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Happy 46th Birthday, Zhang Luyi (June 7, 1980)! In celebration, have some hot glove biting moments that directors obviously love to ask him to do:

Belief (2021) x 2

Tibetan Sea Flower (2024)

The Secret Path (2025) x 2

River Sunset (2026)

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Happy Chinese New Year/新年快乐!

Since I giffed the actual Chinese New Year celebration in rain village last year, this is another perfect gifset for the holiday because Zhang Luyi and Chen Minghao improvised this scene to playfully show a Chinese New Year tradition. During the celebration, families and friends will wish each other a happy new year. One of the more traditional ways for the younger generation (usually minors, but it may vary depending on the regions) to do this is to kneel and bow to the family members of the older generation. In return, the older generation will hand out red envelopes with money in them to the younger generation.

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie & Chen Minghao as Wang Pangzi in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door

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bahahahaha, why are people surprised that men and gays can really like zhang luyi????? so this weibo post about someone's dad getting obsessed with zly's shows to a point that he said to his family he was turning gay circulated around weibo recently, and it really leads to a series of old posts about gays lusting over zly very openly lol.

the said weibo post about zly turning somebody's dad gay:

then someone posted this screencap below from zhihu back in 2020...basically this gay guy indirectly hinted that zly seemed to be well endowed, and he was aroused whenever he saw zly appear in qin dynasty epic lol.

lastly, this guy below just wanted to to do certain things to zly after watching two episodes of three-body...i'm not even going to translate that because it's just too blunt lol (he didn't use the correct characters due to censorship so you know how blunt it was)...i remember back in 2023, the female zly fans got slightly shocked by this comment on weibo, and they were like "we need to protect zly from the gays"...and i was like "yep, it's too blunt to be said in public, but ladies, it's not like that the gays will really do anything more than fantasizing just like you. it's not like that you ladies don't write or read gay smut lol..."

i'm sure he'll just feel shy and than laugh it off if he ever sees those comments.

honestly i can feel that just by looking at how many gay blogs will reblog my zly posts here. sure, it's a small fandom, but since i tag western source blogs, i do get random gay blogs appreciating him without knowing who he is from time to time.

i think it's such a pity that we'll never see him in a real uncensored lgbtq movie/show because i'm sure he'll rock it (his character in love me if you dare is not straight, but of course they never focused on that in the show). and as a result, the directors just have to put him in lots of bromance or give us gay subtext or sexual innuendo. and here are just a few examples:

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Happy 45th birthday, Zhang Luyi (June 7, 1980)!

From interviews/promo videos of Three-Body (2023), Tibetan Sea Flower (2024), & The Secret Path (2025)

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Happy Birthday, Wu Xie (March 5, 1977)!!!

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door

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新年快乐! Happy Chinese New Year!

But before we leave, we decided to properly celebrate Chinese New Year for Xiaoge. It's also the first Chinese New Year that the three of us spend together, and a new adventure. Remarkable adventures can be going into uninhabited areas for thrilling expeditions that can only happen in movies, or it can be any aspect of life. Don't believe me? Look at us.

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie, Chen Minghao as Wang Pangzi, & Zhang Kangle as Zhang Qiling in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door

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Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door, ep 30

#when you never need extra subtitles for cdramas and finally realized that the added english subtilte for the 2nd gif on tencent's official youtube channel is much gayer than what he actually said in mandarin...

OP's note: What Wu Xie said there in Mandarin is actually "让他过上平凡人的生活", and the direct translation should be "I will make him live an ordinary life", which is way less gay that the "lead an ordinary life with him" translation. I was actually quite shocked when I finally saw the English subtitle LOL. And I was like, I'm going to gif this scene with that subtitle.

