Thirteen years have passed since that incident, and as a victim, Chen Guanxi is still paying the price.
People snooped on his privacy and described him in the most vicious terms. He tried to live the life of an ordinary person, but he was destined to be unusual.
Chen Guanxi said that he lived to prove them wrong. Since he left the entertainment industry in 2008, he has been doing his favorite fashion brand, starting a family, and with people he wants to protect, he finally has peace of mind.
The only constant is his willfulness and non-concealment, this naked bluntness and truth, enough to offend many people.
The cage encircled him deeply, and because of the negative labels on his body, he was not respected and was always rejected.
Chen Guanxi let himself go, but the world never wanted to let him go, but he firmly believed that his spring would come.
Everything will pass and be forgotten.
Chen Guanxi has not yet received "forgiveness.".
In the stage drama album "A Monkey", which uses monologue as the narrative logic, he contracted all the songwriting and composing, and wrote down his innermost things over the years.
"Why has God always doubted me?
Why can't you believe me
Do you want me to beg you to forgive me?
God I said to the sky
I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong."
His posture lowered, from stubbornness to naked sincerity, mixed with a little sadness.
The picture on the left is Chen Guanxi when he was a child, and the picture on the right is Chen Guanxi's daughter
Chen Guanxi sees himself as Sun Wukong, cynical when he first arrived in the entertainment industry, and then was crushed under the Five Finger Mountain, and the tragic color is the fate that Goku can't escape.
Unfortunately, the public did not think of him as Sun Wukong, but as a circus watching monkey.
In 2016, Lou Ye's new film "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" was filmed, in which Chen Guanxi played a small supporting role and cooperated with police officers to investigate the "nude photos incident".
After repeated review of the film, when it was finally released, all the shots of Chen Guanxi were deleted, leaving only his voiceover:
"Everything is like this, it will pass, it will be forgotten, including me."
Stills of Chen Guanxi in the movie "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind"
Over the years, Chen Guanxi has stayed away from the entertainment industry, trying to break free of the huge impact that the incident brought to himself and move forward, only occasionally in the middle of the night, the pain and grievances hidden for many years will erode his heart.
When the dust settles, people always say that everything has passed, in fact, looking back at Chen Guanxi's life for more than ten years, nothing has passed.
He felt that nothing had been done wrong, but he waited for an apology.
Lou Ye deliberately retained the traces of Chen Guanxi's repeated deletions, and at the end of that movie, he put on a song "A Game, a Dream":
"It was just a game last night, it was just a game and a dream, I'm still myself."
Chen Guanxi in his youth
In the Xinjiang cotton incident some time ago, major artists have spoken out, reacted quickly and announced the termination of contracts with related brands, and there is a long-disappeared name that is silently doing some things, low mediation appointment, he is Chen Guanxi.
Secondly, in the Asian anti-discrimination, he spoke out for Asians for the first time, in the words of netizens, "muffled to do big things."
For Chen Guanxi, who has withdrawn from the circle for many years, the comprehensive removal and termination of the contract means that he has to compensate for huge losses and the loss of years of tide brand painstaking efforts.
Chen Guanxi, who quit the entertainment industry for more than a decade and started to do the tide brand business, gambled everything, even harder than when he was an artist.
Time goes back to before that incident, Chen Guanxi was an expected superstar, "Dog Bites Dog", "Infernal Affairs", "Head Text D"... He has a delicate and handsome face, and his acting is full of spirit and talent.
Chen Guanxi's classic film and television clips
In 2000, in the only public welfare film directed by Zhang Guorong, "Smoke and Smoke", Mei Yanfang played the leading role, in which Chen Guanxi played a newcomer singer who had just debuted.
In the movie, Mei Yanfang, who plays the director of the agent, said to him:
"The image of the artist is very important. If you don't mess around and there's no negative news, you'll be able to do it, you know what I mean, right? ”
The ignorant Chen Guanxi nodded, "I understand, I understand." ”
The dialogue in this film was later seen as a god-like metaphor.
Most of the artists of Hong Kong's golden age were poor and went through multiple tribulations before they were known to the world.
Unlike most people, Chen Guanxi's family is wealthy and has a strong position in Hong Kong, and the visitors are celebrities.
