Yang Zi is an award-winning Chinese actress and singer who got her start as a child actress. Born on November 6, 1992, she also is known by the name Andy Yang and is considered to be one of the “Four Dan of Actresses of the Post-90s Generation” along with Zheng Shuang, Zhou Dong Yu and Guan Xiao Tong. Yang Zi made her acting debut in the 2002 television series “Ru Ci Chu Shan.” She has since starred in many popular films and television dramas, including the recent “Ode to Joy” (2016), “The Legend of Chusen” (2016) and “The Legend of Chusen 2” (2016-2017) and “Ashes of Love” (2018).

Yang Zi

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When Princess Jiu Yao’s (Yang Zi) royal past was wiped away, she had no choice but to build a life far from home, masquerading as a man. Living a simple life, fate introduces her to future clan leader Tu Shan Jing (Deng Wei) and the demon Xiang Liu (Tan Jian Ci). Torn between these two and Prince Xi Yan Cang Xuan (Zhang Wan Yi), who has been searching for her, Jiu Yao must choose her path. After helping Cang Xuan secure the throne, Jiu Yao wishes to live a secluded life with Xiang Liu, but Cang Xuan has other plans. Can he let her go after years of searching? Directed by Yang Huan and Zoe Qin, this 2024 sequel to the Chinese fantasy romance series “Lost You Forever” delves into love, duty, and destiny.

Lost You Forever 2

⁉️Lost 4ever without u💘

Jiu Yao/Wen Xiao Liu

Mai Cheng Huan (Yang Zi) has always lived her life according to the wishes of her overbearing mother. But after her mother’s interference brings about the end of an important relationship, Cheng Huan decides enough is enough. Breaking free from her mother’s hold, Cheng Huan pours all her focus into advancing in her career, and takes a position as the manager of a family hotel. While the hotel heir, Yao Zhi Ming (Xu Kai) has doubts about Cheng Huan’s abilities, it doesn’t take long for him to recognize her many talents. Working side by side, Cheng Huan and Zhi Ming navigate the turbulent waters of family and business together, finding unexpected love along the way.

A classic tale of enemies to lovers, this is a 2024 Chinese romantic comedy drama directed by Tian Yu and Wang Cheng Xin.

Best Choice Ever

✨ The Best Love Story ❤️

Mai Cheng Huan

JSTV, Youku

Huang Ying Zi (Yang Zi), Jiang Yi (Fan Cheng Cheng), and their four closest friends were inseparable as children. But after their school days ended, they were all separated at the age of 17. When one of the group gets married, Ying Zi does her best to ensure they all reunite at the wedding. The dynamic of their friendship has changed in the years they’ve spent apart: The former friends are now aged 30. But as Ying Zi and Jiang Yi spend more time together, romantic emotions begin to re-emerge. Is it too late for friendship to evolve into love? Or will destiny finally bring them together? This 2024 Chinese drama series was based on the novel “Who Do You Like at Seventeen?” by Ying Shi Liu and was directed by Niu Chao.

Love Endures

Timeless Connections Team 

When Princess Jiu Yao (Yang Zi) was young, she spent her days dreaming of marrying her best friend, Prince Qiang Xuan (Zhang Wan Yi). But when fate stripped her title, stole her identity, and wiped away her royal past, Jiu Yao had no choice but to try to build a life far away from the place she once called home. Masquerading as a man, Jiu Yao seeks a simple life but when she meets future clan leader Tu Shan Jing (Deng Wei) and the demon Xiang Liu (Tan Jian Ci), life gets complicated once again. Caught between a man, a demon, and the long-lost prince who has spent years tracking her down, does love or tragedy await this lost princess? This 2023 Chinese fantasy romance drama series was directed by Qin Zhen and Yang Huan.

