Ningning for Elle China (June 2025 Issue Covers + Pictorial Preview)

In aespa's cosmology, KWANGYA (wilderness) represents the amorphous, infinite digital world, and in that world there is ae-aespa, which was born based on the digital data of each member. @.NINGx2 Ning Yizhuo and ae-NINGNING are "hackers" who draw creative pictures through digital painting, are good at using electronic devices and conduct intelligence survellaince. NINGNING in the Real World stands at the starting point of the future and casts a curious look at the unknown world of the metaverse where ae-NINGNING is located. This is a dialogue between NINGNING and the future, and also Ning Yizhuo's exploration of herself. She is full of imagination and she has infinite possibilities.

18-year-old @.NINGx2 Ning Yizhuo debuted as the lead singer of aespa. This is the first time SM has launched a girl group in 6 years since Red Velvet, and aespa is highly anticipated. The name aespa is derived from "Avatar" and "Experience", the first letters of which are combined into "ae", and then combined with "aspect", and finally fell on the concept of "meeting another self and embodying a new world." In addition to being an artist, Ning Yizhuo is now also a 22-year-old girl who loves spring. She likes the quiet and charming cafes in Hannam-dong, and also wants to have the special ability to travel in time. She said: "I want to travel to any time and space I want to go to, because I want to experience the beautiful moments again, and I also want to go back to the past to make up for those regrets."

Source: Elle China Weibo

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"Allegory of the Cave" tells us that people only see false shadows and think that is the truth. People think they live in the real world, but in fact it is just electronic signals in the brain. In the future world, humans become biological batteries for machines. In order to keep humans alive, AI created a virtual world for human consciousness to live in. Humans restrain their emotions and desires and call it "sin". @.NINGx2 Ning Yizhuo, a hacker who can freely travel between the real and virtual worlds, is constantly searching for the true self of humans - desires, as humans continue to become AI and lose their emotions.sources: 01 02 (idk if this is actually a teaser for a longer version but it looks like it)machine translation:"Allegory of the Cave" tells us that people only see false shadows and think that is the truth. People think they live in the real world, but in fact it is just electronic signals in the brain. In the future world, humans become biological batteries for machines. In order to keep humans alive, AI created a virtual world for human consciousness to live in. Humans restrain their emotions and desires and call it "sin". @.NINGx2 Ning Yizhuo, a hacker who can freely travel between the real and virtual worlds, is constantly searching for the true self of humans - desires, as humans continue to become AI and lose their emotions.

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