Qing Xian Zhong Ying Jie 情陷中英街

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Ouyang Tian-Feng (Wu Gang) and He Bi-Lian (Tao Hong) of the He family grew up together on Zhongying Street, inseparable childhood sweethearts. In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, Zhongying Street was split by the Chinese and British governments into two facing sides; neighbors who had once been one family were separated by a boundary stone. By then Tian-Feng and Bi-Lian had both grown up, and though they loved each other, the boundary stone kept them from becoming husband and wife. In the early years after the founding of the PRC, people living on both sides of Zhongying Street constantly feared that Chinese and British troops would exchange fire, and worried for their families' safety. At that time Tian-Feng was still just a young fisherman; though a match had already been arranged for him, in his heart there was only Bi-Lian, who lived on the British side of the street. To meet, they had to cross the border, which caused no small number of international incidents.
As the period of construction began, Kuomintang agents used Zhongying Street's special geographical position to stir up riots again and again, and the street entered a state of emergency alert. By then Tian-Feng and Bi-Lian had become husband and wife and had a son. Tian-Feng was drafted into the army and became a PLA soldier, while Bi-Lian raised their son alone in Hong Kong. During one Kuomintang agent riot, they forced Bi-Lian to shout reactionary slogans and paste reactionary posters in the street. During the Cultural Revolution, Bi-Lian's shouting of reactionary slogans and pasting of reactionary posters became a key target of struggle sessions; any contact between the two sides of Zhongying Street was treated as a target of criticism, and Bi-Lian could no longer take her son across the boundary stone to see her husband, who lived just across the street.
In 1978, China implemented reform and opening up. By then Hong Kong had already developed into one of Asia's most economically advanced regions. Bi-Lian and her elder brother also founded the He Corporation in Hong Kong and successfully listed it. With Bi-Lian's help, Tian-Feng gradually built a large listed enterprise of his own. Though they still loved each other deeply, too long a separation and family pressures kept them from being together again. Their son harbored hostility toward Tian-Feng, refused to acknowledge him as his father, and schemed against him at every turn in business. During the Asian financial crisis, the He Corporation was pushed to the brink of bankruptcy. Tian-Feng strongly urged a Chinese-funded company to join him in buying the He Group back from a criminal syndicate. True feelings are revealed in adversity: after weathering the ups and downs of the business world, Tian-Feng finally won his son's understanding, and after half a century the family was reconciled.