Idol Rising: A spoiled rich kid
Lin Zhiying was born in a wealthy family in Taipei City, her father had a prosperous business, and her mother was doting. Since he was a child, he has been spoiled by his parents, and he is handsome, and he is an excellent child who is the envy of the school and neighborhood parents. However, Lin Zhiying also developed an arrogant and loose personality, and often skipped class to have fun when she was in school, and her grades were a mess.
Fortunately, this spoiled teenager still retains his brilliant dream of stardom. In 1990, 16-year-old Lin Zhiying was caught by a boss named Huang Xitian, who persuaded his parents to let their son join their agency, determined to make him a new generation of Asian idols.
During the rigorous artist training, Lin Zhiying's down-to-earth and generous personality and handsome posture attracted the hearts of many young girls. He and Ye Yunyi, a veteran actor who has debuted for many years, are even more scandal-ridden, and they are sniffed out by the media as "ambiguous".
The two had a good impression when they were filming the TV series, and Lin Zhiying was very fascinated by Ye Yunyi's gentle and virtuous image. They are often tired of flirting together, which makes the staff run away frequently. Although Ye Yunyi is married, her husband is a nouveau riche, and the marriage has existed in name only, so she is also willing to interact with this energetic young man and express her loneliness in her heart.
Hit it all out: fight back against the "Four Kings of Hong Kong"
In 1992, Lin Zhiying released her first solo album and became an instant hit and became a leading idol singer, competing with TVB's "Hong Kong Four Heavenly Kings" Aaron Kwok, Li Ming, Andy Lau, and Tony Leung. The album sold millions of copies, and Lin Zhiying immediately became the new king of Asia, surpassing the popularity of the popular male artists who debuted on wireless in the same period.
In the following years, Lin Zhiying swept the major singing venues in Asia, successively released a number of albums and participated in many film and television works, and her career was thriving and in the limelight. At that time, teenagers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and other places were all crazy.
Especially in the 1995 movie "Xiaolin Kid" starring Lin Zhiying and another new female idol Xu Ruoxuan, the sweet on-screen relationship between the two set off a "Britney" craze throughout Asia.
However, just when his career was in full swing, Lin Zhiying made a shocking decision - in 1994, he announced his temporary retirement from the entertainment industry at the age of 20 and went to serve for a year. To everyone's surprise, this move directly caused his idol career to suffer a heavy setback, and his popularity plummeted.
After returning from service, Lin Zhiying turned to immerse himself in motorsports and made a small contribution in this field. However, in his acting career, it is difficult for him to regain the scenery of the past, and he can only make occasional cameos on TVB and Mintv, which is quite down. He once laughed at himself in an interview, "I was a spoiled rich kid back then, and I still do it now."
Beauty robbery: A miss with Ruby Lin
During the trough of her career, Lin Zhiying still maintained the style of the old and young master in the past, indulged in sensuality, and had a relationship with many beautiful female stars. One of the most famous is a relationship with Ruby Lin.
The two met and fell in love while filming a movie, and both parties also took practical action on this relationship. Ruby Lin once publicly stated that if Lin Zhiying married her at that time, she would quit the entertainment industry. It's a pity that in the end, because each other's personalities were too similar and ended up without a problem, Ruby Lin later turned to a love affair with Hong Kong actor Su Youpeng.
It wasn't until she was 35 years old in 2009 that Lin Zhiying married model Chen Ruoyi and disclosed the underground relationship between the two for many years. Soon after marriage, Chen Ruoyi became pregnant and gave birth to a child, and Lin Zhiying was many years late before finally moving towards the "big event" in her life.
However, this belated good fortune did not bring Lin Zhiying much happiness. After marriage, Chen Ruoyi was discriminated against and harassed by the Lin family. As a small model from an ordinary background, it is difficult for her to gain the recognition and trust of Lin Zhiying, the son of an acting family.
Lin Zhiying's mother is especially concerned about this family business, thinking that Chen Ruoyi is not worthy of her only son, so she will make it difficult in every way after marriage. Once Chen Ruoyi accidentally slipped and fell when she was pregnant and almost miscarried, but Lin's mother scoffed and said, "She deserves it."
Faced with such a harsh in-law environment, Chen Ruoyi could only swallow her anger secretly. She once shed tears on the show and recalled: "I couldn't get anything back then, even the bride price money at the wedding was taken away by Mother Lin herself." Just when Chen Ruoyi was obedient and maintained this seemingly happy family, a stuffy stick smashed over.
In 2020, Chen Ruoyi participated in a marriage reality show, in which she broke the news about the Lin family's power and money secrets and all kinds of unbearable married life. What followed was a frenzied attack from public opinion and a wave of cyberstorming.
Lin Zhiying, who was once praised as a "noble son" and "model husband", once collapsed, and the old character was completely shattered. Netizens have condemned him as a coarse man who "has no respect for his wife and only knows how to take advantage". Even Lin Zhiying herself fell into deep self-blame and guilt. Some commented: "He relied on the media to become popular, and now he has also been poisoned by the media, this is the impermanence of fate."
In the face of such pressure, Lin Zhiying's heart seems to have been broken in half: half is out of self-esteem, to justify the dignity of herself and her family; The other half is soberly aware that doing so will only fall into the quagmire of public opinion that is struggling deeper and deeper.
As a result, he opened a "super-aged" philosophy of survival: in public, he deliberately showed a mellow and humble gentleman image, and tried his best to repair his character; But in private, he also frequently played tricks on his family, expressing his inner anger and helplessness.
This "schizophrenic" state made Lin Zhiying suffer mentally and physically. Fortunately, with the support and understanding of his wife Chen Ruoyi, he was able to barely save his last face in this turmoil. Lin Zhiying, who is now over 55 years old, has long since disappeared from her former brilliance. He is now more like an old actor who has gone through vicissitudes, struggling to catch his breath under the spotlight.
But just when everyone thought that he was completely gone, he struggled to get back on his feet like an indomitable gambler.
In the past two years, he has repeatedly appeared in variety shows, showing unprecedented humor and self-ridicule, making netizens shout "Lin Zhiying y y d s, finally alive!" At the same time, he also turned the tide in salary negotiations, and finally won back some of the respect he deserved.
In this way, in the last ten years of his life, this star, who was once praised on the altar and spurned, finally began to shine again. Time is a pig-killing knife, but he has re-carved his image with more skillful knife skills...
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In general, the life of Lin Zhiying's character is like a modern urban tragedy. He came from a prominent background, and he was spoiled since he was a child, and he devoted himself to the showbiz. Relying on resources and luck, his acting career was booming at the beginning, but when he wanted to be on his own, he found that he actually had limited talent and poor character.
Later, he met love and got married, thinking that he could start over, but his mother-in-law's family looked down on the civilian wife he married, and his married life became even more difficult. Seeing that his image was in jeopardy, he began to drill back and forth like an old fox in the field of public opinion, revealing a well-behaved side that was very different from his private, which was almost like "schizophrenia".
However, today, this former rich kid is over half a hundred years old, and he has been beaten and baptized by life, and looking at his self-ridiculing and humorous style of coping, it makes people feel a little empathetic and peaceful. After all, everyone will inevitably encounter some impermanence and turbulence in their lives, and the important thing is whether they can slowly come out of it and regain the tenacity and brilliance of life.