Ren He was somewhat surprised as he stepped off the stage to applause; he was well aware that all the applause was for whom, because those people were all looking at him.
Master Level acting is indeed magical.
However, when his teammates described the look in his eyes at that moment, Ren He felt a bit awkward...
It was like doing reading comprehension in a Chinese language test back in school, the author might not have thought that much, and yet people interpreted a bunch of things even the author had no idea about...
If the author took the test, they probably wouldn't even pass!
So the emotions in his eyes that they talked about were really just Ren He's desire to play the beggar role well; it was a feeling, not an adjective that could be precisely articulated.