In 1948, she dreamed of becoming a movie star
In 1948, in a crowded and dimly lit shantytown in Hong Kong's Tangzhan District, a little girl named Li Jing was born. Li Jing has been very intelligent since birth, and she speaks earlier than the average child.
She has a warm and cheerful personality, and at a young age, she told people around her that her dream is to be a well-known actress.
Li Jing plays "actor" in front of the TV every day, imitating movie stars on the screen, imagining herself as a big star and receiving cheers from the audience. All of her actions made the neighborhood marvel at her acting talent.
When she was 17 years old, Li Jing hid from her family and secretly went to participate in the selection of a famous film company. In the end, with his beautiful facial features and excellent performance, he was successfully accepted as a film actor by the famous Shaw Brothers Company.
Since then, Li Jing has become a student actor of Shaw Brothers Film Company, and has firmly established her dream of being a movie queen. She believes she can achieve it with talent and hard work.
After winning the film at the age of 17, her career reached its peak
After entering the Shaw Brothers Film Company, Li Jing quickly passed the assessment and became an official actor with her excellent appearance and excellent basic skills. Directors rushed to throw olive branches to her and invited her to star in the new film.
Finally, in the second year of Li Jing's selection, a director chose her to star in a movie called "Fish Beauty". This also achieved the most glorious moment in the life of 17-year-old Li Jing.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 12th Asian Film Festival for this film, becoming the youngest actress in Asian history.
This Academy Award opened the door to a broader stage for Li Jing. In the years that followed, Li Jing continued to show her acting talents, starring in many best-selling movies.
She perfectly interpreted different types of female characters, and successfully established herself as one of the most popular Asian first-line actresses at that time.
While her career is booming, Li Jing has also accumulated considerable wealth by starring in these blockbuster movies. She bought a luxury villa in Hong Kong and lived a luxurious life with two limited-edition Rolls-Royces that were the only ones in the city at the time.
The sudden death of her boyfriend opens the abyss of gambling
When her career was in full swing, Li Jing felt more and more empty and lonely in her life. So she chose to fall in love with a rich kid named Li Zongsheng. The relationship between the two is very good, and Li Zongsheng plans to enter the palace of marriage with Li Jing after his career is stable.
However, the day before the two were ready to get engaged, Li Zongsheng died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 30. The death of the groom-to-be was a huge blow to Li Jing, who was so grief-stricken that she locked herself in the house all day and wept bitterly.
In order to numb herself, Li Jing began gambling in search of thrills. She spent the night in the casino, drinking to drown her sorrows. Soon, Li Jing was completely lost in the intricacies of the casino and couldn't extricate herself, and all her belongings were lost to the casino.
Until the end, Li Jing had to sell her conscience and shoot some third-level erotic movies to make a living.
There is no turning back after the decline
Filming a tertiary film made Li Jing infamous in the entertainment industry, and all big companies will never accept her again. By the time Li Jing realized what a serious mistake she had made, it was too late.
Her youth has long been squandered in the casino, and now Li Jing no longer has the appearance and popularity of the past. The whole circle is frantically renewed, and she can no longer find her place.
Li Jing regretted it, but she couldn't go back. She kept trying to get back on her feet, knocking on doors and submitting resumes in hopes of getting a small role. But because of the label of "third-level film actor", the door was closed to Li Jing without exception.
Li Jing's career is over. In fact, what makes Li Jing most sad is that she owed a huge amount of loan sharks for gambling when she was young, and now the interest is rolling higher and higher, and she is no longer able to repay it. In the end, he had to move out of his former mansion and live in a small rental house with only a dozen square meters in a slum in Hong Kong.
This small, dark and damp house was the last stop in her life.
Five years later, he was found dead in the room
In this simple and cramped rental house, Li Jing, who was suffering from terminal lung cancer, died alone in her room one day in February 2018. Cancer caused by long-term smoking made her extremely distressed on her deathbed.
