It’s the story of twin sisters who both love and hate each other.
Growing up in a broken family has made them see the world in completely different ways.
One believes in herself, the other believes in the power of appearances.
Older twin, Yang Yibin – Beautiful with her brains and her own two hands. She’s true to herself, mindful in how she lives life. She uses her intelligence and abilities to fight her way through her career path.
Younger twin, Yang Erjing – Beauty is her golden ticket. She’s smart and knows her beauty has value. She uses her charm to elevate her social status.
The ups and downs of life and heartbreak scars make the two sisters understand the true essence of love and family, and they use the power of women to explain the real meaning of beauty.
Snippets
21 April 2026: Lusi is meloned to return to the filming set and had chosen a modern drama, As Beautiful As You Want.
The drama is adapted from the novel by Yi Shu
1 May 2026: Apparently Lusi will commence filming on 1 June 2026. She is currently in Thailand for her Stay Romantic concert on 9 May 2026.
Names being bandied around to join the cast are Xu Kai or Song Wei Long or both. Heavens!!!!💜💜💜
11 May 2026: Lusi confirmed that she would definitely return to the filming set sometime in August 2026, after her concert in Macau. She and her team are ensuring that the filming will be smooth unlike what had happened in her last drama.
6 July 2026: Lusi will return to the filming set this August after her concert in Macau.
10 July 2026: Rumours are exploding that Xu Kai will be the male lead.
Her 27th birthday literally brings in a new and brighter beginning.
To start with, she has finally managed to uncouple herself from her old management/agency KU. Yes the agency which brought in an exorcist instead of taking her immediately to the hospital when she became ill during the later part of 2024.
Anyway, enough said of that.
Lusi has a new agency which is apparently named Beijing Yier Sansi or YESS(熠而叁思).
YESS is an acronym of Yi Er San Si which apparently is 1, 2, 3, 4, the tiger is Lusi’s Chinese zodiac sign. YESS was registered on 14 October 2025 under ORCA Ent and under Alibaba.
One of the first projects of YESS is Lusi’s 27th birthday concert held in her hometown Chengdu on 8th November. It was free for fans who can answer correctly at least 80% of a rather tough trivia questions about Lusi. Lusi gamely admitted that she would not have been able to pass the 80% mark herself.😅. The contest was too well subscribed. More that 300K vying for 5000 seats.
Anyway, the concert was a great success. It showed how much Lusi is loved. She is adored now more than ever despite being away from the Chinese entertainment for almost a year until the explosion of Love’s Ambition in October 2025 which was a blockbustre, bringing in Tencent a much needed revenue as the Chinese entertainment industry is apparently suffering from really cold winter.
That is another blog to explore🤗
Anyway, during the concert, Lusi excited fans not only with the costumes she wore but how sincere the concert production was.
She sang her two new songs which had become anthems for Chinese Tourism.
You can listen/watch the songs on Youtube and Spotify
The two songs above, when first released, excited everybody. It was so good. Lusi’s English pronunciation and enunciation were so spot on that many questioned whether she actually sang the songs herself.
But then a micro-vlog was released of a Hollywood vocal producer, Mischke Butler, who especially flew in to Chengdu to help Lusi record her two new songs. He taught her correct breathing and pronunciation; enunciating every English word. And it looks like she was a very good able student because at the end of it, she was singing an English song like a pro.
Anyway, Lusi has been trending nonstop because of her many outside activities like charitable causes and freely endorsing cultural heritage and agricultural production which earned her more adulation from grateful companies, small businesses and individuals.
To Rosy,
May your 27th year be a bright and glorious year which you truly deserve. Long live and prosper.
Frenetic work engagement has finally taken its toll on the gorgeous adorable Zhao Lu Si.
However, there is more to this than meets the eye.
Anyway, as days go by, more conspiracy theories are being bandied about and it is getting really alarming.
How can a joyful, vibrant girl of just 26 who has captured global attention ended up in the hospital for still undisclosed malady but sufficed to say that she ended up unable to talk and walk. How can this have happened?
It all started so well…
Lu Si was still filming The Story of Pearl Girl when Director Deng Ke personally visited her on her filming set. He talked about a script which he thought suited her to a T. Deng Ke seemed to be such a likable fellow.
