Ian Wang, or Wang Yan Lin, as he’s also known, is a Chinese actor. He was born July 28, 1989 and made his acting debut in 2011. Since his debut, he has made numerous appearances in reality shows, films, and television dramas including, “Wu Xin: The Monster Killer” (2015), “The Legend of Qin” (2015), “The Starry Night, The Starry Sea” (2017), and “Across the Ocean to See You” (2017).

Ian Wang

As kids, Song Yan (Yang Yang) and Xu Qin (Wang Chu Ran) were childhood best friends who fell in love before their families put a stop to the budding relationship. Forced apart, he grows up to be a fire chief while she becomes an emergency room doctor. Now as adults, they are unexpectedly reunited due to their respective jobs – and forced to work together to save lives. With their complicated history, their renewed relationship gets off to a rough start. But as they begin to spend more time together, they start to grow close again. Will the flames of love ignite this time, or will their reunion end in another unhappy goodbye? This 2023 Chinese romance-themed drama was adapted from a novel by Jiu Yue Xi and directed by Li Mu Ge.

Fireworks of My Heart

Flames of Love

Jiang Yu

When an embarrassing video leaks online showcasing top star Qiao Jing Jing's (Dilraba Dilmurat) gaming ineptitude, it threatens her lucrative contract with the game developer. She decides to hone her skills online and save the deal. This leads her to reunite with her former crush and classmate Yu Tu (Yang Yang), now an aerospace engineer and a proficient gamer, for help.... while concealing her identity. Can he help her win a competition that might save the contract? And will their reunion lead them into an unexpected romance? This 2021 Chinese drama series was directed by Wang Zhi.

You Are My Glory

🐇 Jade Rabbit Team 🐇

Tencent

In a reality show like no other, six stars come together in a parallel time and space to delight audiences of all ages. Pairing off into teams, Li Yi Tong, Ian Wang, Qin Lan, Jasper Liu, Yang Chaoyue, and Hou Ming Hao are challenged to not only write an idol drama love story, but also bring that story to life.

Working as screenwriters, directors, and actors, the three teams must compete against each other to create an original love story that captures the hearts of viewers the world over. Are these stars up to the task or will the challenges of such a unique concept prove to be too much?

Produced by Tencent Video, “When We Write Love Story” is a 2020 reality program directed by Chi Yuan.

When We Write Love Story

A brilliant captain of the Ministry of Transport’s China Rescue & Salvage, Gao Qian (Eddie Peng) is a hero among heroes. A truly fearless leader, Captain Gao has made a name for himself as a man who rallies in the face of danger and has an unshakable dedication to both country and the mission. As a single father, Captain Gao is painfully aware that one wrong move on a mission could leave his son an orphan, but even that can’t stop him from going out of his way to save those in dire need.

After an intense mission on a drilling platform forces one of his pilots into early retirement, Captain Gao is introduced to his newest team member, a replacement pilot by the name of&nbsp;Fang Yu Ling (Xin Zhi Lei). The daughter of a former pilot, Yu Ling is determined to make her father proud by following in his footsteps. But life as a China Rescue & Salvage member isn’t easy and each mission takes its toll, both physically and mentally.&nbsp;

Constantly deployed to deal with catastrophes, both manmade and natural, Captain Gao and his team are repeatedly required to put their lives on the line. A sacrifice that, despite everything, each is willing to make. But just how long can a hero remain strong when they’re constantly pushed to their limits?

A high-stakes thrill ride with unexpected heart, “The Rescue” is a 2020 action film directed by Dante Lam.

The Rescue

Rescue Brilliant Heroes Team

Hunan TV

In the tumultuous era of the Northern Wei, innocent citizens are kidnapped and enslaved, including Chu Qiao (Zhao Li Ying), who is cast into a forest to be hunted for sport by wealthy lords. Just as hope seems lost, she is rescued by Yan Xun (Dou Xiao), the Prince of Northern Yan, forging a powerful bond between them. However, her life takes another turn when she catches the eye of the influential Yuwen Yue (Lin Geng Xin) from the formidable Yuwen family. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, Chu Qiao finds herself caught in a web of power struggles, forcing her to choose between her growing affection for Yan Xun and the allure of Yuwen Yue’s world. With her freedom and heart at stake, will she fight for love or succumb to the demands of her new reality? This 2017 Chinese drama series was directed by Wu Jin Yuan, based on the novel “Division 11's Princess Agent” written by Xiao Xiang Dong Er.

Princess Agents

The Dancing Fingers

Yu Wen Huai

Zhejiang TV

This is not the fresh start she anticipated. 

Su Mang (Wang Li Kun) works overseas as an executive for MG, a global tourism company. When her attempts to have a child fail and her marriage to her philandering husband ends in divorce, Su Mang transfers to the company’s headquarters in Shanghai as a director. 

When rumors start to fly among the employees about Su Mang’s life overseas, Zheng Chu (Zhu Ya Wen) is the unlikely employee who tries to protect her, despite the rocky start to their working relationship. 

