Jiang Jingzhe

Biodata

Background / History

Childhood with Song Nianxing

Jiang Jingzhe grew up in an orphanage with Song Nianxing. When other children bullied Song for his delicate appearance, Jiang repeatedly defended him, becoming the person Song trusted and depended on most. Photographs later shown publicly document their childhood together, including water fights, school award certificates, and annual group pictures in which they consistently stood beside each other 2 37.

After a severe childhood fever left Song’s memories hazy, Jiang was the person watching over him when he woke. Jiang told him they had always been the closest children at the orphanage. Because Song could no longer remember his own birthday, Jiang proposed that they share his birthday—the day Song recovered—and celebrate together every year. They maintained that tradition throughout their youth 22.

The two earned tips by helping sell raincoats outside an amusement park. Watching families enter, they promised to visit together once they had enough money. Jiang later repeatedly dismissed the trip as childish, uninteresting, or inconvenient. On the one occasion he agreed, an audition interrupted their plans 27.

Entertainment Career

Jiang and Song entered the entertainment industry through the same boy band. Jiang subsequently became hugely popular through an acting role obtained from the audition that displaced their amusement-park visit. Their increasingly unequal professional standing contributed to the distance between them 5 27 28.

Jiang also gained attention through his heavily promoted pairing with Qiu Bailu. He treated its popularity as a route to greater fame, money, and influence, imagining that success would eventually allow him to bring Song back and resume their life together 8 16.

Appearance

• General impression: Handsome, with a bright, sunny appearance at his introduction 2.
• Hair: Short and black 36.
• Facial features: Straight brows; Song describes his face as resembling his teenage appearance, only more mature 6 7.
• Introductory clothing: A clean white tracksuit at the promotional shoot 2.
• After the birthday confrontation: Appears exhausted and disheveled, with unstyled hair, dark shadows beneath his eyes, and stubble around his mouth after waiting outside Song’s home 36.

Personality

Jiang’s earlier protectiveness develops into a belief that Song’s attachment to him is permanent and exclusive. He expects Song to return despite his rejection and repeatedly interprets hurt or withdrawal as jealousy, temporary anger, or deliberate indifference. When Song chooses Shen Siyi instead, Jiang initially refuses to accept that the choice is genuine 16 21 28.

His ambitions conflict with that possessiveness. Jiang will distance himself from Song and promote his pairing with Qiu for professional gain, yet considers Song’s independent relationships unacceptable. He cites contractual obligations to justify choosing Qiu while condemning Song for choosing Shen on their shared birthday 16 32.

Jiang expresses disgust toward men liking men, despite publicly answering that he likes “either” gender to support his pairing with Qiu. These remarks make Song afraid to disclose his sexuality. Jiang only begins recognizing that his own feelings for Song are more complicated after learning Song has chosen Shen for their birthday date 5 8 32.

His jealousy frequently becomes physical aggression. He painfully restrains Song during confrontations, tightens his grip on Qiu while upset, and attacks Shen. Although he regrets leaving Song after their birthday argument, his attempt to reconnect escalates into another violent confrontation 7 16 32 36.

Relationships

• Song Nianxing — Childhood friend, former housemate, and fellow boy-band member. Jiang once protected him from bullying, but later rejects his requests for help while demanding continued loyalty. Song ultimately ends their relationship after Jiang’s coercion and violence 2 5 21 32 36.
• Qiu Bailu — Contractual publicity partner and dating-show match. Their pairing is commonly called “Broken Dew” by viewers. In private, they argue over publicity, fan traffic, and Qiu’s interest in Shen; Jiang also uses their intimacy task to try to provoke Song’s jealousy 16 17 26 32.
• Shen Siyi — Rival for Song’s attention and someone connected to Jiang’s undisclosed past. Shen deliberately provokes Jiang, who attempts to punch him at the villa and later punches and grabs him by the throat outside Song’s home 7 35 36.
• Chen Mingyi — Fellow show participant who challenges his treatment of Song. Having personally heard Jiang disparage male–male attraction, she regards his publicity pairing with Qiu as hypocritical 8 21.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Public Rejection and Growing Jealousy

