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yu zheng denied that wu jinyan got married three years ago, revealed that the contract has been renewed, and each of the three platforms has a major drama starring the heroine

yu zheng posted a message to support wu jinyan, revealing that she said she wanted to get married, and threatened to protect their careers

when wu jinyan and hong yao got married, who was the busiest and most tired person? yu zheng.

he spoke out more than ten times in more than two days and was on the hot search list more than 40 times.

even if her past that she had previously denied was dug up, she would still refute it, showing her "crazy and beautiful" mental state, which made the audience shout: it has to be you!

yu zheng did not miss the opportunity to "respond" to this, and sent another long article on september 16, saying: "if you are angry, just argue, and forget about it after you are done", showing his free and easy attitude.

after all, he is a well-known "chatter king" in your circle, and this label is even more popular than his "famous screenwriter".

in recent years, yu zhengguang has become a "legend" by relying on his mouth. at the same time, because he has filmed many feminine works, he is affectionately called "yu ma" by the outside world.

in fact, looking back on his more than 20 years of artistic career, it is really worthy of the phrase "counterattack in life."

after all, he was initially despised as a "supporting actor"; later he became popular as a screenwriter, but then encountered the low point of being accused of plagiarism; and now he has made countless popular young actresses and actors famous, but he still lives on the cusp of controversy with his mouth...

how did yu zheng change his fate?

1. transformation of “little dragons”

yu zheng was born in 1978 in an ordinary family in jiaxing, zhejiang. his real name is yu zheng.

both of his parents are ordinary people, but he knew how to work extra hard at a very young age. his favorite thing to do was reading. he was good at writing essays in school and was often praised by his teachers for this.

yu zheng was quite confident in his youth. he thought that he had a handsome appearance and a well-proportioned figure, which made him very suitable for acting, so he set his future goal to become an actor.

at the age of 19, he failed in his first attempt to enter the performance department of shanghai theatre academy. he took the exam again and was still not admitted.

in desperation, the clever yu zheng chose to "save the country by a roundabout way", so in his third year he changed his major to the journalism department.

but during his studies, he still did not give up his dream of becoming an actor, thinking that his only flaw was his poor mental quality, and he trembled every time he went on stage.

once, yu zheng got an opportunity to play a minor role, but he was stumped when faced with a line. he couldn't memorize it no matter what he did. he shot more than 100 takes, but finally returned home disappointed.

at this time, he finally realized that he could no longer be an actor, so he began to use his writing talent and transitioned to working behind the scenes.

in 1999, 21-year-old yu zheng met hong kong director li huimin by chance. the other party had filmed "new dragon inn" and was also considered a big name in the circle.

in order to learn how to be a screenwriter, he even went to hong kong.

but at first he wrote very slowly, taking a week to finish one episode, which led to li huimin scolding him for being "too lazy."

during the most difficult time, yu zheng relied on his father for 400 yuan a month for "help". once, he was even crawled on the face by his teacher in the middle of the night...

but he did not give up. finally, he got on the right track a year later. with the help of his teacher, he wrote the 40-episode "the legend of jing ke". however, after his success, he only received a red envelope of 5,000 hong kong dollars from the other party.

fortunately, yu zheng soon gained recognition from the industry for this drama, and his salary increased to 40,000 yuan for 30 episodes.

after that, his screenwriting skills gradually improved, but at the same time, bad news came from home - his father was dying of illness.

he immediately wanted to ask for leave to go home, but was rejected on the grounds that the investors were in a hurry to finish the manuscript, so the director could only make a request: he must finish writing 17 episodes before he can go home.

the other party even mocked him maliciously in public: "what's the big deal about my father's death? i have more than 2,000 people still alive. if you leave, we will all die."

after that, yu zheng was placed under house arrest.

he had to wait until midnight and "escaped" through the water pipe outside the window, but he still did not see his father for the last time.

this incident dealt him a huge blow, and he didn't write for a year.

it was not until 2002 that yu zheng, who was over 30 years old, returned to shanghai to develop his career. he set up a studio as an independent screenwriter and began his own "crazy" era.

