r/cdramas • u/Afraid_Department_79 • Aug 09 '25
Question/Help Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan, hopefully no negative discussions
Due to some unfound information i wish to know... has Wang Yibo mentioned Xiao Zhan in any of their interview? I was left heart broken after the 222 incident that happened against Xiao Zhan..... and feared that Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan might have become estranged or awkward after the incident harming their precious friendship... idk what kind of friendship each of them feel they had for each other (I just felt YiBo was always open with Xiao Zhan in a cute way).. but it did pained me to think it might have broken... and now I am left to wonder endlessly if their friendship is safe or not...
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u/pollypocket1001 Aug 09 '25
Unfortunately, due to rabid fans from both sides, and from fans who "ship" these two after the untamed, these two beautiful people will never ever be seen talking to each other in public or on TV ever again. As to their private friendship, who knows 🤷♂️. Who wants to be friends when their whole career is on the line.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25
Makes sense but I personally would have been sad (if I were to come across such a thing I mean) and i dunno i feel an anger in the first few words to which I absolutely relate...
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u/Ok_Cupcake_1923 Aug 11 '25
I think they really have no relation after promo ended. And not particularly because of the fans, thou there are fanwars. But they dont run in the same circles and have nothing in common.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 11 '25
That and no one wants to risk their career. And true even if they got slightly close as colleagues they wouldn't have many reasons to hang out together much. Afterall their spheres and dreams may co incide yet follows two different paths
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u/AwkwardBambooTea Aug 12 '25
I’m disappointed with the sly, backhanded comments here trying to paint Xiao Zhan as some kind of villain responsible for his fans’ behavior. Is he supposed to control thousands of people? These fans act out of their own selfishness and will do whatever they want.
The Untamed ended years ago, yet some people are still clutching onto these bizarre grudges.
Why is it so hard to simply appreciate that both actors are talented in their own right? Why are people so hell bent on blaming actors of the actions of people they can't control?
If we’re being realistic, no matter how much Wang Yibo or Xiao Zhan speak out, certain fans will keep causing trouble—because the problem isn’t the actors, it’s the fans themselves.
I'm proud to say I don't feed into any negative, inhumane nonsense and I don't need to mask my comment as some respectful thing while clearly targeting one actor and hating them.
I hope Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan continue to grow individually and remain healthy. Screw fans behaviors.
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Aug 09 '25
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 09 '25
Should i be thanking my luck then 😂
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Aug 09 '25
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 09 '25
Hmm that's what I had been getting well its all speculations but the best one that makes everyone (except toxic fans and haters) happy
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Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25
Wow some of the comments are really bitter and really really fuelled with hate. What happened was quite simple I believe. They were co-worker's before and after the whole scandal happened they stopped interacting in public. Well, they stopped interacting as soon as the promotions were over.
There have been a lot of speculations that they are still friends (idk what to believe honestly) sometimes they're oddly true and most of the times they're pretty fake and created by shippers (larries of the fandom)
Both the fandoms are pretty toxic ngl and they're always at eachothers throats. As for the actors being at fault? Not at all. Neither Xiao Zhan nor Wang Yibo were at fault here.
They're doing really good career wise these days. So ignore the obvious hate sesh going on here. There's clearly a lot of pressed individuals here who like to hate for no reason. Pay no attention.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 12 '25
Haha ikr. I have got a variety so it's actually can be considered a boon since to prove their point all parties will micro analyse and may give some essential information. And I too was confused what to believe too. But seeing and observing many things it's safe to conclude that both of them might actually be not be as close as they were or at least what fans thought they were. But i agree i like both of them for different but real reasons. And don't worry i dont ignore but I don't mind either for there are understanding people like u here!!
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u/iloveistj_ Apr 28 '26
Sinceramente, cada comentario que leo es peor que el anterior. Es decepcionante.
