The Origin of Love

The play tells a love story that spans half a life in old Shanghai in the 1930s. Gu Manzhen came to a factory to work as a clerk, and his colleague Shen Shijun was gentle and kind. Manzhen and he admired each other, and gradually fell in love with each other through misunderstandings and mutual help. My elder sister Manlu became a dancer to make a living for the family, but her beauty faded away and her grace was gone. The family struggled to survive in the quagmire of materialistic desires. The Shen family hopes that Shen Shijun can marry Shi Cuizhi, the eldest daughter of the Shi family, but Cuizhi falls in love with Xu Shuhui, Shijun's good friend. Manlu married Zhu Hongcai, a scheming man. In order to keep her husband's heart, she even used her own sister to give birth to a child. The prosperous and magnificent old Shanghai has become mysterious and even sinister. Many years later, Manzhen and Shijun met again, but their fate was so unexpected. Manlu left her alone before she died, and Manzhen decided to marry Zhu Hongcai for the sake of their children. Shijun also fell in love with Cuizhi. Things are different and people hate each other. It seems that they can no longer go back to where they were before. Before, then everything is never certain. True love can withstand the quenching of time, and the wrong track will return to the right path because of the power of love. Face yourself and the times, cry out and fight, make life more valuable and the future more hopeful.