But how can Zheng Chu help Su Mang deal with the news that she is pregnant from her IVF treatments from her previous marriage? 

“Across the Ocean to See You” is a 2017 Chinese drama series directed by Chen Ming Zhang.

Across the Ocean to See You

Oceans Apart No More

Su Chang

A young woman is destined to cross paths with a mermaid prince.

Shen Luo (Bea Hayden) is having work troubles, so she moves from the big city back to a small island cottage, where she spent her childhood living with her grandfather. When Shen Luo learns that her grandfather has been diagnosed with cancer, she decides to stay to take care of him.

While settling back into a quieter life on the island, reuniting with childhood friends Jiang Yi Sheng (Huang Ming) and Zhou Bu Wen (Sui Yong Liang), Shen Luo has no idea that Wu Ju Lan (Feng Shao Feng) is on his way to her. Ju Lan is a mermaid prince whose magical pearl was stolen by Shen Luo’s ancestors 150 years ago. Ju Lan needs the magical pearl to prolong his life, and he now believes that Shen Luo’s grandfather possesses it.

When Ju Lan meets Shen Luo, how will their lives change in unexpected ways?

“The Starry Night, The Starry Sea” is a 2017 Chinese drama series directed by Wei Han Tao. It is adapted from a novel by the same title by Tong Hua.

The Starry Night, The Starry Sea

Gone with the Shirt Team

Zhu Yi Yang

Dragon TV

What can lure a retired coach back into the game? Mu Qi (Hu Ge) is a retired soccer coach who is having financial problems because of his past gambling habit. When he is asked to come back to the sport and coach the Yan Cui Ying High School’s losing soccer team, it doesn’t take too much arm-twisting to take the job. There, Mu Qi meets the passionate Pei Duo (Maggie Jiang), a math teacher who has been coaching the soccer team but sorely needs help whipping the group of misfits into shape. When Mu Qi and Pei Duo can’t agree on their philosophy for coaching the team, is there any hope of turning the losing team around and making it to the annual championships? “Go! Goal! Fighting!” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Li Guo Li.

Go! Goal! Fighting!

The Goalkeepers

Cong Yue

In a time of great unrest at the end of the Warring States period, Jing Ke (Le Geng) attempts to assassinate King Zheng of Qin and fails. Now on the run from Qin’s soldiers, Jing hires Gai Nie (Lu Yi), the world’s best swordsman, to protect his son, Jing Tian Ming (Jiang Jin Fu; Wu Zu Jin Xi as the child Tian Ming). When Gai single-handedly defeats 300 armed soldiers at the Qin border, the angry King Zheng orders that both Gai and Tian Ming be killed at any cost. The king’s ministers hire Wei Zhuang (Sun Yi Zhou), a brilliant swordsman who studied under the same master as Gai, to go after them. Gai and Tiang Ming, meanwhile, meet a group of Mohist swordsman and a young girl named Gao Yue (Hu Bing Qing) and are taken to the Mohist Fortress, a secret place nestled between towering mountain peaks that houses the Mohist School, a final stronghold of anti-Qin forces. Among them is Rong Duan Mu (Michelle Chen), the skilled Mohist doctor and Gao Yue’s older sister, with whom Gai falls in love. But when King Zheng sends a massive group of elite troops and Wei brings his own tram of swordsmen assassins, the epic battle that ensues at Mohist Fortress will determine the next king. “The Legend of Qin” is a 2015 Chinese historical drama series directed by Zheng Wei Wen. It is adapted from China’s No.1 martial arts animation film by the same title.

The Legend of Qin

The Moonlighting Team

Dong Guo Zhi

Sohu TV

An immortal soul, with the ability to communicate with spirits that roam the earth, yet doomed to spend eternity in deepest poverty, Wu Xin (Elvis Han) wanders the world hungry, penniless, and alone. Desperate to escape this miserable life, he heads to the mountains in search of a place to rest. Falling asleep at some point during the Qing dynasty, Wu Xin wakes to find the world around him changed dramatically, in more ways than one.

Making her way to the mountains in a desperate attempt to escape an arranged marriage with the most unpleasant man, Li Yue Ya (Jin Chen) stumbles across sleeping Wu Xin. After Yue Ya falls asleep next to Wu Xin, the immortal wakes to find himself lying next to a beautiful woman, nearly fifty years in the future. Taking pity on this lost soul, Yue Ya offers Wu Xin her food, which he accepts gladly. 

In exchange for her kindness, Wu Xin takes Yue Ya under his wing. Under the guise of a monk and his sister, the pair sets out into the world, to make their fortune as monster hunters. Taking jobs as they come, the unlikely duo fights some of the world’s most vile creatures, finding adventure, fortune, and love along the way.

Based on Ni Luo’s novel of the same name, “Wu Xin: The Monster Killer” is an action-packed 2015 fantasy drama directed by Lin Yufen and Gao Linbao.

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