Ten years is a lifetime. For He Yi and Sun Yuchen, those words could not be more true.
I recently came across an old video from 2015. On the stage of a job-hunting show, He Yi and Sun Yuchen were performing a number called “The Sheep Dance.”
Back then, He Yi still seemed a little green. Sun Yuchen, standing on the right, even looked a bit goofy and adorable, like a well-behaved kid next door.
Sun Yuchen was dressed in an animal costume. His moves were awkward, and he followed He Yi throughout, looking stiff and unable to let loose.
Ten years later, the two had become some of the most influential people in the industry. He Yi had firmly claimed the spot as the leading woman in the scene, while Sun Yuchen had become a name you couldn’t escape wherever you went.
A prodigy from a top university, dressed in a mascot costume onstage to make the audience laugh. For a proud young man, a moment like that was, at its core, a public execution of his self-esteem.
And He Yi, too, was far from the composed person she would later become. Her expression was full of youthful awkwardness and uncertainty.
The smiles they wore ten years ago and the smiles they wear today are entirely different. The first came from not knowing where the future would lead; the second, from knowing exactly where they were headed.
I recently came across an old video from 2015. On the stage of a job-hunting show, He Yi and Sun Yuchen were performing a number called “The Sheep Dance.”
Back then, He Yi still seemed a little green. Sun Yuchen, standing on the right, even looked a bit goofy and adorable, like a well-behaved kid next door.
Sun Yuchen was dressed in an animal costume. His moves were awkward, and he followed He Yi throughout, looking stiff and unable to let loose.
Ten years later, the two had become some of the most influential people in the industry. He Yi had firmly claimed the spot as the leading woman in the scene, while Sun Yuchen had become a name you couldn’t escape wherever you went.
A prodigy from a top university, dressed in a mascot costume onstage to make the audience laugh. For a proud young man, a moment like that was, at its core, a public execution of his self-esteem.
And He Yi, too, was far from the composed person she would later become. Her expression was full of youthful awkwardness and uncertainty.
The smiles they wore ten years ago and the smiles they wear today are entirely different. The first came from not knowing where the future would lead; the second, from knowing exactly where they were headed.