Text/Family Magazine All-Media Reporter Gentle nagging
Li Yundi, a high-quality human male and piano prince, was caught prostituting.
The scandal, which was finally hammered by the Chaoyang police on the evening of October 21, was actually spread on the Internet that afternoon.
First the news of #Li Yundi's lens came out:
Some netizens found that in the "Brother Who Cut through thorns" that was broadcast in full swing, Li Yundi, as a contestant, had all the shots cut and his name was silenced.
When things go wrong, there must be demons.
Sure enough, after a while, there have been Weibo big V breaking news:
It is rumored that Li Yundi was arrested!
Subsequently, the topic of #Li Yundi's involvement in pornography began to appear in the discussion of netizens on a large scale.
On the one hand, the personable, elegant and noble piano prince and the word "prostitute" together are really contrary to harmony, which is quite uncomfortable; on the other hand, it is a fact that the program cuts out Li Yundi's lens, and the rumors do not come out of nowhere.
The big melon is spreading wildly, but the police, the media, and the parties who can confirm or refute the rumors have remained silent and have not expressed their position for a long time.
Especially when netizens found that Mango TV also put Li Yundi on the cover of the program, and the footage of his practice in the program was still there, and even Li Yundi updated the Weibo publicity program at noon that day.
Netizens in the anxious wait, almost think this is an outrageous fake melon, at 8:45 that night, "Safe Beijing" sent a Microblog that people have to think more: the world is indeed more than black and white, but we must distinguish between black and white. The picture shows the piano keys.
At this time, someone had already intercepted the information circular map released by Ping An Beijing Chaoyang Baijia.
A boiling is brewing.
Finally, at 9:06 p.m. that night, Ping An Beijing Chaoyang Guanbo reported that it was late, but once the hammer of the world knew, the whole network threw the pot.
The Prince of the Piano, the musical genius who prostitutes, what could be more desperation than that?
However, it is strange that for #Li Yundi prostitution#, most people subconsciously care not about "the collapse of human design", but invariably mention another man:
Wang.
When netizens lamented that Wang Lihong finally got rid of the "suspicion", this past that was once regarded as a stain by both sides and never mentioned was finally put on the table again after many years of dust.
01
The fate of Li Yundi and Wang Lihong has to start from the Spring Festival Gala 9 years ago.
Nine years ago, Wang Lihong and Li Yundi were invited to perform "Golden Snake Dance" on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in 2012.
At that time, a musical talent, a table talent; a piano prince, Yushu Linfeng.
The two on the same stage can be described as, "the golden wind and jade dew meet each other, but the victory is countless in the world", which has the invigorating pleasure of knowing that the sound meets and hates the night.
After the front desk, the two admired each other and interacted frequently.
For example, before the official performance of the Spring Festival Gala began, Wang Lihong kept warming up on Weibo to express his expectations for this cooperation:
After the performance, the two of them had a close relationship.
In April of that year, Li Yundi appeared as a guest at Wang Lihong's Beijing Bird's Nest Concert.
The two played and sang face to face, singing friends, relatively happy, and even kissed in the air.
In October, Li Yundi went to Taipei to hold a concert and was invited by Wang Lihong to play the piano at home.
Later, Wang Lihong also took Li Yundi to Zhang Huimei's nightclub to have fun.
On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Li Yundi sent photos showing that he was celebrating the holiday with Wang Lihong, and Li Yundi's mother was also present.
The party was ridiculed by everyone as "seeing parents".
After that, the two were also filmed watching the movie "Young Pi" together.
For the two people who are getting closer and closer, the public opinion returns with great enthusiasm, from being happy to watching to the whole network, and even Jackie Chan has joined in the hilarity.
As the scandal spread more and more truthfully, Wang Lihong was already vigilant, and at the end of that year, he recorded a blessing video for Li Yundi, who was about to hold a concert.
Emphasis: Don't want to get involved in ambiguous rumors, just for friendship.
At that time, Li Yundi directly posted the video to the Internet, so that everyone did not think wildly.
However, what Wang Lihong also let "everyone" never expect was that this concert would lock up "Hongdi CP", make "everyone" more wild, and make Wang Lihong completely involved in ambiguous rumors.
At that "ingenious" concert, Li Yundi covered Wang Lihong's famous song "Falling Leaves Return to the Roots".
According to the memories of the senior melon eating masses, in the climax part, the two people were released on the big screen, and the lights of the entire venue changed into red pink, and as the rose petals fell on the screen, there was also a rose rain on the scene.
This is to jump into the Yellow River can not be washed away.
