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When Truth Outscores Fiction

The Real-Life Spy Tale Behind M. Butterfly

By Rohitha LankaPublished 9 months ago 2 min read

Some events in the world are

More incredible than cinema fiction.

(As a result, they later become films)

The film 'M Butterfly' is

such a film...

It is based on the life story of Bernard Bourisicot.

Who is 'Bernard Bourisicot'?

He was a young man of twenty years old who went to China fifty-eight years ago in 1965 as a French diplomat...

Like many other young men who go to China, Bernard Bourisicot also

befriends a beautiful Chinese girl there...

And that Peking Opera dancer named Shu Pei!

They fall in love very deeply....

After a while, Shuh has a child.

But by then, Bernard is

out of China!

But even so, their

relationship did not stop....

But you have heard about the revolution in China,

and the

major political changes that occur in China with it,

and the lives of Shuh and the child are in danger!

Finally, Bernard has to give France's state secrets to China in order to protect their lives!

Thus, for years, he has been passing French secrets to China through Shu..

In the meantime, in 1982, he managed to bring Shu and the child to France..

But the French secret service arrests the two of them there....

And now, the mystery that I mentioned at the beginning of this article, which is more mysterious than a movie plot, is revealed...

Destroying the trust and self-respect of the French lover who betrayed his country's state secrets for love,

born as a man, not a woman!

The Chinese Shu also admitted that...

"And the child?"

Isn't that the question now...?

It turns out that the child was

provided to Shu by the Chinese authorities,

to deceive Bernard!

Schuh confessed that too...

Bernard, who could not understand this great lie that he had been

hypnotized for so long,

tried to commit suicide in the prison cell he was being held in,

But it did not succeed...

The two of them, who had been

hiding deep secrets about deception and being deceived,

Even though they were released from prison after many years,

Never had a relationship or even met again until Schuh died in France in 2009...

No man in this world, even

The French lover Bernard Bourisicott, had

This much to say about the incident:

"When I believe it,

Tt's a beautiful story......"

So Bernard's story is also true, isn't it?

Many stories are as beautiful as we believe them to be, aren't they?

At least Bernard realized later that he had been deceived by a great fraud....

But how many of us still believe in lies, thinking them to be great stories? Perhaps you are also in a great delusion right now....

The Israeli people believe that nothing in this world happens by chance...

That means you may have read this article as a piece of knowledge that saved you from a great delusion!

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  • Nikita Angel9 months ago

    Very very beautiful written

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