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Text: Bobo Entertainment
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He started from a poor family and became a popular student on the Hong Kong drama screen in the 80s/90s, and won the infatuation of countless girls. But then, his emotional entanglements and divorce lawsuits continued one after another, becoming the hardest hit area of public opinion.
It wasn't until he was over half a hundred years old that this once smash hit "heartthrob" finally reaped family happiness, but who would have thought that his life would take such a tortuous and bizarre path?
Born in poverty
Wan Zhaolun was born in Hong Kong in 1969 and his ancestral home is Shanghai. His family was quite poor, his father was a small trader, his mother worked in a garment factory, and in addition to the family of three, the family had to support his elderly grandmother. Despite his financial constraints, Wan Zhaolun has loved music since he was a child, especially singing.
Due to the poverty of his family, when he was 7 years old, Wen Zhaolun was sent to his uncle's house to board. This gave him more opportunities to learn singing and music, because his uncle ran a small shop and the business was very cold.
When he was in junior high school, Wen Zhaolun participated in many campus singing competitions and won many awards. His unique voice and stage charm are also gradually becoming known. After graduating from high school, his poor family forced him to work as a cashier. But his musical dreams never went out, and he used his after-hours to participate in singing competitions.
In 1982, 20-year-old Wen Zhaolun participated in TVB's "Rookie Singing Contest", although he failed to win the championship, he was recognized for his potential and was incorporated into the TV station. This marked the beginning of his career, which changed the course of his life and escaped the fate of poverty.
Continues to go viral
After entering TVB, Wen Zhaolun once hosted the children's program "Banana Boat" and accumulated some exposure. In 1985, he signed with the record label Warner and officially debuted as a singer. Although the first album received a mediocre response, Wen Zhaolun persevered in his musical journey.
In 1987, TVB praised his transformation into the first TV series "Flower Release", which opened up a new path for Wen Zhaolun to officially transform from a singer to an actor. In that year, he starred in four TV series in succession, among which he played the role of the villain "Ding Youkang" in "Intolerable Love" and gained attention.
Especially in the drama "I'm Kind" in 1990, Wen Zhaolun became an instant hit and became a well-known screen idol.
"I'm Kind" climbed in Hong Kong's ratings, and finally won the annual TV drama championship with a high rating of 49.1%, and Wen Zhaolun also became famous in one fell swoop. The drama also won the third place in the "Highest Circulation TV Series in the World" and "The Most Popular Hong Kong TV Drama in Audiences", and was recognized as a classic in the history of Hong Kong television in the 90s.
Immediately afterwards, Wen Zhaolun successively played the leading role in dramas such as "Heaven and Earth Are Unkind" in 1992, "Fire Rose" in 1993 and "The Third Kind of Court" in 1994, and his career has steadily become one of the first-line niches.
At that time, in addition to the popularity of filming, he also achieved remarkable results in music, and the Chinese album "Spend the Rest of My Life Together" released in 1992 and "I Know I Loved You Deeply" in 1993 both achieved good sales in Chinese-speaking areas.
Negative press abounds
Just when Wen Zhaolun's career was in full swing, he quickly gained the reputation of "heartthrob". With a tall figure of 190cm, a handsome and chic appearance, outstanding singing and dancing talents, and a positive and good character image in the TV series, Wen Zhaolun undoubtedly became one of the most popular male artists of the year.
It was at this time that negative news about his love life began to spread more and more. Wen Zhaolun fell in love with Li Lirui, a little girl on TVB, but broke up after only a few months. There are many speculations about the specific reasons for the breakup, but most of them point to Wen Zhaolun's personality.
This is just the beginning. In 1986, Wen Zhaolun and another female artist, He Meiting, were in love, and the two gradually met and fell in love in the crew. But this relationship only lasted for two years before breaking up, because Wen Zhaolun was accused of being tired of He Meiting's "obedient" girlfriend image.
After the breakup, Wen Zhaolun turned to love the 1989 Miss Hong Kong champion and graceful Li Meiling. This pair of "golden artist combinations" with high hopes finally went to the palace of marriage, but this marriage, which was once envied by countless people, only lasted for 4 years before falling apart.
