Some time ago, Zhang Xincheng, who was frequently searched for playing the role of Zhou Luo in the new drama "Faint Fire", was not low.
This time, he plays the role of a famous school student who is entangled in the emotional vortex of the mature heroine of the murderer, and the appearance of wearing a school uniform is very different from the "little sun" Lin Yang in his impression a few years ago.
Soon, Zhang Xincheng was on the hot search again because of an entry of "playing three crazy roles in a year" - indeed, he has been constantly resourced recently, and his works are one after another, and the scale of the roles he plays is not small.
But unfortunately, when the audience mentioned Zhang Xincheng, the most impressive image was still the "male high school" Lin Yang.
And in addition to repeatedly dominating the screen in his acting career, he has not made much progress, and his private life has also been questioned, the biggest reason is the scandal with Li Randi that has been entangled for 7 years.
In fact, from the "Four Schools" character set up after his debut and became famous, to gradually becoming a "popular student" with good acting skills and good looks, Zhang Xincheng's acting career is quite smooth.
However, in dealing with feelings, he is obviously indecisive, so he bears the infamy of "shrinking turtle", and his fans and female fans also slander each other, losing valuable passers-by.
1. The "champion of the four schools" of the counterattack
Zhang Xincheng is not a "proud son of heaven", he was born in 1995 in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, in an ordinary family, his father has been doing business, and his family is okay.
However, his father had a marriage and had a daughter with his ex-wife, Zhang Xincheng's half-sister.
Many years later, he recorded a variety show and said frankly that he didn't even know about this situation when he was a child, and his relationship with his sister was naturally very estranged.
His parents wanted their son to become a Chan, so he was exposed to professional training in vocal music, dance, piano, guitar and composition at a young age, and also let him learn Mandarin.
However, Zhang Xincheng was very naughty when he was a child, and his academic performance was not outstanding, and once he only scored 26 points in mathematics, which made his mother angry, and he was served by a "hanger" when he came home from school.
But he inherited the beauty of his parents, and as he grew older, he became more and more handsome.
When he was in junior high school, Zhang Xincheng came up with the idea of going to Beijing to study dance, citing "escaping from his parents' control".
After arriving in Beijing, because of geographical and other reasons, Zhang Xincheng's grades here improved by leaps and bounds, and he became an honor student.
But by 2008, at the age of 13, he began to change his voice, so his advantage in singing gradually disappeared.
For their son's study, his parents also drifted to Beijing to accompany him, and Zhang Xincheng's discipline was even stricter.
It is reported that in the second year of junior high school, he began to prepare for the college entrance examination and did various college entrance examination mock test papers.
At that stage, Zhang Xincheng, who was out of step with his classmates around him, seemed very lonely, but fortunately, he survived.
The change happened in his third year of high school - his father owed 300,000 foreign debts due to investment failure, and it happened that his son was preparing for the art exam at that time, and the pressure on the family suddenly increased.
Zhang Xincheng, who has grown up, sees everything in his eyes, and even hesitates to give up studying art and take an ordinary path of study.
But the parents were very persistent, and the mother even said directly: "You just have to move forward boldly, don't regret it, don't look back." ”
At that time, in order to earn money for the training course for her son, the mother also went to a supermarket near her home to do odd jobs, earning 900 yuan a month.
Every time Zhang Xincheng came home from school, he could see his mother who was carrying goods, and he was very distressed, so he could only turn everything into motivation for learning - he worked harder and harder to hit the college entrance examination.
After weighing it, he set his first choice as Chinese opera, and later, with the support of his father, he applied for the art examinations of Beiying, Shangju and Military Arts, and finally won the first place in performance-related majors - this is where the label of "champion of the four schools" comes from.
Moreover, in the cultural class exam that year, Zhang Xincheng also got a good score of 560 points, and then entered the Musical Drama Department of the Central Academy of Drama with the first place in culture and major.
In addition to studying, he also entered the stage early to earn money to support his family:
At the age of 14, Zhang Xincheng began to shoot short dramas on children's channels, and later filmed commercials and various auditions, after which he "never spent a penny from his family again".
On the other hand, in a minority family in Beijing, a girl named Li Randi has already debuted as a child star.
She entered the showbiz at the age of 10 because of her sweet appearance in the movie "Love Who You Lost To", and then began to cooperate with famous artists such as Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse, and gradually attracted the attention of the audience.
In the same year that Li Randi made a splash in the entertainment industry, Zhang Xincheng got the opportunity to star in the public welfare movie "School Bus" and made his debut, but he didn't know at that time that the fate of the two would be entangled in the future.
2. The rising "popular little student"
Although Zhang Xincheng made his debut, the resources are not very good, and the film and television dramas he has participated in and the singles he has launched have received very flat responses.
And Li Randi has become the female number one in the movie "Young Chess King".
The coffee positions of the two at that time were not the same.
At that time, Zhang Xincheng didn't care about the coffee position, but wholeheartedly made money to pay off his father's debts.
It wasn't until 2016 that he got the opportunity to sign with Tianyu and began to take a turn in his career.
After that, Zhang Xincheng took out "Love Shuttle Millennium 2" and "The Strongest Male God", and was therefore selected by the director and invited to star in the campus drama "Hello, Old Times" The best actor Lin Yang.
This role made many viewers know and like Zhang Xincheng, and also made him and Li Landi's "campus CP" into the hearts of the audience.
But in fact, he had a girlfriend by his side at that time.
The other party's name is Wang Yijin, graduated from Beijing Dance, and is also a child star, he hosted programs such as "Sunshine Fast Lane" in his early years, and was later admitted to North Dance, and fell in love with Zhang Xincheng around 2014.
