One day in 1985, Chen Meiqi, who was pregnant with Liujia, received a call from an uninvited guest.
The phone call came from her husband's lover, and the words were full of provocation:
He doesn't love you anymore, you should get a divorce right away and get out of Ma Weiqing's house immediately.
For such a harassing call, Chen Meiqi received more than once, and all kinds of foul language Chen Meiqi could only accept all the orders, and all of them were rubbed and hidden in her heart.
Too many suppressed emotions, making her already weak body even more overwhelmed, after receiving this call, heartbroken, she suddenly fell to the ground and was taken to the hospital, after rescue, she woke up, but the child unfortunately miscarried.
This blow made Chen Meiqi cry to death in the hospital room, but she couldn't do anything about it.
When she was discharged from the hospital and returned home, Chen Meiqi, who had been born without love, received a harassing phone call again: "You are a chicken that cannot lay eggs."
Hearing the other party insult herself so much, Chen Meiqi's heart was full of hatred, it was they who made her lose her child, it was they who made her lose her right to be a mother forever.
It is said that the initiator of the call was a Hong Kong actress with the most beautiful in the world, and at that time, the limelight was unmatched.
At that time, Chen Meiqi had not yet starred in "The Legend of the New White Lady", and she chose to marry after she first appeared in TVB, so she had no power, no power, no background, and no means, and she could only bear this grievance alone.
Until then, Maggie Chen's life had always been gray.
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She was born in 1958 in an ordinary family in Hong Kong, and since she was born, she was doomed not to have a happy childhood.
In addition to the poverty of life, what is more fatal is the extremely deep "son preference" in the family, and before she was born, the family already had 5 daughters.
Because of the compulsion of life, shortly after she was born, her parents sent her to a nearby nunnery, where there were no idle people, and she began to be assigned to do some rough work within her ability from the age of 3.
Life in the temple made her inferior and sensitive, and she always took the words of the master as a holy will, and strived for perfection, because she was well-behaved and sensible, and the owner of the nunnery also pitied her.
Despite this, something was always missing in her heart, and countless lonely nights, she hoped to have a relative around her who cared for her and took care of her.
But for her, the love of her parents and the warmth of her family are just the luxuries of her dreams.
It wasn't until she was 6 years old that she came home for the first time.
It was her mother's birthday that day, the second sister came to pick her up and take her home for a reunion, originally the master did not agree, there are rules in the nunnery, how can it be said to come, want to leave.
Chen Meiqi confronted the master for the first time: "No matter what, I must go."
She didn't have time to say goodbye to her friends in the nunnery and rushed home, on the way she was very excited, thinking about how she could enter the warm embrace of her mother as soon as she entered the door, thinking about how to be held high by her father's big hand, thinking about her mother touching her head at night, telling her interesting goodnight stories.
But this is only a beautiful dream after all, back home, her parents are like strangers to her, there is no trace of closeness, at night she obviously sleeps in a bed, but she feels that she is separated by 18,000 miles.
How she wanted to get a little closer to feel her mother's body temperature, but in fact she didn't even dare to turn over, for fear of waking her mother up.
All she heard was her mother's complaint to her second sister: "Who made you bring her back?" ”
When I recall this sentence today, the heartache is still incomparably deep and clear.
After only a few days at home, Chen Meiqi was sent back to the nunnery, and she did not resist and gladly accepted the arrangement.
Since then, she has learned in a trance that the only thing she can rely on in this world is herself.
When she reached school age, Chen Meiqi was sent to the local orphanage, where she studied hard, studied, and precipitated herself, but the home that once filled her with fantasies never returned.
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In 1974, 16-year-old Chen Meiqi had grown into a big girl, and by chance she signed up for the TVB admissions test, but she did not expect that she was admitted.
After graduating from the artist training class, she joined TVB and officially began her acting career.
In 1978, Chen Meiqi filmed her first TV series "Strongman" in her life, and entered the audience's vision with her cool and unique temperament.
In this 118-episode TV series, although Chen Meiqi is only a supporting role, it is very eye-catching, and even attracts the attention of the audience even more than Zhou Runfa, a newcomer who has just debuted not long ago.
With a good start, After chen Meiqi's various invitations continued, her career prospects were very good.
But in the face of overwhelming opportunities, Chen Meiqi refused one by one, thinking that she had encountered something more important than her career.
At a dance party, Maggie Chan met Ma Qingwei, the son of One of Hong Kong's five wealthiest businessmen, Ma Kam-chan.
On that day, the unsociable Chen Meiqi hid alone in the corner of the dance, but because of her unique temperament, it still attracted the attention of many gongzi brothers.
Ma Weiqing, known as the "playboy", certainly does not miss such a delicate beauty. Ma Qingwei posed as a gentleman and invited Chen Meiqi to dance, but she politely refused: "I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well."
