Chapter Twenty-Four
Li Nan shook her head and said, "I think it's too narrow to limit ourselves to love. Life is meant to be experienced, not just to go through the motions."
Do you know what? I admire someone who, once he set his mind on his dream, persisted in pursuing it and fought for it, giving up many good things in the conventional sense.
He doesn't need to be respectable or save face; he just wants to make this planet more beautiful. He has been committed to greening and planting trees.
He hopes the planet can become more beautiful and makes efforts to create a better environment. He won't get caught up in these so-called romantic relationships; he simply doesn't have the time for them.
I don't think people should limit themselves. Why must one have a good romantic relationship? Can't one focus on their career? Isn't it good to pursue their dreams?
If you persist in doing what you love, you'll easily find happiness. You'll be overjoyed by even the smallest positive feedback, and you won't have to worry about being betrayed.
But people are different; they are full of uncertainties. The most important thing people should do is to love themselves well. Once they do this, they will reap endless happiness.
Honestly, you know so many celebrities don't appreciate their fans, yet you still choose to be a fan. That's really impressive.
Xu Weiwei smiled and said, "No, actually I can understand. It's just that when I ship couples and become a CP fan, many people make a lot of mindless comments that only a three-year-old would believe, and many people believe them unconditionally."
There are so many funny incidents, so many CP fans are sold out. It's like when an idol drama starts airing, the promotional period is really intense, like they're going to do it right in front of me.
As a result, once the show ended, they quickly began to distance themselves. You don't know me, I don't know you, are we really friends? It seems not.
I even know of a couple who were constantly arguing and their discord was obvious during filming, but after the show aired, they still pretended to be a couple and started promoting themselves as a real couple.
As a result, countless people actually fell for the scam and shipped the characters. Therefore, getting scammed while shipping characters is almost inevitable; it's just too easy. My judgment is also terrible; one of the people I used to be a fan of even went to jail.
I've shipped many fake couples and also real couples. In fact, about seven out of ten people who film idol dramas actually dated while filming, but broke up after filming ended.
When filming idol dramas, directors often encourage the male and female leads to have more romantic relationships to gain experience. Some production teams even deliberately arrange for the leads to look at each other, hug, kiss, and share their innermost thoughts in order to cultivate the feelings between them.
The point is to build intimacy. After all, idol dramas are just about romance and have no depth; all they want is that saccharine, cheesy feeling of love.
Li Nan nodded in agreement, saying, "Couples on set are really common. I've seen them in almost every film crew I've worked on, and there aren't just one couple on a set, but many couples."
Sometimes when you see an actor performing a scene so convincingly, it's because that's how they really are in real life—they've been through it all and have experience.
All I can say is that shipping couples usually leads to bad teeth. Even couples who get married and have children often end up getting divorced. What makes you think your ship will last a lifetime?
To survive in the entertainment industry, there are countless temptations to face. In reality, many people verbally decline and refuse, but if invited a few more times, they are quite willing to do it.
I think the relationships between actors are really fake. Many actors get so into character that they actually develop feelings for each other and get married, but they all end up getting divorced.
Why is this? Because the sense of disparity is too strong. You love the character he plays in the drama, but in reality, he's just acting, not the real person in the play.
You've fallen for the wrong person. You never truly loved this person. If you hadn't filmed this movie together, would you have fallen in love with him? Most likely not.
I feel that the reason why every relationship that blossoms from a drama is unhappy is because of the unmet expectations. You expect him to be the same as in the drama, but in reality, they are completely different.
I've heard it said that truly good actors are so good that they even fool themselves while acting; acting is essentially about deceiving others, making them believe that you are someone else.
This kind of deception doesn't seem to have much of a negative impact on people; instead, it evokes positive emotions. After all, people watch movies or TV series to gain emotional value, not to drain themselves dry.
One can never truly become another person; the most important part of a person is not the body, but the mind. However, both physical and mental health are immense treasures, and very few people can possess both simultaneously.
Most people suffer from some form of mental illness, but the severity varies from person to person. For some, it may seem harmless, while for others it can affect their studies, career, and other aspects of life.
Xu Weiwei frowned and said, "I actually know that shipping couples is essentially a form of self-deception and wishful thinking."
You know what? I ship anime characters in a really weird way. It's like two supporting characters from a sports anime, one with red hair and the other with purple hair. We don't know each other at all, but I fantasize that they're a couple.
