Writer and producer Yu Zheng whose known for his frequent rants is back in the spotlight with a blind item that involves a number of people in C-ent. Although he doesn’t explicitly name names, it seems that he left enough clues for netizens to narrow it down to Li Yitong, Jin Chen, Li Qin, Deng Lun and his manager. I’d take any blind item with a grain of salt but the gist of it is Yu Zheng claiming that a talent agent has engaged in activities to smear an actress. On June 2, Yu Zheng took to Weibo to write:
“Let me praise myself ten thousand thousand times because I’m really too smart!!! Yesterday, the drama of actress A whom I like very much was just announced, but it’s been overshadowed by negative things posted about her on Douban. She doesn’t actually mind the made up nonsense about her but her beautiful manager got very anxious. I told her manager to calm down and asked if she suspected anyone in particular and I learned this:
1. Actress A took on the project last minute because actress B who was supposed to star couldn’t make it anymore, thus she came in as a replacement.
2. Why couldn’t actress B come as scheduled? Because her manager agent C also manages actor D who used to date actress E, the second lead in the drama. He’s worried that actor D’s love life would affect his job so he’s been smearing actress E and also caused the couple to breakup. How can he (agent C) agree to have actress B and E share the stage? He thought that the broadcast platform and production company would compromise but did not expect that they’d ignore him by having actress A replace actress B. What could’ve been a large sum of money fell through so he must hate actress A to death.
3. Last year, actress A and actress B both had big historical dramas airing around the same time. Actress A had to deal with attempts to smear her but because she’s from a small company, she had no way to fight back except to silently take it. When A’s drama didn’t turn out as good as B’s drama, the smearing slowly disappeared.
4. At this moment, A and E’s new drama has been announced, A will soon have a big costume drama airing around the same time as B’s big costume drama. Given C’s personality, it would be surprising if he doesn’t make a move to smear his opponents. Back then, he used all kinds of tactics to say that E was manipulating buzz.
After revealing all the information, she (actress A’s manager) asked me, what is the use of saying all this? I said, it’s enough. I then looked at the usernames who were smearing actress A and searched their feed for the names of actress B and actor D to discover that it was full of praise. The search for actress E returned nothing but smears and scolding.
Now the answer is clear. These user accounts belong to agent C or are paid off by C. The article is specifically to smear actress A. I know I wrote a bunch of ABCDE and you must all be confused, but I am telling you, I’ve solved the case! Happy!!!”
Now to piece together Yu Zheng’s not so subtle hints, actresses A and E are thought to be Li Yitong and Jin Chen as their new drama Dear Missy which is said to be the Chinese version of Gossip Girl recently dropped its first posters to announce both as the leads. Furthermore, Jin Chen liked Yu Zheng’s post and he responded with, “Thanks E for giving me a like.”
Li Yitong and Li Qin had their dramas Royal Nirvana and Joy of Life airing around the same time last year. Their new dramas Court Lady and The Wolf are rumored to air soon. Li Qin was initially attached to star in Dear Missy which makes her actress B. Jin Chen used to date Deng Lun which makes him actor D while agent C is his manager.
Later on, it seems that Yu Zheng himself has revealed the identity of actress A when he took to social media again this time to express support for Li Yitong. He also shared their chat messages where he’s seen texting Li Yitong about a rumor claiming that her side’s essentially paying 500,000 yuan per episode just to secure her role as the leading lady. Yu Zheng says that the contract on Douban cannot be any more fake because Li Yitong is a stage name and she uses her real name when signing contracts.
Regardless of who ABCDE are, he adds that he is not attacking any artist because they are innocent. Instead, he is frustrated with a certain talent manager.
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Anonymous
Wow this tea… this seems believable considering c-ent has always been shady af the way some management companies known to use black marketing to smear the opponents of their artists.
Anonymous
I’m not surprise. Agent C is truly disgusting. He indeed used all kind of tactics to say Actress E want to attached her name with his actors. Actor D fan’s keep spread rumors that Actress E want to get back together with Actor D. Then He replied random actor D’s fans said ‘no chance’. Btw, when they are dating Actress E already made her name in circle while actor D was nobody.
Rac
I'm just gonna say, Yu Zheng pointing this shit out is just satisfying. All these shading should be pointed out.
hohliu
I love his bitchiness at times…..He has the position and power in the industry to pull these crap out… Well, he had his share of bad press too…
Anthony
Actress A's manager should be F , and Yu Zheng should be G
Vee
Actress A is the innocent victim here. Was it even her fault that she got the role, yet the agent seems to out for her out of jealousy. Sounds like those trashy webnovel/manhua I've read lol.
Anonymous
Damn, i've felt like reading a 2000 chapters of a Cnovel. Spill more beans please.. i really like actress E, in my opinion she acts better than many leads. She's also very pretty. While for actress A, i liked her previous dramas, but she's everywhere nowadays, but well, i found out from this article, she's cool with all the rumors, so.. an A+ for her personality. And actress B, her previous drama was a hit, but she did nothing much. The actor in that drama DID everything. But she's also pretty. And actor D… seriously, you guys broke up becuz of agent C???? Aiyooo… and now actress E also has a boyfriend, right?? She's pretty. She deserves someone who loves her. Jiayou for Gossip girl drama. With actress E in it, im gonna watch it.
Nano13
My head is spinning trying to follow this ABCDE drama ….^_^
Anonymous
lmao me too!! I stopped at A. I don't need to learn my ABC no more lol.
Ike
As I also previously wrote in mydramalist.com, I have been following her in England and trying to look for dramas starred by Li Yi Tong via any channels. No doubt, she is adorably beautiful and remarkably talented. Many have criticised her look which may be forgettable on screen. But to be honest, she is actually smart and naturally good in acting, much better than many of Chinese actresses who are published to be more beautiful or popular than her. And yes indeed, she has been the leading role in all her dramas and most of her dramas have very good rating. You basically can throw any characters on her really and she would just execute them professionally beautiful. Watch her in the recent tv show “When We Write Love Story” You would see how good she (partnered with Wang Yan Lin) actually is in doing impromptu acts and developing more exciting storyline about love (compared with the other actresses in the show). So what the popularity! I admire her lovely look, professionalism and humble personality more. The reason of her slow popularity definitely not because of her lack of beauty or acting skill, but simply because she is just workaholic and always choose to keep a good distance from show-off publications. Moreover, people outside the Chinese mainland like me sometimes find mixed-up publications of the actress, Li Yi Tong (Huang Rong , in the Legend of the Condor Heroes, Appledog in Go Go Squid 2; and Wenxi in Royal Nirvana) mistakenly portrayed as different Li Yitong who is the average singer of SNH48. So, last but not least, Li Yi Tong of the Bloody Romance is one of the Chinese actress who obviously deserves more recognition from you guys as she is actually bloody fantastic! 🙂