Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has entered the second decade of the 21st century. Located in southern China, Hong Kong, as a bustling city full of vitality and vitality, still maintains a busy and lively scene, and the lights like a long dragon at night are like endless lights, guiding those who run and chase their dreams in life.
However, in the midst of this glittering metropolis, there is a hut isolated from the hustle and bustle of the world, quietly nestled in a little-known corner.
When I gently pushed open the old wooden door, I saw an old woman with silver hair standing alone in the middle of the room. This young lady is named Hui Yinghong, and she was once one of the brightest stars in the Hong Kong film industry.
She dressed up carefully, wearing a white and plain gown, and a lace gauze hat on her head, looking both shy and gentle. Although the years had carved deep marks on her cheeks, there was still a determined light in her gaze, like a traveler looking forward to returning home.
Hui Yinghong walked slowly to the window, staring at the bustling night view of the city outside the window, but she didn't seem to really see it. She couldn't help but caress her gray hair, and her mind remembered the image of the poor but energetic little girl from decades ago: alone selling chewing gum in the harbor, barefoot on the scorching ground.
That scene is so familiar and nostalgic. Hui Yinghong sighed softly, a faint smile on the corner of her mouth. She held a small mirror in her hand and stared at herself in the mirror, tears rolling in her eyes.
"If you can come back, then we can spend the rest of our lives together and walk through the last moments of life together." She whispered, her voice trembling a little, but every word was full of thoughts and expectations for someone.
Go back 60 years, let's go back to Hong Kong in the 60s of the last century. At that time, Victoria Harbour was bustling with many foreign sailors. Occasionally, a few little girls in tattered clothes with tired faces wandering around the harbor, bags of snacks in their hands, and their eyes eagerly staring at every passer-by.
What is striking is that a three-year-old girl, Hui Yinghong, her thin body is almost completely covered by an oversized old cotton dress, and her bare feet have left deep and shallow footprints on the scorching concrete pavement under the scorching sun.
Her long, jet-black hair was messily draped behind her, and a few strands of sweat-soaked hair clung to her slightly tired face.
When Hui Yinghong was bending down to pick up the last pack of chewing gum on the ground, a heroic figure suddenly broke into her sight. It was an American sailor in military uniform, who looked to be in his early twenties.
He walked up to Hui Yinghong with a warm smile and said in a slightly stiff but friendly Cantonese dialect: "Hello Miss! ”
Hui Yinghong raised her head and looked at the strange man in front of her, and a sense of security that she had never felt before suddenly appeared in her heart. The man's warm face and friendly words brought her great attraction.
Since that moment, Hui Yinghong's fate has changed dramatically.
On that blazing summer day, whenever Hui Yinghong walked to the port with difficulty, she would always see the handsome sailor walking towards her with a smile on his face, gently buying all the chewing gum in her hand, and then sitting side by side with her, sharing the details of their lives.
Those short times made Hui Yinghong experience the feeling of being loved and cared for for the first time.
However, the moment of parting came like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and Hui Yinghong's heart was instantly broken. In her adolescence, she tasted the beauty of innocent love for the first time, and at the same time felt the pain of love.
In the long years after the breakup, Hui Yinghong was like a walking corpse, tormented by memories every minute. She often sat alone in the harbor, staring at the sparkling sea, tears falling silently from her eyes.
Three months after the American sailor's departure, Hui Yinghong's mother found out that she had fallen into a long trance, so she angrily punished her severely.
This heavy blow made Hui Yinghong completely sober up. She knows that if she allows the pain of love to knock her down, then she will achieve nothing and will not be able to turn over for the rest of her life.
With this firm determination, Hui Yinghong's life trajectory has undergone earth-shaking changes. In order to escape poverty, she decided to join a cabaret and began her first formal career.
At the beginning, she was an inconspicuous dancer, dancing the stage with the precision of a timer. However, it was not long before her extraordinary efforts and perseverance quickly attracted attention.
The directors were amazed by this talented "desperate Saburo (mother)", and extended an olive branch to her to help her open up a broad avenue in the film and television industry. Hui Yinghong did not live up to everyone's expectations, she devoted herself to the training of martial arts scenes, often practicing until she was exhausted and bruised all over her body.
She is extremely strict with herself, insisting on being in person for many action scenes, and rarely uses stand-ins. This unremitting investment has made her one of the most powerful martial arts actresses in the Hong Kong film industry in just a few years.
However, even if her career is gradually on the right track, Hui Yinghong still can't forget that unforgettable past. Whenever she sweats on the set, she always involuntarily searches for the familiar and unfamiliar figure around her.
Although in real life, the trace of the American sailor has long since disappeared without a trace in the flames of war.
The starting point of Hui Yinghong's life is undoubtedly a road full of ups and downs. She came from a family that was once prominent, and her ancestors were high-ranking bannermen during the Qing Dynasty. However, fate played a merciless trick on them, and war and chaos led the family to decay and become beggars on the streets.
