#SongWeilong interview w/ Peoples Entertainment. #LoveForYou
Hello, viewers of People’s Entertainment. Hello everyone, I’m SongWeilong. I played Chen Yi in Wild Dog Bones.
When I was filming Wild Dog Bones, I actually didn’t know how well I was acting at the time. My mindset back then was actually quite similar to Chen Yi’s.
I would say I’m someone with relatively strong empathy. As long as I put my heart into it and truly feel and experience the character, I believe there will definitely be some people who connect with and like your performance.
About his younger self
When I was 16 years old, I remember I was very carefree. I wasn’t as sensitive as I am now.
What’s strange is that, little by little, I realized I had become more sensitive. I don’t really want to talk as much anymore.
Now I just want to let things happen naturally—live well, work hard, and be myself.
Understanding Chen Yi
I honestly think Chen Yi is very much like a stray dog on the street.
Because he lacks love. He lacks a sense of security.
He spends his life constantly being on guard. When you see a stray dog by the roadside, its eyes are usually full of vigilance. It won’t come to you begging for food.
That’s Chen Yi.
He is like a stray dog, but at the same time, he has the pride and stubbornness of a stray dog. He refuses to surrender to his fate.
Since he was young, he wanted to enter police academy. He had a dream. He believed that was his only way out of his original family environment.
He probably spent every day imagining that future.
Like that rooftop scene where he tells Miao Jing:
“I want to get into police academy.”
That light in a young person’s eyes—I think that was the thing he wanted most in his entire life.
When he was treated as someone who could just be abandoned and discarded, he must have felt extremely angry and devastated.
He probably thought:
“I really have nowhere else to go.”
Chen Yi and Miao Jing
I think Chen Yi’s real peace only comes after he and Miao Jing truly become together.
Because Chen Yi has always been someone who lacked security.
Since childhood, his father treated him that way, and then he lost his mother. He experienced so much pain.
Deep down, he is actually a very fragile and sensitive person.
But throughout his life, he kept pretending to be strong, making himself look like someone who couldn’t be hurt easily.
That’s the part of him that makes me feel the most heartbroken.
The moment when he truly has something stable, when he finally feels safe, is when he and Miao Jing are together.
But even someone like Chen Yi still needs to slowly save himself and become stronger.
How Chen Yi differs from people’s impression
Host: What do you think is different about Chen Yi compared with how people usually imagine him?
Song Weilong: The difference is quite big.
Like I said, people are complicated.
Maybe there is also that side of me inside my heart.
When I played Chen Yi, I really don’t know what would happen to him if he lost Miao Jing.
I feel like he might not even be able to survive.
Throughout filming, I was deeply invested and I felt a lot of sympathy for him.
I think for this kind of everyday-life emotional story, you have to treasure it and bring your real emotions into it.
Playing Chen Yi
From the beginning, I really empathized with him.
I didn’t specifically think:
“How should I find this feeling?”
I just thought:
“If this emotion exists in the story, how can I amplify this characteristic during the performance?”
Because Chen Yi is someone who refuses to say anything out loud.
He doesn’t express love.
I’m probably better at expressing emotions than Chen Yi is. I learned from him.
But I completely understand him because he has been hurt too much.
He has no way to open himself up.
He keeps shrinking back to protect himself.
Living without security for so long…
The version of him that everyone sees—the fierce, untouchable person—is actually just his protective armor.
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You are the home where my heart finds peace. From this moment on, every corner of the city is filled with the sight of us walking side by side.
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I want to give you the ceremony I’ve never given you before, a promise that binds the rest of our long lives together.
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No matter how long the rainy season lasts in Tengcheng, it always stops eventually. When it's all over, we'll leave at last. Go to a place without fog, a place where we don't have to look back. There's nothing wrong with a strange city; at least one lamp will be lit for me.
I once strained with everything I had to lift her up so she could see the best future. I also wandered lost with my head down, no longer expecting anything from tomorrow. But now, in this unfamiliar city, I have a new beginning. My billiard hall has a new name too—dogged.
Why dogged? Because it means stubborn, tenacious just like me. Bite down and never let go. Decide on something and never release it.
I crawled out of utter darkness, hardship, and despair. Endured countless lonely days and nights no one knew about, spent every last bit of my strength and summoned every ounce of courage, just to earn this one clean chance to start over with her. I pack my bags, and I pack away the past as well.
My name is Chen Yi. Yi as in “different,” Yi as in “foreign.” But even the different ones always find a place to belong. And all those wandering in foreign lands will eventually find their way home.
Tomorrow is another day. And me? I finally don't have to look back anymore.
(Photos from SWL Studio Douyin)
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Farewell Message from Chen Yi 💌 (rough translation)
Regardless of the past, the future is yet to come
My name is Chen Yi. Yi as in “different,” Yi as in “foreign.” When Chen Libin gave me this name, maybe he really did think of me as a different kind of creature. I've known since I was little that I was different from other people. Others had mothers, I didn't; others had homes, I didn't; others had bright futures, while my future was locked behind a door, hidden from the light.
I hated Chen Libin. I hated him for changing my school application, for locking me up, for saying “over my dead body,” for blocking every way out I had, for making my teenage years nothing but suffocation and endless struggle.
Then he really did die. I signed the papers with my own hand. That day, by his hospital bed, I shed a single tear not just for him but for myself too. Yet the chains I'd spent over a decade trying to escape still bound me tight at the very last moment.
That paternity test result said “probability of paternity: 99.9999%.” How ironic. The very thing he'd spent his whole life running from and doubting was settled with one flimsy piece of paper. The day he was buried, I clutched that paper, not knowing whether to burn it for him or keep it for myself.
My life grew out of the mud. I've picked through trash, fixed cars, hauled freight, scraped by in all sorts of places. My body is covered in scars, my hands in calluses, my heart in holes.
At my lowest, just staying alive took every ounce of strength I had. “Have you ever thought about the future?” When I asked her that, I was really asking myself too.
Truth be told, I'd imagined the future many times growing up when I was hungry, the future was the next meal; when I was beaten, the future was never having to be afraid of the electric baton again; a little older, the future was putting on a police uniform and getting out. But the future I wanted most of all was to grow up properly with her.
That future never came the way I pictured it. I never got to wear that uniform, and I never got to go live in Haicheng with her. But still, I survived. And she grew up just fine.
Once, in my childish spite, I resented everyone including her. Until later, she became my only family. Those nights we shared instant noodles, those times we ran from dogs together, those moments we lay in the rubble looking up at the sky, I still remember them all.
Before the college entrance exams that year, I believed with all my heart that she would have a bright future. And I was fortunate enough to stand in that future with her. Not becoming a cop will always be a regret. But I figure, being her shield, her vanguard, her safe harbor that's good too.
I've never told anyone this, but I've imagined “what if” more times than I can count. What if I hadn't gone to District 7, what if that fire hadn't started, what if I'd been stronger back then... Eventually, I stopped. Because “what if” is the lightest word in the world, too light to hold anything.
I pushed her away so many times. Told her to leave, to go to Haicheng, to never come back. She asked me if I loved her, and I said “Love you? Don't be ridiculous.” But what she didn't know was that it was the most dishonest thing I've ever said in my life.
That all-consuming fire, that out-of-control parking lot, and the moment when all I had left in my hands, my eyes, my heart was that rope I gripped so tightly.
I was scared. I'm just scared... I was already rotting in the mud, but she couldn't be. I never thought of myself as lucky. But she came. She came back. Turns out, I was blessed after all, not by fate but by her.
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I don’t care about the scenery beyond the tent or the endless rain outside. The only thing I care about is having you in my arms at this very moment.
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