"I live at the head of the Yangtze River, and I live at the end of the Yangtze River." Thinking about the jun every day, drinking the water of the Yangtze River...", from his hometown Shanghai to Wuhan, to Chongqing, and then back to Shanghai.... In his life, Qin Yi experienced the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and grew up with New China.
This is a film artist full of stories, but also a wife and mother who endure unknown bitterness and pain.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the drama "Four Famous Dans", along with the strongest sound of the times, gradually disappeared in the long river of history; those big stars and great beauties in old Shanghai must have been in the old paper pile.
There is only Qin Yi left in the world, dignified and elegant, a pair of autumn pupils, bright as deep still pool water; a silver hair, shining in the sun.
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In 1938, in the deep alley of the courtyard of old Shanghai, a young girl quietly looked at the fading spring colors on the courtyard walls.
In her mind, Xiucai's uncle's stern teachings floated: you can't go out barefoot, you can't talk loudly... Reflecting the time when the piano was learned in the church school, the Catholic grandmothers were very strict, a syllable was played wrong, followed by a slap on the shoulder... Then, the picture shifts to China under the iron hooves of the Japanese Kou, the fallen land, and the cries of pain echo everywhere...
It's time to do something, 16-year-old Qin Yi is still studying at the Zhonghua Vocational School in Shanghai, but the disturbances outside the campus have not been able to calm her down. When the country is in trouble, how can the students repay the country?
Qin Yi, who was strong and brave, wanted to go to the front line and contribute to the War of Resistance, but he was afraid that his parents would not agree, what to do?
Thinking of those enthusiastic young people I met on the street, they all seemed to be saying that they were going to Wuhan to save the country. Qin Yi was determined to take the future into his own hands. In the surging tide of thought, not only their own future is brewing, but also the future of the motherland!
Qin Yi secretly bought a ticket to Wuhan, contacted the same enthusiastic college students, and made an appointment to board the ship together.
By the moment we arrived at the dock, the springboard had been removed and the hull was offshore. Qin Yi ran a few steps and jumped. This moment is like a freeze-motion shot in a movie: the life of a lane girl is gone, and an artistic life that tastes the cold and warm and ripples of the world is coming.
However, when the dream set sail, Qin Yi's idea was simple, just wanted to be a field nurse. But in the suffering of old China, simple ideas were not easy to realize.
Wuhan, where the smoke of war was raging, finally fell, and Qin Yi moved to Chongqing to temporarily take shelter in the YWCA, a charitable organization run by the Christian Church.
Qin Yi, who was full of patriotic enthusiasm, had not officially graduated from high school at that time, nor did she have any special skills, so she made a life event that she was most urgent.
Qin Yi, who had just arrived in Chongqing, contacted a school with the help of enthusiastic people and prepared to become a primary school teacher. But bad luck, missed the opportunity, the school has opened, the teachers have long been hired.
At the time of difficulty, Li Zhulin, a friend of the victim who lived with Qin Yi in the young woman, extended a helping hand. She is the granddaughter of Li Hongzhang, working at the Chongqing Conservatory of Music, knowing people from the Music Department of the Ministry of Education, and introducing Qin Yi to some of the engraved wax engravings of the Music Department, barely making ends meet.
Chongqing during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had a characteristic, as a companion capital, celebrities from all walks of life gathered. The YWCA of The Christian Church is a place where it is easier to contact the outside world. Thanks to this, inadvertently, Qin Yi opened another window in his life.
Some screenwriters, directors and actors from Chinese film studios often create and perform plays in the name of the China Long Live Theater Troupe and the China Long Live Choir to promote the anti-Japanese resistance, borrow ancient metaphors and criticize the shortcomings of the times.
In order to experience life, collect materials, and pick actors by the way, some people live in the YWCA. Others also often come to the young women's club to chat, and invite those who live in it to watch their rehearsals or performances.
In this way, Qin Yi had many more opportunities to watch dramas.
One evening, Qin Yi waited for her roommate in the foyer of the theater. Two middle-aged men with extraordinary temperament walked out of the field, saw Qin Yi standing in front of the entrance hall, involuntarily looked at her, and then walked past her, but not far away, the two suddenly turned and walked towards her.
