《半生缘》,张爱玲第一部完整的长篇小说,原名《十八春》,写了一个上世纪30年代上海的爱情故事。女主人公顾曼桢家境贫寒,自幼丧父,全家靠姐姐曼璐做舞女养活。曼桢毕业后与许世钧相爱,两人决定结婚。曼璐终于也嫁人了,丈夫祝鸿才是个暴发户。曼璐因不能生育企图劝妹妹当其夫的姨太太,遭拒。曼璐献计,让鸿才强暴了曼桢,还将曼桢囚于小屋。当世钧追到祝家找曼桢,曼璐谎称妹妹已嫁。世钧心灰意冷,在父母劝说下娶了翠芝,曼桢也生下了鸿才的儿子……18年在张爱玲的笔下一晃就过去了,曼桢和世钧又在上海相遇,而岁月变迁,绿树早已成荫…… “Half-life”, Zhang Ailing’s first complete novel, formerly known as “eighteen spring”, wrote a 1930s Shanghai love story. The heroine Gu Manzhen poor family, his father since his death, the family by sister sister Lu doing dance. After graduation, Man-ching fell in love with Xu Shijun and the two decided to get married. Man Lu finally married, her husband Zhu Hong is an upstart. Man Lu refused to give birth due to attempt to persuade her sister when her husband’s wife, rejected. Man Lu offer, so hung before Manzhen riot, will be Manzhen prison in the hut. When Shijun chase Zhujia find Manzhen, Man Lu lied sister has married. Shijun despair, under the persuasion of his parents married Cui Zhi, Manzhen also gave birth to the son of Hong Hong ... Eighteen years in Zhang Ailing’s flash on the go, Manzhen and Shijun meet again in Shanghai, and Years change, the tree has long been shady ......