Shi Xingzhou

Biodata

Background and History

Shi Xingzhou was raised in an entertainment-industry family. His father, Shi Bing, was the president of Starlight Entertainment, and Shi had reportedly trained as an entertainer since age six. He gained attention after a clip of him singing “Luxe Life” a cappella circulated online 4 5 19.

In middle school, Shi spent three years targeting classmate Qiao Huan, arranging bullying and theft and paying someone to pose as Qiao’s friend before speaking against him to a teacher. Shi went abroad for high school and later underwent plastic surgery 4 5 6.

Appearance

Shi had blond hair and had undergone plastic surgery 5 11.

• Height: 185 cm 12
• Weight: 64 kg at the Deserted Island weigh-in 12
• Body fat: 15% at the same weigh-in 12

Personality

Shi cultivated a gentle, generous public persona, but privately treated vulnerable people as targets for his amusement. Qiao Huan’s apparent indifference frustrated him and made him determined to bring Qiao down 4 6.

He was intensely concerned with fame and public opinion, using paid comments, promotional articles and manipulated footage to protect his image. When his schemes failed, he struggled to accept responsibility and searched for an explanation in Qiao Huan’s supposed connections 12 19.

Career and Skills

• Singing: A practice-room clip of his a cappella performance of “Luxe Life” helped make him internet-famous 5.
• Training: He spent two months on physical and survival training before Deserted Island, hiring coaches from abroad. Despite presenting himself as the team’s wilderness strategist, he repeatedly struggled with survival tasks on the show 12 15 16.
• Publicity: He coordinated marketing accounts, fan leaders and paid commenters to shape online discussion, including an attempted campaign portraying himself as Qiao Huan’s bullying victim 19.

Relationships

• Qiao Huan — Former middle-school classmate and the target of Shi’s bullying. Qiao later joined the trainee competition to investigate him 4 6.
• Shi Bing — Shi Xingzhou’s father and Starlight Entertainment’s president. He later refused to help his son and sought to limit the damage to the company 4 20.
• Shi Lianyi — Shi’s aunt and a Deserted Island producer. She reported Yue Lin’s preferential treatment of Shi to the police 10 20.
• Jin Xiaopeng — A trainee whom Shi coerced using videos. Jin ultimately published evidence of Shi’s activities and his attempt to drug Qiao Huan 8 19.
• Yue Lin — A Deserted Island production executive whom Shi threatened with a video to secure favorable arrangements on the show 14 15 19.
• Bai Jike — A fellow contestant whom Shi threatened into an alliance. Bai escaped but later rescued Shi from a bee swarm 14.

Story Role

OSOK auditions and the investigation

Qiao Huan reconsidered withdrawing from Starlight’s trainee program after learning that Shi was OSOK’s confirmed captain and the target of his investigation. Shi tried to embarrass Qiao during a vocal-assessment livestream, but Qiao and Ye Yiwei’s duet attracted praise instead 4 5 6.

Shi hired paid trolls to spread claims about Qiao’s family history and planned to use a surprise dance assessment to humiliate him. The smear effort was blocked, and Qiao and his roommates impressed the instructors with their performance 6 7 8.

Between Life and Death

Shi pressured Jin Xiaopeng to invite Qiao to the bar Between Life and Death and instructed him to drug Qiao. Jin was stopped by Zhuo Yang, while Qiao investigated the venue’s hidden VIP area. Captain Qiao identified Shi as a middleman in a sex-trade operation; staff later told police that Shi had supplied the pills 8 10 19.

*Deserted Island*

Shi arranged favorable starting positions through Yue Lin and tried to force Bai Jike into an alliance. After Bai escaped and then saved him from bees, Shi joined Qiao Huan’s group. Qiao kept him close to investigate his outside contact and secretly checked his communication device 14 15.

Shi’s survival performance and attempts to maintain his persona damaged his standing with viewers. He cursed at Xiao Yue after she released a hare, then tried to shift blame to Qiao 16 17 18.

Exposure and arrest

Before the show’s joint interview, Shi prepared promotional articles and coordinated comments claiming that Qiao had bullied him. During the livestream, he repeated the accusation and invoked Jin Xiaopeng as another victim. Jin instead posted a statement and videos exposing Shi’s dealings with Yue Lin and his attempt to drug Qiao 19.

Police arrested Shi after the broadcast. He refused to provide another statement about the wider operation, while the circumstances behind its connection to Star Radiance and Qiancheng Capital remained unclear 19 20.