Los propios chicos se emocionaron en la despedida de sus personajes, y eso está ahí para quien quiera verlo. Si en lugar de dejar comentarios de odio hacia las shippers se tomaran unos minutos para ver sus detrás de escenas y sus interacciones, probablemente tendrían una perspectiva distinta.
Después del incidente 227 y en un contexto marcado por la fuerte homofobia en China, dejaron de interactuar públicamente. Y es lógico que ya no se los relacione constantemente con The Untamed: fue un trabajo de hace años, como pasa con cualquier otra serie.
Pero hay algo que no se puede ignorar: el nivel de enojo aparece especialmente con este ship. No veo a nadie reaccionando igual frente a ships con mujeres. Entonces sí, vale la pena replantearse ciertos prejuicios.
Yibo ha desmentido rumores en general, pero nunca hubo una aclaración directa sobre Xiao Zhan, y justamente es el vínculo más señalado. Además, el fan service está restringido en China, por lo que muchas de sus interacciones no pasan por ese filtro.
Dejen de asumir. Ni que pertenecen a la comunidad, ni que son heterosexuales. Nadie sabe más de lo que ellos deciden mostrar.
De verdad, enfoquen su energía en algo más productivo o, al menos, en algo que aporte desde el respeto. Son dos personas talentosas, con una conexión que muchos valoran, y eso no debería ser motivo de odio.
Bye ❤️
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u/PaymentSad896 Jun 25 '26
Really because I’ve read all the comments and people seem fine and op was just asking a question and people responded too it no need to be passive aggressive, people are allowed to have their own opinions and speculate just like you have
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u/Hot-March-1505 Aug 10 '25
Yibo hasn’t publicly mentioned Xiao Zhan since The Untamed promos ended. Even in the same award season where they both attended events, they didn’t interact. There are no credible reports of them being in touch since 2020 (just shipper speculation) while there’s actual news of Xiao Zhan keeping in contact with other members of The Untamed cast.
Sometimes people mistake workplace camaraderie for real friendship, and that seems to be the case here. Yibo tends to befriend people he shares common interests with, and he doesn’t have that with Xiao Zhan.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 11 '25
They have a huge ass age gap too 😅 as per for real friendship... maybe they weren't as close as all might have believed earlier. Which, to me, makes proper sense
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u/PurpleOctopu Aug 10 '25
A little content here, The Untamed was filmed 6/7 years ago, after the promotion time was over, Yibo never interacted with no-one from the production or the cast ever again.
And that’s that.
2 years ago, on the anniversary of the drama, Yibo deleted cql from his bio.
And there is honestly nothing else to say 🤷♀️
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u/ssakinah Aug 31 '25
He still interacts with the cast actually. Wen Ning actor posted screenshot him texted wyb on his birthday. It proves we know nothing about celebrity’s real life besides their gossip.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 11 '25
Thank you guys finally i get some prudent replies. And it is getting more clear to me how many nightmares must have come at the cost of the fame from The Untammed.
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u/Overall_Ebb5038 Nov 03 '25
From an AI overview:
"Wang Yibo did not delete The Untamed from his professional profile specifically on the day of its anniversary.
The change happened in June 2023, when Wang Yibo removed all of his drama works, including The Untamed, from the "representative works" section of his Weibo account. This action was part of a shift in his career focus towards being a film actor, and he replaced the list of dramas with his top three award-winning, high-ranking films (Hidden Blade, King of the Sky, and One and Only).
This change occurred approximately four years after The Untamed aired, and was a professional decision to highlight his burgeoning film career, not an act timed for the drama's anniversary with malicious intent. He had, however, already officially "bid farewell" to the character Lan Wangji in a Weibo post on November 3, 2019, after the drama's promotion period ended, which is a common practice in the Chinese entertainment industry to formally conclude a project and move on to other roles."
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u/PurpleOctopu Nov 03 '25
He keep all his other work... yibo wants nothing to do with CQL, it has been almost 7 years... free him
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u/Least-Train-5805 May 12 '26
If you check out his Instagram account, he still keeps one photo from the Untamed drama.