"Little girl, are you waiting for someone, where do you work?" Two middle-aged men, a man with a thin face, asked, and the other was constantly looking up and down at Qin Yi.
Qin Yi saw that the two men were polite and courteous, not like bad people, and some shyness: "I just arrived in Chongqing, and I haven't worked yet." ”
When the man heard this, he immediately issued an invitation: "Then come to us!" ”
"Where are you?" Qin Yi was a little excited, she was worried about finding a job.
"We're acting, you come to the play."
"Being an actor... I...... Can't do it. Qin Yi was a little lost. The actor, in her life plan, had never imagined.
"You can't learn, you'll learn." The thin-faced man groaned in encouragement, and a friendly look of anticipation was revealed in his kind eyes.
Qin Yi still resigned. Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, the two middle-aged men no longer insisted, said goodbye and turned away. Qin Yi would never have imagined that this accidental meeting would change her future life.
Later, her roommate told Qin Yi that the two men were the famous directors Ying Yunwei and Shi Dongshan, and the one who spoke to her was called Ying Yunwei, and it was not easy for him to be favored by him and participate in their performances.
Life is very realistic, and no matter how beautiful the ideal is, it must be tested by it. Although Qin Yi's original intention did not consider the actor, the work of carving the wax version was soon gone, and survival became the primary problem.
The roommates all think that Qin Yi can become a very good actor.
But Qin Yi really had no bottom in his heart: "I don't have the talent to act, I can't be an actor, and I can't speak Mandarin well." ”
"If you don't have good Mandarin, you can practice slowly, first become an apprentice actor and play a mass role." "Then the advanced choir sings, it's always okay." I heard that the big directors Ying Yunwei and Shi Dongshan had both taken a fancy to Qin Yi, and friends believed in their own vision more and tried their best to persuade Qin Yi.
Friends are so enthusiastic, and the experience of meeting a big director is so magical, Qin Yi is a little shaken: "Improper actors, singing in the choir, but you can try." ”
Under the introduction of friends, coupled with the recommendation of Ying Yunwei and Shi Dongshan, Qin Yi came to the Chinese Film Studio without understanding and entered her brilliant acting career.
48 years later, in 1986, when talking about being an actor in the article "My Artistic Career", Qin Yi wrote the following text:
"My outwardly calm and intrinsically active personality, and my yearning and love for life, have enabled me to live in the future, although like walking a tightrope, there is a danger of falling at any time, and even sometimes no one can come to save me, but life itself has saved me and educated me."
Sometimes in my vague mind there is a code, a code of who to walk with, a rule of good and evil, good and bad... I was eager to resist and always look forward to the news of victory.
I only know that I will always be on the side of the common people, the weak, and I sympathize with them, and I myself am one of them. When I am alone and alone, I will decide everything by myself.
When I saw the dramas depicting the War of Resistance, I developed a kind of respect and trust for those who engaged in drama. Many of my still messy, yet dominant thoughts, pushed me to make a choice —to become an actor. ”
Behind the calm words, there is a piece of Chi Chen, who is forced by life, even if he chooses the path of an actor, he has not forgotten his original intention.
However, at that time, Qin Yi himself did not expect that this road, a walk is a lifetime, out of a pure filmmaker.
Years later, someone once asked Qin Yi: "What does movie really mean?" ”
Qin Yi thought for a moment and replied with the past: "I still remember those words that Premier Zhou woke me up to this day. ”
Comrade Zhou Enlai received Qin Yi and Sha Li
As the world knows, Qin Yi is the most beautiful actress in New China in Zhou Enlai's mouth.
However, Qin Yi wants to express the other side: "It can be said that Premier Zhou is the one who understands the true meaning of acting..."
It was the Spring Festival of 1939, and Qin Yi had just entered the Chinese film studio.
The ignorant Qin Yi was invited to a friend's house for dinner, there were few people at the dinner table, and the host did not introduce it. There was a guest with a beard but could not hide the heroic spirit between his eyebrows, and he talked cheerfully and personably during the banquet, and during the conversation and laughter, he kindly asked Qin Yi:
"Where do you work or are you studying?"
