In 2002, 49-year-old Cai Guoquan was preparing to make a comeback to the music scene, launching a new ** and opening a solo concert.
Unexpectedly, at this critical juncture, he suffered a life-changing car accident.
On that day, Cai Guoquan and some friends drove to Guangdong for a trip.
They were talking and laughing, and just as they were talking happily, the car suddenly burst a tire and broke out of the protective fence and fell into the reservoir 10 meters deep.
The crash resulted in a total of four deaths and three serious injuries, and Cai Guoquan was one of them.
At the time of the incident, Cai Guoquan was sitting in the passenger seat and chatting energetically with the driver.
The relationship between the two people should be good, and this outing is also a friend's idea.
He drove this second-hand old car to pick up Cai Guoquan, saying that he would take him to the suburbs, relax, and try to record a few new songs by the way.
Cai Guoquan has been busy preparing for the new ** recently, and he is suffering from creative bottlenecks, so he agreed to this outing on public holidays.
The two of them sang while driving, and the scenery put them in a good mood.
As soon as the car drove onto the continuous mountain road, it turned a sharp bend, and when the driver slammed on the brakes, the tire suddenly burst.
The car lost control and skidd, rushed directly out of the guardrail outside the road, fell off a ten-meter-high cliff, and fell into a reservoir in the mountains.
All this happened too suddenly, and Cai Guoquan only felt that the world was spinning.
In the feeling of weightlessness and fear, he instinctively grabbed the handrail of the car, but was still ejected by the impact of the car.
Just before his consciousness gradually blurred, he vaguely saw the body of the car quickly sink into the water, and the surrounding area was dark.
The accident occurred in the early hours of the morning and the entire mountain road was empty.
The vehicle that fell into the water quickly caught the attention of nearby villagers, who called the police**.
When police and paramedics arrived at the scene, rescue efforts were immediately launched.
It was two hours later when Cai Guoquan was recovered.
He suffered severe injuries, multiple fractures to his body, and severe head injuries.
The doctors at the scene judged that his life was in danger and that he had to be immediately consulted and operated on, so he was rushed to the hospital.
The procedure lasted 5 hours.
Doctors tried to control Cai's severe internal bleeding and repair his multiple fractures.
After surgery, he was transferred to the ICU for observation. Due to severe head trauma, Cai Guoquan fell into a month-long coma.
A month later, Cai Guoquan finally woke up.
But when the doctor told him that his legs were completely paralyzed due to cerebellar trauma, he fell into a state of despair.
As a singer, what he relies on most is his voice and legs.
Being able to stand on the stage and sing passionately is his lifelong dream and pursuit.
Now, he can no longer walk freely and is confined to his bed or wheelchair all day long.
This cruel fact made Cai Guoquan difficult to accept for a while.
What makes him even more sad is that the person he has always loved and trusted the most is not by his side at this time.
He was the only survivor of several friends who had been killed in the accident that day.
Cai Guoquan fell from the peak to the bottom all of a sudden, and his body and mind were devastated.
He couldn't sleep all night, full of resentment and unwillingness all day long.
Why did this accident happen at a time when his career was about to reach a new level? Is Heaven joking with him?
In the days that followed, he fell into unprecedented depression and depression.
After cracking down and making persistent efforts, the accumulated property was spent in the long process of **and**, and he was also saddled with huge medical debts.
His wife also felt exhausted from the day-to-day care, and finally chose to send Cai Guoquan to a nursing home, never to see him again.
Life in a nursing home is miserable.
The cold and monotonous ward, the meagre food, and the boring time that is maddeningly boring.
The only part of his life is to carry out daily routines***, take medicine, and sleep.
I haven't seen any acquaintances, everything seems to be back to his infancy, and he can't do anything except eat and drink Lazar.
What made him even more unbearable was that his former fan friends saw him down, and gradually became separated from him.
Some people even gloated, thinking that he was just selling his reputation and was now suffering retribution.
Cai Guoquan watched these people who had a good relationship in the past leave him one by one, and the pain in his heart was indescribable.
He had also thought of ending his life.
One night in extreme despair, Cai Guoquan couldn't bear this meaningless pain of survival, and decided to let it all end.
At this moment, Xu Xiaofeng, an old friend in the music world, learned of Cai Guoquan's predicament and immediately called him.
She was sad and helpless, wishing that she could become a god who saved him from fire and water.
With her encouragement, Cai Guoquan gradually regained his strength and courage.
Xu Xiaofeng also launched a concert to raise funds for Cai Guoquan, and Alan Tam personally hosted it.
The support of friends is undoubtedly the spiritual pillar of Cai Guoquan to tide over the difficulties.
Although his fate fell to the bottom, he still felt warmth, which also became his motivation to start again.
Cai Guoquan has shown a strong ** talent and love for singing since he was a child.
