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Text: Cold Snow Mountain
Edited by Hanxue Mountain
Preface
Life is short, why not live your own life? Follow your heart, move forward bravely, even if the road is rugged and difficult, you will not regret this life?
Today, we will tell the extraordinary life of a legendary actress Chen Xiaoxu.
The ballet dream begins
Chen Xiaoxu, who is naturally beautiful, has shown a love for art since he was a child.
Although her parents were workers in the Peking Opera Troupe, she was unique in her preference for the mysterious and elegant art form of ballet.
Since the age of 10, she has been working hard day and night without sleeping or eating, even on the way to and from school.
At that time, ballet was still a new thing in China, and every performance attracted the admiration of countless art lovers.
Chen Xiaoxu has naturally become a pearl on campus.
However, the general environment of that era did not favor the pursuit of art, and people advocated the spirit of labor, and regarded art as a bourgeois concept that was incompatible with social reality.
Chen Xiaoxu's mother often took her to rural factories and mines for labor exercises, but her heart was always tied to unfinished dance practice, which made her seem out of place and a lonely teenager in the eyes of her peers.
Thorns are full of dreams, and the road is long
The road of dreams has never been achieved overnight, and for Chen Xiaoxu at a young age, it is even more thorny.
However, she showed an innate tenacious personality and relentlessly pursued her dreams.
Even though she was unable to embark on the path of professional dance due to various reasons, this experience has planted the seeds of perseverance in her heart and laid the foundation for her future life.
Red Mansion life was an instant hit
In 1983, 18-year-old Chen Xiaoxu learned that the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" was casting, and she was hopeful but self-doubting.
If it weren't for the persuasion of her boyfriend at the time, Bi Yanjun, she probably would never have mustered up the courage to write that fate-changing letter.
When director Wang Fulin saw Chen Xiaoxu's photo, he seemed to see Lin Daiyu's incarnation in the world, and Chen Xiaoxu was immediately allowed to enter the training class to open a new chapter in his life.
Under the guidance of the old drama bones, Chen Xiaoxu gradually mastered Lin Daiyu's unique temperament of being lonely, sad and talented.
After four years of hard work, the 22-year-old finally played the role of Lin Daiyu on the screen, knocked on the door of her career, and became a household name star in one fell swoop.
Fame and fortune are in control of life
At the peak of his career, Chen Xiaoxu fell into a new predicament.
Because her image is too close to Lin Daiyu's tragic character, it is difficult for her to get opportunities for other roles, so she has no choice but to bid farewell to the showbiz and move to the shopping mall.
At first, she tried twice to study abroad, but both failed.
After returning to Beijing, she lived a modest life, saving money in a small rental house.
In order to stabilize her life, she also worked in the art troupe.
But the dream of her career has never given up on her.
Just when the advertising industry was in the ascendant, Chen Xiaoxu boldly founded his own advertising company with his keen sense of the market.
The beginning was not easy, and she had to use her personal charm and professionalism to win over every customer bit by bit.
However, with her tenacity and extraordinary business wisdom, her career soon developed by leaps and bounds, and she won many successes, and was also selected as one of the "30 Outstanding Female Advertising People in China".
But just when the flowers were surrounded, fate played a huge joke again.
The business sea sails and is promising
Although the dream of going abroad is out of reach, the determination to pursue a better life has never been extinguished.
In the early 90s, Chen Xiaoxu resolutely gave up the stable income of the art troupe and boldly devoted himself to the business world.
It was an era when the advertising industry was in its infancy, and there was an urgent need for formal advertising companies in all walks of life to carry out marketing promotions.
The keen Chen Xiaoxu immediately seized this opportunity and founded his own advertising agency.
The days were not easy at the beginning, the company was just a small office, and Chen Xiaoxu and several employees worked day and night.
In order to expand her business, she had to run around, using her professionalism and affinity, to win customers from house to house.
Sometimes she would work for days and nights without sleep for a project.
After enjoying the scenery of an acting star, today's life seems shabby, but Chen Xiaoxu has never been discouraged.
She persistently believes that as long as she is willing to work hard, one day, she will be rewarded with abundant rewards.
Sure enough, with his outstanding management ability and noble professional ethics, Chen Xiaoxu quickly won the favor of many brands, and his business was booming.
