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Replying to yd1010 Jan 24, 2026
01/07/2026I have written a lot about how people in the bs internal entertainment industry in bs China and even…
acting shown since Chinese Paladin?? I don't agree. I first saw her as a supporting role for Hu Ge in Xuan Yuan Sword and she was already so amazing. Then I watched her in 9 Tail Fox and she was amazing again.
I think everything sort of went downhill after Chinese Paladin. I find her acting great in Chinese Paladin, I dropped that show because I didn't like the male lead, he did great in Wu Xin but his acting in Chinese Paladin is just such a huge throw off. If anything, he should be getting the hate instead of Nazha. I also like Joe and misses him from Started With a Kiss but his character was 2 timing so that's another thing that led me to drop the show. I didn't like the leads nor 2nd leads, but the casts were all amazing, that's for sure. I believe it was fear of Nazha becoming famous, she got marketing attack since Chinese Paladin.
I finished Mountains of seas, but I didn't really like the show. It's not her acting, but the script, it was very foolish. I think that led to further bullying and marketing attacks. I agree it was thanks to tons of bad opportunities and casting with wrong people that led to her downfall. On top of that, her unfortunate private life matters was exposed, and "someone" is clearly targetting her all the time with all those silly marketing attacks. Luck was not her side. Finally, Glory is proving me right, I always say it's not her acting. Those picking on her acting and saying she's "too pretty to act" are the same water armies attacking Dilraba, anything they say is not reliable, we know who can act but just constantly landing on bad projects.
Replying to Moku Jan 24, 2026
Person Chen Xing Xu
Wow, I like 2 dramas in a row for Chen Xingxu this month of January. Didn't expect that. Really enjoying them!…
THERE IS NOTHING GOOD (costume show) AIRING AT THIS TIME, although Chen Xingxu is a long time actor I never really know him. I am just so so glad to get to watch 2 of his dramas in a row this month, he really won me over and I don't even like contemporary. He manages to get me to watch 2 of his contemporary, that is how amazing he is. I am glad he gets paired up with great female leads. If not because of Lu Yuxiao I wouldn't pick up Love Between Lines and fell for Chen Xingxu. Although I love Lu Yuxiao, I wasn't going to pick up a contemprory because it's just not my type of thing. But it is really a great timing, like I said, nothing good is airing at all, costume show wise. I also love Wang Yuwen. He has great chemistry with both ladies. Both dramas kept me on my feet while waiting for more episodes. I even dropped Glory, but finished Love Between Lines (still rewatching), and dying for more episodes from My Pages in the 90s.
Lily Alice Jan 24, 2026
I was a bit sad after Love Between Lines ended. It was a great show. I usually do not watch contemporary, but I am rewatching Love Between Lines again. I'm so happy that My Pages in the 90s is also airing right after. I am watching it right now, also very interested in it. I didn't realize he was in Goodbye My Princess, that wasn't my cup of tea, and back then I didn't find him attractive. He was still young at that time, I really think after aging, it makes him look very masculine and handsome. All the Chinese actors I like, I like them through costume drama. But Chen Xing Xu is special for me, I found him through contemporary. Looking forward to his growth and more success.
On Lu Yu Xiao Jan 17, 2026
Person Lu Yu Xiao
Although I view Liu Yifei as the prettiest and Lu Yuxiao resembles her greatly, I never really see LYX as a great beauty, she is a bit short sometimes and has a bit quirkiness that's very different from Liu Yifei. LYX can easily show playfulness and comedy. Many people use those things to attack LYX, how she doesn't walk perfectly and when in ancient costumes, they seem big on her. However, I LOOOOOOOOVE all those things about LYX and they're all what makes her so real. Ancient costumes are huge so she's acting very natural with them, she's not being pretentious. The way she handles them isn't the same all the time either, she was so elegant in and COOL in My Journey to You, yet, a bit clumsy but sassy and smart as Li Sanniang in Perfect Match. Don't judge the way a person walks, she does waddle a little bit bc that's how she naturally walks due to her legs. I don't know if they should be called flaws but I like them so much and they're what makes her so unique. While I don't view LYX as a great beauty, she is extremely attractive, and very screen addicting. I love her natural voice, she has a beautiful voice and I'm so glad she always dubs herself. I don't think she gets the best scripts and everything all the time, but she's highly captivating that I would manage to watch through most of her things all the time and always anticipating more from her. I usually don't watch contempory, and now, I'm so hooked to Love Between Lines. Hoping she receives recognitions she deserves.
Replying to Noelle Jan 17, 2026
Person Zhao Li Ying
Thanks to Allen Yu's death, it is revealed how tightly the government is connected with the entertainment industry…
Her expressions don't match the emotions because she tries way too hard. After marketing that hard, she is definitely too guilty and distracted.
Replying to Shen Li Jan 17, 2026
Person Yang Mi
Xiao Zhan and Yang Mi already a strong rumor about King and Queen of Weibo Night.They didn't deserve that 😭…
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1292906586201309&set=a.445769900914986

