Taiwanese actress Yu Hongyuan, who has always been low-key, recently shared photos of celebrating her 8-year-old daughter's birthday on social media.

Although the little girl's face was blocked by stickers, her pretty and cute face could still be seen. However, netizens all had the same opinion: Vic Chou's child is already 8 years old?

But some netizens directly said "Fortunately he didn't marry Big S", causing that old melon to surface again.

Yes, Vic Chou’s last passionate relationship was with the then “beauty queen” Big S – the two met when they were unknown, but fell in love on the set at the peak of each other’s careers, but it didn’t end in marriage.

Rumor has it that the reason for their breakup was that the man was "afraid of marriage" and the woman "hated to get married", so they went their separate ways.

But what no one expected was that in the second year after breaking up with Big S, Vic Chou established a romantic relationship with the unknown little actress Rainie Yu.

Moreover, the two of them stayed together in a low-key manner until they got married, and it has been 9 years now.

Judging from the photos posted by Yu Hongyuan, although her life is not as ups and downs as Big S's, it does present a peaceful and tranquil scene.

And this may be the main reason why he was able to crush his opponent and successfully win over the "Flower Boy" Zai Zai?

1. Unknown

Yu Hongyuan was born in 1987 in an ordinary family in Taoyuan, Taipei. Because she was well-behaved and pretty since she was a child, she entered the advertising industry when she was in high school and has played the leading role in many MVs.

At this time, Vic Chou had already become a super star - he was 6 years older than the woman and his family background was not as good as hers.

Because his parents divorced when he was a child and his family was very poor, Vic Chou became shy and introverted.

Before his debut, he dropped out of school at the age of 18 and worked as a waiter in a restaurant. During this period, he also experienced his first love but was cheated on by the girl, which made him become more and more taciturn.

In 2001, when Zhou Yimin accompanied a friend to an interview with the crew of "Meteor Garden", he was spotted by the famous producer Chai Zhiping at first sight and was offered an olive branch.

In this way, he quickly joined F4 and became the melancholy handsome man "Hanazawa Rui" that everyone liked, and started his acting career.

It was also because of the filming of this drama that Vic Chou and Big S, who played the heroine Shancai, became good friends.

Although the woman had debuted for 6 or 7 years at that time, her influence was limited to Taiwan and her identity had always been a host.

It was not until after Meteor Garden that she transformed herself into an actress and has received many acting offers since then.

Vic Chou was very much in line with Big S’s aesthetic at the time. Even though she had already had a romance with Lan Zhenglong from the same crew, she still acknowledged Vic Chou as her “godbrother”.

The man's emotional life at the time was not completely blank: he fell in love with the actress Xu Weilun who played Ah Xiang because of this drama.

But at that time, Vic Chou's career was at its peak, and he was still pursuing the idol route, so they did not make their relationship public, and the two remained in an underground relationship.

However, what is not well known is that this relationship was opposed by the girl's mother because she did not like Vic Chou's identity as an artist.

Mother Xu was quite dissatisfied because she hoped her daughter would find a boyfriend with a stable career such as a lawyer or a doctor, and because he came from a single-parent family.

Around 2004, paparazzi had already reported that the two had broken up.

During this period, the idol drama "God of War" starring Vic Chou and Big S was on the air. It is said that they were very affectionate during the filming stage.

In January 2005, the man was in a car accident due to speeding on his way home late at night. However, the person who arrived at the scene was not his official girlfriend Xu Weilun, but the "nervous" Big S, which made the relationship confusing.

After this incident, the latter, who has always been bold, directly stated publicly:

"Zai Zai and I have long surpassed the relationship of boyfriend and girlfriend spiritually!"

After these words were spoken, Xu Weilun was completely out of the game.

After that, she was photographed with her ex-boyfriend Li Wei, seemingly getting back together, but unexpectedly she met another "scumbag", who was soon photographed having a secret meeting with actress Chen Yirong.

Therefore, until Xu Weilun died in a car accident in January 2001, she had no partner. It can be said that she had a bumpy love life at such a young age, which is really sad.

When Vic Chou, who was living with Big S at the time, learned the news, his depression relapsed.

He cut off his iconic long hair and lost 7 kilograms at one point. There were also reports that he stayed at home and cried all day long.

In early 2008, the "Da Zai Love" couple broke up. The reason was said to be that the woman was unwilling to force him to marry her, so she had to look for another partner because she was "eager to get married".

Two years later, she met "South Beauty's Young Master" Wang Xiaofei at her best friend An Yixuan's birthday party.

Many years later, fans dug up many interviews from the time when Vic Chou and Big S were in love, such as how during their passionate love period, when he heard the sound of his girlfriend's high heels, "his scalp would go numb", which became a topic of conversation among people after dinner.

2. Latecomers take the lead

Although Yu Hongyuan seemed to have no presence at this time, he had actually reached a turning point.

In 2008, she transformed into an actress and collaborated with Vic Chou in the TV series "Love Is Found Here".

Although this work did not allow the two to have much interaction, her lovely image was still deeply imprinted in the man's heart.

Compared to Big S, she is obviously more gentle, and has the temperament of a good wife and mother, which is very consistent with Vic Chou's aesthetic.

The following year, the two collaborated again in the filming of "Black and White", and they played a couple in the drama. As time went by, their relationship grew stronger.

