The ordinary ticket price for the new stage in Shanghai is one yuan, and the VIP seat is two yuan. Because today is the premiere of the new drama, the ticket price has risen a lot, and the ordinary ticket price is one yuan and five cents.

This level of consumption excludes ordinary people, and most of the audience is middle-class.

They are very familiar with Chen Bailu's outfit. Good women will never do this. Only socialites who are mingling in the fun are so charming.

Chen Bailu came from a scholarly family and went to school. She was a girl baptized by new ideas and was full of happy fantasies about the future.

However, because of his father's death, his family's decline, and he was forced by life, he became a famous senior socialite. He worked with great businessmen such as Pan Yueting and Zhang George all day long, and lived a life of luxury.

The arrival of the old lover Fang Dasheng evoked Chen Bailu's memories of the past and his longing for a new life.

But although she disliked and despised everything around her, she was unable to get rid of her luxurious life.

The first act of "Sunrise" is the meeting between Chen Bailu and Fang Dasheng. From their conversation, we can know Chen Bailu's past and current situation.

It is only in front of Fang Dasheng that Chen Bailu showed her childishness in the past, not her current turmoil.

Fang Dasheng wanted Chen Bailu to go with him, but Chen Bailu refused.

One day, Chen Bailu saved a little girl from the gangster Heisan, named Xiaodian, and recognized her as her goddaughter.

She saw her own shadow in the little girl and tried her best to protect the little thing.

With the appearance of George Zhang, Pan Yueting, Grandma Gu Ba and others, the daily life of a socialite was presented to the audience, and Chen Bailu was dealing with these men with her beauty.

She smokes, plays cards, drinks, and mocks the man.

There was always mockery on the corners of her mouth. She was smart and confused, and she was proud but weak.

Sometimes it seems that her attitude towards life is just like that, and sometimes she is very serious in doing things.

She was tired of the intrigue, intrigue, and decay of the upper class, but she could not resist the corruption of this life on her.

So she had to numb herself and just live.

The audience was at first watching with relish, but when they saw Chen Bailu’s emptiness and loneliness in the dead of night, they couldn’t help but feel pity.

They were mentally prepared to watch "Sunrise", because "Thunderstorm" is a tragedy, so "Sunrise" should also be a tragedy. The audience wants to find something that can touch their hearts.

The socialite Chen Bailu is indeed a character worthy of sympathy, but it cannot touch the hearts of the audience.

Next, the tragedy began.

Even though Chen Bailu tried his best to protect the little thing, the little thing still did not escape from Hei San's claws and was sold to a brothel.

There, although Cui Xi was kind-hearted, the little thing finally hanged himself because he couldn't bear the humiliation.

The little thing's death touched Chen Bailu a lot, making her realize this cruel society, but what can she do?

The group of people from the upper class in the room were still drinking and playing, living a life of debauchery. No one would care about the life and death of a little girl, but Chen Bailu cared about it.

Lu Xun once said: The biggest pain in life is that you have no way to go when you wake up from your dream.

Chen Bailu woke up from her dream, but found that she didn't know what to do.

At this time, banker Pan Yueting was plotted by Jin Baye of the gang, and failed in speculative business and went bankrupt.

Without Pan Yueting's financial support, Chen Bailu was in debt.

Master Jin Ba is the representative of evil. He is powerful and forced the little thing to death. He plotted against Pan Yueting and coveted Chen Bailu.

Only by relying on Jin Baye can Chen Bailu continue to live a luxurious and luxurious life. If it were Chen Bailu in the past, he would probably have made such a choice.

But the little thing died, and she could not see hope in this world, and she was even more unwilling to sink into the darkness.

So, she chose to end her life at sunrise and commit suicide by taking sleeping pills.

When the audience saw the little thing being forced to death, they were full of resentment and grief, but when Chen Bailu died, the audience was silent and didn't know what to say.

"Sunrise" does not have the refreshing feeling of catharsis like "Thunderstorm", but is extremely depressed.

For these middle-class people in Shanghai, they are very familiar with the plots in the play, and even happen to them. There are countless socialites in Shanghai, and they will also make scenes.

But they have never considered the feelings of socialites, nor have they seriously thought about this issue.

Why did Chen Bailu die?

She was forced to death by this society.

In "Sunrise", the little thing was forced to death, the little employee Huang Shengsan was driven crazy, and Chen Bailu was also forced to death.

What kind of society is this?

At the end of the drama, Fang Dasheng left facing the sun and left the darkness behind him.

The audience's reaction was completely different from when they watched "Thunderstorm", and they did not applaud.

This drama did touch their hearts, but because it was too deep, they felt pain. This was not the drama they wanted to see, this was their life.

Because it's too real, they feel scared.

As Hong Shen was worried, it is still difficult for domestic audiences to accept such a realistic tragedy. Judging from the audience's reaction, the performance of "Sunrise" has failed.

Only some viewers in the drama industry applauded warmly. As a drama about realism, "Sunrise" is an unquestionable classic.

However, perhaps it was too advanced and the audience was not ready yet.

The performance ended in silence.

Unlike the audience's reaction, the next day, the newspaper praised "Sunrise".

Especially some newspapers that tend to make progress believe that Sunrise, like Luxun's "Diary of the Madman", both reveal that this is a "cannibal" society and requires revolution.

The Creation Society, led by Guo Moruo, also sang a hymn for "Sunrise".

Some people also analyze from the drama itself that the three-hour "Sunrise" marks the maturity of Chinese drama, which is a masterpiece of realism.

Under the praise of public opinion, there are still audiences going to Shanghai to watch "Sunrise", but like the previous group of audiences, they were all abused and speechless.

Therefore, the drama "Sunrise" spread in the upper class, and of course it was not a good reputation.

They live a life of luxury every day. Whoever wants to see their own life is fine, and then they are so depressed that they are so depressed.

"Sunrise" did not continue to be popular because the attendance rate was not high, and the new Shanghai stage stopped performing "Sunrise" half a month later.

The story spread to Peking, but "Sunrise" was enthusiastically sought after in the birthplace of new literature.

Zhou Zuoren showed Lu Xun the script of "Sunrise", and they all knew that Cao Yu was Lin Zixuan.

Originally, Lin Zixuan moved closer to Hu Shi and was a little distant from the Zhou brothers. Lu Xun felt that Lin Zixuan's research on "Dream of Red Mansions" was too late and out of touch with the trend of the times.

But Sunrise changed his view.

He believed that Lin Zixuan could analyze his life so deeply, and even dig out his heart for others to see, which few people could do.
Chapter completed!