After six years, "Milk Tea" Rene Liu finally released her 15th album in March this year.
Before the album was officially released, she wrote a long text on Weibo.
From the first to the fifteenth, from "Crazy for Love", to "Later", to "Each One Is Okay".
From a young girl who fights for love, to today's calm and composure.
She sings about herself, and what we hear is not herself.
It is not difficult to see that her attitude towards feelings is changing.
Whether young and impulsive, mature and rational, 51-year-old Liu Reuying once loved, hurt, missed, and let go.
In the ups and downs, she kept learning how to be brave to bear, how to be brave to love.
01 Bitter childhood
On June 1, 1969, Rene Liu was born into a wealthy family in Taipei.
Her grandfather, Liu Yongyao, was an army general who was a student of the Whampoa Military Academy along with Hu Zongnan, Xu Xiangqian, Chen Geng and others.
My grandmother was a famous lady of the year, and my father, Liu Wei, was a naval captain.
△ The first row on the right is Rene Liu
In the eyes of outsiders, Liu Ruoying was undoubtedly born with a golden spoon, and should have had no worries about food and clothing, and lived a rich life, but her childhood hid unknown bitterness.
When Rene Liu was two years old, her parents divorced because of emotional discord, and her mother sent her to her aunt's house for foster care.
When her grandmother learned of this, she was very distressed and took her back to her home.
Her grandparents' love and teaching for her largely compensated for the lack of paternal love and maternal love.
So much so, when it comes to her parents' divorce, Rene Liu also expressed understanding and never resented.
The grandmother, who attaches great importance to traditional education, devotes a lot of time and energy to cultivating her granddaughter's artistic temperament.
When Rene Liu was 7 years old, her grandmother bought her an expensive piano and personally practiced with her every day.
And Rene Liu, who has a strong interest in music since childhood, also really fell in love with playing the piano.
Even so, for a little girl who is in the age of playfulness, the long practice of 6-8 hours a day is really painful.
To this end, the mischievous she also played a small trick, trying to use the tape to trick her grandmother into practicing the piano.
However, on the 3rd day, he was recognized by his grandmother, who also played the piano.
△ Rene Liu and grandmother
At that time, Rene Liu did not understand why she had to spend so much time playing the piano every day, and her grandmother jokingly said: "If one day your husband does not want you, you can still have a skill to support yourself and your children." ”
Rene Liu, who has been influenced by her grandmother's art since childhood, looks obedient and docile, but actually hides a rebellious and stubborn side.
When she was a child, Rene Liu was beaten by her teacher with a rattan because she was naughty, and her grandfather was so angry that he shot the case and shouted: "Who beat you?" Come on people, take Q out! ”
Whenever she thinks back on this past, Rene Liu is particularly proud, "In fact, everyone knows that my grandfather was already retired at that time, and even if there was a Q, there was no bullet." ”
Although his grandfather was fierce and majestic on the battlefield, he was always fond of Liu Reuying. For her, as long as her grandfather is there, someone will support her.
02 The beginning of a dream
For Rene Liu, being an ordinary piano teacher has always been her and her family's plan for the future path of life.
However, due to a failed teaching experience, she realized that she might not be suitable for this profession.
But music and piano are still her dreams.
After graduating from high school, she embarked on a journey to the United States to study vocal and piano performance.
In a foreign country, she no longer depends on her family's financial support. In order to make up for the tuition, Rene Liu even worked 3 jobs at the same time.
Every day after class, from 25:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., I go to a Japanese restaurant to serve dishes; I go to Chinatown to sell mattresses during the day on Saturdays; and I teach children piano on Sundays.
Liu Ruoying, who really couldn't stand it, once called her grandfather to complain, saying that she wanted to give up her studies and return to China.
The consolation was not obtained, but in exchange for a criticism from my grandfather across the Atlantic: "If you don't graduate from college, you will die in the United States!" ”
It is precisely because of her grandfather's words that Liu Reuying instantly woke up, and also gave her the motivation to persist again.
△ Rene Liu and grandfather
Growing up with her grandfather and grandmother, Liu Reuying has a deep affection for the two old people that is difficult to let go.
In 1998, Rene Liu's grandfather died, but the bits and pieces of time she once spent together are still indelible in her heart.
And her love of singing is also derived from the only popular song that her grandfather knows, which was sung many times by Rene Liu, and her grandfather could not get tired of listening to the "Green Island Serenade".
In 1991, 22-year-old Rene Liu returned from school, and by chance, she met Chen Sheng, the producer of Rolling Stones, and signed a 3-year contract with Rolling Stones.
When she first knew she was going to step into the entertainment industry, her grandparents couldn't understand it at all.
To this end, Rene Liu and her grandparents made a "three-year contract", and if they did not make a difference after three years, they would leave the circle.
