I recently read a long article about Ma Rong, and it’s quite heartbreaking. She said she’s been divorced for nearly nine years, and her current situation really makes people feel emotional—moving from a luxury house to an old neighborhood in Xi'an, only having four digits left in her bank card, and not even daring to attend parent-teacher meetings for her children. Looking at her transferred record she posted, the huge gap in living standards is truly shocking.

In the article, she also openly admitted that she was too young back then and chose the wrong person. Regarding Song Zhe, she said she only saw him once after he was released from prison, and he no longer wanted to look back; she also can’t go back to Wang Baoqiang. That statement sounds a bit hopeless.

Thinking carefully, Ma Rong’s biggest mistake wasn’t actually that incident itself, but overestimating herself and misjudging her feelings. She was just a nobody, only famous because of Wang Baoqiang, yet she looked down on her rural-born husband. She spent his money while flirting with others, and eventually got involved with Wang Baoqiang’s assistant, Song Zhe.

But this guy isn’t really a romantic. Song Zhe just wanted to get benefits from his boss’s wife; Ma Rong saw him as love, but he saw her as a cash machine. Once Wang Baoqiang’s fame faded, Ma Rong became a nobody, and even Song Zhe didn’t look at her anymore.

In contrast, Wang Baoqiang’s career has truly taken a turn for the better over the years. From the “Silly Root” back then to now developing in film, TV, and variety shows, his directed film “In the Octagon” broke 2.2 billion yuan at the box office, and his reputation has soared. Standing beside him is Stanford graduate Feng Qing, living a completely different level of life. Ma Rong will never go back to her past glory.

Some netizens said that Ma Rong’s family was too domineering back then. When her daughter made a mistake and was caught, instead of reflecting and admitting fault, they stubbornly fought back, bullying honest kids like Wang Baoqiang to death. The Wang family might have had some room for reconciliation because of the two children, but they were forced into a dead end, and it’s really a case of a good hand being played badly.

Ma Rong was at fault, and her mother wasn’t a good person either. Many family breakups ultimately point to such domineering parents. This story, at its core, is a lesson—choices are more important than effort, attitude is more important than appearance, and Wang Baoqiang’s success today is thanks to his clarity of mind.