Esther Yu is a very controversial person. I wouldn't say she doesn't play marketing at all, but she doesn't play it as stupidly as Zhao Liying does so I'm not annoyed at Esther yet. I can tell you're not a real fan of Esther bc you seem to hate Li Yitong and give her drama bad rating, and Esther doesn't see LYT as a threat but it's Zhao Liying who sees her threatful. You want to bring wedges between Yang Mi's fans and Esther's fans. You can give it up, a few of us only bring out ZLY because she openly market like a bish for many years. Esther has been around for a while but still considered new, her marketing and controversies are still not pushing the button yet, but if she persists with this attitude, she will become the next hateful Zhao Liying everyone looks down on. Marketing everyday, honing no skill, attacking peers everyday. People like that, where ever they go, everyone avoid and wouldn't interact with. Esther is very sociable so I don't think she will want to walk that path.
Replying to Noelle Nov 25, 2025
Person Zhao Li Ying
Thanks to Allen Yu's death, it is revealed how tightly the government is connected with the entertainment industry…
Not only was her acting fall short. Her drama has zero quality.

1. 2015 Journey of flower - plotless, the only purpose of that show is for her character to be PITIFUL and being miserable for no reason, all the other female characters were hateful, even making the male lead hateful and making the CP unshippable. But she managed to pay her fans making the CP worked, to Wallace Huo's gullible surpise back then not knowing anything. No one had ever been so shameless like that before that's why he never knew or suspected her until years later, he finally knew why their CP was that insane compare to all of his other high quality works from the past when JOF is such bullcrap.

2. 2016 Legend of Chusen - plotless, the whole story never moved. Her character was supposed to die early but she refused, and she stole all of Yang Zi's scripts. Had this shamelessness been anyone else they would've been cancelled by the public already, but she managed to pay fans to protect her ass that she didn't do any of that. Like shit? NOT EVEN HALF of the story was filmed, cause she refused to step down, even hire fans to say nasty things to Yang Zi and still has the face to say she's innocent. Like bish, what med are you on?

3. 2017 Princess Agent - plotless. She doesn't have a single talent to star in Wuxia and martial arts theme, she couldn't even film half the story.

4. 2018 Ming Lan - boring, couldn't even act. She looked dumb, nothing smart for the character.

5. 2019, scandals. Did not film the whole year but managed to be on top search the whole year relying on scandals.

6. 2020 Legend of Fei - full of crap, cannot even live up to Wuxia and still keep filming it just bc Wang Yibo was in the show. She literally had an affair with him and then hire the media to throw her husband under the bus that he was having an affair.

7. Self produced Xianxia, Legend of Shen Li is executive director. Full of crap again. For many years, she looks down on Xianxia and was hiring the news to bad mouth others, especially Yang Mi and Liu Shi Shi that they are not "serious" actress since they only starred in Xianxia. Then why is she throwing her money to produce a Xianxia, she has all the money and decision, why not produce other stuff? She moved all the way to that high position smoothly

