Blissful_Rhapsody

His sad ending dramas are the most popular ones for some reasons. The Glory of Tang Dynasty made him famous back in 2017. One & Only is his most famous role while Love of Nirvana is his most awarded role. While The Demon Hunter's Romance is really popular, it is #1 drama last month at China.

And there is a different between Sad Ending and Bad Ending. Sad Endings dramas are not necessarily 'bad' if it make sense, not illogical and suit the story.

For Burning Flames, I like it since the drama as a whole is very well written. Many metaphors and analogies and it has great lessons as well.

In Thousand Years for You, Lu Yan cant be reincarnated since its only a few months after the event. So I think he just lose his power (and probably memory as well?). The Director left it for us to decide. I like HEA so for me, they found each other again and its all that matters.

He met Bai Chai at the end of the series though. The Snow Man is the biggest hint. Its the exact same Snow Man that Bai Cai did at the beginning of the drama at the stone mine. And when the door opened, he smile with tears in his eyes, he wont do that if it is another character.

Me too. The casts are fantastic and the OST is indeed top tier.

He did not reluctant to do kissing scenes. A simple watch of his dramas will tell you this. This is a rumour spread by antis and YXH accounts.

His dramas with kissing scenes; Detective Dee, The Glory of Tang Dynasty, Forever & Ever, The Blue Whisper & The Demon Hunter's Romance. He just usually act in non romance dramas.

In Burning Flames, he met Bai Cai again before the end. He went back to their house, saw the Snow Man that she did and the door opened and he sees her. There is tears in his eyes and he smiles to indicate that it was her that he sees.

In Thousand Years for You, the FL searched for him in many different towns and before the end, she finally saw him again.

He played a cheerful and bubbly character in Love A Lifetime, Blue Flame Assaults & Twilight.

He did kissing scenes in his other dramas as well like in Detective Dee, The Glory of Tang Dynasty, Forever & Ever, The Blue Whisper and now The Demon Hunter's Romance. He just usually act in non romance dramas.

No, thats a rumour spread by antis and YXH account. He did many kissing scenes in his dramas:
https://kisskh.at/people/13700-allen-ren#comment-22111354

Clarification on the ending as the writer actually wrote a happy ending for the drama:
https://kisskh.at/discussions/63991-wu-you-du/140430-the-actual-ending-intended-for-the-the-demon-hunter-s-romance-by-the-scriptwriter

This is not true. Out of all 18 dramas where he is a lead, only 5 dramas has sad endings which is The Glory of Tang Dynasty, Autumn Cicada, One & Only, Love of Nirvana & The Demon Hunter's Romance. You are safe to watch his other dramas.

All his 18 dramas as a lead has happy endings except 4 dramas:
1. The Glory of Tang Dynasty
2. Autumn Cicada
3. One & Only
4. Love of Nirvana

Thus, you are safe to watch his other dramas. Most are excellent with very good scripts. He is one of the traffic actors with the most hit dramas (6) for the past 5 years.

Since I read so many untrue gossip about him at this site, this is the clarification for anybody who is curious. This in year 2025 already, its time to stop spreading malicious rumors about an actor that we didn't know personally:

- He did not have 'NO KISSING' rules in his dramas. A simple watch of his dramas will tell you this. The latest drama of his with lot of kissing scenes is The Blue Whisper (2022). If you want to see him doing passionate & deep kisses, then you can watch Glory of Tang Dynasty (2016). Often, the BTS of his kissing scenes are more intimate but it got cut like in Forever & Ever (2021). The Demon Hunter's Romance (2025) also has kissing scenes.

- He did not have many SAD ENDINGS in his dramas. Out of 18 dramas he acted as a lead, only 4 dramas have Sad Endings (The Glory of Tang Dynasty, Autumn Cicada, One & Only and Love of Nirvana). 2 dramas with Open Endings (Detective Dee & The Demon Hunter's Romance) while the rest 12 dramas have Happy Endings. I dont know why people keep spreading this everywhere when they didnt even watch his dramas. 🙄

- His WIFE is not a famous person. She is a nobody. All those gossip about her being rich and influential is false.

- He is a very professional actor. All you can read online about him from industry insiders are good things. He doesn't mind to dress down or look ugly for his roles if that is required of him. He also always joke in BTS filming and known to have good rapports with his co-stars male or female. You can always caught all his co-stars laughing when he is around as he is a chatterbox and love to make jokes.
https://youtu.be/X1bUlS81JOA?si=0QuriPhhJLRb3CEE&t=373
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M9Cqq6g-Oco

- He has a lot of famous CPs at China. Some CPs fans are so unhinged that they started to attack his wife. He brought those fans to court. All his romance dramas are popular and mostly are hits. We are talking about millions of people enjoying his romance dramas. Some people may not enjoy him but other people find him to have chemistry with many of his co-stars. So, it proved that it works as he brings money to investors. But he doesn't do CP promotions and he is known not to encourage parasocial & obsessive behaviors among his fans.
https://youtu.be/chiUiAex6b4?si=AeoZxkXf0bupbuLR&t=411

- He is actually one of the most successful traffic actors in recent years. But he is very low profile. In term of hit dramas (>40million/episode), he is an actor with the most hit dramas for the past 5 years tied with Zhang Ruoyun & Zhao Liying with 5 dramas. And in term of high-end luxury brand endorsements, Ren Jialun (4) is only below Xiao Zhan (6) & Wang Yibo (5).
https://www.douban.com/group/topic/291758906/?_i=4571978x0AtymB,5746530x0AtymB

- I advise not to believe what you read on the net about him since 99% of it is untrue. And those accounts that slander him with either prostitution, divorce, cheating or other accusations, he bring them all to court and won. They have to pay heavy fines and issue public apology.
https://weibo.com/1642591402/5082433926207949
https://weibo.com/5641380205/5082438028232594

Burning Flames didnt become a hit unfortunately. :( But it is a good drama with a very good script.

Yes, it was really popular. It got more or less the same viewership with The Blue Whisper even without massive promotion lol.

It is simply an illogical ending. I cant understand people who try to defend bad writing. Thats why we keeps getting them. You dont excuse bad writing. When it is bad and didnt make sense, you have to call out of it so they know dont do this terrible endings anymore.

No one is complaining about that. And no one want the leads ending up together while the whole world dies, that is even worst.

The whole drama is selling us this story that they could work together but decided against it at the end, 5 minutes before the end. The illogical ending is what drove people mad. They could make the talisman working and the leads could be happy together. Why make it broken? Because they want to force the BE ending that iQiyi wants. So nothing adds up at the end.

The Concept Art Director drew several concept arts of Xuanye & Banxia at the Carefree World (according to the original script) and was waiting for the scene to happen when he watched the drama. It didnt exist in the drama. 💀

Good news! This drama is the fastest costume drama on iQiyi to break 30M/ep this year. Congrats to all casts & crews for such an amazing drama where they achieved all of this despite the show being air-dropped without any promotion/investment.

https://www.douban.com/group/topic/326091227/?_spm_id=MTM1OTQ2NTAx&_i=7299848boDkXNy

And looking back, Ren Jialun always give iQiyi a successful dramas everytime he released something at the platform:

2020 - Under the Power
2021 - One & Only and Forever & Ever
2022 - Thousand Years for You
2025 - The Demon Hunter's Romance

Hopefully iQiyi will treat his dramas better (with good marketing) in the future.

I think most people are mad with the writer for writing it that way. She purposely put a hurdle for the lead to force this BE which is utterly unnecessary.

Viewership in general has dropped so much around the world. Last time, it used to be reach 20%