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Part 4 is translation of a collection of various weibo updates:

Trainee days:

[My sister is a teacher at Lay’s high school, so I had him teach guitar. My brother-in-law said every time Lay came back to China to visit, he always bowed politely to everyone, he has very good manners.]

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Pre-debut:

3/3:

[12:53am: Kai and Se Hun just left the company building. Lay when are you going to come out?]

[1:09am: Now Lu Han, Kris, Chan Yeol and Xiu Min have left the company building, Lay how long are you going to practice in there before you decide to go home? Don’t be so hard on yourself, my heart is breaking]

[2:12am: After so much anticipation, our Lay finally came out. Even though he was very tired, he still responded to everyone’s greetings. I think Lay needs to go back and rest]

Another day:

[At first fan XX didn’t recognize Lay, so she asked him a couple of times “are you Yixing?” Lay smiled and nodded, being very polite. Lay was very friendly and chatted with XX, when he found out that she lived very far from the company, he volunteered to send her off on taxi.]

[The second time XX met Lay and Lu Han, Lay recognized XX. Lu Han told Lay to focus on chatting with fan, and then walked off by himself. XX asked Lu Han “You don’t need to wait for Yixing?” Lu Han looked like he suddenly realized that he had to wait for Lay to walk together. Then Lay grabbed Lu Han and introduced him to fans “This, is my very good friend”

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Post-debut:

[Today there were about 20 fans sending them off at the airport. There were 3 managers, the youngest one was very hostile. He kept on pushing fans and telling them to stop taking pictures. A fan was simply following EXO when she almost got hit by the young manager who took Tao’s stick. When the stick almost landed, Lay suddenly turned around and quickly said “be careful!” I’m really moved…]

[…at the airport escalator, they went up, we got held up by security at the bottom. Kris and Lay didn’t try to hurry to go up, they kept on turning around and waving to us. I got so hypnotized by Lay’s gentle manners that I can’t help myself anymore. In my past 20 years of life, no man has ever smiled at me that gently! Your gentleness, how am I supposed to get a boyfriend in the future? Oppa!!! I just kept screaming “Yixing Yixing Yixing oppa fighting…” Later when I thought about Lay’s gentle gaze, my legs still felt weak.]

[Ah! ah! ah! Lay helped me get up! The airport scene was really chaotic! We were on the side but then got pushed to the front! Then a friend and I both fell! Lay was the one who helped me up!]

[Lay heard me screaming “Lay smile for us!” Then he smiled! hahaha!]

This is from a male fan […I’m a guy so I didn’t have that many feelings, after watching all the teasers, I just thought that Lay danced very well. A cool person. But that wasn’t enough for me to become a fanboy. I just silently enjoyed EXO’s music… … … The moment when I really became Lay’s fanboy was after I watched the EXO Showcase. I decided to become a fan of Zhang Yixing, a male idol who was younger than me. To be honest, I don’t know why. Was it because of his dancing? His vocals? or his dimples? I’m not sure. I just know that I became a fan of an idol who carefully answered questions, who didn’t look up too often, who diligently bowed to fans. I don’t know him too well yet, but I know he is a person who has an ambitious dream and who has talent and potential…]

source: ailyca@baidu

okay, that’s all for now! Hope you guys enjoyed reading it… I was definitely moved, especially by those pre-debut fan accounts by Lay’s baidu forum admins in part 1 and part 3. T.T *kleenex please*

I’ll leave you with some gifs of the gentle healing unicorn~