• At the Starstruck Moments promotional shoot, Jiang dismisses Song’s fear of threatening fan messages as ordinary celebrity trouble. He tells Song to keep his distance and leaves with Qiu 2.
• He unfollows Song on Weibo, producing a trending topic and further public abuse toward Song 3 4.
• At the villa, Jiang instinctively starts to help with Song’s luggage but sits back down after Qiu looks at him. He criticizes the amount Song brought despite knowing why familiar belongings help him sleep 4.
• Learning that Song likes men and has slept with a man prompts Jiang to call him “disgusting” on camera. Shen intervenes, and Jiang apologizes after Qiu restrains him 5 6.
• Jiang then enters Song’s room, painfully grips his shoulders, and demands to know his partner’s identity. When Shen says they have slept together, Jiang grabs Shen’s collar and attempts a punch; Song stops him 7.
• His hostility continues through a seating dispute and sarcastic accusations about Song wanting to sit beside Shen. Song subsequently chooses Shen for the show’s intimacy task 8 9.

Failed Attempts to Reassert His Place

• Jiang performs an intimacy task with Qiu in front of Song, expecting jealousy. Song instead compliments their pairing and leaves with Shen, prompting Jiang to tighten his grip on Qiu’s hand 16.
• Jiang and Qiu exchange romantic-interest messages, while Song and Shen choose each other. The mutual selection further unsettles Jiang 17 21.
• Jiang insists to Shen that his childhood bond and shared birthday guarantee Song will choose him. Seeing Song embrace Shen at the villa increases his anxiety, though he tries to maintain a smile for the cameras 23 24.
• During his amusement-park date with Qiu, Jiang encounters Song and Shen. Song confronts the unfulfilled childhood promise and leaves hand in hand with Shen. Jiang learns that Shen suggested the encounter and concludes that the rival deliberately fulfilled his old promise 26 28.

Birthday Rupture

• Jiang mistakes Song’s birthday cake for an attempt at reconciliation and decides to make longevity noodles for him 30.
• While preparing two bowls, he learns from Chen Mingyi that the others have already celebrated Song’s birthday that morning. He also learns Song chose Shen for that day’s date 31 32.
• Jiang later corners Song at home, restrains him, and demands to know why Shen is permitted physical closeness that Jiang is not. He insists Song belongs to him and attempts to kiss him 32.
• Song breaks free and slaps him hard enough to make his mouth bleed. Jiang leaves after telling Song never to seek him out again 32.
• Shen subsequently notices red marks on Song’s wrist and urges him not to forgive Jiang again 33.

Public Fight and Departure

• Regretting the argument, Jiang returns to Song’s home and waits outside overnight, drinking beer. When Song arrives with Shen, Jiang attacks Shen despite Song’s efforts to stop him 35 36.
• Shen hints at their shared past. Jiang recognizes him after noticing a small red mole above his brow, then grabs his throat when Shen offers to reveal more. The underlying history is not explained in the supplied chapters 36.
• Song declares that they should pretend they never knew each other. A woman then warns Jiang that paparazzi recorded the fight and the footage is already spreading online 36.
• The footage sparks trending discussions and competing love-triangle theories. An orphanage acquaintance publishes childhood photographs establishing Jiang and Song’s longstanding closeness, undermining claims that they barely knew each other and drawing condemnation of Jiang’s conduct 37.
• Song promises to stay away from Jiang. By the island segment, both Jiang and Qiu have left the dating show 37 41.

Notable Quotes

“Besides, Song Nianxing will never be able to leave me in this lifetime. Even if I don't like men, he's still mine.” 16

“You should be mine. You were when we were little, and you should be now!” 32