2. rising fame but constant turmoil

yu zheng’s first work was titled "take me flying, take me away" and officially started filming the following year.

although the drama was not very popular, it brought him "trouble" because yu zheng was not the author of the original work.

it turns out that the first draft of this work was written by a writer named fu xing, who was the deputy editor-in-chief of "mengya" magazine at the time.

after he finished writing this novel, it was seen by he zizhuang, a senior screenwriter at shanghai film studio, and was given to yu zheng for revision.

what was unexpected was that after he finished revising it, he actually published it under his own name.

when fu xing found out about this, he was extremely angry and the two had a face-to-face confrontation. yu zheng had no choice but to pay 30,000 yuan to settle the matter. it is said that he also wrote a note of "apology" and promised to "never do it again."

in 2004, "the legend of jing ke", of which he was the original author, was broadcast. he also defended his rights and sued li huimin for the right of authorship.

although yu zheng did not gain any advantage from this incident, he unexpectedly attracted the attention of hong kong director lai shuiqing.

the other party had co-directed "new dragon inn" with li huimin and was also well-known in the industry.

he was very optimistic about zheng, so he took the initiative to support him and help him develop in beijing.

under the imperial city, yu zheng's career began to flourish, and he soon released his new work "the harems of the qing dynasty".

when the drama was aired, it was immediately dubbed the "chinese mainland version of "beauty's rival in palace"" and the "mainland version of "jewel in the palace"," and won the ratings championship that year.

but what was unexpected was that this work was also suspected of plagiarizing "beauty's rival in palace".

yu zheng immediately refuted this:

"if it's plagiarism, then i don't know how to make a tv series! if you don't refer to and learn from every disc or book you see, and if you analyze every scene, you're doomed."

in order to prove his argument, he also compared "dream of red mansions", one of the four great classics, with lin yutang's "moment in peking", arguing that the latter also copied the framework of the former.

yu zheng also said confidently: "it is because i am famous that people find fault with me!"

indeed, after that, each of his dramas became more and more popular. he made countless young actors and actresses famous, and even helped many out-of-date hong kong and taiwan stars become popular again.

during that period, popular works such as "i love the lioness of river east" and "the legend of chu liuxiang" were basically written by yu zheng.

time quickly came to 2008. no longer satisfied with being just a screenwriter, he began to try "cross-border" - he became the chief planner and screenwriter of tv series such as "the last princess", "rose rivers and lakes", and "lock qingqiu".

this novel attempt has made yu zheng's career flourish.

especially in 2010, he produced the hit costume drama "beauty's rival in palace", which was indeed a big production that attracted both popularity and topics.

not only did it successfully win the ratings championship on many local tv stations, it also made ruby lin popular again.

but fame brings troubles.

soon, yu zheng was involved in the "plagiarism scandal" for the third time because of "beauty's secret".

it is said that the drama was almost aborted during the preparation process because some of the plots in the drama were "borrowed" from clips in the online novel "weiyang: the ups and downs".

fortunately, the gold medal agent mu xiaoyong persuaded yu zheng to urgently contact the original author of "weiyang: the ups and downs" "shun chan qing cheng" and buy the copyright, which made the show go on the air smoothly.

but that’s not all, because after the show was aired, ruby lin set up her own studio and took advantage of the opportunity to launch a drama on the same theme, “the empress of china”, which also received good response.

this move directly angered yu zheng, who publicly mocked: "stop chewing on my beauty, you have chewed her to old age."

from then on, he started his journey of "nagging his mother".

