This is the 40th year of the debut of "King" Andy Lau, if there is really an "evergreen tree" in the entertainment industry, then the number one person must be him.
To this day, he can still create a short video platform live broadcast for ten minutes, the "myth" of tens of millions of fans.
Over the years, he has countless fans, even the "Hong Kong daughter" Mei Yanfang has fallen for him; and his wife Zhu Liqian, who has been "anonymized" for 15 years, is also silently standing behind him because she likes him...
Andy Lau is also one of the few stars who have fans who go to extremes because of excessive infatuation, such as Yang Lijuan, who forced her father to jump into the sea in 2007.
After 12 years, she lost her father because of star chasing, and finally rationalized in an interview, she said: If I had come back, I would not have done it.
How is she now? Have you already lived a normal life? Is there already other support in the emotional world?
In 1978, Yang Lijuan was born into an ordinary family in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, where her father, Yang Qinji, was a senior teacher at a local middle school.
At this time, Andy Lau was 17 years old and was studying at Hong Kong's Keli Middle School, during which he actively participated in the performance of the school drama club, and also participated in behind-the-scenes work, including screenwriting, with the help of teachers.
Speaking of Yang Lijuan's family, because her father's brother was once diagnosed with mental illness, although Yang Qinji's work was good, he could not find a good daughter-in-law.
Later, after being introduced, he chose Du Juying, who was born in the countryside and had no education, who was 14 years younger than himself.
Although it seems that the identities of the two do not match, Yang Qinji is very good to his wife, and after she gave birth to her daughter, the nearly 50-year-old Yang put all his love on Yang Lijuan.
At that time, Yang Qinji worked in the town, but in order for his daughter to have a better growing environment, he moved his family to Lanzhou to live, and he needed to spend two hours a day to and fro.
The daughter has been arrogant since she was a child, and she only eats in her own house, Yang Qinji can only send food to the door, as long as she makes a little noise, she will not eat.
The daughter washed her feet, and Yang Qinji wanted to bring it like a eunuch, and raised the foot wash basin above her head to coax her to wash her feet.
Until Yang Lijuan was 20 years old, Yang Qinji still had to help her daughter bathe.
After going to school, Yang Lijuan found that she did not like to read, so she proposed to drop out of school, in the face of her daughter's willfulness, Yang Qinji was willing at first, but later agreed, and he also quit his job of retiring after only 4 years and went home to take care of Yang Lijuan personally.
It is said that Yang Qinji's salary was 2,050 yuan, which was really a good job in Lanzhou at that time, but for his daughter, he could also give up completely.
All the above details can be glimpsed in this deformed family, in the eyes of the couple, Yang Lijuan is the "heaven" of this family - even if the daughter's approach is contrary to common sense, they do not care.
It is said that Yang Qinji once proposed a divorce to Du Juying because he was too depressed, but Yang Lijuan was reluctant to her mother, so Du Juying did not move away after the divorce.
However, Du Juying, who stayed behind, could not change anything - at the age of 16, Yang Lijuan, who dropped out of school at home, suddenly had a dream, which not only completely shattered her life, but also made the future Andy Lau once fall into public criticism.
Years later, Yang Lijuan can still clearly say this dream to the camera.
Andy Lau this year has indeed been debuting for 13 years, and has become one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", and he also won the nomination for the best actor of the Academy Awards that year for starring in "Chariot of Fire".
But if it weren't for this dream, there would be no intersection between the two at all.
16-year-old Yang Lijuan woke up from the dream and still clearly remembers two sentences written next to the portrait of the man in the dream: You are particularly close to me, and you and I have a true encounter.
She excitedly told Yang Qinji about this dream, and the old father, in order not to disappoint his daughter, actually told her that he had had the same dream.
It is said that Yang Lijuan did not know who the man on the portrait was until one day when a friend brought her a poster to show her: This man is Andy Lau.
Girlish feelings are always spring.
After that, Yang Lijuan began to fantasize about the fate of men and her destiny, and she constantly dreamed of each other, and her academic performance began to plummet, so she chose to drop out of school with the support of her father.
And when learning is no longer the goal, Yang Lijuan's whole mind is on the dream of "going to see Andy Lau", and she once made a wish: not to see Andy Lau, never marry for life.
For his daughter, who seems so persistent and crazy, Yang Qinji not only does not oppose, but intends to fully support.