The relationship between the two probably lasted until 2018 before it was completely broken, but Zhang Xincheng was not a big hit at that time, so only a few fans knew about his private life.
Although he and Li Randi hyped CP during the promotion period of "Hello, Old Times", in private, he and Wang Yijin still maintained a romantic relationship between you and me, not only traveled to Japan together in early 2017, but also sent the same cloud to secretly poke and show affection.
But in 2018, before and after Zhang Xincheng filmed "The Chronicles of the Great Song Dynasty", this relationship came to an abrupt end.
The reason for the breakup was also picked up by fans of both parties at that time, and it was suspected that the woman had signed a contract with Yang Mi's former company, Jiaxing, and was going to seriously engage in her career, so she had to let go of her feelings.
But in reality?
According to the timeline in the future, Zhang Xincheng and Li Randi were photographed dating intimately after that, and they were suspected of seamless connection.
In the same year, the two were met by netizens to eat together, and then the woman hung on the man's neck like a pendant, and she was in a state of love at first glance.
But after the matter fermented, both of them came forward to deny it, saying that it was just a gathering of friends.
At that time, Zhang Xincheng starred in works such as "The Chronicles of the Song Dynasty", and he was getting smoother and smoother on the road to a new life.
And Li Randi's career development has fallen into a bottleneck:
Although she was labeled as the "reddest 99 flowers" on her head, she fell into controversy because of the collapse of her figure and appearance in the Qing piercing drama "Dream Back".
Not only that, in a variety show "Dear Inn", which was broadcast at the same time, she contributed to the scenes of angry guests, backstabbing Ma Tianyu, and disobeying the management of store manager Liu Tao, which shattered the filter of "Yu Zhouzhou", and was also labeled as "green tea" and low emotional intelligence.
Therefore, even if the two people who were in completely different circumstances at that time were taken out of a picnic together, they really didn't connect "they are really in love" in public.
After that, Zhang Xincheng's career ushered in a new small peak:
In 2020, he contributed an empathetic crying scene in the family drama "In the Name of Family", and successfully killed the male number one Song Weilong in seconds with high-quality acting skills, and the popularity continued.
The following year, Zhang Xincheng acted in the sweet pet drama "The Day I Became You", and because of his amazing acting skills, he became the light of acting skills among the "post-95 male stars", and his future is immeasurable.
Everyone thought that this was a rising popularity.
Unexpectedly, soon, he was a model worker and kept coming up with new works, and he pounced on several dramas one after another, and his reputation reversed.
3. Being suspected of being "not responsible" in love
Since 2021, Zhang Xincheng has basically appeared in three or four plays a year, but the successive works such as "Radiance", "The Cloister Pavilion" and "Basic Law of Genius" all have good themes, but they have encountered Waterloo.
Especially the drama "Light Yuan", which is based on the suspense novel "Silent Reading", which has high hopes from book fans.
Originally, Zhang Xincheng in the Reuters photo was very close to Pei Su as imagined by fans, but unexpectedly, in the work, his performance was criticized as "greasy", and the final work was also constantly underrated, and he was hit on the street.
Especially during the filming, some netizens found that he was suspected of selling fu, which was suspected of flattering fans, which made the public feel uncomfortable.
When it came to "Da Song Boys' Chronicles 2", which was highly anticipated by the audience, due to the decline in the level of the work, neither the script nor the acting skills could surpass the first part, and the score was also embarrassing.
Fortunately, Zhang Xincheng's resources have not been dropped, and when "Faint Fire" was promoted in the same year, he made a big fuss about the theme of "sister and brother love", which attracted the attention of netizens.
And "Difficult Manufacturing", another film with a strong team, also has a popular appearance, but unfortunately the future is uncertain because of actress Song Zuer's tax problems.
But Zhang Xincheng's exposure last year was definitely not low, in addition to his works and variety shows, he was also kicked out of his relationship because he was suddenly exposed by netizens to a positive photo of a date with Li Randi traveling to Thailand together.
At that time, the two had known each other for more than six years, although this relationship seemed to have fulfilled the CP dream of "Yu Zhouzhou + Lin Yang" back then, but in fact, it also caused dissatisfaction among netizens.
The reason is: Zhang Xincheng does not admit it.
After the matter fermented, fans from both sides poured into the idol's social platform, but there was never a response from the hero and heroine.
And what's even more bizarre is that on the night of the scandal, Zhang Xincheng suddenly parachuted into the fan base and said "good night", suspected of appeasing excited fans.
However, Li Randi also entered the fan group, but he frankly posted an article to express his attitude, suspected of acquiescing in a relationship, but at the same time expressed his determination to "have a career".
The attitudes of both sides are clear at a glance:
The 28-year-old Zhang Xincheng is indeed in an awkward position - he certainly doesn't want to lose a huge group of "girlfriend fans" because of a relationship.
Not only that, but its fans also came forward to say that they "don't like the new sister-in-law", they think that Li Randi is average-looking and has a bad figure, and even said that she is an "upside-down baked cake".
Li Landi's fans can only fight back immediately, accusing Zhang Xincheng of not taking responsibility and being a "phoenix man" with a bad original family.
But these disturbing voices do not seem to stop the relationship between the two, and they are now more low-key, but the relationship is unknown to the outside world.
And Zhang Xincheng is also in such a situation, he is still firing CP with actress Sun Qian, who is filming together, and now he is in love with Tong Yao, who is 10 years older than him, in "Faint Fire".
But actors, these are all understandable.
It's just that I don't know if Zhang Xincheng, who once vowed to gain a firm foothold in your circle at the age of 30 and "become an actor familiar and recognized by everyone", will regret that he has affected his popularity because of a relationship?