Truthful Smile: Stubborn Heart

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ZHANG YIXING FOR GQ CHINA (JUNE 2021)

Happy International Women's Day from Yixing~ ♡

Fantasy Westward Journey

he’s so cute! 🥺💞

In the past, I felt that 10 years was a crazy period of time.

But till this day when my contract with SM Entertainment is up, when I look back at the 10+ years, it’s really as if with a blink of an eye, me who entered the company and was still a child has become me who is now 30 years old.

The contract has completed, 10 years contract is up, but our friendship is still going, the days we grew up together are still there.

I am very thankful and will always be thankful to the company who has supported me and helped me all these years; for the EXO members who have accompanied me and were understanding towards me in these 10 years; my fans, my friends, family who have always loved me, encouraged me, showed concern towards me; you’ve worked hard, thank you.

I will forever remember the day, 2012 8th April, when I officially debuted as an EXO member.

Forever remember the small training room that was filled with my brothers and my many years of youth.

Remember the excitedness and nervousness I felt when I first saw so many fans.

When I look back at those memories today, I feel that I’m lucky. Ordinary me who was born in an ordinary family, have an ordinary height, have ordinary conditions, during the time when everyone was working hard, just because that little bit of luck, I got the chance to stand on stage. Hence, I made use of every day after this to thank this bit of luck and as I’m afraid that I cannot be lucky forever, I kept on working hard. 1 years have passed, in the world now where things have remained the same but people have changed, I’m still me, I’m still the me who is immersed in my own monster world and wished that I can continue to fight nonstop, I’m still the me who has the music dream and the dream of acting as a killer/t-Rex.

This me, is better as compared to what I imagined when I was 20, a little lacking as compared to what I longed for when I turn 30 but this is the real me today.

Indeed, many things that I believed in the past that may seem to exaggerated and unrealistic, I still very, very much believe in them today.

Like how when you’ve lived a lifetime, you’ll need to dash forward, even if you may face difficulties or obstacles, you will need to work hard and run towards your goal without hesitation, till the day when you cannot run anymore.

For example, I want to bring Chinese music to the world, want to let the world to see us.

For example, must bring the ‘fight or die’ spirit to work hard, it’s ok even if you fail, at least you will know how far is the distance between the point that you fell to the end point.

A man will remain young until his death. When I turn 60, I still want to be the best kuafu, even when I fall, I am falling on the path to chase the sun. It sounds a bit exaggerated haha. But this is what I have always been thinking about.

Today, it’s the end and also a new beginning. I hope that I can bring whatever that is left for me from my past experiences to continue to explore Zhang Yixing’s new career plan and life plan, and to explore the new way forward together with SM Entertainment, to test, to challenge, to take risks, to become a better self, to build an even bigger and better boat.

Lastly, in these 10 years, I want to say, may everyone have your own dreams, to chase your own dreams, please believe in yourself, believe in hard work, believe in striving hard.

Never be afraid of waiting, alway anticipate what the future holds, in the next 10 years, in the subsequent 10 years, hard work will always bear results of hard work.

Destiny will keep the sweetest candy for the child who has waited for the longest.