The reason why Yang Qinji supported his daughter at the beginning was that he thought yang Lijuan had mental illness, so he went to the hospital to do the examination, and the indicators were normal.
Later, Yang Lijuan dropped out of school and frantically bought Andy Lau-related things at home, and by 1997, Yang Qinji's retirement salary could no longer support the family's expenses.
Yang Qinji once knelt down and begged Yang Lijuan to go out to work to earn money to supplement the family, but was refused.
In order to meet his daughter's request to meet Andy Lau in Hong Kong, Yang Qinji began to consult with his wife, and their fantasy was that after the child met Andy Lau, he could live and work in peace and stability.
Because of early retirement, Yang Qinji's family only has 9900 yuan of savings left, but the old couple still takes their daughters to look for Andy Lau all over the country.
In 1997, Yang Qinji also borrowed 11,000 yuan of usurious loans to take Yang Lijuan to Beijing, and then to Hong Kong, but he still failed to do so.
"You don't care about my business now, and when I follow Andy Lau, naturally I won't care about you."
Whenever her parents wanted to give up, Yang Lijuan used similar words to "stimulate" them, and finally her parents helped her realize her wishes.
In 2003, Andy Lau arrived in Gansu for filming "No Thief in the World", and Yang Lijuan stood on the 8th floor of the apartment every day and looked into the distance, waiting for the day to meet her idol.
During this time, my mother broke her leg in an accident, and her poor life became increasingly embarrassing... In desperation, Du Juying proposed to let Yang Qinji sell his kidney and continue to support his daughter to "pursue" Andy Lau.
As soon as this news was reported, it attracted the attention of the media, and finally in 2007, Yang Lijuan's family went to Hong Kong with the media, and she finally met the idol who had been in the countryside for 13 years at a fan meeting.
But seeing is not enough, Yang Lijuan hopes to meet with Andy Lau alone, but this request was eventually rejected, and the three returned to the hotel, and the daughter was angry.
The next morning, after 68-year-old Yang Qinji left a 10,000-word suicide note, he chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
And his daughter, after learning of her father's death, said to the media: "Don't see Andy Lau, daddy is dead." ”
After the "Heavenly King" at that time was deeply involved in the whirlpool, he not only canceled many meetings, but also encountered psychological problems, and he once responded to this matter with a sentence of "You don't understand my sadness".
Although he did not see Yang Lijuan again, he quietly helped her with the loan.
After that, Yang Lijuan seemed to grow up overnight, although she had no academic qualifications and ran into walls everywhere looking for a job, she still persevered.
She went to Lanzhou Christian Church under the introduction of well-wishers and became a member of the choir, which gave her a monthly subsidy of 300 yuan.
In order to make a living, Yang Lijuan entered a factory as a salesman, but was quickly dismissed due to lack of work experience.
Under the introduction of the public welfare organization, Yang Lijuan could almost get a job of typing and sorting out documents, with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, but because she could not type at all, she finally gave up.
After entering a media job, Yang Lijuan was a guest on the "Oriental Live Room" program in 2014, and she personally responded to the matter, saying that "seeing Andy Lau" was only a small wish, but it was irreparable under the impetus of the media.
At one point, she also stressed that she was a rational star chaser — but mistakes had already been made, and it seemed pointless to look back at what she had done wrong.
In 2019, in the face of Chen Luyu's interview, 41-year-old Yang Lijuan seemed to be awake at this time: she was working as a supermarket promoter at that time, earning 2,000 yuan per month.
For the first time, she was honest about her mistakes, and said bluntly: "If life were to start again, I wouldn't do that." ”
But is there a if in life? No.
At the end of the show, Yang Lijuan couldn't help but ask Lu Yu a question:
In the past ten years, there have been so many people who have watched the news, has anyone really cared about my specific life after seeing the news, and asked her if she is okay now?
Lu Yu's answer was: "Curiosity is also a kind of concern." ”
In an interview, Yang Lijuan, who was 41 at the time, was still alone, of course, this was not because of Andy Lau, she said she was just used to it.
However, she then turned to Lu Yu again, and her eyes were a little firm: "When people do not go to the last step, they have not failed." ”
Yang Lijuan's incident is indeed a tragedy, but there are too many things worth pondering behind the tragedy, but thankfully, the occurrence of this incident can at least prevent similar bottomless star chasing behavior and stage it again.
Bless Yang Lijuan, although her "growth" came a little late, but as long as it is not the last step, life still has the possibility of counterattack.