In the past few years, the company she led has created nearly 40 million sales, and the number of brands she has cooperated with has reached more than a dozen.
All these achievements are the best interpretation of her arduous entrepreneurial journey.
Family Happiness Workplace Crown
Despite his successful career, Chen Xiaoxu's marriage road has been bumpy.
Her love with her first boyfriend Bi Yanjun soon came to an end due to personality incompatibility.
At that time, Chen Xiaoxu was still young and his personality was still young, and when facing all kinds of hardships and tests in married life, he lacked enough patience and rationality, and the relationship between husband and wife fell into an incompatible deadlock.
It wasn't until she was 27 years old that she met Hao Tong, a man who was also engaged in the advertising industry, and became her lifelong partner.
The two met and fell in love, and eventually became husband and wife and worked together to create a career.
Husband and wife are of one heart and one mind, tacit understanding, and the company's performance is rising.
Chen Xiaoxu's career is thriving, and his family is gradually on a happy track.
At the age of 39, she was even ranked among the "Economic Person of the Year", gaining fame and fortune and envy others.
The only regret is that she and Hao Tong have never had children.
The disease is relentless, and life is dying
Just when his career was taking off, fate came to Chen Xiaoxu again.
In 2006, she felt unwell, but her stubborn personality delayed her medical treatment.
When she finally went to see a doctor, the results were shocking – she had advanced breast cancer, and the cancer cells had spread in her body and were in an uncontrollable state.
In the face of the threat of death, Chen Xiaoxu is still stubborn, insisting on refusing surgery and standardized treatment, preferring to pin his hopes on traditional Chinese medicine conditioning.
Countless attempts by her parents and husband were powerless to reverse her decision.
She used to be such a strong, independent, and indomitable person, but in the face of illness, she seemed so helpless and struggling.
After a painful struggle, she finally made the decision to become a monk, as if she wanted to seek some solace in Buddhism.
However, fate no longer has compassion, and 42-year-old Chen Xiaoxu passed away on May 13, 2007, leaving endless regrets.
Retreat to Buddhism and observe the world
A few months before their deaths, Chen Xiaoxu and her husband Hao Tong made a shocking decision: to become monks and return to Buddhism.
Despite both shavings, Chen Xiaoxu still has nostalgia for the present world, she once secretly went to the doctor and learned that she had entered the terminal stage of a terminal illness, but still stubbornly refused surgery and any standardized treatment.
She seems to have looked down on all the fame and fortune in the world, but she still has a little attachment to life in her heart.
In addition to meditation in Buddhism, she began to reflect on her own life.
Once upon a time, she was so high-spirited, confident and free-spirited, and the road of life seemed to be smooth sailing.
But fate always surprises her and gives her heavy blows again and again.
Perhaps, this is a test given to her by the universe to see if she can still maintain the courage and wisdom of the beginning.
However, just as she gradually entered Buddhism and began to face it calmly, the disease ruthlessly took her young life.
The hatred of life is always in my heart
15 years after her death, Chen Xiaoxu's death is still a stalk that her relatives and friends can't let go.
Although the two husbands have restarted their families, they always have regrets and memories of the wife who passed away too early.
Whenever an important anniversary comes, they will go to Chen Xiaoxu's grave with endless thoughts and offer a bouquet of flowers, as if they can have an eternal reunion with her.
And Chen Xiaoxu's parents couldn't get out of the shadow of their daughter's death.
Even in their advanced age, they still insist on going to the cemetery every year on their daughter's birthday, death day and Qingming Festival, where they sit and remember alone.
Sometimes the aging wires cause the lights to flicker, and the mother thinks that her daughter's spirit has returned.
These small rituals became their only spiritual comfort.
It wasn't until 2021 that Chen Xiaoxu's father finally left with his daughter, and his mother reluctantly accepted the fact that her daughter had passed away.
The laughter and laughter of the family are now only endless memories.
epilogue
Life is short, but as long as you live your life and end without regrets, it is a happy ending.
Chen Xiaoxu has had several ups and downs in his life, but he has always insisted on being an assertive and principled person, not being imprisoned by reality, and bravely pursuing his dreams.
What she left us behind is not only artistic and business wisdom, but also an independent and self-reliant attitude towards life.
Let's inherit her spirit and live our own wonderful life.