He has a natural voice condition and is diligent in practice, so he is often called by teachers to perform on stage in school.
His classmates also envied his singing voice and asked him to help compose music and lyrics, and organize various performances in the school.
After going to high school, Cai Guoquan's singing talent emerged even more amazingly.
Not only did he join the school choir, but he also went to the bar after school to sing in order to earn a living.
The audience is often attracted by his soulful singing voice and applauds his superb singing.
Cai Guoquan also gradually established the ideal of being a professional singer, no matter how hard he worked, he had to let his singing fly to a broader sky.
However, when he told his parents what was in his heart, the two old men strongly objected.
In that era, Hong Kong's entertainment industry was very chaotic, and many celebrities belonged to the bigwigs and became their tools to collect money.
The parents did not want their son to step into this gray area, and in order to find a regular way out for him, they insisted that Cai Guoquan finish college and then find a stable job.
Cai Guoquan could only obey his parents' arrangements and gave up his dream of being a singer.
After four years of college, he studied hard and obtained a diploma in accounting.
After graduating, I successfully entered the finance department of a large company and started a 9-to-5 office worker life.
However, ** attracted him far more than digital reports.
In his spare time, Cai Guoquan still writes songs and composes music in his own way, and even finds a part-time resident singer in a bar.
His talent was appreciated by his boss, who gave him more opportunities to perform, and many regular fans came to listen to his live performances.
This strengthened Cai Guoquan's determination to re-embark on the path of a singer.
At the age of 29, he plucked up the courage to ask his parents to quit his job and pursue his career full-time.
After a long period of persuasion, the parents couldn't bear to restrain their son's dream, and although they were still worried, they agreed to let him try.
Cai Guoquan was ecstatic, and he could finally devote himself to creation desperately.
He quit his steady job as an accountant and went around delivering demos of his songs, hoping to win favor with record labels.
However, the result was very disappointing to him, and the newcomer's works could not be reviewed at all, and they were all lost in the sea.
In that era of red stars, it was difficult for ordinary people to stand out in a short period of time.
But Cai Guoquan did not give up, but repeatedly improved himself.
He analyzes why the demo was rejected, and then rewrites the lyrics and composes the music, constantly improving his skills.
After hitting a wall in every way, finally at the age of 31, a work was favored by a record company, and Cai Guoquan released his first ** "Only Love You One in My Life" as he wished.
This ** was praised by music critics as soon as it was released, and was hailed as "a clear stream in the blues music scene".
No one will believe that this is a newcomer's first **, because Cai Guoquan's beautiful voice and lingering melody have reached the level of a professional singer.
His years of persistent creative efforts have finally come to fruition and proved his strength to the music world.
After the success of the first **, Cai Guoquan became a sensation and quickly emerged in the music world. His original ** style, in stark contrast to the mainstream cover music style, quickly allowed him to accumulate popularity among music fans.
At the age of 34, he released his second ** "Cold Like Ice", in which many of the title songs won the first place on the popular charts, which established his status in the music industry.
Cai Guoquan also actively wrote songs for other singers, such as writing many golden songs such as "Sunset", "Return", "Red Light" and so on for the popular king Alan Tam.
These works composed by him are generally loved by fans, and they have also greatly increased his fame in the ** world.
At the age of 37, Cai Guoquan's third ** "Don't Decorate Your Dreams" swept the major ** awards, among which the title song of the same name occupied almost all the charts of the year.
He also composed the classic theme song "Providence of the People" for the popular TV series "Burning Years", which was widely sung in the future and became one of his representative works.
After successive brilliant achievements in the music industry, Cai Guoquan, Leslie Cheung and Alan Tam are known as the "King of Singers" and become the top male singers of this era.
All of this was wiped out by a car accident.
Although he lost the function of his legs, Cai Guoquan's talent has never disappeared.
He no longer gives up on himself, but picks up the pen of creation again and pours the notes in his heart into songs.
In 2004, Cai Guoquan launched the autobiographical work "Grass in the Wind".
"The more frustrated you are, the more courageous you are, the more frustrated you are. Even if you stumble and fall, you will immediately rise. ”The lyrics full of positive spirit express his unyielding attitude towards life.
In the years that followed, Cai Guoquan spent time in creation.
In 2008, the ** "Dream Prophecy" was once again praised by music critics, and it also injected him with the motivation to continue writing songs.
Although he can no longer stand on the stage, he can still find the meaning of life through **.
Now 70 years old, Cai Guoquan has lived in a nursing home for more than ten years.
Fortunately, he is not alone, and fans and friends in the circle will visit him regularly to send him greetings and care.
Cai Guoquan also maintains an optimistic, grateful and cherished attitude, and lives freely and happily.
His life was full of ups and downs, from the peak to the trough, and then reborn into nirvana.
Although ill-fated, Cai Guoquan was not crushed by the adverse current of life, and he was still able to draw strength from **.