01
In 1957, in the midst of a chaotic situation, a crew family in Taiwan welcomed their first child, named Cai Qin.
A few years later, Cai Qin's two younger brothers were born one after another, making the already poor family even worse.
In order to make a living, my father had to devote all his energy to the boat, leaving my mother to run the life of a large family.
The long-term hardship days made the mother's temperament change greatly, and she was always irritable and irritable.
As the eldest daughter of the family, Cai Qin has to share her mother's worries while taking care of her younger brother.
Soon, fate gave her the first ordeal.
At that time, Cai Qin's two younger brothers had no intention of studying, and they saw that the future was bleak, and their parents were anxious day and night.
Cai Qin, who is in her second year of high school, looks at the increasingly tense atmosphere at home, and she decides to drop out of school to help her two younger brothers with excellent grades.
Two years later, her younger brothers were admitted to a key high school, and Cai Qin resumed her studies and entered the university.
This kind of paying personality is doomed to the fate of Cai Qin's life.
In 1979, Cai Qin found a notice posted on the school's bulletin board saying that there was a singing competition, and the top five prizes were a guitar.
Cai Qin, who has always liked music, stood in the ring for this guitar without understanding.
Unexpectedly, she went all the way to the final and won a fourth place.
This year, along with Cai Qin, the top five were Li Lifen, Zheng Yi and Su Lai.
Later, Li Lifen didrmant for many years, singing popular China with a song "Love the Country and Love beauty"; while Zheng Yi and Su Lai left a strong mark in the history of the pop music scene in the wave of folk songs in Taiwan.
However, these popular singers, in the rolling red dust, have all withdrawn.
Only Cai Qin, once red, has been red for 30 years.
02
At that time, Cai Qin came down from the competition stage and was called to an interview by Haishan Records, and the title of the examination was "Just Like Your Tenderness".
In front of Cai Qin, more than two dozen people were brushed off.
Seeing that the interviewer was becoming more and more impatient, Cai Qin played the drum in her heart.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she opened her mouth, she shocked the whole audience and was directly signed by the company.
This song "Just Like Your Tenderness" was written by Liang Hongzhi when he was in high school, and has been sung in school for a long time before it was officially released.
Liang Hongzhi, who was suffering from no way out, personally dedicated this song to Cai Qin.
Sure enough, as soon as Cai Qin sang on the "Stars Society", it caught fire out of the sky.
And Liang Hongzhi and Cai Qin have also become the Wang Fried group in the Taiwanese music scene.
Cai Qin, who won the first battle, soon released her first album "Out of the Plug".
This album is a big production, and Liu Jiachang, who became popular with "The Past Can Only Be Remembered", personally wrote a song "Courtyard Deep" for her.
Liang Hongzhi did everything in his power to help Cai Qin tailor-made "Choice" and "How To".
These songs are more popular than one, so that Cai Qin can get the award and get soft.
And the song "Forgotten Time" written by Chen Hongming for her will become a classic many years later with a "Infernal Affairs" movie.
This year, Cai Qin just turned 22 years old and became the brightest new star in Taiwan's music scene.
On the other hand, Yang Dechang, after learning the most avant-garde computer technology in the United States, successfully found a well-paid job and seemed to be a successful intellectual.
No one expected that this international student of science and engineering would pry the entire Taiwanese film industry in the future, and would also leave a shocking legend with Cai Qin.
In 1981, Su Rui was still singing at the Hilton Hotel in Hong Kong, Lo Tai Yoo was still an unknown producer, Li Zongsheng and Rolling Stone Records had not yet arrived, and Cai Qin had already released two albums in a row.
"Qiu Jin" and "Your Eyes" once listed, it was millions of sales.
At this point, Cai Qin has become Taiwan's well-deserved love song queen.
She stood at the top of the pyramid, feeling the impact of fame and fortune, unaware of the impending crisis.
03
This year, Yang Dechang was tired of the nine-to-five life, he picked up the movie dream again, divorced his American wife, and broke into the Taiwanese film industry with a ticket.
In the Taiwanese film industry at that time, Qiong Yao drama had already made the audience aesthetically tired, and there was an urgent need for novel commercial films.
Soon, Yang Dechang was gone with luck.
With the support of Zhang Aijia, he directed the "Duckweed" unit of the feature film "Eleven Women".
Yang Dechang, who tried the bull knife, under the support of China Television, and Hou Xiaoxian set off a "new film wave" in Taiwan.
However, at this time, Cai Qin knew nothing about Yang Dechang, and she did another big thing with red and purple hair.
In the Taiwanese music scene in the 1980s, the relationship between singers and record companies was extremely unequal.
The copyright is bought out by the record company, and even if a song sells for hundreds of thousands, the singer can get only 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.
Under the commercial clampdown, singers don't have free choice, they are like a record company's money-making tool.
This year, Cai Qin, Li Jianfu, Li Shouquan, Su Lai and others gathered at the "Wisteria Lu" on Xinsheng South Road to make tea and talk about the record company's oppression of singers, and the more they talked, the more angry they became.