Lusi enter a new drama production, Love Ambition, which was a hit to fans and paparazzi from inception. By all account, everyday on the drama set was full of joy and jubilation. Everyone got on. It was really brimming with goodwill and happiness which was so palpable, it was visible to anyone. Everyone, including us, can’t wait for Love Ambition to be on our screen hopefully next years.
And then she had her 26th birthday. She had more engagement to promote her many endorsements.
Finally she entered the filming set of Director Deng Ke’s Almost Lover which was already underway shooting scenes of the gorgeous male lead, Peng Guan Ying.
Her appearance on Almost Lover’s filming set was much lauded and anticipated by fans and passersby, both local and international. It was a joy at first for onlookers to see her in another drama but as the days turns to weeks, Zhao Lusi showed visible signs that everything is not as it should be. She was losing too much weight that sometimes she had to be held/helped by her bodyguard and assistant. She became nervy like a frightened fawn. Where she once welcomed exhuberant show of love and affection from fans, it now rather unnerved her. She was scared, unsure and yet she would force a smile on her tired face. Her eyes had lost their natural shine. She started to look like a lonely figure in the midst of a crowd. She became a shadow of her former self and this is not an exaggeration!!!
Zhao Lusi always takes a project, whether a drama, an endorsement, a variety show, a gala, wholeheartedly and give it her 100% ALWAYS.
This is the same with Almost Lovers which she prepared herself to completely immerse herself into. However, what she expected was vastly different from what she had signed for.
The script was revised daily with twenty additional pages to study everyday. Director Deng Ke was often nowhere in sight, leaving another director in his place. This created so much stress for Zhao Lusi who is known to discuss the flow of the story to make it believable and make sense to viewers. Despite her many attempts to discuss this issue, she was fobbed off. It was like having a rug pulled from under her.
The meticulous Zhao Lusi was driven to the point of no return resulting in her to be hospitalised. Some says that at 26 she had a stroke, nerve damage, aphasia.
Her seeking medical help was another contentious issue because despite needing oxygen on 14 December 2024, she continued to be on set until late hours of strenuous filming.
Alleged timeline of what happened:
14 December 2024: Lusi needed Oxygen
18 December 2024: Lusi wa taken to the Emergency Room for urgent medical treatment. She was suffering from symptoms indicating aphasia, which is the inabilty to talk and walk.
25 December 2024: Rosy Official Fanclub noticed that filming had halted. After consulting the Almost Lover film crew, they were informed that a statement will be issued shortly.
27 December 2024: Due to a leaked photo of Zhao Lusi on a wheelchair in the hospital, it finally became well known that Lusi was ill and had been ailing for 10 days. Zhao Lusi Studio has temporarily suspended all her work.
28 December: Almost Lover had quietly wrapped up, despite a month-long more worth of filming, sending everyone home.
30 December 2024: An alleged malavolent influential figure/s had been paying some trolls to dissimate that Lusi has depression. 5 Yaun per post and after 20 a day. They were forcing her to quit the industry all together.
4 August 2025 Update: Zhao Lusi has said herself that when she was unable to speak and walk, instead of being taken to a hospital, KU her agency locked her up in a hotel room instead and hired an shaman to perform exorcism to cast away evil spirit that had taken over her body. Got weider and weirder. Can’t believe this truly happened to the most popular girl from China.
Update:
31 December 2024: Woke up and checked my TwitterX account and was shocked to find this new development. Translation courtesy of Jov @wonwoncity
With the consent of #ZhaoLusi, her friend has just revealed a horrifying anecdote on Lusi being physically, verbally and emotionally abused by people in her company since 2019
“I’m truly furious. These are some things I want to reveal as her good friend. Back in 2019, something happened that I’ve been keeping in my heart for a long time….
It wasn’t until I came to Hangzhou and saw her sitting in a wheelchair, looking incredibly frail and thin, that I fully realized the weight of it. Although I wasn’t involved in what happened this time and can’t speak to it, I told her that emotions can’t be bottled up; they need to be expressed and released.
As we talked, we revisited that incident from 2019, and it became clear that she was never truly able to let it go. Since that’s the case, even if it means being criticized or misunderstood, it’s better to speak out.
