After 4 years, the queen of Taiwanese puppets finally made a comeback after giving birth

After the launch of the Taiwanese drama "We Are Not Kind Enough",

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Ariel Lin, who was once the sweetheart heroine of the Taiwan puppet,

Boldly break through the previous image,

Become a "third party" with dark colors -

Her heart was filled with jealousy,

At the same time, I was also trapped by 12 years of marriage and childcare.

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Stills from "We Are Not Good Enough".

Ariel Lin plays a different female role in the play

debuted 22 years ago, from Yuan Xiangqin to Cheng Youqing,

Ariel Lin is an indelible memory of youth in the hearts of a generation.

Now she is no longer the heroine of the idol drama with a cute round face.

In the eyes of the outside world,

She is a "goddess of zero negative reviews" who works hard,

But after entering the marriage,

Whether it is a "good wife",

Or "get up at half past four" and "send my father-in-law to work",

All kinds of criticism followed.

Now, she feels more and more that she doesn't need to explain or refute it.

What's more,

She never sleeps in bed when she hears the alarm clock,

workaholic who works 11 months a year,

It became a bed with a child,

Novice mom looking forward to her dancing moves,

She learned to slow down and let go of her control.

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Ariel Lin told a story about his mental journey

After pregnancy and childbirth, Ariel Lin with

TV screen for 4 years,

We chatted with her,

After getting married and having children by yourself and starting a new stage of life,

how she and the character help each other,

Enter a richer and more interesting advanced lesson.

The following is Ariel Lin's own statement:

Editor: Jin Lu

Editor-in-charge: Ni Chujiao

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In 2005, Ariel Lin became the youth of a generation because of his role as Yuan Xiangqin in "Mischievous Kiss".

I'm a very adventurous person, so I don't want to do repetitive things. At that time in 2011, I had been stuck in the state of being the heroine of a silly white sweet idol drama for too long, and I was very afraid that I would be able to receive more mature and richer female roles, and I would have that fear of not waiting.

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In 2011, Ariel Lin appeared for the first time as a light mature woman in "I May Not Love You".

Cheng Youqing is the most obvious boundary. At that time, Sister Yuting (Xu Yuting, director, screenwriter) was working as a screenwriter in the play "I May Not Love You", and at that time, I had not yet appeared as a very light mature woman, and she would be a little worried that I would not be competent, but then the result was better than she imagined.

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Ariel Lin played Jian Qingfen in "We Are Not Kind Enough".

So in this year's "We Are Not Kind Enough", Jian Qingfen fully trusted me and told me that this role in the play was written for you, and immediately began to discuss the details with me. I was very happy to have her come to me at the right time, and when I saw it, I thought it was so enjoyable that I had to act.

Qingfen's character, she is not a person who has too strong ambitions for her career, and her work is just so that she can dress up beautifully every day, make colleagues and friends, and even find her ideal other half in this environment. She's pretty good at taking the initiative to get what she wants.

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"We Are Not Good Enough"

I don't have a character like this very often, she has a little more gray on her, and there are a lot of suspicious colors. Sister Yu Ting hopes that when I play her, I will always hum a tune like Swan Lake in my head, which may be very light at the beginning, but after more than ten years of marriage, plus there is a jealousy and suspicion of my husband's ex in my heart, I have become a young woman who hums Swan Lake with a transcated tone in her mouth, but is boiling poison in her hands.

I think this play is about how a group of imperfect people and gray people meet and separate each other at different stages of life, and how the silk threads of fate pull some seemingly incredible karma together.

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Ariel Lin and He Junxiang first collaborated in "Love Contract" 20 years ago

The two teamed up again in "We Are Not Good Enough".

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"Mischievous Kiss"

In the 22 years since my debut, I have complemented and fulfilled the roles of the past, they have helped me integrate into my current state, and my experience may have added some different colors to them.

Yuan Xiangqin is really a character who is a combination of form and god, and her face, accent, posture, and thinking mode of thinking about things are quite profoundly engraved into my private state at that time.

When I first debuted, I learned and absorbed like a sponge, and tried many different styles, even the street style of sneakers and pants, until the accumulated amount was enough, and then slowly sifted out the number of roads that were not so suitable for me, and finally I felt that the intellect was quite suitable for me, and I slowly had my own appearance.

Now that everyone will follow the drama, you will find that there are more and more possibilities for women's roles, there are options for not getting married at an older age, there is the choice of starting your own business, there is the choice of a strong female sister, and even "not only boys have an affair, but I also have an affair", everyone has needs, weaknesses, and desires. For me, I'm happy to see and want to be a part of it.

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After giving birth, 39-year-old Ariel Lin posted birthday photos on social media

For example, when I get married, I have more roles as a wife, a daughter-in-law, and a child, and then I have more roles as a mother, and I may become a producer or a grandmother in the future.

As time goes by, the roles in the script you take on are more diverse, you can actually feel the difference in the social atmosphere, and you will also see more situations faced by women, and this feeling will only become more and more profound, because our identities will always be superimposed and compounded.

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"Together" tells the story of the difficulties and challenges encountered by a couple who have been married for ten years in their married life

What I want to explore the most, such as "sexuality", which is more difficult for Asians to talk about. But the more you avoid talking, the more likely your child is to fall into danger, and the more adults dare not discuss it, in fact, it is another kind of accumulation of stress and bad emotions.