Qin Yi replied, "I'm at work." ”
The guest asked, "Oh, you worked so young?" ”
Qin Yi said, "Yes." ”
The guest asked, "What do you do?" ”
Qin Yi didn't think much of it and blurted out: "I'm a trainee actor, and sometimes I sing in the choir." It's not interesting, it's just messing around there. ”
The guest asked, "Ah, what song do you sing?" ”
Qin Yi was very reasonable: "Of course, I am singing anti-war songs. ”
As soon as they heard the anti-war song, the guest immediately raised his voice: "That's not interesting, that's so interesting!" How can these songs be boring? If you think about it, how many people, thousands of people, have been inspired to go to the front line under your song, how can you say that it is not interesting? How important is this work! ”
Qin Yi thought to himself: Who is this? At that time, I didn't ask much, and then I continued: "Yes, the songs i sang are interesting, I am not interesting, I originally wanted to go to college, and I wanted to study abroad and go to further study." ”
The guest said, "Hey, further study, it's good, of course you can still go if you have a chance, but your current job is very interesting..."
Listening to it, Qin Yi felt that the guests' words were very reasonable. But on the other hand, the more she thought about it after she got home, the more wrong she became, what kind of person was this, and how could he talk to me like this?
Qin Yi recalled: ... I thought: Who is this? I called the colleague who invited me to dinner.
He said, "You really don't know?" ”
I said, "I don't really know, who was talking to me that day?" ”
"Oh, how come you don't know, that's Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou Enlai, you don't know!"
"Oh!" I was startled, and I said, "I know him, I've seen him somewhere in the books." How could he be so little without a shelf, that he was not a leader? ”
That was the first time Qin Yi met Zhou Enlai, and he woke up the dreamer with a word, and since then Qin Yi has planted a firm seed in his heart -- dry literature and art are not for making a living, but for ideals.
"As an actor, the ideal that you pursue all your life should be all the touching spiritual strength you get from literature and art, and then give it to others through your own performance."
"A person lives in this world, no matter how much money you have, no matter how beautiful others say you are, no matter how many awards you get, one day, you are going to leave." 」 When you're gone, everything is gone, and you can't take anything good. What is the most important thing for people to live in this world? Or a value. It is what you have given to the world. Others don't care how much you get, but how much you give. ”
This is Qin Yi's simple and wonderful values.
On the Chongqing film and opera stage in the rear of the Anti-Japanese War, she was called the "Four Famous Dans" together with Bai Yang, Shu Xiuwen and Zhang Ruifang.
Qin Yi, Bai Yang, Zhang Ruifang, Shu Xiuwen
In the early 1960s, at the initiative of Premier Zhou Enlai, the Chinese film industry ranked 22 film actors and actresses, and hung large black-and-white photos of them in the cinemas of various cities, with Qin Yi ranking twelfth.
From more than 80 years of art, Qin Yi's glittering screen image has long been fixed in countless film files and yellowed old film magazines.
A reporter interviewed Qin Yi in 2011: "You are still very concerned about today's film works, right? ”
Qin Yi replied, "Yes, but there are not many who are very satisfied." Of course, even in the United States, there are many shoddy films. The best films are not necessarily blockbusters, but works that can play a certain social role. I know that many young actors are also desperately acting now, but there are too few playwrights.
In the past, writers were basically playwrights, but now, many plays are pieced together. I'm 90 years old this year, but I still want to make a good script. Of course, whether it can be filmed is difficult to say, now millions of yuan are small productions, but millions of yuan is also difficult to find, the entire social economy has not yet reached the level of investing tens of millions is a small matter.
In addition, I don't have much communication, but I have more than enough and I don't have enough strength. But this is a pursuit of mine, I have life experience, and it is also somewhat inspiring to read books and newspapers a lot. ”
In 2015, Qin Yi, who was "more than enough but not enough", went to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to shoot at the age of 93 without a penny, wrote a script and starred in the movie "Qinghai Lakeside", which is a story of engineers and meteorological experts in the context of the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
In June 2017, the 20th anniversary of the Shanghai Film Festival, the opening red carpet was star-studded, and the three generations of actors, middle-aged and young people all appeared, however, the most eye-catching thing in the audience was the 95-year-old Qin Yi.
In the history of world cinema, nearly 100 years old is still active on the screen, even a set of producers, screenwriters, starring in one, but also in the high altitude no man's land without stand-in shooting, Qin Yi is the first.