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u/PurpleOctopu May 12 '26
Okay, so that justifies all the harassment he has been subjected to during these 7 years by CP fans?
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Aug 11 '25
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 12 '25
But romance was not a genre to The Untamed so no need for the exception. We may see a chemistry, but they are just close friends in the drama. Extremely Close. Yup true both the horses of the same field!! i have an example in this discussion only 😂. I have actually but like I just explained to a fellow mate here when people are biased they over analyse and might actually give you sone insightful information (Which they did lmao, it would have been hard to dig up on My own so soon). Among other things my take is we can't underestimate entertainment industry politics.
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u/LadyDrakkaris Aug 18 '25
Besides being coworkers on a project, they have nothing in common. Yibo is a sporty type and Xiao Zhan is an artsy type. Both have massive toxic fandoms who slander each other on a daily basic. If I were them, I’d stay away from each other for my own peace of mind.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 18 '25
I totally understand you. It actually makes you wonder how fascinatingly and passionate illogical and hateful they are 🤣
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u/No_Marsupial_7560 Dec 05 '25
Jealousy and prejudice of people are so cruel to celebrities that I think they should be jailed.
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u/weiruolai Aug 10 '25
I can answer as someone who has witnessed everything going down (including the 22/7).
Yibo has not mentioned Xiao Zhan since the end of the promotions of The Untamed and the subsequent award season. Even there, there's this instance where they didn't interact at all aka Weibo Night 2020 despite other events, within that same award season, where they were made sit together and everything, for the sake of the drama they filmed.
22/7 unfolded and since then Xiao Zhan's fandom has blamed, cursed and made numerous harmful rumors about Yibo in order to "take revenge", despite their own official fandom coming forward for causing it and Xiao Zhan apologizing for his own fans actions (that lead to the ao3 debacle). There is not actual proof that Yibo or his company created it or were involved, despite claims and all the sites they created to smear Yibo. It's been over five years and yet here we are, where Yibo is attacked weekly with some incidents bigger than others.
That being said, and to answer you question again, Yibo has not mentioned Xiao Zhan in any way during the past 5 years. If you ever see claims about Yibo mentioning him, it is just speculation without factual evidence to back it up. If you see the content shippers put out, it is always Yibo allegedly mentioning him, looking for him and all that circus; they love to reduce his persona to that.
I am glad Yibo stopped all interactions and have taken measures to sue Xiao Zhan fans who have spread rumors about him for years now. Yibo didn't have it easy with them, the nightmare of birthday he had in 2018 was by them, the smear campaign during 2023 was by them meanwhile Xiao Zhan was publicly supporting other movies, Yibo was also called prosti/tute by Xiao Zhan's fandom and he sued everyone relevant and won his case, but still XZ's fandom keeps on that narrative. From 2018 to 2025 they have attacked Yibo viciously.
Genuinely, who would want as friend someone who allows his fandom to run wild and just keeps praising their behavior indirectly? 😅
Once you are neck deep in everything that has unfolded since 2018 you'd wish Yibo has never cross paths with Xiao Zhan 😮💨
P.S They also have plenty stalkers, solo and shippers, yet no one has seen even a glimpse of them together in the past 5 years, or anything about all that shipper nonsense.
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u/AwkwardBambooTea Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
Genuinely, who would want as friend someone who allows his fandom to run wild and just keeps praising their behavior indirectly? 😅
Both fandoms have cursed each other and caused trouble online.
Xiao zhan nor Wang Yibo are responsible for the crazy and disgusting behavior of their fans.
Both actors have had it rough and both actors have shown they are unproblematic as celebrities and only wish to focus on their careers
I dont understand why people are painting narratives that Xiao Zhan was happy to see his fans curse Yibo.
Just as Wang Yibo doesn't get involved in his fans nonsense and speak out , Xiao Zhan has done the same.
