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"The world is like a stage, shows change, so there's no more interaction.
No matter how much you appreciate or love something, you leave when the show ends.
Thanks to you and me, for being considered a perfect match."
Zhu Yilong's playlist always contains a few Cantonese songs. As someone who doesn't live in Guangdong, most of the Cantonese songs he's listened to were posted by Bai Yu on his alternate account.
Strangely, Bai Yu has never been to Guangdong, let alone Hong Kong. However, if a friend asks him what songs he's been listening to lately, he can always name a few Cantonese songs.
When Guardian aired in 2018, the night he and Zhu Yilong sang on Happy Camp, most of the songs were only occasionally listened to. After filming, Zhu Yilong sat to the side playing on his phone. Bai Yu was singing Eason Chan's Under Mount Fuji alone.
Zhu Yilong didn't listen very carefully, only remembering one line: "Who can possess Mount Fuji with love?"
A little while later, Bai Yu insisted on having Zhu Yilong sing My Favorite Concert.Zhu Yilong hadn't learned Cantonese, so he sang haltingly. Bai Yu had clearly learned the song privately, and his rendition had a distinctly his own style.
Near the end, Bai Yu smiled at Zhu Yilong.
This was their last meeting.
"Such a beautiful love story exists even when unseen. I've never understood what green willows and black hair mean, but that doesn't matter."
Three years later, Zhu Yilong's starring role in The Rebel became a huge hit. Some media outlets even claimed that The Rebel marked his transition from a mere idol to a true actor." Three years have passed, and one BL drama after another has been released. In the spring of 2021, The Order of the Mountains and Rivers burst onto the scene, and both lead actors rose to fame.
In contrast, Zhu Yilong and Bai Yu focused on acting after Guardian and haven't been in contact for a long time. The past cannot be retrieved, but others still feel a pang of regret.
Bai Yu once went to Japan because a singer he admired was holding a concert there. When Bai Yu heard this singer perform his favorite song, Peerless Beauty, he suddenly felt a sense of relief.
Yes, as the lyricist of this song wrote in another song: "Or perhaps this is the honor of letting those who do not love me in this life pass down the rumor of their secret love for me through their descendants."