Ethereal Liu Yifei Voiceover for Cinematic Content

Standing here at this moment, a thousand emotions surge through my heart. At 14, I trembled as I received the script for "Royal Tramp," unable to even distinguish camera directions. The director said: "Don't act—live as her first." This phrase became my lighthouse for twenty years. From Duan Yu's Wang Yuyan in "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" to Zhao Ling'er in "Chinese Paladin," I learned to breathe with the character's heartbeat. At 18, filming "The Return of the Condor Heroes," the cold wind on the cliff edge and the bruises from the wire harness taught me that an actor's bones must be harder than their lines. But when the "fairy" label became a cocoon, I chose to break it—splitting my tiger's mouth training for "The Forbidden Kingdom," embracing humanity's dark currents in "The Nightingale." Those pains taught me: true performance requires vulnerability as armor. At 30, I encountered "Mulan." Three years of practicing horseback riding in sandstorms, blistered palms from dropping spears... But it was this solitary courage that helped me understand that "female power" doesn't need perfection—its value lies in the stubbornness of clutching the dirt after falling. These past two years, I've returned with Zhao Pan'er from "A Dream of Splendor" and Xu Hongdou from "Meet Yourself." They taught me: only by shedding the fairy aura and entering the marketplace can one understand that human joys and sorrows are most moving. Along this journey, I'm grateful to the seniors who lifted me up on set when I fell, to the crew members who handed me hand warmers in the cold winter, and even more to all of you—friends who have supported me with applause and letters for twenty years. It is your gaze that makes me dare not disappoint every frame of light and shadow.