So, the group of young people decided on the spot to break away from the record company and go it alone.
In this way, the "Tianshui Music Collection" studio turned out to be a success.
This is the first music studio in Taiwan, and as soon as the news spread, huge public opinion pressure engulfed them.
Many people think they are deviant, and the record companies scold them for being ungrateful.
But these young people, behind closed doors, mixed western rock, classical music and traditional opera styles, wanted to create a new kind of vernacular music.
At that time, their plan was to help the popular Li Jianfu and Cai Qin make three albums, and also brought in "Four Seas Records" as investors.
Soon, reality dealt them a heavy blow.
04
In 1982, "Tianshui Music Collection" helped Li Jianfu and Cai Qin produce two albums , "Qala Khan" and "A Thousand Springs".
I thought I could make a lot of money, but I didn't expect that the production cost of 2.4 million yuan was all adrift.
Later, Li Jianfu enlisted in the army, Xu Naisheng went to Japan to study, and Cai Qin was busy singing the theme song for the film and television drama.
Everyone was so excited that they simply disbanded the studio.
Since then, in the post-folk song wave of the Taiwanese music scene, shoddy works have abounded.
The following year, with the mutual penetration of Hong Kong and Taiwan cultures, Cai Qin's singing voice gradually spread in Hong Kong.
Soon, Hong Kong Fucai Productions threw an olive branch to her and asked her to hold a concert in Hong Kong.
This year, Cai Qin became the hottest Taiwanese singer in Hong Kong.
After two years of dormancy, Yang Dechang finally waited for the opportunity to show it.
He found Zhang Aijia and Hu Yinmeng and began to direct "A Day on the Beach".
This movie made Yang Dechang famous in a war, and even Lai Shengchuan, who had just returned from staying in the United States, was full of praise.
At this point, the story of Cai Qin and Yang Dechang finally set sail.
In 1984, under the guidance of the visual master Yang Lide, Cai Qin took off her glasses and put on delicate makeup.
Cai Qin, who has always been questioned ugly, played a beautiful turnaround battle.
When the new Cai Qin appeared on the album "The Last Night", the album sold out of stock, once killing Su Rui's "Twilight Looking Back" and Liu Wenzheng's "Boyish Girl".
This year, Yang Dechang was preparing to shoot "Green Plum Bamboo Horse", but he could not find a suitable heroine.
Hou Xiaoxian, who was hot in Taiwan at that time, took Yang Dechang to see Cai Qin.
Outside the recording studio, Cai Qin's singing voice was melodious, and Yang Dechang was fascinated by it.
After seeing the sexy and charming Cai Qin, Yang Dechang's heart was instantly hit.
In this way, Cai Qin entered the crew, and the ambiguous atmosphere with Yang Dechang became more and more intense.
The next year, Yang Dechang confidently pushed the movie to the screen, but he did not expect that it would be offline after only 3 days of release.
The box office is only a few hundred thousand Taiwan dollars, and even the cost has not been earned back.
To make matters worse, the rain of bullets and bullets of public opinion hit Yang Dechang, believing that he had achieved nothing in the name of a new movie.
Soon, another test hit Yang Dechang.
05
With the explosion of "Green Plum Bamboo Horse", Cai Qin and Yang Dechang's love affair can no longer be covered.
This year, Cai Qin was 28 years old, and she desperately longed for a family.
However, Yang Dechang was immersed in his film career and did not mention marriage at all.
Cai Qin was anxious, she called yang Dechang, but she couldn't get a definite answer.
At this time, Cai Qin urgently needed an answer, whether good or bad, there must be a result.
So she asked Yang Dechang to record the answer in the answering machine.
Unexpectedly, Yang Dechang's reply was a sentence: How do you let me say it.
Later, Yang Dechang, in hesitation, still married Cai Qin into the door.
A diva of the song world, a talent in the film world, how to say that they are all golden children and jade girls.
No one expected that Yang Dechang actually proposed a "platonic marriage" to Cai Qin behind his back.
Cai Qin is immersed in the sweetness of the newlywed, unprepared for the depth and complexity of human nature, and even firmly believes that Yang Dechang is for pure love.
In the following 10 years, Cai Qin sang her velvety voice to the three places across the taiwan strait at the speed of two albums a year.
Outside of her career, Cai Qin did her best to fulfill Yang Dechang's film dream.
She ran all the folk song scenes in Taiwan and went to Hong Kong to shoot movies, and all the notice fees she injected into Yang Dechang's crew.
In 1986, Yang Dechang signed the "Taiwan Film Declaration" with 53 intellectuals, including Hou Xiaoxian and Lai Shengchuan, at home.
Soon, Yang Dechang, who was created by his life, won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay with "The Boy on Muling Street".
At this point, Yang Dechang's film dream has been realized for the most part.