In Hong Kong, the woman who would reject him Ma Qingwei was the first time he had met, which also aroused his interest even more.
After that, Ma Qingwei temporarily abandoned the warblers and swallows around him, and rubbed on the set every day to pay tribute to Chen Meiqi.
On the first day, the crew had just finished work, and all the crew members received an exquisite dinner.
The next day, Ma Qingwei sent a supper, and did not forget to put on a coat for Chen Meiqi and gently instructed: "It's cold, don't get cold."
On the third day, Ma Qingwei carefully prepared a romantic confession in the crew, full of white balloons and red roses on the ground, grand and grand.
The crew members coaxed "together, together", and Chen Meiqi always laughed and said nothing.
She said to her friends around her: "Such a male brother is just a momentary freshness, and after this momentum, it will not be."
But no matter how hard the heart is, it can't resist the insistence of asking for warmth every day.
The influence of the original family made Chen Meiqi engrave her desire for family in her bones, and the two abandonments of her childhood made her have an extreme desire for a stable life and a warm family.
Therefore, under various gentle attacks, she promised to try to fall in love with Ma Qingwei.
Unexpectedly, during the love period, Ma Qingwei was still the same, dedicated and dedicated to her, and her heart wall was gradually disintegrated, and she once sighed to her friends around her:
It turns out that people with flowers can also be very single-minded, and how lucky I am.
So after a year of love, it was Chen Meiqi, who was on the rise of her career, who married Ma Qingwei without hesitation.
After marriage, Ma Qingwei did not want her to continue to show her face, so she refused all the film offers and chose to stop filming, and was at ease to become Mrs. Ma at home.
But just when she had just enjoyed a hint of family warmth, all kinds of rumors about her husband were circulating, and Ma Qingwei returned to his original nature and lingered in various "flowers".
At first, Chen Meiqi believed in her husband, and while constantly advising her husband, she also went to Macau to study business administration, hoping to help Ma Qingwei in her career.
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In 1985, When Maggie Chen became pregnant, she was extremely excited and happy, and she naively thought that after having a baby, Ma Qingwei would be able to return to the family and they would be happy again.
But who knew that at this time, Ma Qingwei had already fought with Guan Zhilin and had already left his family thousands of miles away.
At this time, Guan Zhilin, who is known as the first beautiful woman in Hong Kong, has just ended a marriage of only 9 months, and successfully took over Ma Qingwei, who has just taken over his father's assets, and they flirt in public, completely ignoring chen Meiqi, who is already pregnant.
Once, when Maggie Chan returned from studying in Macau, she found that the slippers that had been in the bedroom appeared in the living room, and the woman's hair was found on the bed.
She asked the babysitter, and the babysitter's words made her palms cold:
Madam, when you are not at home, Guan Zhilin often comes to the house in the middle of the night.
In the days that followed, Chen Meiqi often received provocative phone calls from Xiao San, "You will soon be dumped by your husband" and "The news that your belly is big is known to the whole world".
Chen Meiqi could not stand to move out, but the phone was still continuous, during that time Chen Meiqi had nightmares all night long, and she could not bear this pressure and was admitted to the hospital.
After 20 days in the hospital, she still did not save the miscarriage of the fetus, she lost her child, and she lost her right to be a mother forever.
What pained Chen Meiqi the most was that Her husband, Ma Qingwei, who had promised to protect her for the rest of her life, did not appear once from her hospitalization to discharge.
In 1986, after a huge blow, Chen Meiqi was so disappointed in Ma Qingwei that she chose to leave and end the bad marriage.
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Miyazaki once said:
To be strong is not to face sadness without shedding a tear, but to wipe away the tears and smile to face the future life.
After the divorce, Chen Meiqi did not collapse, she forced herself to come out of the pain, learned the languages of five countries, obtained a master's degree in business administration, and became one of the few highly educated actresses in the entertainment industry.
Chen Meiqi faced life positively and optimistically, continued to devote herself to her acting career, and signed a contract with her former old club TVB.
Although her fame is not as good as before, TVB, who was already optimistic about her, gave her a chance to start all over again because she sympathized with her suffering.
She also worked harder to study acting, and left a deep impression on the role of the main character of the Flower Palace in the 1988 film "Absolute Double Glory".
In the TV series "Lian Cheng Tips", she and the old drama bone Zeng Jiangbiao are not inferior at all, although they have experienced a lot, but their appearance and acting skills are still online.
What really made Chen Meiqi return to the peak of her career again was the TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady" starring zhao Yazhi and Ye Tong in 1992.
She plays the loyal Xiaoqing of the white lady, dressed in green clothes, eccentric, naughty and cute and deeply liked by the audience.
"The Legend of the New White Lady" has spread all over the country, becoming a hot drama in the summer loop of the 1990s, and has also become the memory of our generation.
