1. Guo Degang tried his best to help, grateful for his kindness and looking forward to the future of his life
The streamer is like a shuttle, and it has inadvertently entered the early summer of May 2024. Guo Degang received a message from a distant phone call that made him limp—his esteemed mentor Hou Yaowen's condition had deteriorated, and the flame of life seemed to be about to be extinguished.
Upon learning of this, Guo Degang immediately put down everything in his hand and rushed to the hospital at a gallop.
Entering the ward, there was a gray-sideburned, skinny Hou Yaowen lying quietly on the hospital bed, only the faint sound of the machine proved that he still had signs of life.
Guo Degang recalled the moment when he first met Hou Yaowen many years ago: Mr. Hou on the stage was personable and talented, and every wonderful performance would win thunderous applause from the audience.
At that time, he was still an unknown apprentice, but Master Hou taught him unreservedly and patiently and meticulously guided him. It is precisely because of Mr. Hou's words and deeds that Guo Degang is there today.
Facing the now emaciated and lonely teacher, Guo Degang's heart was full of deep guilt, and tears quietly slipped down. He pondered that the fact that the once brilliant star was now so downcast may be inextricably linked to the fact that he was too devoted to his career and neglected family life in his youth.
It was this wrong decision that led to the tragedy of the broken family and the cold parent-child relationship.
Guo Degang made up his mind that he must do something for his teacher while he was still in time, and he must not let him die so sadly. So he ran around, raised funds, and did his best to take care of Hou Yaowen's daily life, hoping to bring a little comfort to his old age.
Second, it is difficult to balance career and family in the glory days
Back in the eighties and nineties of the last century, the cross talk industry was in its most glorious moment. With his outstanding acting talent and profound artistic quality, Hou Yaowen has become the most popular star on the cross talk stage.
Every time there is a performance, the audience rushes to buy tickets for fear of missing out on Hou Yaowen's wonderful performance.
On stage, Hou Yaowen is always in good spirits and full of witty words. He sometimes plays the role of a comedian, sometimes gives advice, and cooperates tacitly with his partner, like a match made in heaven. His steady typhoon and novel and unique language style can always make the audience laugh.
However, who would have thought that Hou Yaowen behind the scenes was exhausted.
In order to devote himself to new works and strive to improve his acting skills, Hou Yaowen often falls into the pain of insomnia day and night! He is admirable for his self-demandingness, and he has to ponder and study every detail repeatedly, and strive for perfection until he has performed a seemingly insignificant action to perfection, so that he can feel a little satisfied.
It is precisely in this way that Hou Yaowen devotes a lot of time to the endless pursuit of art, but does not care too much about family life. Whenever he saw his wife Liu Yan's disappointed expression and his daughter Zhan Zhan's eyes glittering with tears of grievance, he would deeply blame himself in his heart, but this guilt was often fleeting, and he would devote himself to the vast ocean of art.
It wasn't until one day that Liu Yan resolutely filed for divorce from him, and Hou Yaowen suddenly woke up from a big dream and deeply realized how serious his fault had become.
Liu Yan took Zhan Chan away from him, although Hou Yaowen regretted it, but he was powerless to recover, so he could only watch the mother and daughter drift apart.
The lonely and lonely days made Hou Yaowen deeply realize the necessity of reorganizing the family, so he married his lover Yuan Yin, who was 20 years younger than him. However, this good time did not last long, and Yuan Yin soon became extremely disappointed with Hou Yaowen's obsession with art and neglected his family, and finally left Hou Yaowen with her daughter after a heated argument.
In this way, Hou Yaowen's crazy pursuit of his career when he was young missed out on two marriages and the precious family affection spent with his two biological daughters in vain. It was only when he was lonely in his later years that he began to regret why he couldn't cherish the people in front of him in the first place.