At that time, paparazzi kept taking photos of the two of them in close proximity, but this time, compared to the high-profile nature of his previous two relationships, Vic Chou obviously changed his tactics.

He has always remained silent about his rumored girlfriend Yu Hongyuan.

The woman used the same "trick", but her career also improved greatly:

He starred in the movie "艋舺", the TV series "Warriors", etc., but they did not make much of a splash.

Let me digress. Because of "Black and White", Vic Chou's career became popular again, and he and another co-star, Mark Chao, both became hot candidates for the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor that year.

In the end, he missed the trophy and was caught in a storm of public opinion - netizens speculated that there was something fishy going on in the award judging process:

News such as "Vic Chou had a dark face at the award ceremony" and "parted ways with Mark Chao" also began to spread.

It is said that after the award ceremony, Xiu Jiekai, who lived with him, returned home and found that he had locked himself in the room:

"That was the closest time in his life to winning the Golden Bell Award. He was very sad that he didn't win, and he didn't know how to face his good friend Mark Chao..."

This detail is enough to show that Vic Chou is indeed sensitive and "fragile", but fortunately, he already has Rainie Yu by his side at that time.

In 2012, the woman hit the highest popularity since her debut with a "bombshell".

On June 9 of that year, Vic Chou celebrated his 31st birthday at home, but he did not celebrate with a large group of friends. Instead, only Rainie Yu came to his house in person.

On New Year's Eve of the same year, the two were photographed hugging and kissing on the balcony of Zhou Yumin's house...

This relationship finally came to light.

However, the woman did not take advantage of the fact that her boyfriend was Vic Chou to hype herself up. Instead, she retired from the entertainment industry the following year and only played the leading role in the MV of "Forgot How to Love You" before retiring gracefully.

As for Vic Chou, he has successfully transformed himself in recent years and won the Golden Bell Award for Best Actor in a Drama with the movie "The Other Shore 1945".

At the award ceremony, he publicly acknowledged Yu Hongyuan's identity by saying "my other half".

Although this behavior is seen by fans as "he has grown up", Vic Chou still admits in interviews that he is "still afraid of marriage".

However, it is obvious that Yu Hongyuan is not Big S. Facing her boyfriend who is afraid of marriage and always has "depressed tendencies", she is always gentle and tolerant.

So the following year after the relationship was made public, the man immediately changed his tone when he was interviewed:

“I hope to be able to start a family soon.”

Especially after starring in the movie "Go Lala Go Wedding", Vic Chou would mention in every interview that this movie made him think about getting married.

3. Simple and low-key

Sure enough, at the end of the same year, he took the lead in posting a happy photo of himself and his girlfriend both wearing wedding rings on the social platform, officially announcing the news of his marriage.

A few days later, when promoting the movie, Zhou Yimin talked about his experience in getting married: "Neither of us proposed it first. It was a completely natural decision."

In the face of the public's inherent impression of his "non-marriageism", he also responded calmly:

"In reality, people who are afraid of marriage may be immature. When they are mature, they will be very cautious. If their careers are not well developed, they will not consider it. Only when their careers are established will they tell their girlfriend's family: Just leave your daughter to me."

After getting married, Vic Chou slowed down his career, producing only one or two works every year, and sometimes he was even in a "semi-retired" state.

What’s even more intriguing is that he also stopped updating his social media platforms, saying that “(everything) stopped on the day of the wedding because I felt it was about time.”

In other words, in Vic Chou's view, after getting married, he will focus more on running the family and does not want more people to pay attention to his private life.

When the media asked him why he chose such an ordinary-looking wife, his answer was: I like my wife's innocence and simplicity.

Indeed, compared to her husband, Yu Hongyuan seems more "invisible". When she just got married, she hardly updated her content. When she occasionally appeared, she stayed quietly by her husband's side, decent and low-key.

In 2016, she became a mother and has been even more low-key since then.

Occasionally, the Taiwanese media would photograph the family of three traveling together, and they always looked very happy.

When Vic Chou was busy with work, the task of raising their daughter was entirely given to Rainie Yu. Paparazzi often photographed her driving to pick up her child from school.

It is reported that the couple has no intention of having a second child. Vic Chou said that this is because his daughter is a "highly sensitive baby" and he loves her very much and just wants to accompany her well. At the same time, he is also afraid that the birth of a second child will lead to neglect of his daughter, so he "resolutely does not want to have one."

In addition, the couple's biggest "news" before was probably the news that they were defrauded of NT$34 million last year.

It is reported that from 2018 to 2020, they entrusted a woman named Feng to pay the insurance premiums on their behalf, but unexpectedly they fell into a scam trap.

It was not until October 2021 that Yu Hongyuan was asked by the insurance company to pay the bill. She discovered that she had not used the money she had paid to Feng to pay the bill. She realized that she had been cheated, so she called the police.

After the incident fermented, some people felt that she was "too naive and insensitive", while others speculated that this incident would affect the relationship between the couple.

But looking back now, it is totally unnecessary.

Yu Hongyuan has been married for 9 years, and judging from the photos today, she still looks like a girl. On the contrary, Zhou Yimin has gradually revealed a mature and steady temperament over the years - the two seem to be increasingly complementary.

Perhaps, their status is the legendary "soul mates" who are "in tune with each other".

Do you think Vic Chou married the right person?