I don't even care how much of a crap she is, and how dumb her works are, and how desperately she wants to be famous. She literally buys the media to keep reminding everyone how pitiful her country life was as a child, and that she never used any men to work her way up, despite the fact that she has Nicky Wu buying her so many companies listing her as CEO and giving her a share of Strawbear, Ding Zijun acting as her secret agent and helping her change agencies as if changing new clothes while people such as Zhao Lusi can't even change 1 agency (just 1), ZLY can change as many as 5 different agencies within 1-3 years just as easy as that. Totally no men involved. But I'm so tired of her paying so much people to say hateful things to others, especially seniors like Yang Mi, Liu Yifei, Liu Shi Shi, Yang Zi, etc. and then the younger ones that are way more talented than her and she gets jealous, like Zhao Lusi, Dilraba, Chen Duling, Zhou Ye, etc. She's just way too toxic that her face has become so hateful, it's impossible to like.
Replying to Noelle Oct 15, 2025
Lin Gengxin, Wang Sicong, Kris Wu, Zhao Liying are friends very close together. The Legend of Chu Qiao, means…
Who can hide news as huge as death news? That's like Zhao Liying thinking she can lie about pregnancy when the baby will be popping out in the next few months. Really dumb. No matter what, news like that will get out and there must be an explanation. The fact that you keep watching Marcus over and over but you don't even know a thing until you have to do so much extra research tells everything about how he is like. He chose to explain the news, yeah? BUT, not in the way where it will tell the honest truth. Those who foolishly trust Marcus will just think all they need to do is watch Marcus and they know everything, but there's way more to it bc Marcus picks the CCP and will never spit out a truth. He's even covering up the perpetuators and trying to scare people that defaming YSQ will result in lawsuits. Spit!
Replying to Noelle Oct 13, 2025
Lin Gengxin, Wang Sicong, Kris Wu, Zhao Liying are friends very close together. The Legend of Chu Qiao, means…
What a joke? Marcus is featuring news about Fan Shiqi in the manner as if he's a super star, being cyberbullied. On the other hand, many already confirm him and Song Yiren's involved and even laid their hands on YML. I get why Chinese netz would fear and not talk, but as an international person, we have a voice, we should speak up for justice for YML. Marcus does not talk about any of the death conspiracies. He's featuring news about perpetuators as if they're still famous, and covering up for them.
Replying to Dawei Oct 12, 2025
Despite his body having been dismembered, missing limbs, and even castrated, they still ruled his death to be…
Lin Gengxin, Wang Sicong, Kris Wu, Zhao Liying are friends very close together. The Legend of Chu Qiao, means The Legend of eliminating Qiao Renliang. The way he was tortured to death was the same way the ML in Princess Agents was tortured.
If Qiao Renliang's death is not related to spiritual sacrifices, he might've gotten involved with some people's mistresses. Clearly, someone powerful hates him enough to murder him brutally and even flaunt about it by making a drama about it. Even marketing the dumb drama to be one of the most popular when the plot is NON-EXISTING, I knew these data had always been fake. Just didn't know there are even way more darker conspiracies behind it. Internally paid marketers such as Marcus Sim promotes it more than anything, and now he's all hushed up about the murder of Yu Menglong.
Replying to Noelle Oct 11, 2025
Oh yeah? He was most notable for his role in Legend of Luzhen and guess who didn't even dare to send him off any…
Who is asking anyone to speak up? Even when Yang Mi tried to save Yu Menglong 3 times, nobody wants to brag about it due to fear that she can get into trouble. Nobody expects anything from ZLY, her dirty mouth needs to shut, the issue is her marketing always trampling on others. Those who didn't even do a thing to save others such as Zhao Liying is actually marketing now, that she is the bigmouth who dares to speak up when she didn't even help anyone but trample on others. She literally markets her name as the 1st person to speak up when she did nothing to help. Back then when QRL passed away, nobody suspect anything, everyone was only asking ZLY why she acts as if she never knew QRL and wouldn't post anything. Back then people only thought she came off pitiless. Now that the truth came out, seeing that ZLY KNEW the reason behind QRL's death that's why she wouldn't speak up makes her even more suspicious. As everyone can see, only the government can wipe out data and promote what they want to show and hide. All these years, the only things we been seeing is excessive promotions of ZLY and trampling on many artists. Who said Zhao Lusi did not come from money? She came from a very well to do family, but she just works hard and doesn't rely on her family's wealth.
Replying to Luv Peony Oct 5, 2025
Qiao Ren Liang's death:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/chinese-actor-qiao-renliangs-mutilated-body-torture-dealing-with-depression-and-chilling-similarities-with-yu-menglongs-death-case-who-was-he-and-how-did-he-die/articleshow/124146192.cms?from=mdrYu…