Wang Lihong saw that the situation was not right, solemnly expressed his position, and issued a "straight male declaration" with a loud voice.
Two days later, Li Yundi responded: We are good brothers and good brothers.
However, the trees want to be quiet and the wind is not stopping.
Wang Lihong, who has a "very straight personality", does not know that at the time when everyone is "bumping sugar and nibbling melons", it is undoubtedly a failure to treat gossip enthusiasm so seriously.
The crowd that was upset on Xing's head became angry and turned against Wang Lihong.
The "Rose Concert" and the "Straight Male Declaration" made public opinion wishfully portray Li Yundi as a pure white teenager who "bravely pursued love", while Wang Lihong became a love coward who "retreated from the battle".
What made things even more out of control was that a month later, Li Yundi once again appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala and performed with the magician Liu Qian.
On the show, Liu Qian said three words that shocked the national audience:
Find LiHong.
At this point, the discussion around "Hongdi CP" has become a carnival, and the entertainment effect has soared to the peak.
At that time, it was even rumored that Wang Lihong found Liu Qian in the backstage of the Spring Festival Gala and slapped him.
The two then interacted to refute the rumors.
However, the discussion of "Hongdi CP" has visibly developed into a scuffle: Li Yundi, Wang Lihong, and Liu Qian all have contradictions, and each fan has torn each other apart for many years and insisted on its own words.
After the chaos, Wang Lihong took Li Yundi, and the "Hongdi CP" was declared to end.
But the preconceived stereotypes of onlookers have been formed, and Wang Lihong's public image has plummeted, and he has been given the title of "Wang Yuzhi".
"Yu Zhi" is "the first straight man in the universe", which is full of irony.
For Wang Lihong, whose image has always been very sunny and positive, the title of "Yuzhi" is one of the few "stains" in his rather bright and upright artistic career.
Perhaps, this friendship that finally ended in bad luck is a knot that Wang Lihong has been difficult to let go of for many years.
Even in the "Spit Conference" featuring ridicule and offense to guests, the crowd of "which pot does not open which pot" is also absolutely silent about the "Hongdi CP" that made a lot of noise that year.
On the show, his friend Tao Zhe dared to joke about the scandal of his own derailment, dared to take off Wang Lihong's shoes to make him ugly in public, and was stunned to say another name.
For 9 years, the two had almost no intersection.
Until October 21 this year, after Li Yundi was arrested for prostitution and spread all over the Internet, Wang Lihong's Weibo status briefly showed that he was "just online", and set off a call for "eating melon".
What is even more intriguing is that @Wang Lihong Studio quickly forwarded @Ping An Beijing Chaoyang's anti-fraud propaganda and praised the police.
In the eyes of netizens, this operation has some meaning of "revenge for great revenge".
That year, "Hongdi" was unlocked and parted ways.
9 years later, Wang Lihong turned to the left, Li Yundi entered the police station, and the lives of the two are now known, and the ending is inevitably lamentable.
In addition to the scandal, it is worth discussing how two men are gradually drifting apart in life.
02
Rising from the Spring Festival Gala stage, the two people who shine on each other like gold and jade have turned against each other because of the gossip from the outside world.
On the surface, it seems to be a regrettable experience that can be labeled as "fearsome".
However, with the collapse of Li Yundi's "artist" image, under the power of time, the old things were re-rationalized, and the rumors that had interfered with thoughts but had been falsified were dispelled, and everyone realized with hindsight:
The "Looking for LiHong" incident is not a watershed in the lives of the two people, and the cutting of the mat of "Hongdi" may be the result of the indulgent Li Yundi's early morning.
According to informed sources, after Wang Lihong issued the "Straight Male Declaration" that year, although Li Yundi also made two statements, each time was not timely, basically after the first wave of public opinion was fermented.
Wang Lihong once asked someone to invite Li Yundi to dinner, but Li Yundi refused. After talking to Li Yundi, Wang Lihong hoped that Li Yundi would make some more statements in his favor.
After the two sides expressed their positions again, the relationship between the two basically broke.
At the Spring Festival Gala, the "search for lihong" of the big oolong was reduced to a typical "Rashomon" incident at that time.
Due to the impact being too great and public opinion uproar, the official Weibo of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala issued a special statement:
Liu Qian ridiculed Li Yundi Wang Lihong's bridge section is not designed by the director group, but Liu Qian plays on the spot, which is purely a personal act.
Liu Qian's agent, He Huangjie, shouted that he had been wronged, saying that the bridge section of "Looking for Li Hong" was proposed by Li Yundi's team.