Not long after the divorce, Wen Zhaolun unexpectedly made another bizarre relationship scandal: he fell in love with his former assistant Pan Yanni, and the two finally got married in 1995. However, this relationship was even shorter-lived, and it ended abruptly after only 3 years, which once again plunged Wen Zhaolun into the haze of divorce.
In this way, Wen Zhaolun was infamous as a "scumbag" and "diamond king" at the peak of his career. In just 10 years from 1989 to 1998, he indulged in lust and fell into a strange circle of love and divorce with his four female companions, which really caused an uproar in the outside world.
Until 2000, Wen Zhaolun was revealed to have had an underground relationship with his agent Zhang Cuishan. Although both parties denied the relationship, it undoubtedly added fuel to Wen's reputation as a "scumbag".
What created Wen Zhaolun's notoriety as a "scumbag" was not only his bizarre and chaotic love life history, but also his profligate, even "dirty" behavior style.
Not only that, Wen Zhaolun even had negative news about hooking up with a young lady in a nightclub back then. A reporter who reported the news recalled that he had witnessed the scene of the warm escort lady drunkenly spinning around in the lively night club many times, and the two were very intimate.
It is this uninhibited style of life that made Wen Zhaolun full of haze at the peak of his career, spurned by public opinion, and became a generation of "cannon king" artists, with a discredited reputation.
In the years when Wen Zhaolun's scandals and negative news were overwhelming and his reputation was ruined, his career naturally suffered a heavy blow. The first-line film and television drama resources began to stay away from him, and the record company was also waiting. The aura of the former "heartthrob" is long gone.
After 1998, Wen Zhaolun's film and television works began to decline all the way, and the TV series lineup basically only left some third-tier roles. In 2000, he was once rumored to be leaving TVB, and his career fell into a low ebb.
In 2005, Wen Zhaolun participated in the mainland comedy "Crazy Money-making Method", in which he played an "old virgin" role, and his remarkable performance won praise. The film achieved good box office results in the mainland, which gave Wen enough strength to regain his status in the film industry.
In this year, 52-year-old Wen Zhaolun met Zhao Ting, a young Shanghai actress who was 20 years younger than him, and the two met and fell in love with each other until the end of the year. In 2008, Wen Zhaolun and Zhao Ting held a wedding, and finally found a long-awaited stable harbor in their love life.
After getting married, Wen Zhaolun began to make a comeback through mainland film and television works, and starred in a number of well-received TV series, such as "Tiger Courage", "Bei Shang Guang Don't Believe in Tears" and so on. In 2011, he and Zhao Ting were even more happy to have a noble son, ushering in another new stage of their lives.
The 56-year-old Wen Zhaolun, although he is no longer in the limelight of the past, he has finally regained his career vitality in the hot land of the mainland and obtained a happy family. "Although life has been full of ups and downs, I feel that I have found the meaning of life." Wen Zhaolun said sincerely.
epilogue
Looking back on Wen Zhaolun's life experience, I have to sigh that this once-smash heartthrob artist has really experienced a bumpy road. From being born poor to taking off in his career, from heartthrob to "scumbag" infamy, from broken family to finally reaping the happiness of his later years, his fate can be said to be ups and downs and quite dramatic.
The reason why Wen Zhaolun sank like this at his peak was largely due to arrogance and indulgence. If he had been more respectful and cautious in his glory days, he would not have fallen into such a predicament. But fortunately, in the end, he rediscovered himself, re-embraced life and career with the breadth and courage of his heart, and finally reaped the happiness of his old age.
Through the case of Wen Zhaolun, a real person and a real story, it is not difficult for us to see that success and arrogance are often twin brothers, and they should be balanced against each other. Only by treating success with humility and reverence can we avoid falling into the trap of arrogance and lasciviousness and win a truly happy life of fame and fortune.
This may be Wen Zhaolun's most valuable life experience and enlightenment. His life is like a vivid modern drama, intriguing, and worthy of our second thought in the turbulent world.