In this way, Liu Ruoying became Chen Sheng's little assistant, running around with him every day carrying a guitar and suitcase, taking a meager salary, and together with Jin Chengwu at the same time, not only had to endure Chen Sheng's stinky temper, but also poured tea and water, bought betel nuts, and washed toilets.
When she was most embarrassed, even food and clothing became a problem, and every day everyone had endless bento boxes and endless mineral water, and she took them home. Because he could not afford to pay the property fee, he hid from the administrator for half a year, and he dared to go home after 12 o'clock every night.
In other free time, she followed Chen Sheng to learn popular music and composition, so she has always called Chen Sheng master.
The name "milk tea" also comes from Chen Sheng. Because Liu Ruoying's English name at that time was Rene, and the pronunciation of the tail tone ne was similar to "milk", Chen Sheng felt that it was too strange to call her, so he changed her to milk tea.
3 years of time is fleeting, and seeing that the contract is about to expire, Rene Liu's record is far away.
Until 1994, Rene Liu, who was still Chen Sheng's assistant, was photographed by director Chen Guofu and starred in the first film of her acting career, "My Beauty and Sorrow", playing a frustrated singer Liu Yumei, who coincided with the double bottleneck of love and career, and could only find comfort from her dreams.
Later, under the recommendation of Chen Sheng, Liu Reuying met another Bole in her life - director Zhang Aijia.
In Zhang Aijia's eyes, Liu Reuying just fits her setting of "girl fishing".
However, when she learned that there was a bathing scene in the script that required her to be naked in the mirror, Rene Liu resolutely refused, because it just touched the bottom line in her heart.
The actor blatantly refused the director's request? Zhang Aijia was furious and directly dialed Chen Sheng, saying: "If Rene Liu does not shoot according to my requirements, she will immediately change people." ”
Unexpectedly, Chen Sheng said indifferently: "If you change people, you will change people, and it is a big deal to continue to be my assistant." ”
Rene Liu did not expect that the harsh master in his daily life would protect himself so much.
In the end, Zhang Aijia was touched by the insistence of Chen Sheng and Rene Liu and modified the contract.
With the movie "Little Girl Fishing", Rene Liu won the Best Actress Award at the 40th Asia Pacific Film Festival.
And the album "The Charm and Sorrow of the Girl Fishing", officially started his music career.
The album contains several songs she sang for the film, including Chen Sheng's first song "Crazy for Love" written for her.
Chen Sheng once again changed into the strict master, making Liu Ruoying, who opened his voice for the first time, suffer a lot.
This song alone, she recorded for three and a half years, spending nearly 4 million. So that every time Chen Sheng said that he wanted to sing "Crazy for Love", the atmosphere in the studio would drop to the freezing point.
This song "Crazy for Love" was finally recognized by Chen Sheng in 1995, and made Rene Liu a hit, winning the Best Film Song Award at the 32nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
After that, Rene Liu's career began all the way.
In 1997, she boldly starred in the film "Beauty Is Singing" and won the Best Actress Award at the 10th Tokyo International Film Festival.
In 1998, Rene Liu won the 35th Golden Horse Awards Special Commendation Award, the Best Actress of the 44th Asia Pacific Film Festival, and the Best Actress of the Year at the 1st Taipei Film Festival with her "Marriage Notice" directed by Chen Guofu.
In the same year, Rene Liu released the album "Very Much Love You", which also helped her accumulate more popularity in the circle.
In 2000, Rene Liu played the original Zhang Youyi, who was abandoned by Xu Zhimo, in the family ethics drama "April Day on Earth". Since then, it has opened up its popularity in the mainland.
However, what really brought her into the public eye was the hit drama "Pink Girl" in 2001.
In the play, Rene Liu boldly dressed up ugly, "self-destructive image" to play the "marriage maniac" Fang Xiaoping, who was obsessed with marriage all day.
Anyone who has seen this drama must still remember her image of mushroom head and big teeth, and she shouts every day while doing gymnastics: "I want to get married, I want to get married, don't give up and don't give up." "The look is simply the source of happiness of that year."
With the broadcast of this drama, the ending song "A Lifetime of Loneliness" sung by Rene Liu has also become a popular hot song.
In 2002, Rene Liu opened the "Single Log" concert at the Little Dome, and she very much wanted to invite her master to be a guest and sing "Crazy for Love" with herself.
But many times, until there were only four or five days left before the concert, Chen Sheng still did not give her a definite answer.
On the day of the concert, the musician teacher told her: "Milk tea you listen attentively, if the tone becomes low, it proves that Brother Sheng is coming." ”
When Rene Liu finished saying "Next bring you "Crazy for Love", she heard the music with a lower pitch and saw Chen Sheng in a suit walk onto the stage, which made her surprised and choked.
A long time together seems to have a different affection between Liu Reuying and Chen Sheng, and they will interlock their fingers on the stage and laugh at each other.
Since Rene Liu's debut, the story of her and Chen Sheng has been told in various ways.