"I've seen a lot of stars since I was a kid and I don't know who they are or what they're doing. But I know that there is Mei Yanfang and there is also Zhang Guorong. ”
Chen Guanxi's parents
Chen Guanxi's father, Chen Zemin, is active in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong and is a senior director of Emperor Company, which owns several acting and record companies, known as Brother Jiu.
Such a father, treating his son is alienated and strange, only using money as a prevarication, Chen Guanxi heard the most sentence in his childhood: "I don't have time to accompany you, give you money, how much do you want?" ”
Chen Guanxi as a child
At the age of 14, he learned from the newspaper that his parents had divorced, "My family has too many secrets, only I don't know." ”
After his parents divorced, Chen Guanxi traveled back and forth between Vancouver and Hong Kong, tasting the warmth and coldness of human feelings, and the fragmentation of his family and the lack of family affection made him rebel.
"When I was younger, I played every day and it was crazy. I'm glad I used up all my madness during that time. But if it hadn't been for those days, it's possible I'd still be playing now, and I'd be finished. ”
Chen Guanxi and his father Chen Zemin
The young Chen Guanxi never lacked money in his hands, but his heart was lonely, and Hip-hop became his spiritual pillar.
Hip-hop taught him a lot of things, taught him how to get along with his brothers, taught him how to find what he wanted.
After coming to Hong Kong to join his father, he did not feel the warmth of home, only the freedom that could not be controlled. He was then sent to Hong Kong International School for high school with Tse Ting-feng.
At this time, chen Guanxi was accompanied by another person, named Brother Long, who was his father's personal driver.
Chen Guanxi and Brother Long
Chen Guanxi would not have thought that this person had almost changed his life later.
Brother Long is nominally a driver, but in fact, he is a "full-time nanny", shouting Chen Guanxi to get up every day and accompany him to the nightclub, the two are inseparable, and they talk every day.
He called out to Chen Guanxi's boss, but Chen Guanxi said, "I already treat him like a father." ”
In 1999, Chen Guanxi graduated from high school, and at dinner out in the summer, he met Jackie Chan's agent and Wu Yanzu, and the agent called him: "Come and take a photo with Wu Yanzu." ”
Chen Guanxi and Wu Yanzu
Chen Guanxi didn't think much of it, walked over and took a group photo with Wu Yanzu, who was in the middle of his acting career, and then received a contract, someone asked him to shoot a movie.
After returning to Vancouver, Chen Guanxi asked his mother whether she wanted to enter the entertainment circle, and Chen's mother said: "Go quickly, this is the only opportunity you can earn money." ”
After returning to Hong Kong, he signed a contract to take over the filming of "SWAT New Humanity 2", released the album "Chen Guanxi" in the same year, and became popular on his debut.
Chen Guanxi's talent is almost born for the entertainment industry, exquisite and handsome face, acting talent, strong family background...
As we all know, Zhang Guorong cherishes talented newcomers, and at the beginning of Chen Guanxi's debut, he helped him write "Love Yourself Very Much", which gave this young man confidence and was also the beginning of his career.
Zhang Guorong said: "I appreciate Chen Guanxi, he is the most potential in the next generation." ”
When the album was released, the eldest brother Jackie Chan stood for him and supported Chen Guanxi.
From left to right: Chen Guanxi, Zhang Guorong, Jackie Chan
Director Liu Weiqiang mentioned Chen Guanxi, saying that he knew everything and that his acting talent could not be underestimated.
When he was young, Chen Guanxi's face was angular, the corners of his upturned mouth showed a conceited and contemptuous look, and a pair of deep eyes revealed great enthusiasm and stubbornness.
First appeared in the movie "SWAT New Human 2", with a determined look of rebellion hidden in his eyes and a cynical expression on his face.
Stills from the 2000 movie SWAT New Humans 2 by Addison (Chen Guanxi).
In "Infernal Affairs 2", The undercover Liu Jianming, played by Chen Guanxi, is at ease between the underworld and the police station, always smiling and smiling, and has a stubborn energy on his body.
In front of Huang Qiusheng, Liu Jialing, Wu Zhenyu and other shadow emperors, his performance is not inferior, and the kind of just right temperament is interpreted very well by him.
In 2005, Chen Guanxi and Jay Chou filmed the classic work "Head Text D", which tells the life of ordinary boys who become racing drivers.