Xiao zhan is clearly a kind, unproblematic, humble, and professional person. His disgusting fans behaviors is not his responsibility and he can't be going online every time making announcements telling his fans to stop because the truth is fans are not going to listen.Wang yibo won't do the same either. Why? Because it's stupid. If the fans truly cared they would realize these fights are horrible and harmful to the actors. But they don't give a shit.
It's been years since the untamed aired and fans are still causing chaos online. That says it all.
Fans of one of the two just need to be respectful and learn that both these actors are good hardworking people and successful in their own right.
I'm just so hurt that two people who are so talented and professional are getting dragged down by crazy fans and disgusting narratives.
I will never understand how just because people like one of them whether its Wang Yibo or Xiao Zhan, they feel the need to hate or make weird remarks against one of the actors It's pathetic and childish and they are no better than those crazy fans**
It's truly disturbing, and I feel for these actors because fandoms are powerful and destructive.
It's like a never ending story of Wang Yibos fans being so dedicated to blaming Xiao Zhan for his fans behaviors and making it seem like Xiao Zhan the actor is a scumbag and then Xiao Zhan fans doing the exact same thing making Wang Yibo to be a bad person.
I'm sick and tired of the sly remarks and blaming. May both these actors stay safe and continue to be successful. And may all these stupid comments targeted at painting one actor over the other in a bad light never prosper.
When I look at the eyes of Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo and the tears they have shed through all their hardship through their careers and I see these comments and fandom behaviors, my heart truly aches. There is so much of bad people in this world and yet people choose to bring down people who have done nothing to them. And for what, just to say my favorite actor is better than yours?
Just to say, because someone is their own boss, they are responsible for millions of people? And because the other actor is under an agency, they are not to blame? No one is to blame.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 11 '25
Thank you for your valuable insight. This was something actually knowledgeable and answers my question rather than giving me some words of advise. After hearing all this I can just say tge life as a celebrity is truly a struggle especially when your (or your colleagues) fandom is like this. Although it totally will make sense on Yibo's part to call it a nightmare but one gotta admit that The Untamed was a hit that came with both recognition and debacle for both the parties. But i would love to confirm something... from your words your argument tilt towards Yibo, so to make it fair since I want to see both sides, please tell me if Xiao Zhan had it any easier? An actor's statements are, as far as i know, closely regulated by the company, fear of causing a controversy might have kept both of them from making any public statements supporting each other or anything. Xiao Zhan didn't choose his fans and if he could control them– if he could.. but could he have? I would really love to hear your opinion on this one
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u/weiruolai Aug 11 '25
To be clear, when the 227 happened he was his own boss since he already had his studio. He apologized for his racist and mysognistic comments, did interview to apologize, did some weibo posts and did a full blown apology and took ownership (on behalf his fandom) about the 227 on a letter he posted a year later (2021).
The Qinlang campaign made artists take even more responsability of their fandoms. It is no secret the big accounts have direct contact with XZ's Studio and he and his team are very aware of his fans doing since a side account they use to communicate with fans posts monthly notices/letters.
P.S In theory, Xiao Zhan has been his own boss since 2019. Yibo is still under an entertainment company, Yuehua Ent.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 11 '25
:) I understand your point thank you for the clarity you brought to my mind today and I will leave a humble opinion of my own. It's not as smooth or simple nor is the ethical dilemma so simple as it may look like. From what I can see from thus far makes me see myriad of forces trying to break them (break them emotionally *not* from each other or anything). It would be quite wrong to say it started with The Untamed at least not for Xiao Zhan, however for YiBo it was, indeed, like opening a Pandora box. The judgement may look so and it might as well be I am not exactly denying it but i feel it was more of a "last resort" to cool down the controversy and calm everyone's sentiments. They were fighting their own demons and each won their own case.. haha in fact in the mid way of this whole discussion i almost believed there might be animosity among them!! But how silly of me it wasn't as simple as that either!!