A scorching summer when she was three years old became a major turning point in Hui Yinghong's life. That day, she followed her mother to the docks, as usual, to make a living selling cheap chewing gum.
In the scorching sun, her little feet stepped on the scorching ground, and they were soon roasted red and swollen. However, she had no time to care about the pain in her body, so she could only grit her teeth and continue to sell the small goods in her hand.
At this moment, an ominous figure quietly emerged. It was Hui Yinghong's mother, expressionless, holding a belt in her hand. Without hesitation, she grabbed Hye-young's red hair and hung her high above the beams of the house, subjected to a brutal whipping like a prisoner.
"You useless waste, you still have the audacity to frolic!" Her mother's angry rebuke echoed in Hui Yinghong's ears, and the blood instantly stained her thin cotton skirt.
Faced with that troubled period of domestic violence, Hui Yinghong had no time to care about the pain in her heart, but silently endured the torture in the depths of her soul and gradually died. Her nightmare didn't go away, and soon after, an even more cruel scene came like a bolt from the blue, when she witnessed her mother sell her older siblings to the garden.
Looking back on that thrilling moment, Hui Yinghong's gaze seemed dim and weak. She deeply remembers that when her brothers and sisters were forcibly taken away, the desperate cries and pleading still lingered in her ears and refused to leave. The mother, on the other hand, was chilling and regrettable, she just watched indifferently as the children were pulled away from home, and she did not leave a single tear. Since that terrible day, Hui Yinghong has a deep understanding of what a ruthless world is, and life has become endless bad news for her.
Time flies, and after working hard in the film and television industry for more than ten years, Hui Yinghong has won numerous actress laurels with her own efforts and talents, becoming one of the most award-winning actresses in Hong Kong film history, and her worth is as high as hundreds of millions of yuan.
However, this successful actress has always been alone, with no children and no daughters.
Whenever she holds the heavy golden statue trophy in her hand at the award ceremony, she always can't help but look around, as if looking for someone. Her eyes were full of sorrow and longing, and she was clearly not fully immersed in joy.
In fact, deep down, Hui Yinghong has always had an unspeakable expectation - she is waiting for the return of the former American sailor. Although decades have passed since the smoke of war, she still firmly believes that her former lover may still be alive somewhere in the world.
In order to find this person, Hui Yinghong traveled everywhere, trekked through mountains and rivers, and even crossed the ocean to the United States. Once, when she received the award, she specially held a charity gala for veterans in the local area, hoping to find her former lover on the spot.
On the night of the party, Hui Yinghong was dressed in a gorgeous costume and was radiant.
As soon as the words ended, the audience fell silent. Only a few unfamiliar faces looked at each other, and no one could answer her questions. Hui Yinghong's smile gradually stiffened on her face, and tears glistened in her eyes.
"It's okay, it doesn't matter." After a long time, she barely managed to squeeze out a smile, "We are all gathered here today for the same goal - to celebrate the arrival of peace.
In the warm applause at the meeting, the audience deeply recognized each other. However, Ms. Hui Yinghong, who was sitting in the center of the stage, seemed to have a slightly lower mouth. On the train home, she sat alone by the window, staring intently at the idyllic scenery that flew by outside the window, and her heart swelled with complicated emotions.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Hui Yinghong has entered her old age. Her hair gradually turned pale, and her temples were even more mottled and messy; Her countenance has also left a deep mark on the baptism of time, and her skin that was once smooth as jade is now full of wrinkles. However, Hui Yinghong's eyes still shone brightly, full of expectations and longing for someone.
Indeed, this wait has spanned 50 springs, autumns, winters and summers. For more than half a century, Hui Yinghong has been working tirelessly, silently waiting for the figure of the former American sailor. She often stopped in front of the mirror to examine her own appearance, and her heart was full of emotion.
"Time flies, and we are no longer what we used to be." Hui Yinghong whispered to herself, reaching out and touching her wrinkled face in the mirror, "However, as long as you can return, we can spend the rest of our lives together and slowly savor the bits and pieces of life." ”
She blinked her sore eyes slightly, tears rolling in her sockets. This firm belief in her first love has become the last insistence in her life. When many people have forgotten that distant love in the corner of memory, Hui Yinghong has always been unswerving, like a ship sailing in the sea, always maintaining the guidance of the course.
Although the search again and again was in vain, and the return again and again was disappointed, these did not make her give up the last hope in her heart. She said affectionately to the camera: "If you return, we will spend the rest of our lives together." Every word is loud and powerful, as if it were a solemn oath made to the most cherished person.
Hui Yinghong knows that in today's society, it is absurd and crazy to wait for a person who is destined not to return. However, she has no complaints about this, because this wait makes her life journey full of twists and turns and touching stories, and at the same time, it also makes her perseverance in this relationship seem even more precious.
She once confessed to the host in an interview: "If you decide to wait in the first place, then it will undoubtedly be exhausting." But I never deliberately waited, but at every stage of my life, I cherished a faint glimmer of hope. ”
It is so aptly depicted the role of Hui Yinghong! She is a person who is always ready, but waits quietly.