Oh yeah? He was most notable for his role in Legend of Luzhen and guess who didn't even dare to send him off any condelescence? Zhao Liying, the leading female of Legend of Luzhen. Even acquaintances with little interactions with him, gave him their farewell messages. ZLY is considered a friend, not acquaintance. She was so guilty that she wouldn't dare to say anything even when urged by her fans. One time, a host boldly asked her the question on stage that why didn't she give him any condelescence message, and she bursted out crying in fear. Unlike any other stars being controlled by contracts and cannot change agency, ZLY is the only person who can maneuver at least 5 different agencies within 1-2 years. Others are stuck in 5-10+ years, or even life time contracts, even a rich girl like Zhao Lusi went through so much to get out of her agency. Big companies like Hairun transferred millions of money to ZLY and make her the top 14th biggest shareholder, while hardworking people such as Yang Mi started her own companies from ground up, and ZLY keeps being jealous and marketing attack them for being "shrew business women" and unlike her who is the ONLY serious and a real actress above others. The entertainment circle is not a clean place, but some artists remain clean people despite the hardships and some are literally just trash. Those who want to be clean, either have to swallow up their pride and endure bullying or else, like QRL and others, fall into danger. Those with tight connections like ZLY and SYR can do anything and trample on anyone at ease.
Replying to Shen Li Sep 28, 2025
Person Zhao Li Ying
Queen Zhao Liying does not need any awards to prove her acting skills, awards are only icing on the cake. Unlike…
Thanks to Allen Yu's death, it is revealed how tightly the government is connected with the entertainment industry to launder money. Zhao Liying is one of the most notably affiliated with the government because of her ability to control the media as if the country is under her palm, her acting skill is really none existent so if she were to win anything she would become the topic of using powerful men to back her up. After all she is the first person on earth to exceed a viewership of 60billion when there ain't that many people on earth, it's all her gold masters behind closed doors. It's a smart move of her to ask her gold masters not letting her win at this time, and churn all these controversial news over to the talented candidates nominated. She receives so many criticisms one after another: bad acting in She's Got no Name, dating her druggy director for roles, having attitudes during advertisement... although she wants to win so much, winning at a timing like this would cause even more criticisms.
On Echoes of the Self Sep 20, 2025
Thank goodness, everything else airing atm is very boring except this show. I only gave it a try bc I know Sabrina Chen is the best, glad I did because it's very interesting. Can't wait for more episodes.
On Sebrina Chen Sep 20, 2025
Person Sebrina Chen
I'd always like her ever since Wu Xin, where she looked like a haunted doll. She's extremely cute and innocent but amazes me how she can play such scary villians with chilling smirks. Super underated and deserves more.
Replying to Cutie cotton Sep 16, 2025
It was nice seeing Reba among the top actresses sharing a vogue cover. I know few deserving candidates like Sunli,…
Haha... that's funny if you think Zhao Liying is a deserving candidate, pick anyone randomly from the 95'ers and they will deserve it a million times more than ZLY. If ZLY participates in anything,
1. ZLY will cry and fight if she is not given the middle C-position. That position went to Liu Yifei. All attendants do not complain, while ZLY didn't even get to participate, she still remember to pay the media to say things like, "YM fought for the C-position but lost to LYF." When she worked as "an extra" in Zhang Yimou's movie, she only appeared 5 minutes in the movie, but each and every single group photos, all of the "lead actresses and actors" yielded the C-position to her and she still bullies them for being leads and cannot outshine her, in order to fight for their awards.
2. ZLY will isolate herself then pay the media to say EVERYONE bullies her because she is a pitiful country girl.
The way ZLY mistreated Dior, why would Vogue want to feature her? Her acting is very so-so, but the only skill she can get a pass is acting, because everything is always done behind the scenes with heavy editing along with high-salaried 60+ doubles. When it comes to variety, showing her true self and true color, advertising, interviews, she performs horrendously and shows very disrespectful diva attitudes. DRB does well in all areas, acting, modeling, advertising, interviews, etc. She gets bullied by insecure people such as ZLY's news writers all the time about how she cannot act. Acting is the easiest thing for anyone to prey on! Those who cannot act can manipulate the data to make it look like everyone enjoys their acting, while those who CAN act could be bullied to the point it looks like no one likes their acting, it depends on marketing. Only when it comes to the true self and real personality, that's where it's hard to hide! Those who knows, knows it. Zhao Liying's immense online influence didn't translate into commercial value for all her endorsements. Yes, she has the most followers, most fans, and most positive feedbacks. But none of that translates into money. Others, they get so much criticisms, however their value translates into real money. That means although they have fewer fans, they have REAL FANS. Some people only have robot fans, and bots who attack competitors that's why they always get positive feedbacks while others get such harsh bullying.
Replying to mooncakkesss Sep 9, 2025
Person Zhao Li Ying
Yep, pure passerby here, and I 100% agree 😂
If ZLY and her fans are normal to you then you gotta be a ZLY minion and paid by her. I don't trust ZLY a bit. Whoever supports her, and lying they don't know her, but support her, must be kidding. Do you not know how to google?
Here's a glimps of Google Ai's review, but ZLY has the ability to change what AI will say about her in a few weeks.
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AI Overview
Criticism of Zhao Liying's marketing and fan behavior stems from several controversies, with the most significant occurring in 2021. The perception of her marketing as "disgusting" primarily comes from rival fans, but it has also led to disciplinary action from Chinese authorities.