In April 2019, during a break in her schedule, Lusi was in Beijing auditioning for roles. At the time, she didn’t have a place to stay, so she stayed at my house. During the day, we were both busy with our own work and only occasionally ate and chatted together. But one night, I came home, turned on the light, and found her curled up in the living room in the dark. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, “I don’t know why they hit me. I’m really scared.”
I was shocked.
“Why? There has to be a reason, right?”
She told me about someone who had dragged her into the bathroom and berated her for two hours, saying things like how useless she was, why she couldn’t land a role, and how she should reflect on why she hadn’t been cast as a lead actress before. They criticized her weight and said she wasn’t as good as others, just constantly putting her down. This went on until 2 AM. Finally, because Lusi stayed silent, that person slammed the door and left. Lusi, feeling aggrieved, grabbed her bag and opened the door to leave. It was drizzling outside. That person chased after her, seemingly trying to grab her. We’re not sure whether they intended to slap her or pull her hair and missed, but in any case, she was hit. She was terrified.
Over the years, we’ve talked about this incident many times, and I’ve always felt guilty for not realizing how much it had been weighing on her. Both she and I thought that openly discussing what happened meant she had moved on. Lusi has been doing better and better, so we assumed she wasn’t dwelling on it anymore. But when I found out she still wakes up in terror from nightmares about it, I realized that this issue was far from resolved.
At the time, I asked her when it happened, and she said it was the night before. She had only gotten home to sleep at 5 AM, after a dispute around 4 AM. near the entrance of that residential complex.
Since I had left early in the morning, I didn’t find out about it until I came home that evening. Back then, we were both so young and knew that even if we reported it to the police, we’d need evidence. We were also worried that without evidence, justice might not be served. So, Lusi and I went together to look for surveillance footage. I asked her if she had told her family. She said she didn’t want to. She didn’t want to burn bridges because her contract hadn’t expired yet, and she feared involving her parents would lead to them having to pay compensation, which would make her feel guilty.
For the next few days, she hardly slept. How could she sleep under such circumstances? I ask you, why should someone who hasn’t done anything wrong have to bear such humiliation and injustice? What did she do wrong?
The next day, Lusi was summoned to the company. With just a simple “I’m sorry, I was drunk,” it was brushed aside and ended.
Later, we found out that the first thing this person did in the morning was call Lusi’s mom, saying how disobedient Lusi was. They were clearly planting a seed, trying to make sure that no matter what happened, her mom would “understand”
Xu Yan is a younger sister of Qiao Lin. Because of the ‘one child policy’, their parents tried to abort the fetus Xu Yan as her birth would be illegal.
Xu Yan’s grandmother intervened and became the guardian and gave her surname to Xu Yan.
This complicated family situation gave birth to many emotional upheavals especially when Qiao Lin was always favoured over Xu Yan.
Xu Yan eventually left for Beijing where she fought tooth and nail to climb the ladder of success including completely reinventing her family background.
The heir to a conglomorate fell for Xu Yan. They ended up getting married but then problems started when there was an issue with fertility. Due to the many concoctions her mother took to induce abortion, it somehow affected Xu Yan’s own abitlity to conceive.
Added to this, a pregnant Qiao Lin showed up.
The sisters later became each other’s support. Awww
Snippets
28 April 2024: Lusi teased that she went to South Korea to shop for her wardrobe for her new drama.
19 May 2024: Melons have it that this drama will star Zhao Lusi with William Chan.
Adapted from a novel called Da Qiao Xiao Qiao (Big Qiao Little Qiao) by Zhang Yueran
Filming Location: Beijing beginning early June 2024 for 110 days.
24 May 2024: Rumours of filming commencement as 10 June 2024.
2 June 2024: Tencent had confirmed Lusi, William and Wan Peng to star in this drama and booting ceremony on 10 June 2024 which will be televised by Tencent.
5 June 2024: Rumour has it that Daddi Tang will join this drama. If this is true, he will reunite with Lusi after their yet unshone, The Story of Pearl Girl.
7 June 2024: Let Me Shine had been retitled Love’s Ambition prior to its booting ceremony.
7 June 2024: The cast have started to gather in Beijing but our girl, Lusi, is in South Korea doing last minute costume shopping. She should be credited for costume design or a producer for Love’s Ambition.
