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On a silent night in 1994, 16-year-old Yang Lijuan fell into a magical and haunting dream. In her dream, she witnessed a spectacular picture in the center of which a mysterious man appeared, flanked by two lines of profound and allegorical verses: "You have come to me in particular, you have met me with true love".
When she woke up from the dream, Yang Lijuan seemed to have an unprecedented attachment to this dream, and she could not let go of the true identity of the mysterious man. So, she passionately described this dream in detail to her beloved father, Yang Qinji.
Out of endless love for his daughter, Yang's father was secretly happy in his heart, and even weaved a similar dream, and hinted that this mysterious man must be the destined person in his daughter's dream.
Hearing her father's words, Yang Lijuan was instantly refreshed and excited. She eagerly wondered if that mysterious man was her idol and the bright star of the Hong Kong film industry, Andy Lau? Since then, her obsession with Andy Lau has reached an unprecedented fanaticism.
She misses and tirelessly collects photos and films of her idols day and night, and gradually, her interest in real life becomes less and less. Academics are abandoned, and academic performance has been declining.
Although the mother tried hard to persuade her many times, to no avail, she was severely reprimanded by her father. Yang Qinji's doting on his daughter has reached a point of almost blind worship, and he began to let Yang Lijuan indulge in star-chasing behavior.
Her room is plastered with posters of idols, and she falls asleep sweetly every night accompanied by Andy Lau's singing. Yang Lijuan invested all her energy and money in collecting all the items of her idols, she had no interest in anything else, and the entire spiritual world was almost completely occupied and dominated by Andy Lau.
This kind of extraordinary dedication will undoubtedly bring her a lasting and tragic disaster. However, Yang Lijuan didn't know anything about it at that time, she was just instinctively deeply attracted and confused by the illusory aura of her idol, and embarked on a long and regretful journey of chasing stars with blazing dreams and expectations.
In the face of her daughter Yang Lijuan's increasingly aggravated "star-chasing fanaticism", as a mother, she tried to admonish countless times, but she never achieved any substantive results, but attracted her husband Yang Qinji's angry accusations.
Yang's father's doting on Yang Lijuan has reached an shocking and unimaginable level, and he has completely ignored the truth and blindly connived at and supported his daughter's bizarre behavior.
When Yang's father enjoyed his old age and retired from the work stage, he took out all his pension savings without hesitation with great pride and ecstasy, and used them to fund his daughter's unrestrained purchase of Andy Lau's movie CDs and other related peripheral goods. In this regard, Yang Lijuan was ecstatic, like a moth to a fire, and turned a blind eye to the bitterness of her parents' hard work.
In this way, the once abundant household savings were quickly depleted in a short period of time. It wasn't until 2005 that Yang's father had to make the difficult decision to sell their only remaining dilapidated home, and the family was forced to move into a modest rental house.
However, even so, it still can't satisfy Yang Lijuan's extreme desire to witness the true face of her idol in person. In order to go to Hong Kong again to find the whereabouts of his idol, in 2006, Yang's father did not hesitate to sacrifice his health and sell a kidney, just to raise more than 10,000 yuan for travel expenses.
So, with the money her father exchanged for her life, Yang Lijuan embarked on the road to Hong Kong, and waited there desperately, hoping to see the idol in her heart one day. However, the reality is always so cold, and although she travels around Hong Kong, she has never been able to meet Andy Lau in person as she wished.
Every time she returns from Hong Kong, Yang Lijuan always looks dazed, full of loss and despair. However, she seems to have fallen into the abyss of madness, and has no intention of stopping, but has become more and more addicted to it, sometimes even threatening suicide to force her father to continue to raise funds for her to go to Hong Kong, vowing to see idols.
On March 26, 2007, a tragic tragedy unfolded at the Star Ferry Pier in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Yang Qinji stared at the dark and bottomless sea in front of him, sighed deeply, and after leaving a few last words, he resolutely threw himself into the sea and ended his life. The reason why he chose to do this was just to hope that his daughter Yang Lijuan could realize her wish to meet his idol Andy Lau.
This deep old saying "I don't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me" seems to be using its unique way to reveal and interpret the fate of the intricate emotional entanglement between Yang Lijuan and Andy Lau.
The sudden death of Yang's father undoubtedly brought a heavy blow to this originally happy family. All of a sudden, major media have criticized Yang Lijuan's behavior, labeling her with derogatory labels such as "selfish", "unfilial", "sick" and "devil".
This sudden tragedy put Yang Lijuan's mother and daughter into an extremely difficult life situation. On the one hand, they have lost their beloved husbands and fathers, and on the other hand, they have been displaced by high levels of debt, making their lives extremely difficult.
In the face of public condemnation and the pressure of debt, the living situation of the mother and daughter can be described as worse.
In order to get rid of the endless twists and turns caused by this turmoil, Andy Lau had to come forward and repay all the debts for the Yang family, thus drawing a regrettable end to this sighing "fanatical star-chasing" incident.
Time flies, and 15 years have passed since that tragedy. Today, 44-year-old Yang Lijuan lives with her elderly mother in a cramped rental house in Lanzhou.
The interior of the apartment is rudimentary, with only a bed and a small coffee table. There were still cleaned water stains on the floor, and a clothesline hung from the living room, which was full of freshly washed clothes, and water was dripping from it.
Yang Lijuan leaned alone by the windowsill, staring vacantly at the sunset in the distant sky and the passers-by in a hurry. She has little access to the Internet or TV shows, trying to get away from the hustle and bustle of the virtual world and live the most simple life.
Occasionally, she participates in community choir activities to express her love for music and her yearning for a better life.
Every morning, Ms. Yang takes a bus to a large supermarket in the city to work as a temporary promoter. She patiently and gently recommends products to customers and guides them to what they are looking for.
Although this job seems simple, for her now, this meager income is the only source of basic life for her and her mother.
Sometimes, some people who know Yang Lijuan will point to her and say excitedly to her friends: "Look, it's Yang Lijuan standing over there, the woman who was so crazy that she almost harmed herself in pursuit of superstar Andy Lau." However, Yang Lijuan can now cope with these disturbances with a calm and elegant attitude, with a smile on her face, and firmly continue to live her own ordinary and simple life.
After a long period of tempering and loss, Yang Lijuan finally began to reflect deeply and gradually awakened.
Andy Lau's resolute refusal back then completely shattered the beautiful illusions in her heart about "made in heaven" and "destined". She began to understand that celebrities are not gods, and what they show in front of the public is not necessarily their true selves, and most of them are just industrial products that are packaged in layers of illusory aura.
We should always keep a clear head and treat the phenomenon of idolatry rationally, and we must not be like Yang Lijuan back then, completely confused by the illusory idol image, and embarked on the crazy road from which there is no return.
When someone asked her: "If you go back in time and make you face a choice again, will you still stick to your original decision?" The extreme choice her father made back then was not entirely out of her will, but was driven by external pressure and public opinion.
Yang Lijuan held a bouquet of blooming white chrysanthemums in her hand, walked slowly to the riverbank, and gently sprinkled them one by one into the river water.
In fact, from the very beginning, Yang's father's excessive favor became the fuse of this tragedy. In order to fulfill all the wishes of his daughter, he did not hesitate to sacrifice his future, career and even life, which eventually led to the breakdown of the family and the debt riddled with it, causing an irreparable disaster.
If he had been able to rein in the precipice in time, heed his wife's advice, and cherished the love of his relatives, would all these tragedies have been avoided? The love of family members is the most precious treasure in life, and we should cherish the present and feel the deep affection and friendship of our relatives with our hearts.