History of toxic fan behavior
Instigating fan wars: In 2021, large fan groups for Zhao Liying were banned from Weibo for instigating "mutual tear-downs" against rival celebrities.
Sabotaging collaborations: The bans followed an online battle where her fans boycotted a potential co-star, Wang Yibo, for a new drama. This behavior was seen as overzealous and disruptive to the industry.
Official intervention: The incident drew official government attention and was part of China's "clear and bright" campaign to combat unhealthy fan culture. In response, Weibo banned thousands of accounts related to the conflict, and Zhao's studio was suspended for 15 days for failing to control the situation.

Perceived manipulation of public image
"Country girl" narrative: Some critics accuse Zhao Liying of relentlessly marketing a "pitiful country girl" image to gain public sympathy, despite having resources that other celebrities use. This is viewed as manipulative, as she allegedly uses this narrative to accuse rivals of "bullying" her.
Hypocrisy accusations: After the 2021 fan controversy, Zhao issued an apology calling for fans to behave in a "civilised, harmonious and rational manner". However, the incident highlighted what some perceived as hypocrisy, as her marketing team was slow to intervene while her fans were actively cyberbullying a potential colleague.

Allegations of manufactured hype: Some observers and third-party analysts believe her marketing focuses on generating massive social media buzz and creating a highly supportive fan base. This is sometimes described as generating "fake fans" to boost her influence, while not necessarily translating to genuine consumer sales for endorsed products.
Poor handling of controversies

Ineffective damage control: In another incident, Zhao reportedly faced backlash and a boycott for controversial comments about her love life. Instead of calming the situation, her angry response further deteriorated her public image, leading some to question the effectiveness of her PR team.

Studio inaction: The 2021 fan war highlighted the perceived failure of her studio to properly manage her fan base. Their delayed and, at the time, insufficient response led to their own suspension and greater official scrutiny.

Misaligned brand image
Conflicting brand identity: Following her controversial appointment as a Dior brand ambassador, marketing experts criticized the move, noting that her fan base was mostly younger girls who were vocal but not influential purchasers of luxury goods. This was seen as a mismatch for a high-fashion brand, suggesting her immense online influence didn't translate into commercial value for all her endorsements.
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That AI overview only gave 1 out of the 1000 things she done. All those news articles talking sh!t of other celebrities came from ZLY hiring them. If you work for ZLY then tell her to rely on her own self and stop relying on bullying others.
Replying to Deci16 Sep 9, 2025
Person Li Yi Tong
I don't see the resemblance, and the comparison drives ME crazy.
She does not look like Bai Lu.
Bai Lu is currently one of the most popular actresses now. LYT was a bit less popular, now that she is becoming so popular, and the reason is because she played a type of character that's a bit similar to most of BL's usual characters and acting, people are just pretending to say they look the same on purpose to throw shades.

