Huayu: Were you ever a top star before writing nonsense?

Man, you've successfully piqued my curiosity.

"Listen to this."

Although the comments on Shen Can's post disappointed Yang Mi, they also ignited her interest in the song.

Before this, she had heard "Rice Fragrance" and "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky"...

Honestly, it wasn't her initiative; it's just that these past few days, you can hear Shen Can's songs everywhere, it's impossible not to hear them.

She was very passive.

Even within the Beijing Film Academy campus, Shen Can's songs are very popular among university students.

Yang Mi worked quickly, and thirty seconds later, she found the music video for "A Person Like Me" on Tudou.com.

When listening to a handsome guy's song, the music video is definitely the best way to experience it.

It can give her a real, direct, and immersive feeling.

Shen Can's personality and style are hard to judge, but Yang Mi agrees that he's good-looking.

"Mimi, play it out loud, I want to hear it too," Zhang Xiaofei said softly as she walked to Yang Mi's side.

Yang Mi plugged in the external speaker.

Yuan Shanshan and Jiao Junyan pushed open the door and entered. Yuan Shanshan raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"What are you listening to?"

Yang Mi didn't reply to her, but directly pressed the Enter key.

The melodious prelude began, a piece of instrumental music resembling a harmonica, inherently emotionally engaging.

If you calm down and listen carefully, you will feel a faint sadness; the melody alone is very poignant.

On Yang Mi's computer screen, Shen Can appeared in the music video.

Judging from the scene, he must be on an overpass in a big city, at dusk, with the afterglow of the setting sun, a constant stream of cars behind him, and a steady stream of pedestrians in front of him.

Judging from Shen Can's attire, he appears to be playing a street performer. He is dressed simply, wearing a plaid shirt and jeans, with a guitar slung over his shoulder, and an open guitar case at his feet.

A cute little girl walked over and put a purple coin—50 cents—into the guitar case.

Shen Can thanked her.

Sunset, street performers, melancholic melodies... the music video's emotional impact quickly intensifies.

As soon as the song started, everyone was instantly captivated.

I couldn't help it, I was completely and utterly immersed in it.

"[Someone as outstanding as me,]"

He should have lived a brilliant life.

How come after more than twenty years,

Still adrift in the sea of ​​people.

Shen Can sang slowly.

A sense of melancholy and helplessness... The emotions emanating from Shen Can's singing, mixed with the emotions in the lyrics, and accompanied by a melody featuring the piano as the main instrument, reached the listener's ears.

A sense of sadness spread through the dormitory.

Zhang Xiaofei pursed her lips and remained silent.

"It sounds great!" Yuan Shanshan said immediately.

Yang Mi turned to look at Yuan Shanshan, put her right index finger to her lips, and made a shushing gesture.

On the overpass, Shen Can continued to play and sing. Passersby who were in a hurry stopped in their tracks when they heard the singing and looked at him in surprise.

"Someone as smart as me has long since said goodbye to naivety..."

The music video transitions from an overpass to a subway station, where a meticulously made-up female office worker is sobbing uncontrollably, making it hard to imagine the extent of her suffering.

"How come I still traded a relationship for a body full of scars?"

The scene shifts again to a bus where a bespectacled man takes off his glasses, wipes away his tears, and has a cake on his lap. It's his birthday, but he can only celebrate it on the night bus.

"People like me who are lost..."

People like me who are searching,

Someone like me, who accomplishes nothing,

How many more people have you met?

The music video continues the lives of those who drift in the city.

On a night of torrential rain, a food delivery driver struggled to right his overturned electric scooter.

At the bustling train station entrance, a young mother sat on the cold stone steps, holding her baby. Beside her, her five-year-old daughter nestled close, unaware that her mother was weeping silently.

Whose wife is she? Whose daughter is she? And whose family are they?

"A vulgar person like me,"

I never like to pretend to be profound.

Why is it that when I occasionally hear old songs...

Suddenly, I was also distracted.

Yang Mi was almost dazed when she heard this, and her eyes felt sore.

As an actress, crying scenes are a basic skill, and she can cry quickly, but... she knows very well that at this moment, she wants to cry out of biological instinct.

Some songs are very touching, and this one is one of them.

Although the song didn't have any dramatic highs and lows, it was just a normal attack, but the hardships of the drifters and Shen Can's infectious singing and lyrics seemed to form a tear-jerking killer move, leaving her completely defeated and wanting to have a good cry.

She empathized.

She thought of a saying: "There is no such thing as 'easy' in the life of an adult."

She thought of herself again; she had it tough too.

Although she has entered the entertainment industry, she still faces many unspoken rules...

Beside Yang Mi, Zhang Xiaofei silently shed tears.

She comes from an ordinary family in Northeast China, and compared to Yang Mi, it would be much harder for her to become famous.

At this very moment, the song's emotion continues to rise:

"A coward like me,"

Always leave some room for maneuver.

How could I have ever done something for someone?

I considered risking everything.

The music video cuts back to the overpass, where more and more people are listening to Shen Can's song. Many of them have sad expressions on their faces, but no one is crying.

This made Yang Mi feel very real; life isn't like a music variety show where the audience is acting, and the public's emotions aren't so easily stirred up.

At this moment, a middle-aged man whose face was blurred suddenly broke down and cried.

"I really find it so difficult."

"Life is so hard."

"I earn 6000 yuan a month, and more than 5000 of it goes to medical treatment for my family and my children's schooling. After work, I still have to set up a street stall!"

Shen Can's singing was not interrupted by the middle-aged man's sudden breakdown. He looked at the middle-aged man with deep compassion in his eyes.

The song reaches its emotional climax.

"People like me who are lost..."

People like me who are searching,

Someone like me, who accomplishes nothing,

How many more people have you met?

A lonely person like me,

Someone as foolish as me

Someone like me who refuses to be ordinary,

How many people are there in the world?

The heart-wrenching song seemed to be something Shen Can did on purpose.

Following the middle-aged man, an elderly woman with gray hair sat on the ground and burst into tears.

"My daughter is missing, missing... A perfectly healthy woman came to Shanghai to look for work, and then just vanished! What should I do?!"

The crying seemed contagious, and some passersby also burst into tears.

"I'm so tired, I really can't hold on much longer."

"I get yelled at by my boss every day, he's a son of a bitch."

"My business failed, and I'm 30 yuan in debt. How long will it take me to pay it all off?!"

"If I had 5, maybe I could save my mother. Mother, I am an unfilial son..."

"I have to pay over 6000 yuan in mortgage payments every month, damn it!"

"To hell with this life!!"

"To hell with this life!"

"Oh shit."

Some people's occupations can be roughly determined by their clothing: migrant worker, white-collar worker, businessman...

This moment.

Their emotions were suddenly released, and the scene was filled with weeping.

Shen Can's singing became their background music.

This makes it even easier to cry.

At the end of the song, Shen Can's singing slowed down:

"Will anyone feel sorry for someone as inexplicably strange as me...?"

The word "heartache" is the essence of these lyrics.

Living such a hard life, does anyone feel sorry for me?

The singing gradually stopped.

In the music video, Shen Can silently looks at the audience and bows slightly.

On the screen, a line of text appeared: "May everyone be treated gently by life, and may all find happiness after hardship."

Shen Can remained as gentle as ever.

Upon seeing this sentence, Yang Mi could no longer hold back, and tears welled up in her eyes.