But life must go on. The resilient people of Kinmen toughed it out through years of warfare, and the extraordinarily talented Lee matured all the faster as a painter due to the circumstances of his life. He was already famous around Kinmen by the time he had reached high school.
然而，日子總要過下去，長年烽火下的金門人硬是咬牙撐住，而李錫奇過人的繪畫長才經過痛苦的洗禮更多了一份早熟，還在唸中學的他，在小小的金門已是名人了。