I'm just being very honest.
LYT has been around for a long time, if she looks like Bai Lu, that would've been a talk many years ago. It was never a topic until now.
If anyone, LYT has been compared to Zhao Liying endlessly how she started off as a double for her, and used the chance during her pregnancy to rise up. Zhao Liying likes to play that type of marketing on everyone so it's not a surprise, she's just an insecure loser. Her minions will play the blind game of not seeing any of that marketing when it's literally out there everywhere. They want to throw Bai Lu under the bus for a comparison. Some people are doing it because they either hate Bai Lu, or don't want to acknowledge that Li Yitong can be an actress of her own. Either way, both Bai Lu and Li Yitong are a threat to somebody with lots of minions so it doesn't matter which one of them goes down because of the fake comparisons. Convince me a deer is a horse, only ZLY fans has that ability to make black turns white. A white deer Bai Lu looks nothing like Li Yitong. Period.
On Jing Tian Sep 9, 2025
Person Jing Tian
Don't be misled by fake news about her flash marriage with FSF.

FSF has a crazy ex-wife called bish Zhao Liying, she's obsessed being number 1.
Recently, she hired people to come up with a chart saying she is the number1 in the industry.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fone-name-approval-and-artist-tier-list-yay-or-nay-v0-h5y5cb2bl4lf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Da240a1e72a08ee3b53b01f90bee46b73f4e183a4
They claim to list everyone by age. Liu Yifei is older, if it's by age, Liu Yifei would've been first, but Zhao Liying hired people to create the fake poster so of course they have to put her first.
Zhao Liying lost face because nobody believes she is good enough.
On top of that, Zhao Liying was doing very disgusting marketing on Yang Mi for years. Now, Yang Mi is doing better and everyone is talking online how Zhao Liying cannot compare with Yang Mi. Next thing, VOGUE also picked Yang Mi and several other actresses such as Liu Yifei, Xin Zhilei, Dilraba, etc. to be on the cover. Bish Zhao Liying was not invited. She marketed so hard that she's the best, but it's a slap on the face, nobody finds her good enough anywhere, only she is self proclaiming to be the best and praising her own self. That's why she tries to shift attention. Every time she wants to shift attention, she picks on FSF. He happened to work with Jing Tian, so she creates lies that he married Jing Tian. Zhao Liying is a piece of trash who used many men of big capitals, they sleep with her and give her resources but they don't want to marry her. Even the marriage with FSF had no wedding what so ever, she trapped him by getting pregnant and hiring paparazzi to reveal the relationship. He's too good for her, even if Jing Tian were to marry FSF I would support it because he's a better human being than a trash like ZLY who deserves to be alone for the rest of her life.
On Zhao Li Ying Sep 7, 2025
Person Zhao Li Ying Spoiler
Blah blah blah that's always how Zhao Liying white washed her image, hiring bots to make multiple accounts lying they're not her fans and "don't know" her, but speaking up for her. For sure they know her, and knew what she done to other celebrities. Fake blindness acting at its best.

When it comes to other artists, take Liu Yuning for example, he's not afraid of mocking netz but why does he keep getting praises for doing that? Because netz was stalking him and creating harmful rumors, and he didn't mock them with nasty languages, he only teaches them how to be better people. He's reasonable. He's not sticking up for himself either, he stood up for others, the people he knew got bullied and he took responsibility. ZLY? She used unprofessional cursing words. Paparazzi caught her dating her movies director, with proven pictures and videos. She got mad now that everyone knows she got her roles for dating men to work her way up. So she cursed netz. If she thinks her privacy was invaded she could've been professional. When she was pregnant, she even cursed her own fans for not trusting her and told her fans to go have painful loose bowels. When the government blocked her as an example of idols who don't know how to control her fans, she pushed all the blame on her fans that they harmed her.

Nasty people such as Zhao Liying steps on everyone, whether she knows them or not. Even if they are her juniors under her agency, she will ruin them if she thinks they're stealing her fame.