Qin Yi's films can't be counted.
"The sun is about to set in the west, and the end of the devil is coming." Play my beloved earthen lute and sing that moving ballad..."
"Railway Guerrilla" was once the memory of the youth of the 60s and 70s of the last century, and the image of Fang Linjie was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the image of dropping a bomb without pulling a string was almost frozen in the minds of a generation...
Qin Yi plays Fang Lin's sister-in-law in "Railway Guerrilla"
For the performance, Qin Yi is persistent and serious. This seriousness is true in the play, and it is also true outside the play; in exchange for not only the success of the career, but also the recognition of colleagues.
In "Women's Basketball No. 5", Lin Jie is a basketball player who suffered in the old society, and Qin Yi shows the complex emotions of the characters' hearts and lives with a deep and delicate performance.
Xie Jin, the "little director" at the time, recalled: "I was still an unknown small director at that time, and Qin Yi was already a big star. But she had a lot of respect for me. At that time, the shooting conditions were not good enough, qin Yi took the initiative to sleep in the bunk room with everyone, and there was no big star shelf. ”
Decades later, Qin Yi, who has played countless leading roles, published a collection of essays by the Pen Society, named "Running Dragon Set". She said she had seen a Soviet movie in which an actor who ran a dragon suit was acting very well, "It's been decades, and it's still in my head." ”
Qin Yi said: "I don't want to raise the 'running dragon set' to a very high status, but I just feel that even if it is a small role in a play, as long as it is seriously devoted, it can have a greater effect." ”
One of the most memorable roles for Qin Yi is Lin Hong, a communist party member who sees death as a homecoming in the movie "Song of Youth". Qin Yi's performance is subtle and solemn, revealing the heroine's lofty spiritual realm. With this drama, Qin Yi became one of the most popular female film actors at that time.
"Lin Hong is the most beautiful of the communists I play, which is not to say that the image is good-looking, but to impress the audience with spirit and faith." Qin Yi once fondly recalled.
And she herself has become the "song of youth" of the Chinese screen.
There are also "Lin Zexu", "Thunderstorm", "North Country Jiangnan", etc., countless. In the 1980s, after defeating bowel cancer, Qin Yi starred in the TV series "Under the Eaves of Shanghai". With the drama, Qin Yi won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 1st Popular Television Golden Eagle Awards.
Qin Yi, who has experienced prosperity, has encountered many troubles and bitterness in her artistic life.
The young Qin Yi once played the role of Xia Yanhua in "Wild Rose" as the heroine. "Wild Rose" was originally intended to expose the evil of the traitor for the tiger, but the actual performance effect was a little off, amplifying the picture of the traitor leader's vigorous words, so it was criticized by the progressive theater community.
Although Qin Yi regretted the mis-performance of "Wild Rose" and later quit acting, it still brought serious consequences, in today's words, it is quietly "banned".
Premier Zhou, who is still beloved, noticed this situation and specifically asked the drama performed in the fog season to arrange a role for Qin Yi.
Many years later, when Qin Yi participated in the performance at the Ziguang Pavilion, Zhou Enlai mentioned this matter again.
Qin Yi recalls:
Premier Zhou said: "Don't lose your good acting skills, you see you acted very well in "Wild Rose" at that time. ”
I was shocked to hear this and said, "A mistake is a thousand years of hatred, well, this sludge will never be washed away." Bad things can only be corrected, washing can not be washed, because you have acted! ”
He said, "Well, you're well said. But I tell you, that play is not politically good, its script is not good, your acting skills are still very good. You know, you acted in that play, and your acting skills seemed to have risen a step, so don't lose this acting skill. Now that your good acting skills are on good works, aren't you very good? ”
I came back and thought to myself, the prime minister is really incredible, he has never had that extremely "left" and extremely "right" look, and after listening to it, you don't know how to be good.
Recalling Premier Zhou, Qin Yi once said: "There is no permanent separation, only permanent thoughts." "I met someone I loved, someone I admired the most, someone I'll never forget."
"It is difficult for a person to produce such a broad love without going through a bumpy experience, without going through a process of suffering. Premier Zhou has put the suffering of the Chinese people for thousands of years in his heart, so he will have such a broad love for all his friends and all comrades. ”
Under the care of the premier, the spirit of the Chinese film industry has been preserved, and the "song of youth" of filmmakers like Qin Yi has also been praised.