After the performance was messed up, Liu Qian called Li Yundi, hoping that the other party could clarify. However, the other party only verbally agreed, and did not tell the truth of the matter.
Li Yundifang first denied it, and then only said: Happy cooperation.
In order to get rid of the suspicion of speculation, Li Yundi's team also said: Never thought of entering the entertainment circle.
Wang Lihong's image plummeted because of this incident, and he could not live peacefully when he got married, and he has always been regarded by everyone as a "negative man" and a "scumbag of marriage".
Liu Qian was even more deeply tired, not only missing the original Lantern Party that year, but also withdrawing from the Spring Festival Gala stage, and was also attacked by public opinion beyond recognition.
And Li Yundi, who claimed that he "never thought of entering the entertainment circle" but constantly stirred up the storm in the circle, became the biggest beneficiary.
The "Find Lihong" incident has raised the number of its Weibo fans to more than 10 million, becoming a more influential public figure.
More importantly, the aura of the entertainment industry saved Li Yundi from the criticism he had suffered in his own profession.
According to the well-known entertainment critic Luo Beibei' collation:
In 2011, Li Yundi publicly said that he took only 11 days of practice to perform on stage.
In 2012, there were news reports that Li Yundi's solo concert "mispronunciation" problem was "re".
In 2013, Zhou Guangren, a tenured professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, criticized Li Yundi in an interview with People magazine, saying that he had "temporarily held on to his feet" and "never seen such a student."
At Li Yundi's piano recital, Zhou Guangren shouted "can't sit still."
In 2015, Lee performed a fatal car accident at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea:
While playing the first movement of Chopin's First Concerto, he lost his memory completely and was forced to stop playing again.
Instead, he pushed the blame to the conductor, which disappointed the audience. After the end of the first movement, some viewers directly asked for a refund.
When the South Korean report was transmitted back to China, the response of Li Yundi's team was: there is no need to respond, and it is framed.
However, in the face of more and more evidence, Li Yundi had to come forward personally, saying that he was a mistake in the boat.
He is an 18-year-old talented teenager who won the Chopin Piano Competition and is the youngest gold medalist in the history of the competition.
Before him, the championship had been vacant for 15 years.
Flipping over on the song you are best at can imagine what kind of mistakes it is.
In the same year, Li Yundi even took a leave of absence from the jury job of the Chopin Piano Competition to be a groomsman for Huang Xiaoming's wedding.
Yan Feng, a professor at Fudan University, once sent a Weibo to criticize him:
After the police reported Li Yundi's prostitution, Yan Feng, a professor at Fudan University, posted:
Li Yundi's accident is not surprising at all, and the music circle has been commenting badly on him for many years.
A piano performance artist who said that he "never wanted to enter the entertainment industry", but so neglected his profession, ask him what he wanted?
04
In his personal life, Li Yundi's behavior is even more different from the title of "Piano Prince".
Li Yundi, who looks conservative and elegant in appearance, is actually very open to his emotional outlook, and the lace news has been continuous.
He once revealed to Hua Shao on "Big Name Driving": The best age for first love is 16 years old, and men and women should have a relationship within 1 month of love.
According to the public name Luo solemnly sorted:
In 2006, Li Yundi was rumored to be secretly engaged to his Taiwanese girlfriend Michelle Lin.
At the end of 2007, Li Yundi specially gave his new CD to Tang Wei at the celebration banquet of the Golden Horse Awards, so there was a scandal.
The funny thing is that because of Wang Lihong's scandal with Tang Wei, it attracted more attention and overshadowed Li Yundi's limelight.
Subsequently, Li Yundi was photographed buying a house with his Taiwanese girlfriend Michelle Lin.
But by 2009, the relationship seemed to have ended, and Li Yundi arrived in Beijing with his new girlfriend and was photographed, and the woman had a ring on her hand and suspected that she was married.
In 2013, there were foreign reports that Li Yundi had divorced in 2012 and that his wife was an influential woman.
On social media, there was a trumpet suspected of Li Yundi's ex-wife scolding the host Wang Liang to seduce the husband of the wife, accusing Li Yundi of "spending energy on picking flowers and weeds", and netizens found that a series of daily content published by the trumpet could match Li Yundi's life.
Next, Li Yundi's love life was filled with "Hongdi love", and after Wang Lihong announced his big girlfriend, Li Yundi also quickly announced his "big big girlfriend".
In the blink of an eye, Wang Lihong has cultivated a positive result with his brother's girlfriend and has given birth to three children in a row.
However, Li Yundi said in an interview with the media in 2016 that he was single again.
