If it were not for this photo (the first from the right) posted by female star and female director Zhao Wei, many viewers would probably have forgotten that there is also a strong actor in the entertainment industry named Li Nanxing.
Coincidentally, singapore fan wenfang's photos posted on September 26 also include Li Nanxing (first from the left).
After "disappearing" on the screen for so long, what happened to Li Nanxing? Is it true that, as the rumor goes, he gambled like a fate, lost his family, and his wife left him?
In this group photo posted by Zhao Wei and Fan Wenfang respectively, Li Nanxing (the first from the right in the picture below) is smiling, handsome, and it is not at all obvious that he is already 55 years old when he knows the destiny of heaven.
As a former brother of Singapore, Li Nanxing, who has the reputation of "Singapore Zhou Runfa", was the most popular, and he was in the same frame with Zhou Runfa at the award ceremony. (The figure below is Zhou Runfa on the left, and Li Nanxing on the third from the left)
And his treatment among domestic actors in Singapore is basically comparable to Chow Yun-fat's popularity among Audiences in Hong Kong and Mainland China!
When Singapore dramas were just popular in Chinese mainland, Li Nanxing and Zheng Huiyu were the ace male and female protagonists of those Singapore TV series. "Palette", "Borderline Boy", "Call My Heart", "Get ahead", "Lotus Battle"... The classic Singapore TV series in the memory of the post-70s and post-80s generations is always indispensable to the figure of Li Nanxing.
At that time, mainland idol dramas, youth dramas and urban fashion dramas had not yet formed a climate, and Singapore urban dramas, like Hong Kong TVB dramas, Qiong Yao novels, Yi Shu, Shum Karen and Xi Juan's romance novels, had become a window for mainland audiences to understand the outside world.
Li Nanxing, sometimes the handsome and mischievous Wu Qifan in "Palette", sometimes the enterprising Xia Dejian in "Out of the Crowd", him in "Equatorial Mystery", the romantic hero Shen Chong in the TV series "Lotus Battle" adapted from Gu Long's novel "Meteor Butterfly Sword", has become the Prince Charming in the hearts of countless post-70s and post-80s.
Even at one time, it was also rumored that he and the screen couple Zheng Huiyu had a fake drama in their lives.
However, don't look at Li Nanxing's mercurial demeanor in the film and television shots, the image of the young man in the game world, but in his life, he is addicted to gambling, and his popularity has plummeted.
Stills from "Lotus Battle"
The star group is like this, you enjoy the high-light fame and fortune, but in the corner where the lens can't shine, you may be plagued by depression and other emotional diseases, spending no hundred days of red, the development of stars can not always stand on the high ground, some people can not survive this period of not red days, choose to dissolve through various bad ways, Li Nanxing's way to dissolve the pressure is gambling.
Li Nanxing, who played the gambling king Yanfei in "The Two Kings Of The Holy Lord", is not a casino winner in life.
Li Nanxing grew up in a poor family, as a factory apprentice, grocery store guy, inadvertently into the entertainment circle to become a big star, highlighting his fame and fortune let him lose his eyes, thinking that his good luck came, when the actor is good, business can also achieve good results. Unexpectedly, the money he earned as an actor was quickly lost by his business. So he anesthetized himself with alcohol and gambling.
The first from the left is: Zheng Huiyu, Li Nanxing's screen couple file
"At the craziest time, I was in debt, and even thought about taking my own life..." Many years later, Li Nanxing recalled in detail the unbearable past of this period of life's low point in his autobiography book "Real Script".
The picture shows Li Nanxing recalling to reporters his unbearable past when he was addicted to gambling
Fortunately, Li Nanxing quickly woke up, and he clearly knew that he had played no matter how many gambling kings and business overlords he played, but his own life protagonist, his own life script, could only be written by him alone. Yang Libing, the wife of the same Singaporean actor, left him when he was addicted to gambling, "I will fall, but I can stand up on my own." ”
The picture shows Li Nanxing and his ex-wife Yang Libing
Failure is not so terrible, as long as you can bravely face your life, you can start again.
With such a belief, Li Nanxing returned to the entertainment industry. Can't be the male lead, he starts from the big supporting role of the dragon running set. After all, the strength of the performance is still there.
Li Nanxing's first drama "Edge Father and Son" (as Tian Yibang) returned to the film and television circle became the best TV series of the year at the Star Awards of the year. Later, Li Nanxing made a character and extended the tentacles of development to the Chinese mainland, and the fans and fans in the mainland were very nostalgic, and Li Nanxing earned a lot of popularity.
Today's Li Nanxing is very likely to play a role in Zhao Wei's new film "Everyone Is Eager to Meet You", just in response to the lyrics of the theme song sung by Rowan in "Lotus Battle" that he starred in that year:
"No complaints, no regrets, I walk my way, I can't go to the end of the world, in the midst of the storm you chase me..."