The 66-year-old Li Kuncheng ended his last musical journey on earth.
In April 2022, there was a news on social media that the news of the death of Li Kuncheng, a master figure in Taiwan's music industry, due to illness spread widely on the Internet.
This sudden bad news caused a slight ripple like a heavy stone thrown into the surface of a calm lake. Li Kuncheng's true fans mourned deeply, and other insiders also expressed their condolences on the Internet.
Li Kuncheng used his 66 years of life to compose countless sounds of heaven. He has witnessed the rise and fall of Taiwanese pop music from the prosperity of the past to today's decline.
He documented all these changes with his music. Now, he no longer plays the guitar and no longer wields his pen and ink. Li Kuncheng officially said goodbye to this world and embarked on his last journey.
Life is like this epiphany, fragile and short. Even a master musician like Li Kuncheng can't escape the fatalistic law of birth, old age, sickness and death.
When the sickle of death falls, all the glory and riches of the world are meaningless. Each of us lives in the quicksand of time and faces the end of life at any time.
Li Kuncheng's passing reminds us to cherish every moment in front of us and accept the limitations of life.
At the age of 66, Li Kuncheng chose to enter the marriage hall with Lin Jingen, a woman who is nearly 40 years younger than himself. This decision undoubtedly caused an uproar in the outside world.
In fact, the relationship between the two can be traced back to 10 years ago. In 2012, Li Kuncheng and Lin Jingen met, and had an ambiguous idea that transcended the friendship between teachers and students. At that time, Lin Jingen was the daughter of a friend of Li Kuncheng.
This relationship across the generation gap eventually led to Li Kuncheng paying the price of friendship, and even being morally criticized. However, he still chased true love without hesitation, and chose to accept the misunderstanding of the outside world, just to protect Lin Jingen.
In the years that followed, Li Kuncheng successively composed many songs praising the beauty of Lin Jingen, and incorporated his understanding and expectation of love into music. He regards love as higher than the world's vision, and only asks Lin Jingen not to give up.
For this reason, he willingly endured the incomprehension and reproach of the world.
Love is like a pilgrim's path, full of thorns and stumbling blocks, but there are still people who move forward without hesitation. Li Kuncheng used his life to practice the tolerance and selflessness of "love".
When faced with moral scrutiny, he chose love and conscience. Although this has added a lot of criticism and criticism to his life, Li Kuncheng has never regretted chasing the true love in his heart.
However, Li Kuncheng and Lin Jingen's long-lasting love encountered the biggest obstacle - the advent of a terminal illness.
In June 2021, Li Kuncheng began to have various abnormalities in his body. Since the symptoms were not obvious at first, he did not pay enough attention. It wasn't until September that he was found to have end-stage colorectal cancer, which had worsely metastasized to his bones.
Doctors say the disease has progressed far beyond their clinical experience. Li Kuncheng also realized that the scythe of death was hanging above his head.
In the days and nights of illness, Lin Jingen became Li Kuncheng's strongest backing. In order to accompany Li Kuncheng for treatment, Lin Jingen had to do everything possible to rush to the hospital one hour away every day.
For this reason, she did not hesitate to drive or take the bus, just to be able to accompany Li Kuncheng for a few more moments. Lin Jingen continued to accompany him for 160 days, and he never stopped.
Looking at Li Kuncheng, who was getting thinner and thinner, Lin Jingen's heart was like a knife. She knows that music creation is Li Kuncheng's soul, and illness is depriving him of his ability to create little by little, and it is also destroying the meaning of his life.
When life entered the countdown, Li Kuncheng began to guide Lin Jingen to face his death. But for Lin Jingen, welcoming the death of her loved ones is probably the most difficult topic in her life.
In the face of terminal illness, life seems so fragile and powerless. It doesn't just because of a person's career achievements and wealth accumulation. Each of us is repeating the same cycle of birth, old age, sickness and death, even Li Kuncheng, who is jealous of talent.
However, Lin Jingen used his unreserved companionship to protect the most difficult last period of Li Kuncheng's life. It is the mortal protection of sincere love, and it is also the echo of the meaning of life.
At the last moment of his life, Li Kuncheng made a decision that made everyone sigh - to officially conclude a relationship with Lin Jingen.
In February 2022, Li Kuncheng, who was critically ill, was admitted to the ICU ward. When Lin Jingen learned the news, he was both heartbroken and moved. She knew that Li Kuncheng fulfilled their common wish in the last time of his life - to become husband and wife.
In the cold ICU ward, Li Kuncheng and Lin Jingen held a simple and sacred wedding. Because of the torture of illness, Li Kuncheng was so weak that he could not say the full oath.
But the marriage certificate he prepared in advance confirmed his solemnity and dedication to this wedding. Lin Jingen looked at Li Kuncheng who was dying, and tears came out of his eyes.
She gently lifted his oxygen mask and printed this final goodbye kiss in the presence of the medical staff.
In an instant, all kinds of complex emotions swept over Lin Jingen. She knows that this is Li Kuncheng using the last strength of his life to complete the waiting and care for her love for 10 years.
As a result, Lin Jingen could no longer hold back his tears.
Such a simple ceremony carries the love of two hearts across 10 years of wind and rain. It not only allowed Lin Jingen to accompany Li Kuncheng in his last time, but also meant that all of Li Kuncheng's 50 million yuan of property belonged to Lin Jingen.
But more importantly, Li Kuncheng used such an apocalyptic encounter to freeze his love with Lin Jingen forever at this sacred moment.
Lin Jingen promised Li Kuncheng that he would fulfill his last wish and hold a simple and low-key farewell ceremony for him. She also implored Li Kuncheng to meet again if he had fate in the next life.
"You go first, and I'll catch up with you. Lin Jingen whispered softly. After the test of life and death, their love will eventually become eternal.
Li Kuncheng has completed the last journey of music and love in his life. He left all his property to his beloved wife and did not give any inheritance. But the spiritual wealth he left behind will become an eternal gift.
Li Kuncheng has a lifelong passion for creation, and many of his works have been integrated into the history of music in Taiwan. These works record the style of an era, and also show his persistent pursuit of music and love.
In the next life, if he had the chance, he would embrace the guitar again and play a heart-warming movement. And in this life, his concerts will remain forever in the memory of the world. It is the spiritual wealth that time cannot detach, and it is also Li Kuncheng's most precious gift to the world.
Li Kuncheng used his life to deduce what is the love of art and what is the persistence of love. This has also become the most admirable spiritual wealth he left to future generations.