2020's "The Penthouse" can be recorded in the annals of Korean dramas as a phenomenal TV series. If it is said that although Korean dramas have been innovated before, the general theme and contradiction manufacturing method are still logical and deeply influenced by the mainstream values of society, then the emergence of "The Penthouse" has broken the delicate and sophisticated production trend of Korean dramas.
From screenwriter Kim Soon-ok jumping to the mother of dog blood dramas overnight, to Kim So-yeon's impressive eye-splitting, bloody and explosive acting skills, to the entire suspenseful revenge drama filmed into a magical realist comedy, three seasons down, with the ratings of more than 30% of the excellent results, "The Penthouse" is completely popular, but also let the actors in the play soar through the drama, advertising endorsements and invitations are more soft.
and "Xiulian" Li Zhiya, one of the three heroines of "The Top Floor", won the love of the audience with her elegant image and sharp eyes and unique sense of atmosphere, behind the gentle appearance and the determination to start when it should be started, as well as the wonderful performance of playing the two roles of "Luo Aijiao" and "Shen Xiulian", and the contrast after the final blackening, won the love of the audience, and the performance was certified, and also won the 2020 SBS Acting Award for the Best Acting Award for Women in the Feature-length TV Drama Department.
However, it is said that drama is like life, and Li Zhiya outside the play and Shen Xiulian in the play are both Miss Qianjin who was born into a chaebol family, with a rich family and a strong family background.
Although Shen Xiulian's life has been extremely grasping, the life of the actor Li Zhiya is no less than that.
Lee Ji-ah, born in 1978, entered the entertainment industry by shooting an advertisement for LG Telecom with Bae Yongjun in 2004, but there was no follow-up after the commercial, and he returned to the United States, and Li Zhiya went to the United States with his family when he was a teenager.
Since his debut as an actor in 2007, his debut work is MBC's TV series "The Four Gods of the King".
This drama with a thunderous name carried all the determination of MBC TV to create an ancient epic series back then, spending 60 billion won to create scenery and three years of pre-production, setting a record for the highest production cost of Korean dramas at that time, and once stopped filming because of the meticulous crafting of the script.
His debut work is a generational TV series that has written a new chapter in the history of Korean TV dramas, and he has also cooperated with Bae Yongjun, the gentle prince who is popular all over Asia, and this treatment and opportunity are things that young actors dare not think of now. Because of this unusual situation, rumors of Li Zhiya and Pei Yongjun's "lovers" were also noisy for a while.
However, after such a vigorous effort, this drama was sprayed after it was broadcast, and the special effects action technology that was originally intended to create "The Lord of the Rings" was severely criticized for poor acting skills, poor stunts, falsification of history, and fabrication, and was also banned in the mainland. Even so, Li Zhiya won the Female Newcomer Award, the Popularity Award and the Best Couple at the 2007 MBC Acting Awards for this drama.
In 2009, Lee Ji-ya starred in the work "Style", beating the actress Kim Hye-so as the heroine.
In 2010, he starred in "Athena: Goddess of War", Lee Ji-ah played the role of agent Han Jae-hee, although the previously launched spy drama "Iris" did not have high ratings, but it was also recognized by the audience.
The next year, "Athena: No Spy" also began filming as the film version of the TV series, and the cooperating actors are still the starring actors of the TV series, Cha Shengyuan, Zheng Yusheng, and Xiu Ai.
It was also at this time, in March 2011, that photos of Li Zhiya and Zheng Yusheng being photographed dating in Paris were suddenly exposed. For a time, the talk about the love between the two also began to spread.
In fact, Li Zhiya and Zheng Yusheng have a lot of opponents in the TV series "Athena: Goddess of War", and their contact has gradually increased. Their agency also responded after the photo was exploded that Li Zhiya and Zheng Yusheng confirmed their relationship shortly after the filming of the TV series.
The tidbits that leaked out of the set can also show that they have a cordial relationship, close and natural conversation, and snuggle up to each other.
There was a lot of heated discussion about these two people being exploded as a couple.
Because at that time, Zheng Yusheng had already cooperated with Jun Ji-hyun, Son Ye-jin, etc. in movies such as "Daisy" and "The Eraser in My Mind", but there was never a scandal, nor any sign of a dating object, and there were also many masterpieces in movies, creating his own image of a tough guy warm man.
On the other hand, Li Zhiya is really a different color in the entertainment industry, unlike other stars who use various methods to brush their faces and increase their national popularity, she is low-key.
Li Zhiya's most famous label is "mysticism", under the protection of the company, she has never revealed her private life, has not been interviewed, has never appeared on any variety shows, and even there are many versions of her age, and the public knows nothing about her except for her TV series role.
So everyone was a little surprised that these two became a couple.
But even more surprising is yet to come.
A month after the public love, suddenly a news broke the news under the title "Li Zhiya's past", the content of the article at that time was that Li Zhiya and Xu Taizhi were secretly married, were in divorce, and filed a lawsuit for alimony and property division.
