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Q: Are you the real yixing? #YIXING: I am a real person 👀 261001 @layzhang | DOUYIN LIVE

#YIXING: Wishing everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! I’ll take you all along to enjoy the moonlight! 祝大家中秋节快乐 我带你们一起赏月！ 260925 @layzhang | DOUYIN UPDATE

In 2015, #YIXING became the first Chinese artist in SM Entertainment’s history to be granted the right to independently develop his career in China, entirely through his own effort. “It was ten full pages, I wanted the company to know that I was fully prepared to make this happen.” That was the courage, determination, and foresight of a 24-year-old Zhang Yixing, who already had a clear vision for the long-term growth of his career. SM gained only benefits and profit from this arrangement, while Yixing had to risk everything, it was almost an all-or-nothing gamble. For an artist with no background or connections to return and develop alone in China, obstacles and hardships were inevitable. Yet brave, sincere, hardworking, and intelligent people who seize every opportunity are always favoured by fate. Soon, he achieved his first phenomenal success on a variety show, all while continuing to take part in group comebacks, improving his skills, and never neglecting any of his roles. When he first decided to take this path, almost everyone told him it was impossible. But he chose to go for it anyway, because his dream burned passionately within him, and because he had a destination of his own. On the day he received the news that the contract had been approved, he went to the beach alone to make a wish, hoping that everything would start well, and that 2015 would go smoothly. The beginning of a dream starts with the courage to dream and imagine, but it also takes determination, persistence, and hard work to make it real. No one can guarantee the outcome, and no one can foresee the future. Everything must be carried by oneself. @layzhang became who he is today because of himself, and only himself. By constantly challenging, improving, and reinventing himself, he has remained at the MOUNTAIN TOP. (Screenshots are the English translation of @layzhang’s autobiography“24 of Zhang Yixing”)

201031 A Letter from #YIXING’s Mother: When Yixing went to audition to become a trainee, he was only 16 and still in high school. He struggled quite badly with certain subjects. Although he was already a very sensible and mature child for his age, he could still be mischievous from time to time. He had some talents and loved taking part in activities, but at heart, he was still just an ordinary high school student. Like any other parent, I spent every day wondering how I could help him improve in the subjects he struggled with, or even looking several years ahead to figure out which good universities were close to home and which majors would give him better job prospects. From the moment I took him to the trainee audition to the day I sent him away, I still feel, even today, that I was rather at a loss. Before this, no one in our family had ever imagined that he might not take the gaokao and instead take a completely different path that none of us understood. On 10 October 2008, just after his 17th birthday, I took him abroad for the first time to send him off to become a trainee. Once I sent him off, I basically never gave myself the chance to regret it. Looking back now, I don't even know how he and I could have been so "brave" back then. Before Yixing decided to go overseas to train, I made him sign a letter of commitment. I wrote down everything I could think of that he might have to face if he chose this path: if he failed to debut, he would no longer be on the same starting line as his classmates if he returned; I wouldn't be able to take care of him forever; supporting him through university and supporting him as a trainee were two completely different things; once he turned 18, he would truly have to rely on himself; and, ultimately, he would have to take responsibility for every choice he made, whatever the outcome. That letter is still in a cabinet at home. I think one day, when the right opportunity comes, I might show it to him, to let him see, "Oh, this was the path I chose for myself," and to see what he eventually grew into, and whether he became the person he once imagined he would be. What I want to say to the children and parents coming to auditions tomorrow, and even to all the young people and parents who are filled with hope for this seemingly glamorous and dazzling path: a young person's time and years of growth are incredibly precious. Becoming a trainee is not the kind of small choice you make just to "give it a try", like signing up for an extracurricular class. It is no exaggeration to say that it is more like a life decision where, once you draw the bow, there is no turning back. After making that choice, you may have to give up the ordinary process of growing up alongside your peers; give up many precious experiences that you can only have once in your life; give up the relatively easy path of growing up; and give up the so-called "safety net", as well as the advantages that your appearance or talents might otherwise have given you on the path you were originally meant to take. I know better than anyone that Yixing didn't work hard simply because he was hardworking. He had no way out, and he didn't leave himself one. He wanted so much, and apart from exchanging his time and effort for everything he wanted, there was nothing else that someone from an ordinary family background could offer. In this world, everything you want has to be exchanged for something. Even the most beautiful or talented people won't always be able to catch every opportunity that happens to fall from the sky. And there will always be younger people who are better and more talented. That was the lesson I taught 16-year-old Yixing. @layzhang