Going round and round, he did not find the other half, and the scandal with all kinds of beautiful women never stopped.
When he was photographed dating a beautiful woman in 2019, another thing happened that damaged his image as an artist - he took advantage of no one and urinated on the street.
In fact, Li Yundi's attitude towards women was revealed as early as his youth.
In 2008, Li Yundi also had a scandal with the star Peng Dan, but the two sides later pointed at each other for speculation, especially Li Yundi referred to Peng Dan as a middle-aged woman in his response, which caused the disgust of many people in the literary and art circles.
After Li Yundi was arrested, Peng Dan posted a blog saying: Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the heavenly path is good for reincarnation.
According to NetEase Entertainment, Li Yundi was not arrested for prostitution for the first time, and he was suspected of being arrested for the same reason in the first half of this year, but the matter did not spread.
In addition, insiders also revealed that as early as the study abroad at the Hannover Drama and Music Academy in Germany, Li Yundi's emotional experience was very rich, and his reputation among students was very bad.
Some netizens recalled that after the "Looking for Lihong Incident", some media interviewed Liu Qian, Lang Lang, and Wang Lihong on "Li Yundi's character", and all three of them had a look of wanting to talk and shaking their heads and smiling bitterly.
There are many public figures who have been caught prostituting, but Li Yundi has such an excellent image, but a large string of black history, and has made countless insiders feel despised, from word of mouth to art morality to character, there is no merit, it is really rare.
05
When the more comprehensive Li Yundi was exposed to the public, everyone already understood that Wang Lihong, who had been tightly bound to him, was actually two people with him, and had suffered a lot of grievances over the years.
But the magical hand of fate creates some kind of wonderful connection between them, such as mirroring each other.
For example, Li Yundi, who appeared as an artist, gradually moved closer to his idol;
Wang Lihong, who debuted as an idol, has become more and more "artist" in recent years.
He braided dirty braids, grew a big beard, and lived like a tramp, without any idol baggage.
In order to promote the music he loves, he appeared in the live broadcast room and recommended to netizens about his newly researched entrepreneurial project "Yuexue" APP, he promised that the turnover reached 3,000 on the spot to shave, and was laughed at as "second brother".
This one-hour live broadcast ended with an order of 1 million+ in the last auction.
When Wang Lihong tore off the package, people saw him more sincerely.
He posted a large paragraph on Weibo to share the sleep-assisting audio he produced, which surprised netizens.
Because these audios are so professional and effective, few stars can reach this scientific height.
Wang Lihong gave these audios purely to care about people who are plagued by insomnia.
Today, when Wang Lihong's influence is weakening, some media have commented on him: he is a person whose talent and character are underestimated.
New Weekly once reported on Wang Lihong:
He lived an extremely simple life, giving himself a second-hand pickup truck that cost more than 10,000 yuan as a gift at the age of thirty, clothes, shoes, hats and suitcases until they were rotten, and wearing socks with holes.
On musical instruments, the west goes to guitars, pianos, violins, and jazz drums, and east to yangqin, erhu, guzheng, and Zhongruan, in the words of Jackie Chan: As long as there are strings that can be played, there is no Wang Lihong that cannot be plated.
In addition to taking care of lyrics, songs, singing, and even behind-the-scenes work such as mixing, recording, and accompaniment. Other people's albums were born in professional recording studios, and most of Wang Lihong's albums were made by himself on his home computer.
This man with eighteen martial arts has long been accustomed to living alone as a team.
Fate can sometimes be a mystery: two boys who were once so close finally went against each other and embraced very different lives.
When the scandal of "Hongdi Love" was the most fierce, Wang Lihong tried his best to explain, but in the end it was more and more smeared.
And Li Yundi can use the aura of an artist to effortlessly whitewash his misdeeds into a victim.
No one could have imagined that the past that had entangled the two of them for many years and seemed to never have the truth would be broken in such an absurd way.
This positive ending seems to show that treating one's life with sincerity and responsibility is the best way to resist the teasing of fate.
Time will eventually dilute all the oil paint, and let the person who bases with sincerity reveal the real light.
Now, fate has once again revealed a humorous side:
On the same day that Li Yundi was caught prostituting, the second Chinese gold medalist of the Chopin International Piano Competition was born - Liu Xiaoyu, a Chinese Canadian.
This supreme glory, which had paved the Kangzhuang Avenue for Li Yundi, befell the second Chinese at the time of his fall.
I hope that Li Yundi can serve as a lesson for the future and cut off a path to the fall of prison for this young man who is just beginning to emerge.