The news suddenly made Lee Ji-ah the object of heated discussion at that time, because Seo Tae-chi is not an ordinary person, he is known as the originator of Korean idols, one of the most influential musicians in the history of Korean K-pop pop music, and is respected as the "Cultural President" and "Michael Jackson of Korea".
In the nineties, Seo Tae-zhi led a series of trends, introduced American hip-hop music and European and American dance music into the Korean music scene, formed the famous group Seo Tae-zhi and children, one of its members Yang Hyun-suk later founded YG after independence, launched Bigbang, 2NE1, BLACKPINK, iKON, Winner and other idol groups that have great influence in the world, many people are taking stock of the first, second, and third generation boy groups and girl groups of Hallyu, They all put Xu Taizhi in the position of K-pop ancestor, and his status and influence can be seen.
When the news report came out, Xu Taizhi was no longer engaged in singer activities, but moved behind the scenes and became the legendary "godfather" as a producer.
So the sensation of the news can be imagined, and almost all newspaper headlines in South Korea the next day of the news were about their hidden marriage and divorce. Sports Seoul, which first disclosed the report, also made a name for itself with this exclusive debut.
Subsequently, more reporters joined the collection of Lee Ji-ah's materials, and found that Lee Ji-ah's grandparents were big capitalists engaged in the "Yuying Foundation", and in 1976 they donated the land of the former Seoul Art High School in Pyeongchang-dong, which had been relocated.
Not only that, but someone close to him provided information in an interview that there were only two top-quality mansions built in a great part of Seoul at that time, one was the private residence of the former South Korean president, and the other was the private residence of Lee Ji-ah's grandfather. Li Zhiya's family was very wealthy before liberation, first making a lot of money in the silk business, and then expanding their influence through the investment and operation of the Yuying Foundation. Now all the family, including Lee's parents, live in the United States, and Lee's father runs his own business back and forth between Korea and the United States.
After the news report came out, everyone knew that Li Zhiya turned out to be Miss Qianjin of the chaebol family, which was so mysterious for this reason.
And more and more reports have also dug up the stories of Li Zhiya and Xu Taizhi.
It turned out that when Xu Taizhi went to the United States to perform in 1993, they were introduced to each other by Li Zhiya's own sister, and Li Zhiya was only 15 years old this year. Li Zhiya and Xu Taizhi have also maintained correspondence.
In 1996, after the disintegration of Xu Taizhi and the children's group, Xu Taizhi and Li Zhiya, who returned to the United States, reunited and developed a romantic relationship.
In 1997, Xu Taizhi announced his retirement. It was also this year that Li Zhiya and Xu Taizhi got married, and Li Zhiya was only 19 years old when they got married. But the marriage lasted only 2 years and 7 months, and the two chose to separate.
In 2000, Xu Taizhi returned to South Korea, and Li Zhiya lived in the United States by herself.
In 2006, Li Zhiya unilaterally filed for divorce with a California court, citing irreconcilable differences in occupation, life and personality.
In 2011, Li Zhiya filed a lawsuit again, this time not a divorce lawsuit, but a lawsuit for alimony and property division, and it was in this lawsuit that the information was accidentally leaked that the reporter learned the mysterious marriage and divorce story between Li Zhiya and Xu Taizhi.
The report had already stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and various news about the relationship between the three people was spreading at that time.
Although everyone discussed the most about the secret marriage and divorce of Li Zhiya and Xu Taizhi at that time, Zheng Yusheng also bore a lot of infamy because of the complicated relationship with Li Zhiya, and was considered to interfere in others.
Some people scold Li Zhiya for choosing to associate with other men without divorce; Xu Taizhi's fans believe that it was because of his marriage to Li Zhiya that Xu Taizhi withdrew from the music scene and began a personal attack on Li Zhiya; Some people think that Zheng Yusheng, as an insider, cannot not know that it is his own choice, intervening in other people's marriages that have not completely ended, and there are moral problems; Some scolded Xu Taizhi for not taking responsibility, marriage and divorce were not made public, and the break was constantly cleaned, so that Li Zhiya, who was in normal interaction, bore the infamy... These discussions caused a lot of confusion for each of them.
At the center of the whirlpool, Xu Taizhi also issued a statement, in which he apologized for his hidden marriage, saying that even though he was in a state of de facto separation, he did not handle the divorce procedures in time. After Li Zhiya filed for divorce in 2006, she unilaterally accepted the divorce judgment of the US court that year, and the couple's relationship ended in 2006.
Li Zhiya's agency also issued a statement on the focus of attention, and the other content is not much different from what Xu Taizhi described, except that in terms of the time of divorce, Li Zhiya said that "in 2006, she unilaterally filed a divorce application, and the divorce of the two officially took effect in 2009", which is more than three years different from Xu Taizhi's statement that the divorce in 2006 was more than three years.
In any case, in 2012, Li Zhiya and Zheng Yusheng dating, and both were indeed single, but in January of that year, Li Zhiya filed another lawsuit against Xu Taizhi for property division and alimony.
Despite clarifying the controversy, three months later, under great pressure, on June 9, 2012, Zheng Yusheng and Li Zhiya announced their breakup, and the controversial relationship did not stick.