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Zhang Luyi at Tencent's 2024 All Star Night on 2025/01/04

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from nan pai san shu's POV (he uploaded the video to weibo):

none of us had any idea that he was actually filming zly on stage himself lol. and he must be very happy because zly actually spotted him.

i didn't find any sources on this yet, but i've seen some netizens talking about how npss wants to work with zly again. and we zly fans were like: yes if you are going to work on projects like belief (2021).

if you don't know, npss' company was one of the production companies behind zly's 2021 show belief.

i've read that the original novel has the two male leads in their 20s, but nobody in the production team thought any actors in their 20s could have handled the complex roles or acting, so they changed the characters and made them middle aged men. as a result, they were able to have zly as the first male lead and nie yuan as the second male lead. so you know, age is never a problem.

also did you notice tibetan sea flower actors in belief (of course, zhang fan is in three body as well)?

i think at this point nobody can deny the fact that npss is a zly fanboy (if you haven't read about how they meet in 2016, here you go). there's no shame in it. we all know zly is award winning director yang lei's muse lol.

so, so far we have three showrunners that's obsessed with zly: yang lei/杨磊, xu bing/徐兵, xu lei/徐磊 (npss), and did you notice the bold blue characters? the inside joke is that if you are a writer/producer/director with either xu/徐 or lei/磊 in your name, you might be "cursed" to be obsessed with zly LOLLOLLOL...and npss actually have both characters in his name, so maybe he's the most obsessed one LOL. i kinda want to put him in a "i love zly more" competition with yang lei.

ps. we all know these airing platforms' own awards don't mean nothing. but at least it's good to know that tencent is happy with tsf and zly. and i also suspect that they invited zly this year to make up to the fact that he didn't go to their event for three body last year. and i'm rather glad that he kinda paused for a sec and raised the trophy when he said "scifi". i'm pretty sure he was thinking about three body. and i'm glad du haitao (the host) mentioned three body <3.

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Zhang Luyi at Tencent's 2024 All Star Night on 2025/01/04

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ZHANG LUYI at Tencent's 2024 All Star Night for his 2024 Tencent drama Tibetan Sea Flower. Tibetan Sea Flower is chosen as one of Tencent's outstanding dramas of 2024, and one of the most loved dramas by Tencent members in 2024. Tencent also picked Zhang Luyi as the quality actor of the year.

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#just zhang luyi being adorable af while shooting the scene where wu xie got blown up by the grenade

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door, BTS episode 27

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awww☺️☺️☺️...he's cute af, and it's a fact. i do really like this set. it almost got to my top 10 fave gifsets of 2024. also this bts footage is my fave bts of 2024. i love his natural beijing accent here and the slightly higher pitched voice than his actor voice lol. if any of you are curious, you can watch the video here. i really want him to be in a show where he can just talk like this 😫😫😫.

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#just three-body actors in their 2024 shows & each holding a glove in the mouth

Yu Hewei as Qin Chuan in 我是刑警 | I Am Police (2024) & Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024)

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@asiandramanet creator bingo - blood (ft. hands)

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door, ep 29

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#watching tibetan sea flower as a three-body fan

ZHANG LUYI as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) vs. Wang Miao in 三体 | Three-Body (2023) (Kun's 92/∞ Three-Body gifsets)

PS. Did Nan Pai San Shu joke about this? He absolute did! In this weibo comment, he joked about Tibetan Sea Flower being the prequel of Three-Body: Wu Xie studied the sharp wires from the Zhang family, changed his identity to Wang Miao, invented the nano flying blade, and eventually started project Guzheng.

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#looks like this gorgeous scene never made it to the final cut, so it can only be used as promotional footage.

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door

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#this level of cuteness should be illegal especially for a middle aged man

Zhang Luyi as Wu Xie in 藏海花 | Tibetan Sea Flower (2024) aka Adventure Behind the Bronze Door, episode 32, ft. Chen Minghao as Wang Pangzi

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From being stuck in the snow together in 2016 to filming Tibetan Sea Flower - Nan Pai San Shu's "Obsession" over Zhang Luyi.

Thank you for noticing my tag in the other post about the friendship between ZLY and CMH, and showing some interest. So here we go! I guess besides why Zhang Luyi (ZLY) was picked, there's also the story about how everything started. I find it rather fascinating. DMBJ's author Nan Pai San Shu, aka Xu Lei (XL) told the story a few years ago, but he mentioned it again during a livestream when Tibetan Sea flower (TSF) just started airing. The next three paragraphs are based on XL's livestream and ZLY's interviews.

Back in 2016, on a very snowy day, XL was on his way to The Mystic Nine's filming location, and was stuck on a mountain road. After waiting for a while, he thought he should go and help direct the traffic. When he got out to do it, he surprisingly found another Good Samaritan already doing what he intended to do, and yes, that Good Samaritan was ZLY.

