Qiong Yao's suicide was not simply because of physical problems, but because she was crushed by the double betrayal of emotions and property. She lived her whole life and wrote "love" and finally found that she had neither received true love nor held what she really belonged to.

This gap is more fatal than illness.

Let's talk a little bit.

The calculation behind love stories

Qiong Yao wrote hundreds of books in her life, making the idols of Brigitte Lin and Qin Han famous, Crown Publishing House, Firebird Company, and Superstar Film. Which one was not supported by her talent? Unfortunately, the "soul mate" she thought she found proved to be just a shrewd businessman in the end.

In 1963, "Outside the Window" became a hit, and the young Qiong Yao suddenly became the most eye-catching name in the Taiwan literary circle. At that time, Ping Xintao happened to be on the verge of bankruptcy of the magazine, and meeting her was considered a life-saving straw.

So, the relationship between the two people gradually changed from a "writer-publisher" relationship to a lover relationship.

The outside world called her a "missie", Ping Xintao left her original wife Lin Wanzhen, and turned around and married Qiong Yao with her three children. It seems to be loving in marriage, but in fact, the financial power has always been firmly in Ping Xintao's hands. The husband and wife share property, to put it nicely, it is actually Qiong Yao staying up late in the office building, and the money she earns is included in the Ping family's plate.

Do you think this is a calculation?

The indifference and opposition of stepchildren

Don't forget, Ping Xintao's original wife Lin Wanzhen is not a small role either. She helped run a magazine for many years and was suddenly squeezed out. How could the three children have no complaints? From marriage to the end, the children of the Ping family never had a good face to Qiong Yao.

Ping Xintao suffered a stroke in 2016. The doctor suggested inserting the nasogastric tube. Qiong Yao said it was torture and she didn't want her husband to hang it on a machine like a mummy. But the stepchildren jumped out and insisted on saving them, saying, "If you don't fuck, you'll starve to death."

The two sides fought to publicly break up, and Qiong Yao was finally forced to hand over custody, even saying, "I will never see him again." That scene was so cold to think about.

Ping Xintao passed away in 2019, and the key scene came: on the third day, the children took out a handwritten will from 2007, leaving all the crown, real estate, and cash for the children, Qiong Yao didn't have a penny.

What is this? This is a complete denial of her decades of hard work.

The outside world has been rumored that "the crown belongs to Qiong Yao", but the will slapped in the face. What's even more heartbreaking is that the will was secretly made when he was healthy.

Mental collapse outside property

Many people say, "She is over 80 years old and her health is not bad. Just leave if you want to." But if you look closely, her suicide note and autobiography do not treat her health as the main reason at all.

Her mother was demented in her later years and was suspended by machines. Qiong Yao left a knot in her heart at that time.

When her husband was critically ill, she wanted to obey his wishes, but was forced to hand over the power out; after her husband passed away, she found that the inheritance had been transferred away by secretly operating.

The most important thing is the feeling of being betrayed. After decades of couples, she thought she was a soul mate, but he wrote a will early and left all the money to his ex-wife's children.

She comforted herself, "He gave me love and gave my children money", but that was really comforting others. If she really believes it, she would not write the decisive words "When the Snowflakes Fall" in her suicide note.

The core of her suicide was not the illness, but the complete penetration of the spiritual world.

The cold eyes of society and public opinion

There is another detail about this incident, which is quite cruel: After Qiong Yao's death, her stepchildren did not publicly express too much nostalgia. They attended the funeral, but were more concerned about the legacy and the follow-up of the crown.

The most talked about by the outside world is also "how to divide property" and "who will take over the crown".

A writer who wrote about love for a lifetime and educated countless people to "believe in pure love" was finally regarded as a "marginalized stepmother".

Do you think it's ironic or not?

My judgment

I think there is a contradiction in Qiong Yao's generation: her obsession with love is real, but she lives in the cruel rules of reality. In the three dimensions of love, marriage, and property, she won the first two stages, but lost in the final settlement.

Her choice is controversial. Some people called her destroying other people's families, while others said she was a talented woman who married the right person. But no matter what, she did use words to change the aesthetics of an era. Even if you think her story is bloody today, it cannot be denied that she has influenced countless people.

But her death completely shattered all the romance. She walked quietly, but she left us a cruel truth: don't treat love as a full guarantee, and don't think that "soul mate" can block all the storms of reality for you.

Leave a question

I want to ask one last question: If she had been calmer back then, managed her property separately, and even voluntarily withdrew from the crown in her later years, would the result be different? Can she still write a new sentence "Snowflakes fall" in the winter of 2025 instead of using gas, but with a pen?

To put it bluntly, this matter is that romance meets reality, and no one can escape the settlement. Qiong Yao wrote about love for a lifetime, but in the end she was torn apart by reality. This is why she really chose to leave.

I want me to say that this is not her personal tragedy, but a collective blind spot for the relationship between "love" and "money".