On May 27, 2011, in the newly completed Qin Yi Art Museum in Shanghai, the exhibition comprehensively reviewed Qin Yi's cross-century artistic career. The photos of Qin Yi's adolescent life are displayed, as well as various honorary awards and certificates that Qin Yi has received from the film queen. This is the first art exhibition hall in our country to date named after an individual.
The years generously gave this beautiful person brilliant artistic achievements, and also blessed her endless tribulations in life. Herself, on the other hand, interpreted these tribulations into the sublimation of life: "All life experiences have made me better. ”
Qin Yi in life has a long and alone suffering. She values feelings, and the burden of the family supports her. Jin Yan, the husband of the "Emperor of Movies", has been bedridden for many years, and her son has suffered from mental illness in his teens and has not healed for life, and she herself has had four serious illnesses and has undergone 7 surgeries.
In 1983, her husband, who had been bedridden for more than 20 years, died, leaving Qin Yi and his son to live together. In March 2007, his 59-year-old son, Jin Jie, died in the hospital due to uremia complicated by pneumonia. The white-haired man sends the black-haired person, and Qin Yi ends his 42-year life of caring for the "little brother" and relying on each other.
"The time after he died was the saddest time for me." Qin Yi said:
"In 1983, Jin Yan left, in 2007 his son left, and in 2008 his sister Qin Wen also left, slowly, one by one. I've been happy, I've been happy, and I've resented. In my life, I have suffered a lot in work and family, and people say that I have a good mentality, and people have the desire to live a better life after all.
But I never admit it, I analyze it, like peeling an orange, peeling these knots one by one, layer by layer. ”
Qin Yi called his son "Little Brother", which is the nickname of the old Shanghai family for the old man. She once recalled, "I was the most bitter when I made Thunderstorm. "Her son was hospitalized, and she took a backpack full of her son's change of clothes and favorite food between filming, squeezed the bus to the hospital to visit, fed her son medicine, ate, and watched her son gobble up.
"When I went to the hospital by bus two ways, the sweat on my body soaked my clothes, and I heard someone behind me saying, 'Look at you, isn't that Qin Yi?' Another replied, 'No way, how could Qin Yi take the bus!' ’”
Someone asked "little brother", what is the mother? He said my mom was just "doing, doing, doing."
Qin Yi always sighed: "I think the things of my life are not as good as the six words of 'little brother'. ”
For decades, Qin Yi poured all her love into her sick son. In the face of the manic fist of the sick little brother, her only request was "don't hit your mother in the face, because tomorrow you have to shoot a scene."
Someone once asked Qin Yi: "Your work has never been interrupted, how can you still have the energy to take care of him?" ”
Qin Yi said, "My husband was sick very early, there was no way. The younger brother was very honest when he was a child, but I may have been negligent because I was busy at work, and later the teacher found out that he was ill, and when I rushed back from Zhejiang, it was too late.
But I didn't treat him like a patient, although he was very ill, panic, doubt, melancholy, mania and other diseases he had, but he only beat me, because I always chased him to take medicine, so when I was sick, I was the enemy in his eyes.
Once he was well, he blamed himself and said how could I beat my mother. Grasping on his character traits, I worked with him. Later, he had a good time and liked to follow me out to work, and when I was working, he read books alone. In fact, there is such a child in the family, we must not be discouraged, we must treat him patiently. ”
The son does not understand things but understands family affection, Qin Yi filmed he watched, after watching it, jumping around, sticking out his thumb to his mother. As soon as he saw his mother open the door and enter the house, he would take out a drink from the refrigerator for his mother to drink, and at this time, Qin Yi in the endless troubles would see that everything was light and cloudy.
A lady once asked Qin Yi the secret of youth residency, Qin Yi said: "Work hard. At home, up and down, coarse and thin work are done, washing his son's hair and bathing, food, clothing, housing and transportation. ”
The people who listened were stunned, but those who were familiar with Qin Yi knew that this was her real life.
Although the years have worn away her youth, they have never worn away her original intention.