ZLY was on his way to The Mystic Nine's filming location too. It was actually not XL who picked him for the role of Wu Laogou then. He went to guest star in that show because his university classmate Bai Yicong, the producer of the show, asked ZLY to do him a favor and just stop by to have a meeting with everyone.

So that's how XL and ZLY first met in person. Because they got stuck in the snow for a LONG time, they talked a lot about DMBJ, from Wu Laogou to Wu Xie, and even TSF (ZLY already read some of the DMBJ novels at the time, and he finished all of them before shooting TSF). At some point, XL told ZLY that ZLY's vibe reminded him of a very important character of his, which was Wu Xie. ZLY was very moved and thankful. Since they had such a good long talk, they kind of made a promise to each other that they'd work together on a DMBJ project at some point. They also each made a weibo post about meeting each other as the traffic director in the snow.

In 2017, there was actually quite some rumors about ZLY being approached to play Wu Xie in Sha Hai/Tomb of the Sea (this is not to discredit other Wu Xie actors, because it's normal for a production team to approach multiple actors for a role in the casting stage), but since ZLY had several health issues due to being injured during the filming of another show, he really couldn't be a candidate for the role.

But XL never forgot about ZLY. In 2021, rumors came around again about ZLY being approached to play Wu Xie in TSF, and this time, he agreed.

During the airing of TSF, XL did a lot of livestreams and Q&A sections on weibo. There's one post where he said: "From the state in the beginning, the state of being lost, to the Sha Hai!Xie state in the end, the entire progress is shown in TSF. I needed an actor with extremely good acting skills. From TSF!Xie to Sha Hai!Xie, there're many occasions where Wu Xie's soul is in a dark place and he might fall for his obsession. Besides Pangzi being there to pull him back, it also needs Wu Xie's strong faith and goodness, and I think it needed acting skills to show it."

In another comment to a fan's question about the choice of Wu Xie's actor, XL answered: "Maybe it represents a kind of inner demons", which I think the inner demons part can be translated to obsession.

So you can tell, it does seem that XL had this obsession to have ZLY play Wu Xie no matter what. And he never gave up the idea ever since they first met, even though by the time they could finally work together in 2022, ZLY was no longer in the best age range to play TSF!Xie (hence, sometimes you'd notice those annoying filters used to mask wrinkles on his face).

I really haven't watched all of XL's livestreams and interviews, and from the very few ones I've watched, he mentioned where ZLY impressed him. Before the shooting started, ZLY double checked with XL to see if XL wanted him to play Wu Xie as a more straightforward northerner or gentler southerner (this is not to stereotype, but to reflect the cultural and language difference), and XL reassured him to be a southerner since Wu Xie is a from the south of China. ZLY was no stranger to playing a southerner even though he's a northerner himself, as some of his best characters were from south China. This was why he dropped all his natural Beijing accent, and showed a gentler demeanor (eg. Pangzi is a typical northerner, and CMH kept his Beijing accent).

Another thing is when they were shooting the real and fake Wu Xie scene, it was filmed without any special effects or even an extra actor. ZLY played both characters each time with thin air. It impressed XL a lot because it required so much more finesse and precision on the memory, timing, and movement.

Lastly I want to show you ZLY's goodbye message to TSF that was posted on Sep 24th. He's a very dedicated, sincere, and cultured actor that often uses handwritten stuff to say goodbye to shows nowadays. And he wrote what Wu Xie and Pangzi always say to each other, the good luck and good fortune thing: "Da Ji Da Li, Gong Xi Fa Cai"

Another fun fact is that ZLY is very good at calligraphy. He used to assign different fonts to the characters he played based on their characteristics. Because Wu Xie writes in 瘦金体/Shoujin font, ZLY wrote the message also in Shoujin font. I guess you can say that's another similarity between him and Wu Xie, that they can both write in this font (I'm no expert in calligraphy, so I found an article teaching people how to write in Shoujin font. It was definitely not an easy thing to do because it advised people to learn and practice certain fonts in traditional calligraphy for a few years before even going for the Shoujin font).

Thanks for reading! If you like ZLY's Wu Xie, that's awesome. If not, that's OK. It's totally understandable. Please also know that I have zero intention to compare his version of Wu Xie to other Wu Xies. I'm sure each Wu Xie is awesome, unique, and lovable in his own way.