Li Yuanyuan grew up in Jinan in the 60s of the last century, and her parents were both practitioners in the art world, and she was immersed in the baptism and enlightenment of beauty since she was a child. What impressed me was that whenever there was a drama performance, her mother would always take her young to the scene to watch it together.
Groups of costumes, colorful stage sets, and a strange and mysterious world make Li Yuanyuan feel like she is between heaven and earth, and she can't help but forget to integrate into it.
The passion for drama is deeply rooted in her heart, and Li Yuanyuan's growth trajectory is also shaped by this. When she was young, she built a small stage by herself, and performed famous dramas such as Peking Opera "The Heroes" and "Learning from the Scriptures" with the children in the neighborhood, or wrote and acted in sketches according to the model drama.
Until 1981, when she was admitted to the Shanghai Theater Academy and officially entered the theater hall, her persistent pursuit of performing arts has always been consistent.
After graduating from the School of Drama, Li Yuanyuan returned to her alma mater to teach for several years before embarking on her own acting career. In 1983, she played the role of Du Juan in the movie "Li Bing" and officially entered the film and television industry.
With her solid acting skills and superb acting skills, Li Yuanyuan starred in nearly 40 film and television works in the following 20 years, establishing an authoritative position in the industry.
In 1998, she played the heroine Zheng Adai in the TV series "Hong Kong Story" and won the Golden Eagle Award for the second time. Throughout her acting career, Li Yuanyuan has always maintained her love for acting, and has the courage to challenge the deep transformation of different roles, revealing a touching sincerity in her open-minded atmosphere, which makes the audience fall in love with it and fully present the character traits of the characters in the play.
As her long-time friend Chen Daoming once sighed: "Such an actor with both excellent character and ingenuity is the light of the entertainment industry, and her departure is our loss."
Li Yuanyuan's emotional road is full of waves, with ups and downs like the ups and downs of the waves.
In her early 20s, in the performance of the drama "Anthony and Cleopatra", she met Jiao Huang, the popular "Prince of Drama". The familiarity on and off the stage soon brewed into the sprout of love.
However, Jiao Huang has been married for many years and is only separated from his wife. In the entanglement, Li Yuanyuan faced many obstacles from her family and the world, and endured the failure of this relationship alone.
For her, the most sincere emotional investment in adolescence has not been exchanged for warmth, and she has to choose to devote more energy and time to her career development.
Marriage is not easy for Li Yuanyuan. She married her college classmate and screenwriter Liu Guoqing, and the two of them should have made a good relationship with their professional background and common language.
However, the good times did not last long, and Liu Guoqing gradually revealed his conceited and arrogant side, unable to tolerate any suggestions from Li Yuanyuan for his works, which was incompatible with Li Yuanyuan's open and tolerant character.
Eventually, the imbalance of values became the trigger for the breakdown of this marriage. After the divorce, Li Yuanyuan once thought that it would be difficult for her to meet her soulmate, and she put all her heart and soul into her work.
It wasn't until she met Yang Cheng that she rekindled her hope for marriage. Yang Cheng is gentle and considerate, and often travels to accompany her crew life. What's even more commendable is that his unguarded tolerance and support healed Li Yuanyuan's deep wounds.
This time, she finally felt a sense of security from her other half. And Yang Cheng also walked out of the shadows of her failed previous marriage because of Li Yuanyuan, a gentle and considerate woman.
But their sweet life was ruthlessly broken by the sudden arrival of cervical cancer, and Li Yuanyuan's ill-fated emotional road once again entered a trough.
At the age of 37, Li Yuanyuan was happy to have Lin'er, but her dream of growing old was abruptly ended by a medical report - she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, and it was already at an advanced stage.
This news is tantamount to a slap in the face, and Li Yuanyuan and Yang Cheng rarely fell into despair and dumbness. Even more unacceptable, doctors immediately proposed two cruel options: either starting treatment immediately could lead to a miscarriage of the fetus, or giving birth to the baby first and missing the critical window of treatment.
Faced with these two dilemmas, Yang Cheng instinctively chose to keep his beloved wife, and he firmly believed that there would be children in the future. However, unexpectedly, Li Yuanyuan chose the latter.
She said to Yang Cheng with red eyes but a firm tone: "We have been waiting for so many years, I can't give up this child." Let me be a mother first. Yang Cheng knew that Li Yuanyuan had already made up her mind.
For the sake of this unborn life, she was willing to delay treatment, and even made a desperate bet.
In the following days, Li Yuanyuan put all her thoughts on prenatal education and preparing for pregnancy. She endured the pain of cancer cells while listening to her baby's heartbeat.
Yang Cheng took care of his frail wife meticulously and kissed her on the forehead: "Our baby will be very strong and cute, just like his mother." Finally, their son came safely into this world, Li Yuanyuan stroked the little life in the swaddling clothes, and her face could not hide her joy.
She has done her best to fulfill her wish to be a mother, and next, she must overcome cancer and live for the sake of this family.
After Li Yuanyuan's son was born, she began to fight to the death against illness. While she endured the great pain of surgery and chemotherapy, she devoted all her heart and soul to taking care of her young son.
Whenever she fell out in large chunks of hair after chemotherapy, she joked that she was playing a nun. Yang Cheng stayed by her side and let her lean on his arms and cry bitterly.
He often jokes with her and tries to distract her; At night, she gently changes dressings and waits, for fear of disturbing her scarce sleep.
After two years of fighting cancer, her condition is still deteriorating, and Li Yuanyuan understands that she has really missed the best chance of cure. She doesn't have much hope anymore, she just wants to spend more time with her family.
The day before her final surgery, Yang Cheng said to her with red eyes: "Wife, is it okay for you to feed the baby again, I want to record this scene." Li Yuanyuan nodded with tears in her eyes, she knew that Yang Cheng was also preparing for the worst in her heart...... In the end, she still did not survive the operation, and her life was lost amid the cries of her husband and son.
She was 41 years old that year. Li Yuanyuan's friends saw her off, and no one did not regret or be angry about this tragic death. Yang Cheng raised his 2-year-old son alone and gave all his love to this little life.
More than 20 years have passed, Yang Cheng has not remarried, and he will always be by her side as promised Li Yuanyuan. And his son also grew up, inherited Li Yuanyuan's love for acting, and became a voice actor.
Every time he cried for the photos or performance videos of his mother before her death, it seemed that he was telling this longing that spanned life and death.