At this time, she was truly reborn in Nirvana and returned gorgeously.
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After the explosion of "The Legend of the New White Lady", Chen Meiqi entered her own high-yield period, and her figure will appear in many TVB classic dramas.
Gao Min in "Criminal Investigation Files", Nie Baoyi in "Forensic Records", Xu Jingyi in "Magic Hands and Benevolent Hearts", and so on, each of her roles reveals the self-reliance of women.
In 1999, 13 years after the end of her last failed marriage, Maggie Chen finally met the right person at the right time.
His name is Qi Shangyong, and he is an American businessman, who is somewhat unassuming but very stable and down-to-earth.
The two met at a friend's party, and before they met, Qi Shangyong had admired Chen Meiqi for a long time, and when he heard that Chen Meiqi's computer was broken, he immediately volunteered, "I'll help you fix it."
In the process of repairing the computer, the two talked about life trivia, and Chen Meiqi was pleasantly surprised to find that Qi Shangyong was as enthusiastic about public welfare as himself, and he liked children very much.
Qi Shangyong also had a marriage before, and had a son and a daughter with his ex-wife, and once he visited Qi Shangyong's house and found that although he looked at the five big and three thick on the surface, he was very careful with the children, and immediately felt good about him.
Qi Shangyong is also very generous and considerate to people, and the two get along together, which makes Chen Meiqi feel particularly relaxed and natural.
Five months after they met, they were officially married, and Chen Meiqi did not flinch in response to the outside world's doubts about her inability to have children, but firmly said:
Two children completely fulfilled my desire to be a mother.
After marriage, she treated her two children as her own children and enjoyed the happiness of being a mother among teachers and friends.
For the name of "stepmother", she has never been afraid, she wrote the story of getting along with her children into a book called "My Savage Stepmother", the whole book in the process of creation, her husband has been warmly accompanying her.
What is even more valuable is that the husband and wife spent all the publishing costs of the book on the charity of saving children.
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In 2008, when both children grew up to have their own lives, Maggie Chen decided to adopt a child, and her husband was very supportive of her idea.
They adopted a daughter who named her Lucia, who made her feel the joy of motherhood again.
In the same year, Chen Meiqi and her husband adopted an abandoned child from Shanxi at a public welfare activity, this child was picked up from the garbage can and was born with hydrocephalus.
After the arrival of the child, Chen Meiqi's life has also become busy, feeding, changing diapers, she is all hands-on, very serious about choosing a kindergarten for the child.
Now this child has fourteen or fifteen years old, the body is very healthy, has always been the family as the focus of Chen Meiqi, the child's education is very important, but when encountering children's exams, never go out to work.
Every time she talks about her children in front of the camera, Chen Meiqi, who has always been gentle, will always be unable to help but dance with her eyebrows flying.
Chen Meiqi said: "I never feel that it is a pity not to have children", because in the growth of her 4 children, she has experienced the pride and happiness of being a mother.
In the final analysis, the family is the ultimate destination for everyone, and being able to enjoy the joy of the world in the old age is the greatest happiness.
Today, Maggie Chen is 63 years old, and she has looked down on many things, and the damage she has suffered has gradually been smoothed out over the years.
When she revisited the old story, her face was a little more indifferent, and she said:
Remorse is not too bad.
For a moment, we even felt like she was talking about what had happened to someone else.
She told us: "Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, nothing is something that cannot be passed."
Nowadays, she rarely appears in the audience's sight, and when she occasionally appears in variety shows, she still has her own style in the camera.
Whenever I see her appear, the memories of "Xiaoqing" will appear in everyone's mind, and the audience's love for her is still not reduced, and the "Xiaoqing" who was once willful, brutal, dare to love and dare to hate, after years of precipitation, has also become more elegant, calm, and calm, and has become the best appearance of a woman.
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Chen Meiqi once wrote in her book, "Happiness is not inevitable, happiness or not, originally only care about whether you can see and think open." ”
Now she is also like her own book, letting go of everything in the past, calm and calm.
When I was watching "Memoirs of a Geisha", there was a sentence that was equally impressive:
No matter what kind of struggle and success, no matter how much pain and abrasion, it will go deep into the waves, just like ink paint splashed on paper.
And this sentence is very similar to today's Chen Meiqi, after experiencing the turmoil of childhood, the provocation of Xiao San, the blow of divorce, and the loss of the right to be a mother, she sharpened herself from pain, and finally won the peak of her career and harvested the happiness of the family.
She does not stay in the past, but slowly enjoys the plainness of life, and truly finds a piece of peace of her own in the depths of her soul.
I wish this calm, calm, kind woman to continue to be so happy.
【Text: Xiaohui】
【Review: Ice Reminiscence Wind】