Xia Zhiyuan welcomes his first baby
Sharing the news on Weibo with a compilation of photos and videos of his baby, he wrote, "You are the future of our little family, and also the future of our great nation."
"I truly feel like an old man now," he added.
The actor, known for dramas like "Life After Life", "Addicted to Love" and "The Shadow", tied the knot in October 2024 to his non-showbiz wife.
He wrote, "We saw the future - it came to us. We offered him a piece of time, a small, solid fragment of time. Time that bore beautiful patterns, soft to the touch like shallow sea mud. He covered himself with this time, and then took our hands - lifting us into the bliss of the universe."
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