As early as the 1940s, Qin Yi participated in the China Drama Art Society, which was established by the Southern Bureau of the Communist Party of China. At that time, the party organization hoped that Qin Yi would use his status as a star to unite others. Therefore, while filming, she actively worked for the party, and once assisted the underground party organization to successfully plot against the Kuomintang pilots to participate in the War of Resistance.
In Shanghai in 1948, the economy was depressed and politically corrupt, and the Kuomintang dispatched troops and deployed civil war; at the same time, it airlifted a large amount of gold and silver to Taiwan.
The Shanghai underground party organization found Qin Yi and asked her to "go out on the expedition": Xu Junying, the commander of the transport brigade who plotted against the Kuomintang Air Force.
It turned out that the party organization had been doing work in the airport for a long time, but it was still not sure, and happened to hear that Xu Junying's fiancée was a fan of Qin Yi, so she came to find Qin Yi.
After understanding the situation, Qin Yi could not care about her personal safety, and with the help of her star status, she often invited Xu Junying and her fiancée to her home. In the process of chatting, Qin Yi quietly did ideological work from the side, little by little, let Xu Junying deepen his impression, once there is a task, he can fly directly to the liberated area, and he will definitely be welcomed.
Under qin yi's unremitting efforts, Xu Junying finally surrendered.
On February 19, 1949, under the guidance of the Shanghai underground party, Xu Junying's crew piloted an American-made C-46 transport aircraft from Shanghai Jiangwan Airport, taking advantage of the opportunity to garrison the Qingdao base and changing its flight to Jinan Airport to revolt.
However, Qin Yi, who had been working for the revolution for a long time, did not officially join the party organization until 1959. In this regard, Premier Zhou is also quite concerned.
Qin Yi recalled: In 1961, when I went to Beijing Xiangshan to attend a conference, during the meal, Premier Zhou happened to be sitting at a table with Wang Ying, me, and Zhao Dan.
He said, "Qin Yi, have you joined the party?" When did you join the Party? ”
I said, "In, in." ”
He said, "Just get in!" Why don't you always join the party? ”
He was happy.
Why? 50 years later, at the report meeting of the Shanghai Women's Federation system", Qin Yi finally said the reason.
It turned out that there was a knot in her heart that had always bothered her. She had heard of a female party member during the war, and the enemy pressed her child with a bayonet in front of her. The child's crying was deafening, and the female party member passed out in pain, but in the end did not reveal the party's secrets. In the end, the impatient enemy killed the baby, and the dying female party member held the child's bloody corpse, thankful that she had defended the bottom line.
Qin Yi asked herself, I love my children so much, if the enemy uses my son to force a confession against me, I may not be able to resist. I am not sorry to die, and I can't bear the death of my child. "They all say that Communists are made of special materials, am I?"
On that day, Qin Yi spoke eloquently, and more than 800 women present wiped the corners of their eyes...
For this motherhood, she thought about it for 18 years. It wasn't until 1959 that the organization again persuaded her, "It's peacetime, and there will be no bayonets against your children to test you." Why bother. "Fang joined the party.
However, at the report meeting, she asked herself again, and also asked everyone: Is it not a peaceful era, there is no test? "In different periods of the revolution, tests have always appeared, but in different forms. I think that in times of peace, choosing a different path is itself a test of life and death. ”
Entering the age of Lao Ji Futuo, but in Qin Yi's heart, his movie dream still has not been realized:
"As literary and art workers, we must learn a little bit of everything, and we must need it. Our country is now developing so fast, we have to make great strides forward, and the film will slowly improve, and it will not stagnate in a place where commercialization is too heavy.
I am always one of the actors in the studio, as long as I live, my life will always belong to the movie, not to anything else. As a film actor, I have a bit of experience, but it's not enough. Really as a good actor, a great actor, the whole world has to look at you, and it is still far from it. ”
Qin Yi has a pair of beautiful talking eyes, these eyes have seen all the sorrows and joys of the world, tasted the sour, sweet and bitter spicy of life, and also played out a vivid and touching artistic image.
Suffering and joy are accompanied, failure and success alternate, grievances and joy coexist, honor and rumors overlap, good times and adversity are entangled, do not believe in tears, only believe in hard work, this is Qin Yi's unique personality.
The prosperity is gone, and only Qin Yi is left in the world...