Suo Qing Qiu 2009 starred Ady An Yixuan as leading actress and Feng Shaofeng as leading actor.
Zhao Liying played a maid in that drama. I was a fan of Ady and FSF. I watched the drama. Many years later, everyone knows Zhao Liying got famous and claims to be "more famous" than FSF, married him. Even he admitted in an interview he already noticed her when she was a maid in Suo Qing Qiu 2009, but he didn't feel anything for her. After her face changed to resemble Yang Mi (his crush), in the drama Palace 2 2012, he said he finally took noticed of her. About ZLY, she was only a side character for him MULTIPLE times and she claims to be so hard working but doesn't even know who was the male lead. She pretended to say she didn't even know who FSF was and didn't know how many times she'd played support for him. While he, a famous leading actor, knew a side character like her just because she resembled Yang Mi. APPLAUD, very hard working indeed. Very professional too.
Netz never came at her. She herself, was not famous, and went online, posted on Weibo, yelling at Yang Mi fans after they mistook her for Yang Mi. She started the problem herself. She made a derogatory statement that she is "all natural" and didn't undergo plastic surgery (like Yang Mi). But this was Zhao Liying's real face in Suo Qing Qiu 2009
https://k.sinaimg.cn/n/sinakd10105/103/w600h303/20200324/efd6-ireifzi2211749.jpg/w700d1q75cms.jpg
At that time, she did not even have any double eyelids. I will put it very fairly, she was not that pretty in 2009, but she did looked natural and refreshing. However, she was not comparable to Ady An at that time, also nowhere close to Yu Zheng other leads such as Huo Siyan, Sun Fei Fei, Ruby Lin, Yang Mi, etc. I would guess she was confident with her natural self at first, and tried very hard at first, but it got nowhere so she submitted to plastic surgery but has no gut to admit it.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c2/15/5d/c2155db427c5b5a28339f1f677761e2a.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/f2/a5/d5f2a5c99aec5d2755af57b9219d6e4a.jpg
In 2010, her eyes gained Triple lids.
https://dramaforreal.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1-14.png
After successful plastic surgery and being famous, she marketed online that Yang Mi's eyes are "empty" while her eyes are full of "deep feelings" and great acting skills.

She relied on Yu Zheng to tailor The Legend of Luzhen for her, and market about her pitiful real life background. Even famous director Wang Jing step up to analyze the truth about her fame, she relies on "pity" and that's her specialty. The only thing she can act well on is crying. She has no dancing skill, every time there is a scene requiring it, she will have 10 doubles. She was only playing an extra in Palace 2 with extremely limited screen time and she still had doubles dancing for her scenes as an extra. She's very spoiled by Yu Zheng. If it's martial arts scenes, then it will be 32+ doubles. She cannot speak clearly either, cannot dub herself professionally. Like Wang Jing said, she only relied on "good scripts" and a "non-lethal face." First, not everyone has connections to pick their scripts, only she does. Second, her non-lethal face is not natural but altered to look like Yang Mi. Along with her scripted narrative about pitiful life, she won an audience through "pity" only. I don't look down on all those, even if she wants to brag all day how she's the "BEST" and self proclaim as #1
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fone-name-approval-and-artist-tier-list-yay-or-nay-v0-h5y5cb2bl4lf1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Da240a1e72a08ee3b53b01f90bee46b73f4e183a4
I don't mind.
But I am annoyed at how she steps on others, and it gets unforgivable. Not acceptable.

After marrying FSF and gaining tons of resources from him, he literally introduced her to Li Bing Bing and she wons part of the company with her, then she divorced him. She marketed how he mistreated her, and say nasty stuff about his mom. Just a few days ago, already created rumors that FSF and Jing Tian got married.
After seeing the success of Legend of Zhuohua, Jing Tian portrayed great acting skills as a talented doctor, smart scholar, smart government official, funny poetic, etc. she got so jealous that she started marketing how Jing Tian was "copying" her and even dating FSF.

Other actresses i.e. Ren Min (Rise of Ning), Meng Ziyi (Blossom), Chen Duling (The Glory), Yang Zi (Flourised Peony) all got attacked and compared with her. The funny thing is how RON, Blossom, TG, FP, don't even compare against each other and fight when their airing dates were closer together compare to how Story of Minglan was already old from 2018. She only relied on TSOM being a "Daylight production" and marketed that it's great when it was confusing, horribly scripted, plotless, and boring as heck. She marketed on it so hard that she fears her hard work on marketing would go to waste if the new actresses overpowered her.

After so many years of attacking Yang Mi, just recently, YM is very successful and here she goes again. Marketing and marketing like a bish, making comparisons, playing pitiful, accusing Yang Mi of her "foxy" appearance while she looks "innocent" and works harder. Marketing too hard, it is.