Lost You Forever

A Lady and Her 4 Gentlemen

After recovering the Four-Leafed Lotus, a powerful treasure, from a demon thief, the Sovereign Lord protector of the heavenly realm Ying Yuan (Cheng Yi) was shocked as Lotus transformed into two sisters: Yan Dan (Yang Zi) and Zhi Xi (Zoey Meng). Yan Dan fell for Ying Yuan, but fate kept them apart. Now, hundreds of years later, they reunite in the mortal realm, where Ying Yuan, now named Tang Zhou, is a demon hunter on the hunt for powerful ancient artifacts. He runs into Yan Dan, accompanied by her close male friend Yu Mo (Zhang Rui), and the trio joins forces to continue the quest. Unfortunately, neither Yan Dan nor Tang Zhou recall their shared history! As Yan Dan and Tang Zhou spend more time together, will they remember their past lives – and love? This 2022 Chinese drama series was directed by Guo Hu and Ren Hai Tao.

Immortal Samsara

  Turtle-Flipping Deity Team

Tencent

Budding young cellist Lin Zhi Xiao (Yang Zi)’s perfect world falls apart when her father becomes ill, forcing her to give up her dream job. To make matters worse, she breaks up with her seemingly loving boyfriend. While wallowing in misery at the hospital where her father is being treated, she meets doctor Gu Wei (Xiao Zhan), who is also facing personal challenges. Over time, they develop a bond of understanding. Could love follow and bring joy back into both their lives? This 2022 Chinese drama series was based on a novel by Bolin Shi Jiang and was directed by Lu Ying.

The Oath of Love

🩺 Therapy Plays Your Heart 🎻

Youku

Having recently suffered a huge blow to her career, psychologist He Dun (Yang Zi) is currently struggling with her own set of psychological problems. Understandably depressed, He Dun’s friend, Xiao Xi, invites her out to dinner, where she happens to meet Ye Jia Hai (Wang Jia) and Qian Kai Yi (Jing Bo Ran). After speaking with Kai Yi, He Dun is persuaded to join him in hosting a radio program devoted to helping callers with their psychological issues.&nbsp;

Working closely with Kai Yi, He Dun’s career takes a positive turn as fans of their radio program start turning up to her counseling clinic in droves. With a successful radio program, a clinic that gets busier by the day, and very strong feelings developing between her and Kai Yi, He Dun couldn’t be happier. But fate, it would seem, can’t allow He Dun’s happiness to last for long. When her mentor, Ji Ming Cong (Huang Jue) is caught up in a scandal, He Dun is determined to uncover the truth. But as she searches for the answers that will clear her mentor’s name, her family life slowly begins to unravel.

Overwhelmed by stress at both home and work, He Dun finds herself relapsing as traumas from her past begin to resurface. Struggling to keep her life from falling apart around her, He Dun begins to reevaluate her priorities. Will this struggling doctor find a way to help others if she can’t first find a way to help herself?

Based on the novel of the same name by Bi Shu Min, “Psychologist” is a 2021 romance drama directed by Ke Wen Li.

Psychologist

Mind and Heart Healers ❤️‍🩹

Jiangsu TV, iQiyi

Ai Qing (Li Yi Tong) – also known by her gaming handle Appledog – is one of the top robot combat players in the land. A model professional, smart, and friendly, she has no shortage of fans. And chief among them is Wu Bai (Hu Yi Tian) – also known as DT.

Under Ai Qing’s tutelage, Wu Bai developed a keen passion for robot war contests and gaming, eventually becoming a star performer in his own right.

Now he has risen to become the robot combat scene’s biggest rising star, captaining a promising team new team named Pirate, which threatens to outshine even Ai Qing’s powerful Appledog team.

Despite their professional rivalry, the duo has remained close – and their feelings for one another keep growing, with romance also possibly in the cards.

But the ultimate challenge will come at the annual Robot Combat Competition, where teams Pirate, Appledog, and more duke it out for a much-prized trophy!

This drama was based on a novel by Mo Bao Fei Bao, and sees the two main characters reprise roles they played in the drama series “Go Go Squid!”

“Go Go Squid 2: Dt, Appledog's Time” is a 2021 drama series that was directed by Yu Zhong Zhong.