2005 film "Head Character D", Ryosuke Takahashi (played by Chen Guanxi) and Takumi Fujiwara (played by Jay Chou)
He played Ryosuke Takahashi, who was light and handsome, always holding a cigarette in his mouth, and his eyes were cold, which people still can't forget.
2005 film "Head Text D" Ryosuke Takahashi (Played by Chen Guanxi) fragment
In the movie, Ryosuke Takahashi's mantra is "It's okay, think about it and then call me", playing cool, never obedient, and intriguing.
Some people say that his smirky smile shined to many people throughout their student days.
A year later, Chen Guanxi almost dedicated his best work "Dog Bites Dog", he played a Cambodian killer who only had animal instincts, inhuman, extremely fierce, changed the previous image of the invincible, lying on the ground to survive.
In the whole film, he does not have a single Chinese line, only three Thai sentences, which means that he can only express the heart of the characters by looking and moving.
A clip from the 2006 movie "Dog Bites Dog" by Peng (Played by Chen Guanxi).
It is hard for people to imagine that Chen Guanxi, who has lived in the environment of paper drunk gold fans since childhood, will have an untamed primitive feeling in his eyes.
In order to play this extremely challenging role, Chen Guanxi was willing to dress up as a wolf, and also suffered a lot, and people saw his seriousness and talent for acting in addition to his face.
With this "Dog Bites Dog", Chen Guanxi was shortlisted for the Tokyo International Film Festival early, and for a long time, it was difficult to accurately find an actor who could play a bad boy.
After that movie, he said bluntly: "Since then, I have fallen in love with movies. ”
In 2006, Chen Guanxi's computer was broken, and Brother Long picked up the computer to find an acquaintance to repair.
Before leaving, Chen Guanxi said, "Stare at the point." ”
Brother Long did not take this to heart, and went out to smoke a cigarette while the boss was repairing the computer. He wouldn't know that the few minutes he went out would later change the lives of so many people.
Brother Long and Chen Guanxi
The computer repairman used technology to recover a large number of private photos that had been deleted, copied them, and then shared them with colleagues, who finally uploaded the photos to the Internet.
On January 28, 2008, Chen Guanxi began to pack his bags and prepare to go to Vancouver to accompany his mother for the New Year.
That afternoon, the Internet exposed a private photo of herself and a female star, Chen Guanxi did not care too much, thinking that she would become China's Parris Hilton, she had been released by her ex-boyfriend sex video, so she gained public sympathy and became famous overnight.
Soon, more and more photos were exposed, and criminals even burned them into discs for sale, stirring up thousands of waves with one stone.
He panicked, the female star stars involved in it were destroyed, many people fell into the whirlpool of public opinion, it was difficult to argue, and Ajiao's sentence "very silly and naïve" became a long-term talking joke.
Chen Guanxi did not know why things had become like this, the things you loved and wished, were privately restored by computer repairers, and he was obviously a victim, but he became a thousand fingers.
"I don't know how far things are going to go, there are a few more pictures tomorrow, I don't know, and I don't want to know. I don't want to wake up, I just want to sleep. ”
Cyberbullying and physical intimidation strike as if there is no end in sight.
This accidental event completely destroyed the spirited teenager, and the whole world held a deep malice towards him.
The crazy crowd stayed up all night, collectively clamoring for Chen Guanxi to get out of the entertainment circle.
Before the incident, he had three or four assistants by his side, three or four nannies at home, and thousands of friends around him.
On this day, when the man walks the tea cold, he has nothing.
He once said that he was the kind of person who didn't do anything wrong and would never apologize, but the hurt to the female star made him feel guilty and had to come out and apologize.
"Once again, I apologize to all the victims and their families, my families, and all the people of Hong Kong, and I hope that after today I can get everyone's forgiveness, I am very sorry." I will withdraw from the Hong Kong entertainment industry indefinitely, without a deadline. ”
Chen Guanxi was 28 years old that year, and before that he was expected to become a superstar.
In a pile of noise, Chen Guanxi went to Los Angeles, and this retreat never returned.
Brother Long, who sent a computer repair, fell into deep self-blame, and Chen Guanxi still let him return to his side, and every time he returned from abroad, he would let Brother Long pick up the car. Every time Brother Long heard Chen Guanxi's voice, he would be happy for a long time.
