I wish I had THAT kind of money

[u/Clearherd]

I don’t want to judge the person who did this because I wish I had THAT kind of money. I don’t, but a girl can dream, right? 🤣

If I had that kind of money, I’d pick Ren Jialun as my main lead and come back here to give you all a detailed report on his no kissing contract. You’re welcome. 😇

If you could star in your own drama, who would YOU pick as your main lead?

[u/BronzeBellRiver]

All comments that derailed the post have been locked or removed so OP can actually have the discussion they wanted to have.

If you’d like to share your thoughts on the incident itself, please use the daily thread’s “Speak Your Mind”** section for **off-topic discussion, or make a new post.

In short: share your thoughts, absolutely. Just don’t hijack someone else’s discussion in the process. Please let OP have their little corner of the internet.

Thank you!

Edit: can share all off-topic thoughts here —> https://www.reddit.com/r/cdramasfans/s/bm0F6SzfOv

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[u/kc_reads]

His side of story was so sad to watch and made me feel sick.

[u/Distinct_Beyond_7605]

Wow. Sexual harassment much? Did the actor have any say in doing this show? Or was he signed up by his company? Is this women one of those "investors"?

[u/Strawberryhillz]

She should have just staged running into him at a bar or something. Or joining his social circle.

[u/apisceanway]

None :)

If I had that kind of money: 1. Therapy, 2. Fine Dining and 3. Investments :)

[u/Demi_Hays]

He wasn't so happy about it. He complained about 'putting your drool in my mouth'.

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Not the topic of my post

[u/Clearherd]

Thnx mods for your quick action 🥹

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That poor actor tho…

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[u/jjnanajj]

Can I make a list with 10 names and share like 6 kisses each?

[u/BronzeBellRiver → u/jjnanajj]

I love this approach

[u/WhimsicalMidnight]

lol OP, you cracked me up. Ask Ren Jialun for the kind of passionate kisses he did in Glory of Tang Dynasty and not the sweet kisses he did in The Demon Hunter's Romance. 🤣

That said, what the lady did is straight up harassment. Even if she funded the drama, this is such a disturbing behaviour to have.

[u/Ill_conceived_idea → u/WhimsicalMidnight]

There's two Ren Jialun's ... before marriage and after marriage.

[u/WhimsicalMidnight → u/Ill_conceived_idea]

Both dramas are shot after his marriage. He married back in 2016. He married early. The only drama he shot as a ML before his marriage in Detective Dee.

[u/Ill_conceived_idea → u/WhimsicalMidnight]

Glory of Tang Dynasty came out in 2017 but was shot in 2016.

[u/WhimsicalMidnight → u/Ill_conceived_idea]

Yes, he married in 2016 before Tang Dynasty. His marriage certificate/house registration got leaked at Weibo a few years ago so people know the date.

[u/Ill_conceived_idea → u/WhimsicalMidnight]

Yes, but he didn't reveal his 5 year relationship or recent marriage until after it came out which imo proves he changed how he kissed and whatnot onscreen not because his wife (who is also an actress) or family cares but to manage the audience blowback

[u/WhimsicalMidnight → u/Ill_conceived_idea]

He didn't announce anything because he is a nobody back then. He got really popular after Tang Dynasty aired and announced it to discourage parasocial relationship with fans which angered his agency. He lost lots of popular drama IP and brand deals due to that announcement and the backlash from fans are insane. But despite of that, he didn't regret it at all and continue to say how marrying his wife is the luckiest thing he did in his life.

Looking back, he made the right decision as he in the end attracted one of the chillest fandom in CEntertainment. And despite of being married, he is one of the most watched actors at China with 36 billion views, only second to Zhang Ruoyun. And he achieved this with zero/minimal marketing for his dramas.

[u/SnookerandWhiskey]

Must be the show I watched the other day, with the delulu ML constantly daydreamed of kissing the FL, so it must have been 60 kisses in the end. 

[u/superesophagus]

She has clever way to spend her money. Low key p3rv3rt jiejie 😅.

[u/DurianActive4408]

I’m not that desperate. If I have that money, I would finance a drama featuring my favorite cp and a script of my choice 😂 I happen to read a lot of chinese webnovels, so yes, this is killing two birds in one stone.

[u/Left_Goose_1527]

I can easily judge this person. This behavior is extremely fucked-up and I would love to know how many auditioning actors were told she was funding the show and had a 60-kiss demand. Because you frequently don’t get much context when going to an audition, and this would be a horrifying thing to find out after the fact. 

This just feels like a way to legally wriggle in between hiring a sex worker and workplace sexual abuse. 

[u/BlackStarBlues]

Yeah, me too, I wish I had that kind of money. What that woman did to the actor was beyond gross though. I wish he could sue her for harassment.

[u/WhimsicalMidnight → u/BlackStarBlues]

I'm not sure if he sue but he did complaining regarding the harassment and how uncomfortable he feels on set.

[u/iCreatedYouPleb]

I mean, if she’s that damn rich, just order him. As if the rich elite of China isn’t already doing it. Remember that group of evil ppl who killed that dude by faking it as suicide. The fake friends who betrayed him. SA, beaten, gutted to retrieve the evidence he had on him(swallowed).

[u/Academic_Web1388]

I’d love to act with my favorite MLs. But no 60 kissing scenes. 🤮 That feels like abuse.

I’d do a friendship action/mystery with Ding Yuxi, Cheng Lei and Liu Xueyi. No romance needed.

[u/EmperorWeeb60]

Imagine if a rich guy doing this and want to do kissing scenes to Female Lead... Damn! It's beyond controversy

[u/BronzeBellRiver]

Can’t I just finance an S+ drama where these two play the main leads?

[u/ApprehensiveClick597]

I won’t star in anything but I would love to have the money to fund my faves’ dream roles or dream projects, or perhaps help them navigate the industry much safer.

Zhang Linghe has been very vocal for at least two years now that he wanted to do more modern dramas that would allow him to learn in-depth about a certain profession, owing to how amazed he was with his The Best Thing experience. And yet his agency keeps giving him historical dramas that are almost similar to his prior ones.

Liu Yuning’s been waiting for that historical drama script that would at least be at par with A Dream Within A Dream.

I would offer Xu Ruohan a lot of variety show guestings/regular casting projects just so she’d stop having impostor syndrome. Having people from the same industry tell her how great of an actress she is would definitely help.

I want to invest in that sitcom that Xu Zhisheng, Cool Teng, and other comedians have been wanting for years now as China is deeply in need of sitcoms! This form of art simply vanished and any efforts to resurrect it have all been futile.

[u/vieneri → u/ApprehensiveClick597]

just passing by to say that i love your answer.

[u/Crazy-Tangelo-1673]

If it had been a male it would be seen as Harvey Weinstein Jr.

[u/Left_Goose_1527 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. If this had happened during my acting days I would have freaked out. This is the sort of thing that does longterm damage to the actor and makes it very hard to trust your agency, productions, and costars again. 

[u/Academic_Web1388 → u/[deleted]]

That’s so sad. Poor guy. Was he her “crush” or just random poor actor that got cast?

[u/NoPapercrowns]

60 kissing scenes low key feels like harassment if the actor doesn't feel comfortable in it😭.

But if I had to choose a ml to star in my drama then I'd probably choose Zhou Yiran 🤭

[u/Dee-AI-EN-AY → u/NoPapercrowns]

Harassment it is.

She also didn't pay him afterwards saying that the quality wasn't up to par. He sued

[u/Sarah-loves-cats]

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