Some people say that as early as 1991, Rene Liu expressed her heart to Chen Sheng, "Maybe I will never be able to be with you, but my heart will always follow you..."
But at this time, Chen Sheng was already married and had children, and family responsibilities did not allow him to accept this feeling, and could only respond with silence.
Chen Sheng once wrote in the preface: When I was thirty years old, I had an appointment with a girl...
In 2005, Liu Reuying met Chen Sheng, whom she had not seen for a long time, in Hou Patzen's "Peach Protein", and within 5 minutes she could not control the tears, while Chen Sheng left her with only a "kite" and a sentence of "Don't come to me again".
In the vast sea of people, some people appear, perhaps to tell you what pain is.
Fortunately, Rene Liu did not go down because of this, but instead rushed forward with full vigor in her career.
Whether as an actress or a singer, her strength is obvious to all.
In the 2004 movie "No Thief in the World", her partner Andy Lau played a cheating couple.
After her husband's death, the famous scene of her sitting alone in a restaurant and eating roast duck while weeping is intriguing.
With this play, she also won three best actress awards in one fell swoop, namely the Chinese Film and Media Awards, the Golden Bauhinia Award, and the Hundred Flowers Award.
And her cover of the Japanese girl group Kiroro's "Later" has become a representative work of Rene Liu in the minds of most people, and has also become one of our KTV must-order songs.
Later, Rene Liu made "Later" into the movie "Later Us", many viewers saw their own shadows in the movie, saw the people they once loved, and the classic lines in it were even more piercing to the bottom of their hearts and resonating.
As she once said: "Listen to my song, you will feel that it is not my song, but your own song, watch my movie, I hope you can feel that it is not my movie, but your own movie." 」 ”
03 Bumpy road
In 2000, Rene Liu had an intersection with Huang Lei when filming "April Day on Earth".
She played Xu Zhimo's ex-wife Zhang Youyi in the play, and Huang Lei played Xu Zhimo.
During the filming, the two spent a lot of time together, and gradually they found that they were like-minded with each other, and they both liked to read and write articles.
The two walked hand in hand across the Taiping Bridge to watch the sunset, listening to drama and drinking tea together in the wooden house by the river, like a man and a woman in love.
After that, they cooperated in two plays, "Night Running" and "Like Water Years", the latter is also a script written by Huang Lei specifically for Liu Reuying, which took 5 months to write 200,000 words in his own handwriting, and he lost 20 pounds after the script was completed.
It was at this time that the scandal between the two began to spread all over the world, and there were even rumors that Sun Li was still making a big fuss on the set at that time, and even "slapped" Liu Reuying.
The parties quickly denied it, and Sun Li said that she had not met Rene Liu, and that the two were filming "Book of Swords and Enmity" in Hengdian at the time.
Later, Huang Lei once said in an interview that this feeling between himself and Rene Liu was driven by friendship, love, and affection, which can be called "the fourth feeling." Since then, the two have not cooperated.
On March 6, 2004, Rene Liu said at the "OriginalLy You Were in Shanghai" concert: "A boy called me and he said he was going to get married, and if I didn't agree, he wouldn't get married." I said, bless him..."
Huang Lei and Sun Li registered their marriage on March 8, two days later, and now, the world has become a family of five, and they have a happy life after marriage.
In addition, Rene Liu and director Chen Guofu have also been rumored to have been married for many years, and there are rumors that she is the culprit of Chen Guofu and Su Huilun.
Some people even say that Rene Liu once had the idea of withdrawing from the circle for her, and in this bad relationship, she seems to have become a party who has lost herself for love.
04 Final destination
Fortunately, Rene Liu, who has a bumpy love road, finally found a home for love in 2011.
That year, 41-year-old Rene Liu and zhong Xiaojiang, a 10-year-old wealthy businessman herself, entered the palace of marriage hand in hand.
After the two married, Rene Liu and the three chapters of the old convention law: "First, after marriage, you must sleep in separate rooms; Second, she doesn't do housework; Third, she will not be a full-time wife, and she will not give up her job. ”
In this regard, although Zhong Xiaojiang felt strange, he still agreed with her decision, he said: "I am aiming at you as an interesting person to marry you, and it is not a pity to ask a talented woman like you to do housework?" ”
Even after 10 years, their married life remains fresh, sweet as ever, respecting each other's preferences and retaining their own space.
Today, Rene Liu still adheres to her principles, and while running a family, she is still focusing on her career.
Writing, singing, photography, concerts, filming, traveling...
She is still the same independent individual, the difference is that there is a man behind her who silently supports him.
When she was young, Rene Liu was once obsessed with love, and she did not hesitate to fight for herself, even if she hit her head and broke the blood flow, she was not afraid.
In the search, she tasted the pain of love, finally learned to let go, learned to enjoy the moment, and finally waited for the person who really understood her.
This is The story of Rene Liu, why not you and me in front of the screen?
Love or life, who is not falling on the one hand, while moving forward.