Later, Li Zhiya broke the world on the "Healing Camp" program, telling her marriage story and Zheng Yusheng's interaction.
Li Zhiya recalled the first meeting with Xu Taizhi, saying that there was no one who was not his fan at that time, when Xu Taizhi had a performance in Los Angeles, almost all Koreans in the United States went, when Li Zhiya studied in the United States, also watched that performance, and since then began the fate with Xu Taizhi, and asked his sister's blessing to know each other.
And marrying Xu Taizhi is an unbearable secret, not only to friends, but also to family members. She bluntly said that it is not an easy task to marry secretly with a celebrity known to the whole people, and there is no freedom in any small matter. "Hidden marriage is very tiring, you need to endure a lot, and you need to give up a lot."
At that time, Li Zhiya was still very young, and thought that not telling anyone that he was married was not only Xu Taizhi's idea, but also the only way to protect love, and he did not hesitate to see his family for 7 years.
Regarding the interaction with Zheng Yusheng, she said that she and Zheng Yusheng went to Paris to travel at the stage of mutual understanding, and it was at that time that they were photographed. He also told all the love stories in Paris, and after telling Zheng Yusheng the fact of marrying Xu Taizhi before, he listened lightly, and his face did not fluctuate too much, indicating that he could understand.
Li Zhiya said that at that time he accepted this fact and moved me.
Later, there was a lot of controversy in the news, everyone did not want to know the truth, but guessed each other, Zheng Yusheng did not open his mouth to protect her, causing a misunderstanding between the two, so he chose to break up, but now looking back at the whole thing, he does not regret his every choice.
Later, Zheng Yusheng also starred in the variety show "Knee Taoist" and told his position in this matter.
He said that at that time, Li Zhiya sincerely apologized to him and did not tell him in advance that he was married and was divorcing, and he actually did not mind very much, and expressed his understanding to Li Zhiya.
Zheng Yusheng said in the program that the reason why he did not speak for Li Zhiya at that time was because he did not want to attract more attention and wanted the public's attention to shift with the passage of time, so he remained silent, but he did not expect to cause a misunderstanding.
Although the two broke up, she is still full of appreciation and admiration for Li Zhiya, whether as an actor or as a friend, she will support her as always.
It's really an adult relationship, and it ends so appropriately.
After this bloody love affair and divorce intertwined war.
The lives of Li Zhiya, Zheng Yusheng and Xu Taizhi have also taken different directions.
Zheng Yusheng continues to compete in the film industry, this year's film "Hunt" cooperated with Lee Jung-jae is about the dignitaries who suspect each other in order to find the hidden spies in the organization, the spy action movie that occurred in the face of the huge event of the "Republic of Korea No. 1 assassination", and was invited to the 75th Cannes Film Festival, the work was booming, and the love life was as calm as water.
Xu Taizhi, in May 2013, announced on his official website that he would marry actress Li Encheng, who is 16 years younger than him, in June. The two met in 2008, and Li Euncheng starred in Xu Taizhi's "Bermuda Triangle" MV, and began to officially develop into a romantic relationship in 2009.
At that time, Xu Taizhi was still in divorce proceedings with Li Zhiya, so he was already dating Li Encheng during the divorce from his ex-wife to the litigation.
This timeline has almost hammered Xu Taizhi to death and began dating his new girlfriend during the marriage, but not too many people criticized him...
And Li Zhiya was in a semi-retired state after that, although she also occasionally took on plays such as "My Uncle", but they were all supporting roles, and when everyone thought that she might have to withdraw from the circle, under careful consideration with the agency, Li Zhiya took over the role of Xiulian in "The Penthouse".
At the beginning of the game, because of the high-intensity lighting and the miserable filter and abrasion.
Li Zhiya was once thought to be so plastic surgery that she couldn't make an expression, but in fact, she also confessed in the show that she had rhinoplasty in order to want a towering nose, and after the operation, there was a blood circulation disorder in the face, resulting in severe edema, inflammation, and finally the prosthesis was removed.
It's not much different from the photos I took as a child, and I'm still elegant and beautiful over 40.
Han Hyo-joo, who is also in the BH agency, is also a good friend, and she posted the beautiful photos taken by VOGUE magazine on ins, and Han Hyo-joo quickly liked and commented "Good! Float! Bright! Yes! ”
And Li Zhiya, Qiu Zixuan, Han Zhimin, and Han Xiaozhou, who are also in BH brokerage company, are even more famous girlfriend groups, and the four often organize parties together in private.
In 2019, we will celebrate Han Xiaozhou's birthday together, other sisters are taking pictures, and the eldest sister Li Zhiya is eating beautifully hahaha.
When "The Top Floor" was broadcast, the three sister groups other than Li Zhiya gathered together to guard the premiere, which was really touching!
Li Zhiya in Han Zhimin's lens is also a cool girl~
After reading Ernie's story, I couldn't help but sigh, this may be the best self after a thousand sails. At the best age, I enjoy the peace and tranquility of having my friends by my side and my works in hand. I'm looking forward to the return of the next work!