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There is nothing more painful in the world than parting from life and death, and people who love each other cannot stay together, afraid that it is the last thing that lovers want to see.
Then things are impermanent, and people who don't love each other can be together all the time. Hong Kong actor Sima Yan and her husband fell in love, but they were separated by yin and yang due to illness. The pain of not being able to continue to stay together made Sima Yan, who was already riddled with illness, even more emaciated.
But before his death, Sima Yan was most worried about not his son, but his husband, while hoping that his husband would not forget him, and at the same time let him remarry for the sake of his husband's happiness.
What kind of love makes everyone talk about it? Let's walk into this article to understand Sima Yan's life.
Born into poverty, but bravely seized opportunities
In the last century, Hong Kong coexisted with opportunities and difficulties, and gold was everywhere. There are not a few people who can seize the opportunity to soar into the sky, and Sima Yan is also one of them.
Sima Yan, formerly known as Han Xiaoling, was born in 1963 in an ordinary family in Hong Kong. Because the conditions at home were not good, Sima Yan also took up the burden of the family early.
After graduating from high school, she entered the society and began to work hard to subsidize her family. In order to live, she has done a lot of dirty and tiring work, but she never complains or gives up, and this tenacity that is not afraid of hardship and fatigue has also paved the way for her future development in the entertainment industry.
In the 80s of the 20th century, the Hong Kong film and television industry developed very rapidly, and many people made their debut through the draft, changing their originally poor family situation.
Female stars such as Li Jiaxin, Kwan Zhilin and Cai Shaofen all entered the entertainment industry through the Hong Kong sister draft and changed their fate. Sima Yan was no exception.
Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels have made countless people addicted to it, and they all like the martial arts world depicted by Jin Yong very much. Therefore, Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novels are always filmed and television.
In 1983, Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was being prepared for filming by Hong Kong TVB, but the role of the protagonist Huang Rong was undecided, in order to select the Huang Rong in their hearts, they held a selection program called "Ideal Huang Rong Image".
At first, Sima Yan did not dare to sign up, but her friends encouraged her to seize the opportunity, so Sima Yan bravely signed up.
Although Sima Yan in the draft did not have much stage acting experience, with her outstanding appearance and elegant temperament, she passed five levels and cut six generals all the way, and also fought from thousands of people to compete for the top five candidates for Huang Rong's role.
But unfortunately, Sima Yan stopped at the top five, and finally lost to Weng Meiling, and did not succeed in playing the role of Huang Rong.
Because everyone was looking forward to Huang Rong's role, the selection program of Hong Kong TVB made a huge noise, conducted a detailed questionnaire survey, and spent three months to conduct the draft.
So this draft can be described as a lot of attention, although there are regrets, but Sima Yan, who rose to prominence in this draft, was paid attention to, missed Huang Rong, but did not miss the opportunity to enter the entertainment industry.
Her beautiful appearance has won her a lot of opportunities, slowly developed from a small supporting role, and gradually was seen by people, and since 1983, she has successively participated in the filming of films such as "Ghost Overlord Flower", "Ghost Hunting Co., Ltd.", "Ghost Mission", "Ghost Covering" and so on.
Because she acted in horror movies, she was also nicknamed an expert in horror movies.
With the increase in popularity, more and more people recognized this girl named Sima Yan. The rise in popularity has also given her more and more opportunities to contact some big productions and be seen by more and more big directors.
In 1993, Sima Yan was seen by Stephen Chow and participated in Stephen Chow's "Jigong" movie, playing a pregnant woman who was pregnant with Liujia.
Since then, Sima Yan's career has been rising steadily, and he has become popular in the entertainment industry. However, Sima Yan, who has never been ambitious, did not continue to maintain this state of endeavor, and slowly Sima Yan faded out in the entertainment industry.
Another reason is that Sima Yan met the love of his life, got married and had children, and slowly faded out of his husband and godson.
Meet true love and have a happy marriage
Sima Yan met his own Prince Charming when his career was booming, an Indonesian overseas Chinese named Wu Zhongyi.
Wu Zhongyi grew up in the Netherlands and showed excellent business acumen from an early age, and backed the family tree, and had outstanding performance in the business field. It can be said that it is a young talent, attracting countless beautiful women to bend their waist.
Once at a drinking party, Sima Yan and Wu Zhongyi met, and the two talked very happily at first sight, and they both had a good impression of each other.
At that time, most of the Hong Kong female stars would be raised by the rich, even if they married into a wealthy family, they would not necessarily be happy, and there were many people who lived miserably, and everyone was not optimistic about a wealthy family like Wu Zhongyi, but Wu Zhongyi had a soft spot for Sima Yan.
And Sima Yan also had a good impression of this elegant, sunny and cheerful boy, and the two quickly fell in love, and when they were in love for less than a year, the two resolutely decided to enter into marriage.
Unlike those wealthy families, Sima Yan not only was not tortured, but entered a very happy marriage.
And after marriage, Sima Yan no longer worked hard in his career, and concentrated on his husband and son at home, and it didn't take long for the two to have the crystallization of love.
Sima Yan successively gave birth to two sons for Wu Zhongyi, the eldest son was called Wu Zhantao and the younger son was called Wu Zhenyao. The two sons were obedient, and the husband loved him very much, and Sima Yan was immersed in the happiness of marriage.
Sima Yan's eldest son not only inherited the excellent appearance genes of his parents, but also inherited Sima Yan's acting talent.