Go Go Squid 2: Dt, Appledog's Time

The Puppy Love Team

iQiyi

Raised in the wilderness by his grandfather, Mo Ge Li (Ma Tian Yu) has spent his entire life surrounded by nature. Completely oblivious to the modern world, he has never had any sort of companionship, aside from his grandfather and the animals he calls friends. But all that changes the day Ling Xi (Yang Zi) walks into his life.

A modern, independent, career woman, Ling Xi meets Mo Ge Li by accident and inadvertently brings him home with her. Painfully aware that she needs to return this wild man to his home as quickly as possible, Ling Xi does her best but nothing seems to work out the way it should. Out of options, Ling Xi does the only thing she can, she lets Mo Ge Li stay with her until she can find a way to take him home. But living under the same roof comes with some very unexpected complications and even more complicated feelings.

Can a boy from the wilderness and a modern city girl find a way to bring their two worlds together or will their differences drive them apart?&nbsp;

Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”, “My Mowgli Boy” is a 2019 romance drama directed by Han Yang.

My Mowgli Boy

🌴 The Jungle Team 🌴

Dragon TV

Tong Nian (Yang Zi) might be a brilliant IT programming student, but when it comes to love, her score is anything but perfect. Having fallen for Hang Shang Yan (Li Xian), one of the best pro gamers in the world, Nian tries everything she can think of to get Shang Yan’s attention. Sadly, no matter how hard she tries, she always ends up failing miserably. Will she ever find a way to catch the eye of a man who never seems to notice anyone? Based on the novel “Stewed Squid with Honey” by Mo Bao Fei Bao, this 2019 Viki Original Chinese romantic comedy series was directed by Li Qing Rong and Xiang Xu Jing.

Go Go Squid!

🍯 Honey Stewed Squid! 🐙 

JSTV

A frost flower fairy who is unable to feel emotion is caught up in a love triangle with two warring deities.

Jin Mi (Yang Zi) is the daughter of the Flower Deity and Water Immortal. The deity learns that her daughter will suffer a great love trial, so she gives the baby girl a magical pill that prevents her from feeling any emotion or falling in love.

When Jin Mi mistakenly believes that her father died at the hands of the Fire Immortal, Xu Feng (Deng Lun), she kills him and ends up coughing up the magic pill in the process. Xu Feng comes back to life as the Demon Lord and challenges the Night Immortal, Run Yu (Luo Yun Xi), who took over the throne as the Heavenly Emperor. 

When Jin Mi becomes caught between the two warring lords, what will be her destiny?

“Ashes of Love” is a 2018 Chinese drama series directed by Chu Rui Bin. It is based on the novel Heavy Sweetness, Ash-like Frost by Dian Xian.

Ashes of Love

Gone with the Shirt Team 

Jin Mi

Master of the medicinal valley and disciple of the Jade Emperor, Zi Xuan (Allen Ren) was well on his way to becoming a deity when he met Bai Yao Yao (Yang Zi). A little white snake spirit roaming the mortal realm as a human, Yao Yao had no intention of falling in love with a mortal but sometimes, the best things in life happen when we least expect them.

Entwined by fate, Zi Xuan and Yao Yao should have had a beautiful life together but when demon catcher, Fa Hai (Mao Zi Jun), finds the two together, he becomes obsessed with tearing them apart. Desperate to save the life of the mortal she loves, Yao Yao breaks a heavenly seal, inadvertently releasing chaos and destruction upon the human world. In order to save the world, Zi Xuan sacrifices himself, leaving a devastated Yao Yao to face a dismal eternity alone.

A thousand years pass before Yao Yao allows herself to walk among men once more. As she travels, she finds Zi Xuan, now reborn as Xu Xian (Allen Ren). Though Xu Xian remembers nothing from his past life, Yao Yao remembers everything and vows that this time, things will be different.

Inspired by an ancient Chinese folk talk, “The Destiny of White Snake” is a 2018 fantasy romance drama directed by Yi Tao and Liu Guohui.

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