Jiang Hao could hardly wait to open the system panel and check the new mission.
"A guest watched the film To Live: the hardship of living, the helplessness of growing old, the pain of illness, the grief of death, losing the one you love, being unable to obtain what you seek, being unable to let go. Eight or nine times out of ten, life does not go as one wishes. Suffering is the norm, while happiness is a luxury."
"Mission: Please allow the collector to experience 'the hardship of living.'"
Jiang Hao had watched the film To Live, starring Master Ge. It had an extremely high Douban rating and was a profoundly moving film. Jiang Hao had even read the original novel.
It was a story of tragic yet tenacious survival.
Fugui was the foolish young master of a landowning family. He had enjoyed wealth and privilege in his youth, but after gambling away his family inheritance, he never recovered, and misfortune came one after another.
After he lost all the family property, his father died of rage after falling from a manure pit. His mother fell gravely ill, and Fugui went to seek medical treatment, only to be seized halfway there by Nationalist troops and conscripted. Later captured by the People's Liberation Army, he returned home only to learn that his mother had passed away. His wife Jiazhen had struggled bitterly to raise their two children, but their daughter had tragically become mute.
Then his son Youqing died after being drained of too much blood at the hospital; his daughter Fengxia died of massive postpartum hemorrhaging; his wife Jiazhen died from illness; his son-in-law Erxi died in a work accident; and his grandson Kugen was stuffed to death after eating too many beans.
The rare warmth in life was