We're seriously talking about it, letting everyone know what it is, what options you can have, and how to do it without hurting each other and making each other happy. So when I had the opportunity to touch on these issues in "Tong Qi Sance" (which has not yet aired), I thought I would do it.

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In 2018, he filmed costume dramas in the crew

I used to be a person who would do a lot of things a day, and I would work outside the home 11 months of the year. The biggest workload is when I am filming costume dramas in the mainland, and I am the most tired in the first and second parts, and I haven't returned to my bed for a few days and nights, and the high-pressure situation is that you will cry unconsciously, let alone go home to get along with your family.

At its busiest, in 2009, the body sent out some warning signs. So I stopped, had an operation, removed a naughty little cyst in my brain, and during the time of recuperation, I released two albums, wrote a book, acted in a stage play, and then slowly returned to the familiar TV scene.

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Ariel Lin posts photos of her children on social media

After forming a small family and having a small life, the most obvious change is that the proportion of work and life is completely opposite, and now I spend most of my time at home with my family, carefully selected at work, and one or two plays a year.

The biggest change should be in the mentality, I used to have high requirements for myself, some attachment and control, these things are very bad for parenting. Because children are free souls, the more you try to control, the more it will backfire, and you must let go of attachments, so that more surprising things will happen. One of the most valuable takeaways from having children is that I waited for things to happen, and I followed the flow of change, and I learned to slow down and not expect too much.

My child loves to dance, and sometimes it can be a bit dangerous, for example, dancing on a very high changing table, and most parents may stop it because they are afraid of falling, but I want to be able to let her dance to her heart's content when it is safe. As a result, she will do all kinds of dances with different rhythms and different emotions, but if I had limited them, I would not have been able to see them.

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"We Are Not Good Enough"

I used to be the kind of person who never got out of bed when I heard the alarm clock, and I got up half an hour early. Now I have tried to lie lazily on the bed with her several times, quietly accompany her, she will wake up, she will hum haha, talk some fairy tales, ask her mother to hug, that kind of very happy feeling is I in the previous impatient life is more difficult to experience.

I've heard the same story several times, and I still hope you tell it again, or suddenly "snap" and faint, giving me a lot of funny and touching feedback. These fun moments, if you urge her to take a shower, brush her teeth, go to bed, and eat quickly, you will miss them.

Becoming a mother is a process of complete disintegration, reorganization, and then escalation. The impact of the child on me is really big, whether it is values, pace of life, or the focus of life, she has repeatedly refreshed my cognition, but it is in a better direction and a richer level, which makes me more inclusive.

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Ariel loves small animals

The outside world can simply put those words and labels on me, but I shouldn't think those labels are me, and I don't want to be very motivated to explain or refute them.

Because to be honest, everyone's definition of a good daughter-in-law or filial piety is different. The so-called "good wife and good mother", you think that she is all at home, but I still have a lot of time to work. No, my mother always wanted me to quit the entertainment industry, but I never quit. If I say that "my eldest sister is like a mother", I sometimes feel that I am younger than my brother and do not look like my sister.

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Ariel Lin studied in the UK

I still have the part of being self-assured. For example, I want to study overseas, this dream has been there since I was a child, but when I was a child, my family's financial conditions could not support it, and later on, I worked a lot and time did not allow. It was after "I May Not Love You", and I was working on a movie when I received an email accepting an application, and I cried on the spot.

Because the application was not as smooth as everyone thought, I had already submitted my application and had many interviews, so I decided to leave when I got this opportunity.

When I went overseas at the age of 31, I found that studying abroad alone is also a great opportunity to reactivate my senses, and I have experienced many things that ordinary international students will encounter. Actors just want to play ordinary people, and the pain, loneliness, loneliness, discrimination, and denial that ordinary people suffer are commonplace, and I think we must experience this feeling.

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Hike on the glacier

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EXPERIENCE DIVING, IMAGE CREDIT: ZERO LEE

I love swimming because my partner has also learned to dive. In the water, you will be more attentive to yourself, and when you dive to depth, you will only hear your own breathing and heartbeat, as if you are in an "inner space".

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Ariel Lin's daily travel routine

I also love to travel and I always tell my partner that we should arrange a dive trip with just the two of us, pick a place we've always wanted to go to, and leave no kids.

I don't know what I'm going to look like or what I'll be able to do, but I don't set limits for myself, and I don't want to rebel against certain labels. I love collecting materials for performances, and I've worked at a pet restaurant before, but recently I'd like to try my hand at delivering on a bicycle, and I think it's so much fun.

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The cover of Ariel Lin's new version of "You".

This year, after "You" became popular on the Internet, Ariel Lin recorded a new version

Now I am more likely to take advantage of the trend and accept a certain opportunity that God has placed in front of you. For example, the re-recording of the song "You" is the part I chose to take advantage of this time. You can't tell why it suddenly became popular, but it's like God told you can do this now, so we recorded it very quickly.

The previous version of "You", especially the sweet version of the guitar, was really sung in Xiangqin's tone and mood, so sweet that I would feel a little shy now. The duet version is based on my current mellower and richer voice, which will be warmer, calmer, and firmer than the previous two versions.

To be honest, if I were in my teens or twenties, I wouldn't be sure I wanted to go back. I cherish and enjoy the state I am in now. Growing old is inevitable, but it is also synonymous with becoming rich and interesting.