What touched Brother Long the most was that when he was seriously ill and hospitalized, Chen Guanxi immediately returned to Hong Kong to accompany him after learning about it, and others were puzzled, he said to the people around him: "Don't you know that I already regard him as a father?" ”
Chen Guanxi is a person with feelings and righteousness, but he has quit the entertainment industry and has not been let go.
What was once called a "model apology" did not extinguish people's anger in the slightest.
Chen Guanxi received two death threat letters loaded with bullets, with the words "I will replace justice and send you to heaven." He was alone at home for five days, afraid to sleep, afraid to go out.
In order to avoid the paparazzi, he once hid in the trunk of the car for a full 15 minutes, almost suffocating.
Thousands of people snooped on his privacy while describing him in the most vicious words.
The ordinary life that Chen Guanxi longs for is still out of reach: "The most painful thing is to go home and see myself in the mirror and hate myself." ”
He became increasingly insecure, willing to stay with people he knew, and was wary of strangers.
His acting career was ruined and is still hindered to this day, but Chen Guanxi no longer wants to return to this circle.
It is undeniable that Chen Guanxi is still the top stream, Weibo has 29.6 million fans, casually posting photos, there are 4 million views.
Chen Guanxi did not understand that people hated him, but they were paying attention to him.
He tried to live the life of an ordinary person, but he was destined to be unusual.
"I want people to admit that I'm not just a hairy kid who buys brands, hip-hops, and breaks scandals, and that doesn't define my life. In five years, ten years, I'm going to do something. Hopefully, at that time, people will understand and recognize me. ”
Chen Guanxi, who quit the entertainment industry, threw himself into his own tide brand business and worked harder than before.
With the right to control and the right to speak, he is far away from the distractions of the entertainment industry, has long faded the label of star to himself, makes design drawings with like-minded partners every day, personally goes to the factory to choose fabrics, and runs for the cause he loves.
When he opened his first store in Los Angeles, his father firmly believed that he would lose all of his 2.5 million yuan of start-up capital, and Chen Guanxi said: "Go to yours, I will do it for you." ”
Chen Guanxi, a partner he has known for many years, once described him as follows: "He is too frank and true, too moody and angry. ”
In the face of the paparazzi who were chasing after him, he initially smiled politely and responded not to shoot again, seeing that the female reporter was still filming, Chen Guanxi stopped and said to the camera: "I am a rotten person." ”
This kind of naked bluntness and truthfulness is enough to offend many people.
Friends who have been with him since coming to Los Angeles say:
"The first time I met Edison (Chen Guanxi), I didn't know anything about him, I just thought this guy was cool, I wouldn't go online to search for who he was, I saw a person by getting along, he was a very good businessman." 」
Chen Guanxi understands where his culture and roots are, and has always spread the elements of Chinese culture in his own way, including disc design, silk, copper buckle... He repeatedly stressed that he was born in Canada, but firmly believed that he was Chinese.
He never forgot where his roots were, and on the company's desk, there was always a set of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
At the age of 37, he shared his design experience at New York University, and in the face of Chinese students in the audience, Chen Guanxi had no manuscript, no outline, and justified the name of "Made in China".
He said he has always cared about the views of his Chinese friends because he is Chinese.
Today, the store has a turnover of up to 10 million US dollars a year, and he is full of confidence: "Those who have always said that I have achieved nothing, eat by the face, the time has come, believe me, see the facts in front of you, you have nothing to say!" ”
Chen Guanxi looks cool like this, but when it comes to performance, he looks frustrated:
"I really want to act, acting is my passion, they take my passion, they win, that's the only place where they beat me.
Chen Guanxi calls acting his antidote, which is his only regret at present.
"I'm not that bad."
In 2016, director Lou Ye admired Chen Guanxi's acting skills and found him to star in a clip from his new movie "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind", which went through several twists and turns, and finally failed to pass the review.
The movie "Clouds Made of Rain in the Wind" Stills of Chen Guanxi and Jing Bairan
More than a decade later, that door will still block his contact with the performance.
Before that, Hollywood director Robert Diggers planned to make the movie "Iron Fist" and find Chen Guanxi to participate.
The film was filmed in China, and the relevant departments asked the film producer: "If there is Chen Guanxi in this movie, you should not shoot it." ”
In the end, Diggs helplessly deleted all the scenes related to Chen Guanxi, and at the same time wondered: "Are you killing people in China?" They act as if you've killed someone. ”
Such Chen Guanxi even lost the opportunity to do public welfare. Once, he contacted a domestic charity that wanted to donate, did not need any publicity, just wanted to do something good.
