The director actually went straight to the Central Academy of Drama (CAD) to hold open auditions. Chen Xingxu competed against numerous other students and won the role strictly on his own merit.
2017 as Yang Kang. A testament to his talent and hard work, having absolutely nothing to do with resources. #ChenXingxu proves that true capability stands on its own.
#Wangchuran & #Chenxingxu. Them starring in a high-scale big-budgeted drama spanning multiple eras with tragedy, longing, betrayal... Is my Roman empire.
“he is too modern for historical drama” but little they know how much impact he has made as li chenying in GBMP, a historical romance drama that was released 7 years ago 🤭 #ChenXingxu
Chen xingxu himself will likely not act in a role this compelling or with such skill for a long time… not to mention, this drama had people talking about ACTING. Since this drama, no 古偶 ML has made a splash like li chengyin did. And if you say there has been, you are WRONG
kind of crashing out over the quotes because we’re truly losing the ancient texts. Li chengyin is one of the few guzhuang MLs in the last 10ish years that the majority of people think was acted seriously well and was genuinely interestingly complex