Chang Zheng (Part 1)At the Jinhua Award ceremony…
Chang sat in the first row, wearing a suit and looked condensed.
A lot of people wanted to talk to him but they just can"t when they were already beside Chang.
Chang"s aura was so cold that it looked like he didn"t want to talk to any people who will get near to him.
When he received the official invitation for the Jinhua Prize, he would have refused.
“The Lady” movie became the pain of his life.
He felt full of longing to the film that he and Zhong Qing starred at and a.s.sured that he and Zhong Qing would not be like what happened on the movie.
However, the truth cannot escape the fate after all.
Like the man who was in "The Lady" movie, he was the one also who suffered the most from his life when he thought that happiness was already at his fingertips.
Chang closed his tired eyes.
Six months already pa.s.sed after the incident. But every time Chang closed his eyes, he still remembered what happened on the airport.
He opened his arms to Zhong Qing widely and happily greeted his princess with a smile.
Then… “Bang!”
That sound and scene all fragmented.
The whole scene turned into a deluge of blood, and the body in front of him slowly lost its normal temperature.
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And then his head was aching again. Since that day, he would always have headache.
Chang grew morbid letting this symptom become worse.
"Agh, my head again. It hurts but it’s more painful when my Peach has gone." He silently thought.
This pain he always felt because it was his own fault.
He spent a few days unexamined. Until later on, he learned everything from his a.s.sistant.
It turned out that the main reason of the pain that he always felt was himself.
Since the day Zhong Qing was killed, he always blamed himself why she was killed. He believed that because of his popularity, someone wanted to destroy him, so the killer planned and prepared for a long time. He was regretful that he shouldn"t even return to China nor get the award.
"And because of me, Peach was killed instead of me."
He just couldn"t accept it.
And because of what happened to Zhong Qing, he planned to commit suicide.
Chenjie, Peach"s manager, slapped Chang very hard because of his careless decision.
“You are coward and decadent person, Chang! If you don"t want to cherish your own life, please do it for Peach who sacrificed her own life for you. You have to take good care of yourself!
…Peach and I always talked about you and said that we believe in you! You are born to be successful! I know that for you, Peach is more than anything else including your career, but I hope that even if she"s already gone, you will still live with your dreams and live your life to the fullest!" A hard-edged woman consistently said this to Chang.
“And one more thing… There"s one thing that I always wanted to say to you.” Chenjie looked at his eyes and her voice sounded harsh.
"Peach, who is your one and only love, sacrificed her life for you, but you just want to die? Think of it! I hope that Peach didn"t sacrifice her life if you just want to die! You coward! Are you going to let them go? Those men who have been wanting to kill you?? Think of it! Don"t waste Peach"s life!"
Chang suddenly opened his eyes.
Those words from his dreams awakened him.
Chang looked at the endless picture in the big screen and then he realized that he was going to reject the award that he will receive in the Jinhua Award ceremony if he will win.
Chenjie called him on his phone again and scolded him.
“You are not ent.i.tled to give up, Chang! Please! It is the glory for the two of you."
"Do I need to give up?" Chang thought.
Chang looked powerless, quietly waiting for the announcement of the winner.
“The Lady” was destined to become a cla.s.sic with a significance in the history of the entertainment industry.
Not only because it was the very first movie to get most of all the awards at the Jinhua Award Ceremony including the Best Picture, Best director, Best Actor and Actress in the film…
But because, it was also the last work to be praised by the later generations as the quintessential of Zhong Qing.