Wei Shiya won the 38th Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress just 11 days after a facial injury, becoming the first Hong Kong actress to claim this prize, a testament to her years of steady dedication.
Standing on the stage at the 38th Hundred Flowers Awards, Wei Shiya had just had more than fifty stitches in her lip; the stitches had been removed only three days earlier. It had been just eleven days since she was injured on set, and the swelling in her lip had not yet completely subsided. With the bright spotlights shining on her face, there was no way to hide the marks.
Wei Shiya won this year’s Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress with 51 votes—exactly half of the total—while other talented actors on stage, such as Gao Ye and Song Jia, finished behind her. What makes this even more remarkable is that, in the decades since the Hundred Flowers Awards were established, this is the first time the Best Actress award has been presented to an actress from Hong Kong.No one in the audience objected to the result.
After many years of hard work in the entertainment industry, Wei Shiya has risen step by step from an obscure supporting role to the center of the spotlight. She won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress early in her career, and this Hundred Flowers Award trophy is yet another testament to her years of dedicated effort.
In the immediate aftermath of the injury, everyone around Wei Shiya was on edge, and there was private speculation that the facial injury might affect her acting career.Only her husband, Zhou Zhi’an, stayed by her side to tend to her wounds. As a professional in the medical aesthetics industry, he understood the precautions for wound recovery better than anyone else, while she herself remained calm, saying only that she would return to the set in a few days to resume filming.
The couple has always handled matters this way—never shirking responsibility or taking things lightly. They even discussed the topic of having children openly and honestly; both felt that raising children was too much of a burden, so they decided to remain child-free, supporting each other as they lived a peaceful and contented life together.
There’s no such thing as good luck that comes out of nowhere.Great performances know no boundaries of region or background; if you’re willing to stay focused, work diligently, and build your reputation on merit, you’ll be recognized sooner or later. The same applies to how you conduct yourself in life: remain humble and composed, don’t back down in the face of adversity, don’t boast when you’re successful, and take responsibility for the path you’ve chosen—then there will be no road that leads nowhere.
