19 17 was born in Yantai, Shandong province, and 1942 graduated from The National SouthWest Associated University. Coincidentally, Ye's teacher, who is famous for playing the senior generals of the Kuomintang, is also from Yantai, Shandong.
Lai Zhongsheng is the basis of leaf prototype.
After graduating from university, Lai Zhongsheng worked in Yunnan-Myanmar Railway Engineering Office and Kunming Airport. 1945 After joining the Youth Army on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was elected to the first phase of the Kuomintang Central Cadre School. Among his classmates, former Taiwan Province political leaders Wang Sheng and Lee Huan are Jiang Jingguo's favorite students. From 1946, Lai Zhong was appointed as the acting director of Wanxian Youth Training Course of the Reserve Cadre Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense.
From 65438 to 0948, he served as the director of political work of Major General of the 206th Division of the Kuomintang Youth Army. In March of 1948, he was captured with Qiu in the battle of Luoyang and released in 1950. After his release, he first taught in a middle school in Beijing and served in the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Revolutionary Committee in his later years. It is worth mentioning that Lai Zhongsheng has been wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, much like the image of Ye in TV series.