Chapter 1 - Memories revisited

10 Oct 2015. Shanghai concert hall.

At the film festival ceremony.

Lin Kecong a famous high ranking movie star, 25 years old. Standing at 1.79m tall, came out of his Ferrari sports car. Wearing a pair of sunglasses and leather pants, long sleeve shirt and a leather jacket, walks out of his car.

"Wow! It's Lin Kecong! Oh my! He is my man! He is so handsome!" Kecong fans shouted loudly.

Staring at the huge crowd, Kecong is getting unstable. Chen Ming, his assistant and his blossom friend grab hold of him....

"Kecong! Is everything alright?! Just now in the car you kept grabbing your tummy?! Is your gastric giving you trouble again?! You also seems to be having a fever?! Shall we call off to attend the ceremony?!" Chen Ming asked anxiously.

Kecong shakes his head...

"I….I am fine. Tonight the ceremony is very important. " kecong replied

"Ok,fine. But if anything happens immediately inform me. If you need to go to the gents ask me along." Chen Ming said

Kecong nodded his head.

Kecong walks up to the walkway and went up to the temporary stage…..

"Good evening, Lin Kecong! I heard that you are being listed in the Best actor award! Do you have confidence in getting the award?" The presenter asked.

"Leave it up to fate. It's already a blessing that I got listed in. Thanks everyone." Kecong replied

At Jia Hao condominium.

In the hall.

Jia Hao just switched on the television and saw Kecong on the screen…..

"Kecong!? Why he become so much slimmer than before!?" Jia Hao asked himself

"Dear, why are you talking to yourself?" Yi ling replied

"I saw a close friend on TV. I am going to work soon. Today is my first duty at the hospital. " Jiahao said

At the film festival.

Kecong sat down and feel uneasy. His tummy pain badly.

"Kecong, are you alright?! You look very pale." Xiao cong asked

"I….I am fine." Kecong replied softly

"The best actor award goes to Lin Kecong! Best actor for the movie, "My miserable life"." Yuan hua said

Chen Ming hold Kecong's hands...

"Kecong! It's you! Yuan hua announced the best actor is you." Chen Ming said happily

Kecong feeling feverish, he cannot concentrate on the surroundings and people talking to him. The pain is killing him badly. He told a handkerchief out of his pocket and wipe his forehead. He went up the stage....

"Can't imag…imagine I got this till I shivered and cold sweat. Haha!" Kecong said

His fans and the actors and actresses below start laughing.

"Many…many years ago in secondary school and high school these laughings are a laughingstock to me. I…I never expect I can receive such smiles of encouragement in my life. I..I gratefully thanks Director Jin to have such a great masterpiece to let me be the main actor. It's a very very tough character to act, as the character is actually me, myself." Kecong smile and start to cry.

Standing next to him, Yuan Hua gave him a tissue and hug him.

"From the age of 6, I have been living in darkness. No one cares about me except for my mother. My dad is a drunkard and gambler, once he lose money or drunk, he will come home and beat me with his leather belt. These are the scenes from the movie but it is also my real life." Kecong said with tears.

Out of sudden, he took off his sleeves on his left elbow and show the audiences a huge scar. All the audiences are amazed and start to gossip.

"The story is written by my PR manager, Chen Ming. He is also my secondary school teacher and my blossom friend. I…I am a gay. I even owned a gay pub." Kecong said calmly

Chen Ming and his assistant, Xiao cong got a shocked.

"Why is he saying all these things!? Is he mad?!" Xiao cong asked Chen Ming shockingly.

"Seems like something bad is happening to him. He looks so much weaker than the past. He is hiding something from us." Chen Ming replied

In the hospital-doctor restroom.

Jia Hao and Cheng Jie is watching the award. Cheng Jie watched till cried.

"Hey bro! What's wrong with you? You are crying?! During secondary days you are the most notorious!" Jia Hao asked laughing

"People will changed. If I am a gay, I will also fall in love with Kecong. He is very brave." Cheng Jie replied

"Are you crazy?! He is mine! I come back to Shanghai because of him." Jia Hao said loudly

"Jia Hao stop all these nonsense! Kecong have suffered a lot! Guess you didn't know what he have gone thru when you just left for Harvard!" Cheng Jie replied angrily

"I…I am Kecong personal doctor. He also have a personal psychologist. Don't you see him with a smiling face. He can't even speak properly after that fearful incident." Cheng Jie said

"You are his personal doctor!? What's wrong with him?!" Jia Hao asked anxiously

"He..he is diagnosed with final stage of stomach cancer." Cheng Jie replied

Jia Hao heard and pull Cheng Jie shirt....