At a young age, he was not afraid of the camera at all, and Sima Yan never objected to his son standing in front of the camera, but respected his son's wishes and took his son to shoot many magazines and advertisements.
When his son is older and shows interest in acting, Sima Yan will become his son's acting mentor at this time, telling his son how to perform, how he feels about acting, and helping his son understand performance.
The cultivation of his son's acting career, in addition to Sima Yan's words and deeds, but also Sima Yan and her husband's cultivation of their son in every detail.
In order to turn his son into a qualified star since he was a child, two-year-old Wu Zhantao has been sent to the Conservatory of Music for education.
Finally, the kung fu paid off, and when Wu Zhantao was nine years old, he ushered in his first movie "Father and Son".
The first drama is to cooperate with big stars such as Kwok Fucheng and Yang Caini, which can be said to be the peak of his debut. In this play, Wu plays a child named Po, the son of a character played by Kwok Fucheng.
Because his mother Sima Yan cultivated him in acting, the nine-year-old Wu Zhantao performed brilliantly in the movie, with excellent acting skills, and his portrayal of the role was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and attracted the attention of many people.
His excellent acting skills also made him famous, and he won numerous awards for a while.
He has won a series of film and television awards such as the Best Newcomer Award at the 3rd Asian Walker Film Awards, the 8th Hong Kong Film Directors Guild New Actor Gold Award, and the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer Award.
In 2007, the ten-year-old Wu participated as a guest performer at the opening ceremony of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and sang the theme song "Hong Kong Always Has You" with many children.
In the same year, he won the Most Outstanding Film Child Star Award at the Hong Kong "Ming Pao Weekly" Entertainment Power Awards.
Looking at his very good son, Sima Yan was very happy in his heart. Although he feels that his son can still have more brilliant results in the entertainment industry, for the sake of his son's academic considerations, Sima Yan and her husband decided to let their son temporarily retire from the entertainment industry and finish his studies first.
Although Wu Zhantao temporarily bid farewell to the entertainment industry after this, it did not completely disappear.
When the movie "Astro Boy" was released in Hong Kong in 2009, he dubbed the protagonist Astro Boy, which was also the second cooperation with Kwok Fucheng after two years, and he was almost never heard from in the entertainment industry after that.
Until 2020, he starred in movies again after fourteen years, and it was also the second film of his life, "Band of Seven" was released as the opening film at the 25th Busan International Film Festival.
For this son, Sima Yan and her husband liked him in their hearts and were very proud of his achievements. At this time, Sima Yan's marriage was happily happy, and his son was obedient and sensible, and his grades were excellent, which can be said to be Sima Yan's happiest time.
Suddenly something happened, and cancer shattered the original happiness
Originally, Sima Yan could always be so happy, but the moon was cloudy and sunny, and people were blessed. No one's life has been stable, and in 2012, Sima Yan detected stomach cancer during a physical examination.
After being diagnosed, she actively cooperated with the treatment accompanied by her family, underwent a comprehensive gastrectomy and underwent chemotherapy several times.
The torment of illness made her plummet from more than 90 pounds to about 60 pounds, and the whole person was skinny and distressing.
In 2014, due to a blockage of the urinary catheter, Sima Yan's bladder and kidneys were affected again, and her already overwhelmed body was even worse, and she underwent two more surgeries.
His physical condition was already declining due to cancer, and because of these two operations, Sima Yan's physical condition became worse and worse.
Soon after being readmitted to the hospital because of nephritis, Sima Yan, who had been hospitalized several times, was targeted by the media, and the unscrupulous media spread rumors that she died soon and became terminally ill. Seeing this news, Sima Yan was very angry and immediately clarified.
It was also this clarification that made people mistakenly think that Sima Yan's health had improved, and everyone was waiting for the news of her recovery. However, the sky did not go as expected, and soon bad news came.
Sima Yan passed away after such a long period of illness, and before she died, she explained everything in detail.
First of all, although she was reluctant to leave her husband, she had no choice but to be separated forever, and she asked her husband to find another good fate after her death, and then find a companion to accompany her and accompany her husband until she was old.
He also sold all his assets to his son, and then left with peace of mind. And Wu Zhongyi, who experienced eternal separation from the person he loved, could not accept it for a while, and took his son to live abroad.
Although Sima Yan has been dead for a long time, Wu Zhongyi has never forgotten her, not only always placing Sima Yan's edict at home, but also full of fruits and delicacies that Sima Yan likes to eat.
Every Qingming and death day, he went to see Sima Yan to express his nostalgia.
In the third year of Sima Yan's death, Wu Zhongyi obeyed the wishes of his wife Sima Yan, remarried, and married Sima Yan's close friend before his death, which can be regarded as an explanation of Sima Yan's last wish.
Now you can often see Wu Zhongyi basking his happy life and living a happy life.
And although Sima Yan's two children have no news, especially the eldest son, who was previously high-profile, there is no news at all after the movie "Band of Seven", and they should also be living well.
There is also her youngest son, although there is no news, but the family is good and he is excellent, and he should also live a happy life.
When he remarried, because Wu Zhongyi's youngest son did not attend the wedding, some people speculated that the younger son was not satisfied with the marriage and was complaining for his mother.
But no matter what the reason is, Sima Yan has passed away, the living have their own lives, the deceased has died, and the living must always live.
May Sima Yan be happy in another world, her expectations come true, and may everyone not suffer from illness.