10 June 2024: The booting ceremony was held today. A very happy affair. Filming commences.
15 June 2024: Lusi and William quick kiss trended on Weibo and other soc med. Their obvious chemistry was jumping out of the sceen.
Since day one of filming, Lusi continues to set fashion trends. Her drama costumes and accessories sell fast or sell out. Latest is a flowery Mango dress which sold out in 30 minutes of Lusi being shwon wearing it.
She continues to scintillate in more fashionable high end clothes and accessories. I supposed she is the perfect walking-ads for clothes and accessories as she is scrutinised by the second. It is a win win for fashion houses to loan, give, costumised clothes for her. It is a well spent advertisement for their brand.
23 July 2024: today is the filming of Xuyan and Haoming’s wedding scene. They do scrub up so well.
10 August 2024: For the Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, a minute video and a poster was released for Love’s Ambition. Beautiful.
29 August 2024: Filming wrap up is expected between 15 -17 September 2024.
15 September 2024: it is coming to a wrap. Endorsers of Zhao Lusi sent in bouquets of flowers and food truck.
16 September 2024: Finally, it is a wrap. It was a happy and exciting time for all, though a little poignant. Jiayou, Team.
18 October 2024: The first trailer was released today and it was so good.
10 March 2025: Tentatively scheduled for a May 2025 broadcast.
18 March 2025: A new poster was released today signifying 1.5M reservations have been accumulated for this drama. Wow
24 June 2025: the trailer for Love’s Ambition was released at the Tencent conference, the Versace Medusa ’95 bag Zhao Lusi’s Xu Yan used to smack a man on the head has sold out. Whoa, The Medusa ’95 is a weapon of man’s destruction 🤣
18 August 2025: After a very protracted in deciding of an airing period, Love’s Ambition might actually be airing soon the cameraman of the drama had confirmed.
24 September 2025: Apparently broadcast is imminent.
25 September 2025: Rumoured to broadcast from tomorrow, 26 September 2025
26 September 2025: Yes!!! 👍 🙌 👏 It is finally here with three episodes. Woohoo!!!
10 November 2025: LA held a celebration banquet.
10 November 2025: Yunhe confirmed that LA breaks 63.28M average views per episode during its hot broadcast.
11 November 2025: The National Drama Research Center, which awards dramas biannually, congratulates Love’s Ambition for being The Most Prestigious Drama of the Year.
It has also won the Annual Champion for Overall Viewership Champion Across All Platforms + Annual Champion Across All Online Platforms 2025 Top Annual Drama Across All Platforms ( No. 1 in online streaming ) Yunhe has accumulated an average of 65 million per episode , totaling over 2 billion.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
30 May 2026: LA won iQIYI’s Golden Screenwriter Award which is a rival platform of Tencent which produced Love Ambition.
Episode 1
What a cracking first episode. I am so blown away. Zhao Lusi once again claim the throne. It breaks my heart though that she is not filming right now, because she is born for dramas and films.
Anyway, Love’s Ambition delivers!
Qiao Yan had a difficult life. She was born with congenital heart disease which made her father give up on her thinking that she was not worth the money to have her treated.
Her Grandma furiously demanded that she will look after Qiao Yan herself so Baby Qiao Yan grew up with her Grandma.
Still she misses a well rounded family life so she started imagining and lying about having a happy family life, being a well loved daughter.
But at the age of 18, she decided to be truly independent. She cast away her old self by legally changing her name by dropping the Qiao and became Xu Yan.
She was taking her fate on her own hands.
Xu Yan works as a planner in a variety show called Family Feast. The host, Si Wei, was a difficult woman who demands everything to go her way and expect Xu Yan to get on with it no matter how impossible the task was.
Siwei wanted an interview with a Shen Haoming who was known to shun being in the limelight.
Xu Yan knew that doing her job well is a step forward towards her goal of becoming a host, an anchor herself. So she applied herself to the task. She studied everything about Haoming’s love of succulent plants.
it paid off too because when she finally met him, he was intrigued.
Six months later…
It was meet the parents.
Xu Yan hired actors to play her mother and father to meet Haoming’s posh parents. It was a very torturous meet up but the actor parents did well from the rigorous coaching from Xu Yan.