"What!? You said that again!?" Jia Hao asked angrily

"Jia Hao, please let him off! He is not the Kecong that you have know in the past! If your parents saw him again, he will die! Do you want him to go to jail and let those bastards tortured him again?!" Cheng Jie replied angrily

"What things!? What did they do to Kecong!?" Jia Hao asked anxiously

"This is the place he stay. I promised him not to say that to anyone. If you want you can either ask Chen Ming or Kecong himself. He is very weak, he always need someone besides him. Lucky he have an assistant and Chen Ming have been together with him since that incident. If not, I don't think he will be able to pull through." Cheng jie replied sadly

Jia Hao pulled Cheng Jie and they start to fight…..

"What exactly happened to Kecong 8 years ago!?" Jia Hao asked angrily

"Fine! Fine! I think it's fair to let you know. On the next day after you left the hospital, he was brought to the police station. His father sued him for raping him. As he is a gay, those police believed his father rather than him. At the court his father can prove all the videos that he was the victim not kecong. Hence kecong quietly bear all of it. After he went to jail, he was sent to a cell with all crazy men. Nights and nights of…." Cheng Jie haven't finish saying, the nurse dash into rest corner.

"Doctor Cheng! That…that famous movie star, Lin Kecong, is admitted to the hospital! He is profusely vomiting blood out clenching painfully on his stomach!" Tammy said loudly.

"Quick! Send him into the operation theatre! I will be right out!" Cheng Jie replied

Cheng Jie and Jia Hao rushed towards the operation theatre.

Outside of the operation theatre

"I go in together with you." Jia Hao said

"Stay outside. Today is your first day at work. I doesn't want Kecong's condition to affect you." Cheng Jie said and went in.

Standing at a corner, Xiao cong and Chen Ming saw Jia Hao. Chen Ming immediately beat up Jia Hao from his back, Xiao cong pulled him away…..

"Ming ge! Calm down this is the hospital." Xiao cong said

"Let me off! I want to say something to this bastard!" Chen Ming replied angrily

"Why!? Why did you come back to Shanghai again! Please leave! Kecong have suffered so much because of you! " Chen Ming said angrily

"Ming ge, shall we go to the garden at the top to talk for awhile?" Jia Hao asked

"Okay, let's go." Chen Ming replied

They took the lift up to the top floor of the hospital.

Hospital garden Late night

Chen Ming pushes Jia Hao hardly on the floor and slapped him hardly on his face till blood stains on the side of his lips. Jia Hao have no reaction at all and sat on the floor. Chen Ming pull his shirt...

"Why didn't you fight back? Are you remorseful of what your mum did to Kecong 8 years ago?! This small little hurt on your face is nothing compared to what he had suffered! And he suffered all alone by himself! He killed himself three times cos of that fearful incident! I rather he die! Cheng Jie and me saved him and pull him out of the rumble! But he is hiding so many things behind us! Everything in his life is just sufferings." Chen Ming said with tears.

"What did my mum did to Kecong? I really have no idea. But she promised me to let him off if I go to England to study." Jia Hao asked

"Promised! Hahaha! She promised! She even used a video tape to threaten Kecong, asked him to leave you forever! Well, maybe after you heard what happened to him, not only you, everyone will not dare to go close to him. Thanks…thanks to you he always fear of the crowd and always shiver when he talks! On the next day you left for England, your dear mum gave money to his dad to rape him and drugged him! Took videos and edit your face on it, accusing him that he raped you! That poor boy got framed and went into prison for six months. In prison, he got raped several times by 8 big built men! His mouth was ripped off, his private part got badly bruised till he cannot walked and talked for few months! During that period he slit his wrists several times. Cheng Jie and his brother, Cheng kang also helped him. But until now he still seems to be very depressed, he doesn't like to talk or smile. Even when he sleeps he also calls out your name." Chen Ming replied angrily

Jia Hao hit his hands hardly on the floor till his hands bleed and cried....

"Wang Pei Pei! I am your son! Why are you doing this to me!" Jia Hao cried badly and said

Xiao cong rushed up to the top garden….

"Ming ge! Doctor Cheng want to see us immediately!" Xiao cong replied

The three of them went down to Cheng Jie office.

Cheng Jie office.

Cheng Jie flashes Kecong stomach x-ray on the screen. All of them got a shock…..

"Why is there such a huge lump in Kecong stomach?! " Chen Ming asked shockingly

"I think he didn't tell all of you his condition. His stomach cancer is already stage 4. He kept insisting not to do any treatment. He kept saying he wants to wait for Jia Hao to come back and see him in his handsome look. Actually he still loves you deeply. But he doesn't have the chance anymore." Cheng guang replied

"He..he may only have six months of life span if he doesn't do any treatment. But I think it's enough. He ever told me he wants to leave this world before his dad is release from prison. " Cheng Jie said

"I….I want to see Kecong. " Jia Hao replied

"Ay let him see." Chen Ming said

In Kecong ward

Kecong kept dreaming of the past.

6 June 1996. Shanghai

Urban area - lin plantation farm. Evening

-End of chapter one