, drinking, domestic violence, cheating, abuse …
Repeated injuries made Lin Ruth see despair from hope, and she began to reflect on this marriage. 1955, Lin Ruth ended her ten-year painful life and returned to her parents.
This year, she was 32 years old, but the divorce did not let her out of the shadows.
I thought Lin Ruth would forget all the pain in the past and start a new life when she came back, but the strong depression suppressed her all the time and made her miserable.
Two years after the divorce, Lin Rusi was admitted to the hospital because of severe depression.
In order to enlighten her, her parents often take her to travel to relax and arrange work for her from time to time, hoping that she can enrich herself and forget her painful past.
But the tragedy still happened.
Lin Ruth can't walk out of her own world. At the age of 48, while her parents were away, she chose to commit suicide to end her pain.
The death of his daughter is undoubtedly a great blow to the white-haired Lin Yutang. Lin Ruth's death also took away Lin Yutang's heart and made the white-haired old man aging a lot overnight.
1On March 26th, 976, five years after Lin Rusi's death, Lin Yutang passed away, and father and daughter chose to meet again in a beautiful paradise.