A few days after Li Jing's death, her body began to rot and stink. However, the neighbors, who had not seen Li Jing go out for many days, did not notice it at first. Because Li Jing rarely interacted with people before her death, everyone thought she was going out.
It wasn't until the entire building smelled a strong stench of corpses that the neighbors realized something was wrong. Eventually, after opening the door, Li Jing's body was found in her room. She had been dead in bed for five or six days. However, what is even more sad is that none of Li Jing's relatives who contacted her refused to come to claim her body.
In the end, Lin Qingxia, who admired Li Jing when she was young, stood up selflessly and took care of her funeral out of her own pocket.
Li Jing ended her glorious and tragic life with an ownerless lonely grave. And the news of her death was not made public until five years later - it turned out that everyone thought that she was a smash hit back then, but she had died alone five years ago.
Youth is no more, and hatred is not guaranteed
Li Jing, who became the youngest actress in Asia at the age of 17 and reached the peak of her career, died alone in a cold and damp slum at the age of 70.
It can really be said that it fell from the peak to the bottom, which is worse than the siege. In fact, as early as the moment she chose to gamble for excitement, Li Jing was doomed to a tragic ending in her life. She could have retired to the rivers and lakes, slowly healed her grief, and then reappeared in the rivers and lakes.
After all, with her achievements and connections, it is not difficult to return to the top of her career. But she wanted to destroy her future and never recovered.
By the time she reacted, her youth was long gone, and she could never return to the beginning of her life. This is the tragic end of acting recklessly and not thinking about the future.
The most precious thing in a person's life is youth and time. Since youth warns us to enjoy ourselves in time, why do we always do not know what to take and squander it recklessly? Since time reminds us to cherish time like gold, we always feel that the future is long? When we react, we regret not being at the beginning and regretting it.
Li Jing's tragedy from the peak to the end is the best portrayal of this stupidity and ignorance of preservation.
The road of life, don't be mistaken by impulse
One of the important reasons why Li Jing went from being an Asian actress to dying alone was her recklessness and impulsiveness when she was young. At the point of our lives, we will all encounter choices, and we must remain rational at this time, otherwise we will ruin the future.
In fact, Li Jing can slowly come out of the haze in the grief of her boyfriend's sudden death. Her career status at that time was enough for her to start anew and regain her glory. Just because she went to the casino on impulse, she never recovered.
In the same way, the tertiary films were later filmed only for money. At that time, Li Jing could choose other ways out, but she only wanted to pay off her gambling debts quickly, and finally betrayed her personality.
If she had kept her sanity at that time, maybe her life would not have been in ruins. We all encounter obstacles and pains along the way in life. At this time, we must remain calm and restrained, and endure the pain, otherwise the impulse of the moment is likely to change the whole fate.
Li Jing's lesson is clear proof.
Finally, the full text is summarized
Li Jing, who was born in Hong Kong in 1948, became the youngest actress in Asia at the age of 17, and her career reached its peak, and she was a household name national idol at that time.
However, the good times did not last long, and her boyfriend's sudden death gave her a huge mental blow, which also made her go further and further on the road of life, and finally fell into the abyss.
At first, gambling was just a means for mental stimulation, but she soon became addicted to it and lost all the family property she had earned in exchange for a successful career to the casino. Later, in order to repay his debts, he had to sell his conscience to shoot a tertiary film.
But in the end, it was still sluggish and abandoned in the circle. In 2018, 70-year-old Li Jing died of illness in a dilapidated and dirty slum. Because of the foul smell accumulated over the years, the neighbors found out that the former superstar had already died with hatred.
What is even more poignant is that all her relatives refused to come to claim the body. Only Lin Qingxia, who admired her when she was young, came out to take care of the aftermath.
Li Jing went from being a movie queen at the age of 17 to dying alone at the age of 70, and the ups and downs of her life made all the former fans sad. Her lesson reminds us to keep our senses and not to ruin our lives by impulsive indulgence.