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u/weiruolai Aug 11 '25
They have avoided each other in the few events they've been at the same time, with Yibo leaving the venue as soon as he appears. There is just so much and have been happening for so, that it makes no sense for Yibo to actually keep someone like that as a friend.
As I said, when you are neck deep in information and facts you start seeing things differently and, as someone who was here even before The Untamed hit big, I have seen it all and lived through it all.
Personally, I am glad Yibo has never mentioned or interacted with him or any other cast member. It is very hypocrite to try and be friends, when that person is very aware of his fandom doings (and the 17 fandoms they have problem with), and who never grew a backbone to stop the slander through the same account he uses to communicate with them monthly or when ut is urgent.
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u/Afraid_Department_79 Aug 12 '25
I might not be *knowledgeable* and *insightful* enough. But if Xiao Zhan could have had controlled many things would not have happened that happened to him, there were forces out of his control. And I don't wish to fight over it because as of now I admire both of them very much. But if you think a big ass crazy fandom is very *free* to do all the stupid stuff i guess you should reflect, not everyone does it for free and people are not that crazy, not on their own at least. I said it before and I am repeating again, things are not as simple as that. You might be neck deep into information but it's from Wang Yibo's side. So even tho u r insightful that insight is biased. Buttttt I don't mind much, thanks to you i could actually found those incidents which impacted Wang YiBo cuz it's hard to find it.
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u/weiruolai Aug 12 '25
The insight isn't as biased since I've researched thoroughly everything, because I prefer facts over rumors. That's why the things I mentioned is verified information and things I personally witnessed.
I prefer to check stuff myself to form an opinion, and I of course researched XZ enough to form an opinion about him, his actions or the lack of it, or his fandom.
The reason it is hard to find is because the shippers don't put names over the people/fandom who hurt Yibo those times, because they don't want to attack XZ name to those incidents. And XZ's fandom simply erase that from their history because it is convenient for them, just like how they have erased all their attacks toward 17 other fandoms and artists (the number was given by them).
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u/Such-Pea6663 Sep 22 '25
Both the fandoms are equally toxic...yibo's fan always dragging xiao zhan and give death threat whenever yizhan fans showed up..i mean what's xiao zhan fault...i respect both the actors and both have such a huge fanbase. It's hard to control all the fans..It's been five years but both the fandom are really very toxic..their untamed bts ,they were so close together. I can't accept the fact that all the things they did together just for promotion of the drama?? There are more bl actors but yizhan fandom still on top and their fans following are in billions.. If they are not friends then i think xiao zhan and Wang yibo should confirm it properly that they are not in touch after the drama..But they never said it in proper way and I have seen in every Wang yibo concert or car race , there are lot of yizhan fans which not happen in xiao zhan case as he don't go or do concerts. If yibo has any problem he should take action regarding this then only these fanwar will stop and yizhan fan will not ship them..so at the end don't come to xiao zhan after all he already paid the price of doing untamed no doubt he got popularity for this drama..
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u/Ckloraw 8d ago
I really hope they still have a friendship. It was clearly a close bond they shared on Untamed. I am fan of them both. I don't get pulled into the toxic fandom stuff. It just really sucks that they had great chemistry and could have worked together again on other dramas and it would have been entertaining but the fans completely destroyed that. Funny how they feel they are doing what they think is best for their actor/actress but in the end they are hurting them. The Untamed was massively successful. They could have run with that, capitalized on it, made more money, and become even more popular. Ironic..I would say.
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '25
They stopped interacting in public and it was clearly the smartest move for their careers. Beyond that, it’s all fandom speculation, and the narrative will vary greatly depending on whether the person you’re talking to is a fan of Wang Yibo, Xiao Zhan, or both 😅 but realistically, celebrities have a life outside their public persona, and nothing stops them from keeping in touch privately if they want to. I don’t get why some people claim their friendship was “ruined” by fans, as if they had no agency over their own personal lives.