So this is a fast arriving and even faster brewing controversy that in 24 hours has already done an entire loop as to who is right, who is wrong, and who did what. This weekend an ending episode of variety show The Inn aired and a scene happened that got netizens upset. The cast gave out awards and Dylan Wang got an award of “You are Just Dylan Wang” or “You are Just Wang He Di” and also they changed his name to an same pronunciation character Di which means Low. So they called him Wang He Low basically. They also teased that they had a group chat text thread without him. After it aired netizens said the cast bullied him and Dylan came out and said that he thought he was just being sensitive at that time but yes he didn’t feel good about it.

So public sentiment was on him and the ensuing wave led to his costar Shen Yue to publicly apologize for causing any discomfort, explaining the joke was wanting the team leader Dylan Wang to put down his load and just go back to being Dylan Wang, and the group chat without him was solely to coordinate booking out a movie theater when Dylan’s movie came out to surprise and support him. Then the tidal wave turned as netizens are calling this the “Dylan Boomerang” as it was revealed that the scene was filmed 3 months ago in February and if Dylan was uncomfortable he could have spoken to his castmates about it especially Shen Yue since they are good friends in real life. And yet he said nothing until now and doing so publicly, leading Shen Yue to get flamed. Netizens says Dylan has a track record of throwing his costars especially female leads under the bus to garner support and sympathy or when he doesn’t need them anymore for CP shipping. So now sympathy is with Shen Yue asking why she even needed to apologize for what was clearly joking amount a close cast of friends and with reasons that are not bullying. And the cherry on top is that Dylan and Shen Yue have now unfriended each other on Weibo. Dang.