As a result, the other party returned the money and threw a sentence: "As long as you donate, it is negative news for us." ”
In 2017, Chen Guanxi composed his own lyrics and composed the song "Tears in the Melody", word by word, stinging countless people.
"Life really is not a game
Play for the last thing left
Good little brother
A woman who has loved
Access on TV
Scold me, scold me like this, endure
What I do is right
Even if I'm about to collapse
You won't see me crying."
After leaving the jianghu for a long time, the jianghu still has his legend, and the fate of many people is often reversed in invisible accidental events, and the ups and downs find what they really want.
After a hustle and bustle, Chen Guanxi found inner peace, and the public was also re-examining everything that had happened, and Ma Dong once said regretfully in the show:
"Without this, he would be a superstar imaginable. We owe Chen Guanxi an apology, not that Chen Guanxi needs this apology, we apologize to him, it is to comfort himself, we take it, it is to release his eight years of growth. ”
Today's Chen Guanxi is a daughter slave, as long as he returns home, he feels very happy, and he has armor and weakness at the same time.
After meeting his wife Qin Shupei, his heart became calm.
Chen Guanxi likes polar bears because when he was a child, he thought it was cute to see the ads they took. One year on his birthday, Qin Shupei bought two plane tickets to take him to the North Pole to see polar bears, which made him moved.
Chen Guanxi and his wife Qin Shupei
"No one would do such a thing for me. So I don't think she loves me because of what I've acted in or sung or how much money I have. ”
When Chen Guanxi pulled his wife to watch the movies she had made before, she fell asleep after watching them for a while, and he knew that Shu Pei did not fall in love because of those auras, but only because of himself.
The 40-year-old Chen Guanxi's youthful spirit is still there, but it is not easy to reveal, and now his favorite thing to do is to accompany his daughter Alaia with his wife.
Chen Guanxi with his wife and daughter
He is extra gentle with his family.
The rebellious youth of that year now says, "She can be wrong many times, and I will forgive her." ”
He was most proud of changing his daughter's diapers, and once after work in Hong Kong, he couldn't wait to fly back to Los Angeles because her daughter was about to learn to walk, and Chen Guanxi said he didn't want to miss it.
If Aaliia had been able to walk by the time he went back, he would have been sad.
"The world is very chaotic, and I hope to take my children and be a good father in this very chaotic world." 」
Chen Guanxi, who lacks the warmth of family affection since childhood, wants to give his daughter a lot of love and companionship, rather than money, and he says that he now has a home.
On the first day of 2021, Chen Guanxi took his wife and daughter to the beach to camp, just to witness the first sunrise of the New Year with his loved ones.
Having seen the cruelty and ruthlessness of the world, after falling from the clouds to the flat earth, he knew how gentle it was.
Chen Guanxi and his daughter
At the end of the documentary, Chen Guanxi shook his hair freely: "Those who support me, thank you, people who hate me, I also want to thank you, because I am now very happy and have great strength." ”
In 2018, Chen Guanxi set up a glass house in an art gallery in Beijing, lived in it for three days and three nights, and made his every moment of his performance art called "My Pulling and Eating Are Here".
The name sounded harsh, even fearless, and he was not a man willing to hide his emotions.
Chen Guanxi's performance art "My Pulling and Eating Are Here"
He let those who want to spy on themselves, see enough at once, Chen Guanxi sat in the glass room, did not shy away from everyone's camera, he said that he was actually discussing the privacy of celebrities.
The wall of the 20-square-meter room had a line of words written on it: When you look at me, I am also looking at you.
In the same year, Chen Guanxi's fashion brand walked on the New York fashion show, and among all kinds of young models, a 50- or 60-year-old Chinese man walked on the catwalk with a frown.
He's Brother Dragon.
Brother Long, 56 years old
Brother Long, the man who can be called a father in Chen Guanxi's heart, filled the gap in his heart about family warmth for a long time.
Thirteen years have passed, but nothing has passed, and the victims have been paying the price.
"I live to prove them wrong."
Chen Guanxi, 40, no longer needs this apology.
In an interview with a documentary, the reporter asked him what would change if he could go back in time and change.
He said firmly, "I'm not going to change anything." ”