3. “nagging yu ma” becomes more and more popular as her reputation grows worse?

in 2011, the tv series "palace" written by yu zheng was launched and made stars such as yang mi, feng shaofeng, and tong liya famous.

he then immediately worked on the sister series of the drama, "palace lock and bead curtain" and "palace lock and agarwood", and although they were not as popular as the first part, their fame soared again.

especially two years later, "legend of lu zhen" made the unknown zhao liying and chen xiao both become "top stars".

it can be said that yu zheng had reached the peak of his career at this time - in the same year, he was included in the "screenwriter and writer rich list" with an income of 24 million, forming a three-way competition with gao mantang and lin heping.

but at the same time, he was questioned again. in the "golden crow award" selection on the tianya forum, "plagiarizing with one's life" became yu zheng's award speech.

the controversy surrounding him goes far beyond this:

in march 2013, the news that yu zheng was slapped by 18th-tier actor shen tai in a coffee shop spread like wildfire, but what he got in return was netizens "angrily begging" him to "hit him again."

later, someone dug up the whole story. it was rumored online that shen tai’s girlfriend deng sha was poached by actor han dong because she starred in yu zheng’s "beauty without tears".

yu zheng took the responsibility and promised to solve the problem, so his partner arranged a role for shen tai in "song in the clouds", but in the end he unexpectedly went back on his word and gave the role to chen xiao...

shen tai was so angry that he hit someone in a rage, and then he admitted it on the social platform and was praised as a "manly man".

but later, han dong's agent came out to deny the incident, and deng sha did not "commit suicide" as yu zheng said in his response, so there is no conclusion as to why the two had a conflict and fought.

but yu zheng's scandal was not over. in 2014, actress dai jiaoqian had just played a role in his new work "palace lock and key", and she immediately revealed that the plot of this drama was similar to qiong yao's "the plum blossom mark".

this statement put yu zheng at the center of public opinion again.

he gritted his teeth and pulled out guo jingming, who was also in dire straits, to take the blame, believing that he did not count as plagiarizing since he had not been sued.

aunt qiong yao was certainly not a pushover, and she knocked on the door of the state administration of radio, film and television with a long letter, sparking heated discussion.

at the same stage, screenwriter li yaling, who had worked with yu zheng, also came forward to reveal that when she was working with him on "the maid", she was asked to combine the subplot of "rouge snow" with the main plot of "the plum blossom mark" and then "revise" it into a new work.

immediately afterwards, he was sued by qiong yao, and another 109 screenwriters also signed a joint statement at the time, calling for "protection of originality."

facing the other party's hard confrontation, yu zheng still issued a statement denying plagiarism, and even called out to qiong yao:

"art needs to be inherited and developed. you have always been the originator of chinese romance dramas."

it was not until six years later, at the end of 2020, that qiong yao once again jointly boycotted the matter and yu zheng formally apologized for plagiarizing "the plum blossom mark".

during this period, his career was still in a brilliant state, and he successively produced works such as "half-demon allure" and "the sweet girl", the latter of which was regarded by the outside world as his "transitional work".

especially the hit "story of yanxi palace" in 2018, which made yu zheng famous as a new generation of male gods and goddesses such as wu jinyan and xu kai.

but as his career was already on the rise, he soon joined the stage of "i am an actor" and spoke eloquently as an examiner, which was quite glorious.

unexpectedly, qiong yao took action again and united 110 film and television professionals to openly boycott him.

after the incident fermented, yu zheng had no choice but to issue a statement announcing his withdrawal from "i am an actor" and finally apologized to qiong yao.

however, despite the controversy, his new dramas "yu lou chun" and "the mistress of the house" have been hits one after another.

especially this year, the drama "mo yu yun jian" produced by him became a small hit again, making wu jinyan popular again and "little brother" wang xing more famous.

from this perspective, since "beauty's secret" in 2010, yu zheng is indeed good at writing plays, creating stars, and attracting traffic, which is why he is "long-lastingly popular."

now that wu jinyan is getting married, he has taken on this unprecedented wealth, and his popularity has increased instead of decreased.

but as the public's aesthetic taste continues to improve, how long can yu zheng remain popular relying on his past "experience"?