In the spring of 1978, full of unknown and expectations, Li Ermao was born in an extremely poor rural family in Qu County, Sichuan Province. His father, a former trafficker with sin on his hands, spent his days doing nothing to kill others, while his mother, a disabled but resilient woman, was paralyzed in bed every day, unable to care for her own children.
Born in such a harsh environment like purgatory on earth, Li Ermao has never felt the love of his parents since he was born, and even the most basic survival needs are difficult to meet.
He was left out in the coldness of his family, and was even more discriminated against by the whole village outside, and could only live a life worse than that of a wild beast.
Fate seems to have deep malice towards Li Ermao, and has been extremely prejudiced and ruthlessly cruel to him from the moment he was born.
When he was eight years old, his father was found by the government department on suspicion of human trafficking, and was finally severely punished and sentenced to death.
He spent long and desperate years in hunger, cold, and poverty. It wasn't until he was eighteen years old that some people in the village who went out to work saw his miserable situation, felt pity for him, and took him to the bustling city of Shenzhen.
Li Ermao witnessed the spectacular scene of a modern metropolis for the first time, and his heart ignited hope and courage to start a new life.
After coming to Shenzhen, Li Ermao's first job was to work the assembly line of a factory. Although the job is monotonous and boring, it can at least ensure the basic necessities of life.
However, as a modern metropolis, Shenzhen is brightly lit at night and full of temptations.
Late one night, Li Ermao happened to pass by an urban village nightclub in Longgang District, where a unique performance was being staged. I saw that on the stage, those "dancers" with heavy makeup and gorgeous clothes were skillfully showing their unique charm, and their bodies were enchanting and charming.
And offstage, a group of middle-aged men with empty hearts and unbearable loneliness were cheering wildly.
Witnessing this spectacle, Li Ermao's heart couldn't help but sincerely admire the degree of wonder in this world, it is really a lot of things in the world, all of them are strange! He lowered his head to carefully observe his figure and appearance, his slender waist, strong buttocks, and slender eyebrows like willow leaves, all seemed to show his great potential to stand in the center of the stage and perform brilliantly.
Qingqing, an unusually keen-eyed night agent, quickly discovered the unique charm of Li Ermao.
After delicate makeup, a charming and charming female image is displayed in front of everyone, that is Li Ermao's incarnation of "Meilena".
In a drag competition, Melena won the runner-up award with her outstanding performance, and the winner was actually a male contestant with superb acting skills "Mary" Li Ermao, who humbly asked Mary for advice and learned typhoon skills and valuable experience.
So, he resolutely quit his boring factory job and devoted himself to the art of cross-dressing as a woman.
Under Mary's careful guidance, Melina's acting career gradually became successful, and she successfully formed a small acting team of her own.
Under Mary's guidance, Li Ermao's acting career is on the right track, and he has gradually grown into the core leader of the team. However, the good times are always short-lived, and as the years go by, Mary decides to leave Shenzhen for Hainan due to her obsessive pursuit of so-called "true love", where she undergoes a fateful sex reassignment surgery.
On the occasion of parting, Mary generously gave all her fancy clothes to her disciple Li Ermao.
With the departure of the champion Mary, Li Ermao was naturally promoted to the chief actor of the entire team. He led a group of like-minded partners to form a new performance team, which toured the major night clubs in Shenzhen, and gradually won the enthusiastic pursuit of the audience.
Whenever night falls, Li Ermao will carefully create her makeup, wearing a glittering sequined skirt and corset, showing an incomparable unique charm.
Although the audience occasionally made harsh remarks from some emotional people, Li Ermao did not care about this, he was convinced that these people had no malicious intentions, but were only deeply attracted by his excellent demeanor.
On this hot night, Li Ermao, who was once on the fringes of society, found a new meaning of existence and values in life. He can perform three or four spectacular performances every night in a row, far more than most people pay in a whole month.
With such a considerable income, Li Ermao has a dream and is eager to realize his long-standing wish - to undergo a completely gender-changing operation and become a real woman.
This journey of self-pursuit is full of hardships, and Li Ermao has paid a huge price and unremitting efforts for it. He had to swallow countless drugs and undergo hormone injections every day to maintain his female posture and appearance, while also spending huge sums of money on all kinds of fancy clothes to dress himself up.
Li Ermao invested almost all of his income in it, and his living environment and quality of life deteriorated day by day.
However, the short-lived effort also seems to have paid off as well. At the peak of his career, Li Ermao won widespread praise and affection.
However, with the increase in prestige and the accumulation of wealth, it also attracted the jealousy and greed of some people.
Some people began to maliciously attack Li Ermao, accusing him of earning hundreds of thousands of yuan in profits, but only distributing insignificant remuneration to his companions, in an attempt to get more benefits from him.
After learning of this, Li Ermao panicked, afraid that his secret illegal gains would be revealed, so he packed his luggage overnight, fled the place of right and wrong, and cut off contact with director Jia Yuchuan.
In the end, Li Ermao, who was once in the limelight, can no longer gain a foothold in the bustling city of Shenzhen. He had to take a young boy named Xiaolong with him and began a wandering life.
Xiaolong's background is also tragic, his parents are dead, and he barely survives by relying on his brother's fraud when he was taking drugs, and he is a real orphan.
The two are destitute, so they can only support each other, relying on Li Ermao's meager performance surplus income to survive. The embarrassment of life made Li Ermao more and more suspicious and jealous, and the conflict between him and Xiaolong became increasingly aggravated.
At some point in the middle of the night, Li Ermao, who was indulging in the sea of drugs, suddenly fell into an uncontrollable rage, he was dressed in a pure white and immaculate wedding dress, holding a sharp blade in his hand, and cut his wrist without hesitation, in order to free himself from the pain of life.
What happened in front of him made Xiaolong dumbfounded, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly pressed the alarm phone. After receiving the report, the police rushed to the scene, and at the same time alarmed the landlord.
The landlord had long been unhappy with their bad behavior, and this incident strengthened his determination to evict the two.
In the face of Li Ermao's tearful pleas and cries, the landlord was still resolute and swept them out mercilessly.
Kicked out of his home, Li Ermao can only sell his daily necessities on the streets and alleys, trying to make ends meet in exchange for a meager income, but no one cares about it, and no one wants to buy these goods from marginalized groups.
Just when Li Ermao was in a desperate situation, the kind-hearted director Jia Yuchuan once again reached out to help, and he loaded Li Ermao's belongings into the car to find a temporary habitat for him.