Simon Chen is a Chinese actor and singer who was born on August 29, 1998. He was a contestant on the music-themed survival audition show “Youth With You Season 3” in 2021 and in 2022 played the male lead role in the drama series “Better a Lie Than a Truth.”

Simon Chen

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When an opera troupe from Dayong City is reported to have been swallowed by a mysterious ghost at the city’s gate, the reigning sovereign immediately orders the lord of Dayong City to investigate. Given only three days in which to solve the mystery, the lord of Dayong City seeks out the help of Su Cheng Xi (Simon Chen), the city’s best detective, and Sui Han Bai (Li Pei Yang), a local constable in possession of some very useful abilities.&nbsp;

Though Cheng Xi and Han Bai have little choice when it comes to working together, the two struggle to get along. Unable to trust each other completely, they do their best, but when they’re trapped in a mysterious villa with Zuo Han Qin (Yin Rui), a trained assassin who claims to be the daughter of the city’s lord and a map that appears out of nowhere, the two can put their differences aside to focus on what it quickly becoming a most unusual case. Identified as the Shi Wei Map, the mysterious map shows the location of an immense treasure, but with its appearance, strange things begin to happen.

With the nearby Shangtang River suddenly full of bones, and an opera troupe no closer to being found, Cheng Xi, Han Bai, and Han Qin begin a desperate search to find the connection between these events and the map. Will they be able to find the clues they need to restore peace to their city before it’s too late?

Adapted from the novel “Jianghu Juvenile Art” by Zi Mo Jian, “Decline” is a 2023 Chinese action adventure drama directed by Liu Qi Jia.

Decline

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Su Nian (Niu Yu Kun) is a journalist at a magazine. She is chasing a promotion, but to attain her goals, she must interview the CEO of a large business group. She is happy to take on the assignment – until she realizes that the person she must interview is none other than her former classmate Qiao Mu Sheng (Simon Chen), who has become the head of a company that creates immersive escape rooms.

Qiao Mu Sheng had held secret feelings for Su Nian and had wanted to tell her how he felt by writing her a love letter. But his attempt to do so was thwarted by a quirk of fate. Now, he has become the emotionless head of a powerful company. Coincidentally, Su Nian and Qiao Mu Sheng both have terrible reactions to alcohol, which they carefully avoid. But when a malevolent rival tricks her into drinking, and Qiao Mu Sheng also accidentally drinks, they somehow end up waking up in the same bed the next morning! However, the man in the bed reveals that he is not actually Qiao Mu Sheng, but his identical twin brother Lu Jing Nian. Su Nian blackmails this “twin” into posing as her fiancé so she can appease her family – and the duo ends up having to “marry” and live together. But is Lu Jing Nian really who he says he is? Can Cupid untangle this web of lies?

“Better a Lie Than a Truth” is a 2022 Chinese drama that was directed by Deng Zhan Neng.

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