Looking at Yang Dechang, who had unlimited scenery, Cai Qin could no longer laugh.
06
That day, Cai Qin recorded until late at night, hurried home, but the car broke down in the middle of the road.
She called Yang Dechang: "Can you come and pick me up?" ”
On the other end of the phone was a cold reply: "Won't you take a taxi back yourself?" ”
At that moment, Cai Qin's heart was half cold.
The pain and grievances of marriage surged into her heart, making Cai Qin collapse and cry.
At this time, Cai Qin suddenly realized that she and Yang Dechang were not like husband and wife, but more like roommates.
Both were busy, Cai Qin often returned home at two or three o'clock in the morning, and Yang Dechang was already asleep in the next room.
When she got up the next morning, Yang Dechang went to work early.
Although the two lived under the same roof, they did not see each other several times a month.
Even so, Cai Qin never thought that Yang Dechang would betray himself.
In 1994, when Yang Dechang filmed "The Age of Independence", Cai Qin also left her job and ran to help him do art work.
And Yang Dechang and Peng Kaili are already in-depth exchanges of classical music.
This Peng Kaili is 18 years younger than Yang Dechang, and he has the same study experience as Yang Dechang, and the two are sparkling when they chat.
The following year, "The Age of Independence" was released, allowing Yang Dechang to win another award.
Cai Qin was overjoyed, but Yang Dechang's object of the annunciation became Peng Kaili.
Soon, "Yang Penglian" spread to everyone.
In the face of Cai Qin's questioning, Yang Dechang admitted everything.
The siege that had been built for 10 years collapsed in an instant.
Yang Dechang hurriedly divorced Cai Qin, turned around and put on a wedding dress for Peng Kaili.
Ironically, Yang Dechang, who has always advocated platonic marriage, and Peng Kaili quickly had their first child.
In front of the media, Yang Dechang bluntly said that the days with Peng Kaili were the happiest times in his life.
For Cai Qin, he used "a blank" to deny all the past.
These few words deeply stung Cai Qin, and she said with tears in her eyes: "I don't feel blank, I have all the effort." ”
Since then, Yang Dechang has entered the heyday of his career, winning numerous awards and supporting half of the Taiwan film industry.
But Cai Qin was defeated, she pushed away all her work, locked herself in her room, and lost sleep all night.
When negative emotions accumulate to a certain extent, something big is about to happen.
07
In 2000, Cai Qin decided to start again, and she toured around with her stage play "Freshwater Town".
As a result, before she could perform many times, she was diagnosed with breast tumors.
At that moment, Cai Qin's world collapsed again.
Thankfully, God pulled her in.
After the operation, it was found that the tumor was benign and a life was picked up.
The paradox of fate is that Yang Dechang's retribution has come quietly.
This year, his "Yiyi" was praised by art scholars at home and abroad.
Just when he was happy, he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
At that time, Peng Kaili was pregnant with Liujia.
She thought that Yang Dechang would be cured after surgery, but she did not expect it, but it was the beginning of the 7-year anti-cancer road.
In 2001, the reborn Cai Qin once again stood at the Hung Hom Sports Centre in Hong Kong.
The song "Light Up the Neon Lights" recorded when she divorced Yang Dechang was hidden for 6 years, and she finally had the courage to sing it.
This year, Fei Yuqing asked Cai Qin if she would want to have a child?
Cai Qin replied with red eyes: This is the regret of my life.
At that time, Cai Qin was 44 years old, and having children had obviously become a luxury.
Later, the Taiwanese music scene underwent earth-shaking changes, and a new generation of singers such as Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai swept across the taiwan strait.
In the wave of popular music, Cai Qin still sang her own folk songs.
The song "Just Like Your Tenderness", she sang more than 80,000 times.
When the young people's impression of Cai Qin became more and more blurred, one thing pushed her to the cusp of public opinion.
In 2007, Yang Dechang died of illness in the United States, and all the media were waiting for Cai Qin's response.
Cai Qin dried her tears and wrote an open letter.
The sentence "If I had known this, I would have divorced him earlier and let him go free" made countless people cry.
Later, Cai Qin was rumored to be in love with a wealthy businessman.
Everyone thought that Cai Qin had run away for half a life and could finally have a home.
But the good times were short-lived, and in 2012, Cai Qin ended the plausible relationship with a sentence of "leaving the man who should have left".
Subsequently, she announced her mate selection criteria: long legs, long life, and strong physical strength.
In 2016, Cai Qin finally failed to meet the true destiny, and she loudly announced on the stage: "I will not marry again, I will marry the stage for the rest of my life." ”
Perhaps, this is the best destination for Cai Qin.
Some people asked, if Cai Qin had not met Yang Dechang, would her fate have been rewritten?
It is difficult for me to write a definite answer, but the universal truth of this world is: when the moon is full, it is lost, and when the water is full, it overflows; when the flowers are full, it is decayed, and when the love is full, it is foolish.
The world is difficult to complete, and regret is the norm in life.