A Look at the Challenges of Love, Family, and Independence in Marriage

The Golden Years: The End of Zhu Suosuo and Xie Hongzu Reveals 3 Truths About Marriage

Every woman dreams of finding the perfect place to belong, to be loved and cared for by a man, someone who will protect her from the storms of life.

Even the strongest woman wants to be a carefree child in front of her lover. After all, the tough exterior is for the world to see. No one wants to be invincible deep down.

Having someone to lean on, someone to warm up to through the long journey of life, that’s probably every woman’s wish.

Zhu Suosuo in The Golden Years is a woman who desperately craves love. Because her parents were absent from her life, she desperately wants a family of her own, a man to protect her.

Zhu Suosuo confesses her love to Ye Jinian, but gets rejected. In a moment of impulsiveness, she marries Xie Hongzu, who loves her.

Unfortunately, Zhu Suosuo, who is usually so smart, confuses love and marriage.

She thinks that even if Xie Hongzu’s mother, Xie Jia’in, doesn’t accept her, at least she has Xie Hongzu’s love. But in reality, a marriage into a wealthy family isn’t as simple as she imagines.

Why is this? Xie Hongzu is, in a way, a child who hasn’t grown up. His love for Suosuo is real, but he lacks the responsibility and maturity of an adult man in a marriage.

Zhu Suosuo putting her happiness in his hands was a mistake from the start.

A Child Who Hasn’t Grown Up Can’t Take on the Responsibilities and Duties of Marriage

When Xie Hongzu was pursuing Zhu Suosuo, he could take all sorts of grievances. He was full of sincerity. After she rejected him, he jumped into a river and tried to kill himself.

A man who chooses suicide to achieve his marriage goal is actually scary. It shows that he’s too immature and lacks a sense of calmness and judgment.

He’s like a child who hasn’t grown up, throwing a tantrum to get the toy he wants, until his parents are so annoyed and embarrassed that they give in to his demands.

Xie Hongzu is an adult, but he acts like this. On one hand, it’s because his mother controls everything. He wants to follow his heart. On the other hand, his mind hasn’t matured yet.

Zhu Suosuo just saw his passionate love for her and entrusted her life to him. It shows that she’s also emotionally immature. After Ye Jinian rejected her, she didn’t take time to reflect on her needs and turned to another person for comfort.

A Marriage Without the Blessing of Parents is Doomed to be Unpeaceful

Because of Xie Hongzu’s burning love, Zhu Suosuo seems to have married the perfect man. She never had her parents around when she was growing up and her childhood wasn’t ideal. Marrying into a family like the Xie family seemed like the perfect ending.

But she ignored the most important part. Xie Hongzu is a mama’s boy. His mother, Xie Jia’in, controls his life, and she strongly opposes their relationship.

A marriage without the approval of the elders is destined to be full of thorns. But Zhu Suosuo is naive. She thinks that as long as Xie Hongzu loves her, everything will be fine.

She doesn’t realize the importance of her mother-in-law in a marriage. Love can be a two-person thing, but marriage involves both families.

Xie Jia’in dislikes Zhu Suosuo, so she will do everything she can to break them up.

Many women are like Zhu Suosuo when they’re in love. They think that as long as they do their best, they can get their partner’s family’s approval.

But who is Xie Jia’in? She’s not just any ordinary mother-in-law. Xie Hongzu and Zhu Suosuo both see marriage as the beginning of their happiness. But just one day after they get married, Xie Hongzu realizes he’s wrong.

He can’t handle his mom. He’s always been “obedient to his mother” and can’t escape her control. The day after the wedding, Xie Jia’in calls him and he leaves Zhu Suosuo to go to the hospital to accompany his mother with Zhao Maling.

Xie Hongzu says he wants to be free from his mother, but his small company’s finances are handled by his mother, and it turns out that the person she assigns is Zhao Maling’s uncle.

This kind of Xie Hongzu doesn’t have the ability to be independent. He can’t even take care of himself, let alone protect a pregnant Zhu Suosuo.

Marriage Is Never Simple

Why did Xie Hongzu have to marry Zhu Suosuo? On the surface, he really loves her. Maybe Zhu Suosuo touched Xie Hongzu at some point and he felt like she was the one.

Or maybe he saw a part of himself in Zhu Suosuo, a part of himself that he wanted to be but was too afraid.

So, he fell in love with her without hesitation and had to marry her.

But a woman like Zhu Suosuo would never be on Xie Jia’in’s list of potential daughters-in-law. She doesn’t come from a good family, she doesn’t have a good degree, and she doesn’t have any wealth to help the Xie family’s business.

Besides being beautiful, she doesn’t offer any other value in business or in life. So, even though Xie Jia’in gives her a luxurious wedding, she doesn’t acknowledge Zhu Suosuo’s status.

Wealthy families’ marriages are always tangled with interests. How many people can be with the person they truly love?

Besides, without the support of his family, Xie Hongzu can’t afford a big house or support his wife and child.

He’s not someone who can handle big things. Xie Jia’in also sees that he doesn’t have the ability to manage the company, so she can only rely on arranged marriages to make the company stronger in the future.

Xie Hongzu can’t leave his mother, so he has to put up with her unreasonable demands. Even if he knows she’s being unreasonable, he can’t fight back. So, he can only make Zhu Suosuo suffer.

Maybe this happens once or twice, three or four times, but marriage is for life. Without family support and understanding, he and Zhu Suosuo are destined to go their separate ways.

Although Xie Hongzu promises to give Zhu Suosuo happiness, he can’t solve the problem in reality and he doesn’t have the ability.

Zhu Suosuo marrying Xie Hongzu was a mistake from the start.

She knew about Xie Hongzu’s situation. She didn’t really love Xie Hongzu either. It was just that Ye Jinian rejected her, and she didn’t know where to put her feelings.

Xie Hongzu’s love for her was like a lifeline for her, who was struggling in the abyss. She couldn’t marry Ye Jinian, so she married a rich kid. She was a wealthy family’s daughter-in-law. Even if her mother-in-law didn’t accept her, at least Xie Hongzu loved her more than life itself.

But when reality hit their marriage, everything changed.

Xie Hongzu has a lot of problems, and he has to compromise in the face of reality. Their marriage ending in divorce wasn’t entirely Xie Hongzu’s fault. First of all, Zhu Suosuo’s choice was wrong.

What kind of woman can stand strong in a wealthy family? Beauty can be a passport, but it’s not a universal passport.

Because beauty depreciates. One day, your looks will fade, and there will be many more young and beautiful women.

Guo Jingjing and Huo Qigang, one is a diving queen and world champion, the other is a wealthy family’s son. Many people say that Guo Jingjing is a Cinderella who married into a wealthy family, but when Guo Jingjing married Huo Qigang, the Huo family told the media to use the word “marry down”.

Guo and Huo’s marriage is more accurately described as the love between a queen and a wealthy family’s son. In this marriage, Guo Jingjing has an absolute advantage.

But what about Zhu Suosuo? She could have used her resources to become a powerful elite in the workplace, relying on her abilities to achieve her dreams. At that point, even if she didn’t marry into a wealthy family, she could still live a good life.

But she made one mistake after another, and she stumbled on her path in life.

Fortunately, Zhu Suosuo went through this setback and finally understood the path she should take.