They are clearly from different worlds, yet I believe they will love each other. This is a bit too far-fetched. Essentially, I want to see something beautiful. I hope two exceptionally good people are together—good-looking, with good character, and most importantly, I like them very much.
I've never thought love is something easy to have; it's so easy to drift apart, and it's so hard to stay in love forever. It's so easy for one person to suddenly stop loving the other.
I think one point is whether a person is made up of the body or the soul? Do you believe that people really have a soul? I think I do.
For a very simple example, if you have twelve keys and they are all attached to the same keychain, you can open the door every day when you come home without thinking about anything or even looking at it. You can do this for three years without ever making a mistake.
But on the first day of the fourth year, you suddenly wonder why you're so lucky? Every time it's such a coincidence, there are no mistakes, and you can open the door.
After that, you can't do it the way you used to. You won't be able to open the door anymore. You'll need to find your own special key to the door every time you come home to actually open it.
It's really mysterious. Many things will go very smoothly if you don't think about them deeply or get to the bottom of them. But if you insist on finding an answer, you will make your life more difficult.
Just like in a game, if you find a bug, you can gain a lot of benefits from it. But if you insist that the bug is unreasonable, the system will fix it, and you will no longer be able to get any benefits from it.
So sometimes I really believe in the existence of the soul, and that the body needs to be cultivated, the eyes are the windows to the soul, and facial features are also very important.
In any case, never have bad intentions or harm others. Actually, sometimes I'm not really a looks-obsessed person. It may seem like I never like ugly people and only like beautiful people, but that's not superficial. There are reasons for it.
I believe that people with higher looks have higher blessings, while those who are ugly have committed serious sins and have low blessings. However, some people may not be good-looking, but they are still pleasing to the eye. This is because they have not harmed others in this life, have done good deeds, and know how to repent.
However, good-looking people don't always have good faces. If they do something wrong or have bad intentions, it will show on their faces. So, someone who really knows how to read faces can tell at a glance if you've done something bad.
Especially those whose eyes used to be bright, beautiful, and attractive, but later changed, becoming cloudy and sometimes even giving off a sinister aura, and whose mouths became crooked—these are people who have done many bad things in their lives.
A good appearance is cultivated. Even if someone has an unusual appearance, if they are kind-hearted throughout their life, their appearance will gradually become more pleasing to the eye.
Your initial appearance is simply the result of your accumulated good fortune. However, people have countless opportunities to start over in this life. When good fortune accumulates to a certain level, one can ascend to the fourth dimension.
I think we live in the third dimension, while the anime, TV series, novels, and movies we see are in the second dimension, and the characters in the anime, the people we create, live in the first dimension.
Parallel universes do exist. I once heard a novelist say that the direction of a story is not determined by the writer, but by the characters he creates. They have their own souls, as if they can talk to the writer and come to life.
I had written the outline and detailed outline, and the setting was all done, but when I actually got to that part, the character had his own ideas. He didn't want to fall in love with someone, so I couldn't make him fall in love with that person.
Just like us, we may also be characters created by beings in the fourth dimension, but so what? Our lives are not entirely determined by them.
They cannot know everything about us, just as words are full of endless imagination and leave room for interpretation. Just as a novelist cannot know everything about the characters they create.
Parallel universes are real. I believe anime characters exist. Maybe the two anime characters I like would fall in love in some parallel universe.
The most important element of a person's soul is memory. In one parallel universe, you might be male; in another, you might be a cultivator; and in yet another, you might be female. You could indeed be considered one person because some traits are completely identical.
But there are differences. What I yearn for is the kind of love where I will only love you in every parallel universe, and if you haven't been born yet, or have died, or if we never meet in this parallel universe when I am alive.
Then I'll never be in a relationship in my life and will be all alone. I love the kind of beautiful love that exists in billions of parallel universes, where we fall in love in every single one of them. But the reality is that this kind of love is very unlikely to actually happen to me.
I might fall in love with someone else in this parallel universe, while you might fall in love with someone else in another parallel universe. In that case, our love wouldn't be pure love anymore, which would be very sad.
I think I prefer perfect love. If there are imperfections, it's better not to have it at all. I'd rather stay single, be friends, but not lovers. We can also become family, but definitely not lovers.
I might be a bit extreme; for me, love is about pursuing uniqueness and exclusivity, but not friendship and family. After all, a person can have many good friends, and a person also has parents—both are equally important, without any hierarchy.
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