Most C-stars from the moment they make money are buying property and/or investing it, so it’s not hard to fall back on Plan B in the case of falling popularity or worse yet cancellation. Former C-actor Deng Lun has been out of the industry for two years and unlike fellow cancel-ee Zhang Zhe Han is not attempting a return in another capacity or country. Recently Deng Lun was spotted out at a museum event and he was very gracious to fans who recognized him, posing for pictures and signing autographs. He’s been a businessman full time now since leaving the industry and one of his restaurant investments is doing very well the Huoshe Hotpot chain which he invested in prior to the tax evasion scandal. He seems healthy, content, and successful even if the acting stardom era has ended and I don’t think there is anything wrong other than his fans hoping his final few dramas will air but according to industry pundits that will never happen.
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He loss quite a bit of weight…I miss him on screen.
When life throws you lemons, you make lemonade. I wish the best for him. I’m glad he was smart enough to have a plan B in the event his acting career stalls. I think everyone in the industry should have a fallback because one never knows what the future will bring.
I wish the best for him and hope he continues to be happy.
I remember he was SO popular at one point. One of the top young actors working non-stop. It’s crazy how quickly things can change.
I don’t know much about the tax evasion issue or how guilty he was but he looks healthy and happy here and it’s nice he was so sweet to the fans. Good thing he had a back up plan and wasn’t relying solely on his acting career when he was cancelled.
He was absolutely guilty, huge money in play. To make it worse, he stalled on paying even when caught. I don’t know what he was thinking.
I too did not understand why…
Oh really? I didn’t realise he was guilty like that. I thought it might be one of those ambiguous cases like Song Zu Er or where bad accountant or agent messes up a celebrities finances. I take back my nice words then lol! Sound like he was just greedy. If he invested in the hotspot restaurant pre tax evasion scandal I wonder why those assets weren’t seized?
CCP is dumb/shabi as fuck to ban tax evaders and their works, thereby hurtint their own TV & film industry. It’s not the director or crews fault that someone evaded tax but all their hard work is wasted? All China has to do is to impose heavy punitive penalties for tax evasion and maybe even jail terms (Liu Xiaoqing a top Chinese actress went to jail for tax evasion and returned to acting, she’s from an earlier era) so that all these celebrities are forced to pay 10x the amount of tax owed and have to work doubly hard filming to pay it all back. They can also be banned from receiving professional awards or advertisement but it’s dumb to force tax evading actors who are very good at their craft like Deng Lun and Fan Bingbing to quit their job when they already amassed huge wealth to start businesses and chill. It’s not much of a punishment since cancelled stars like Zhang Zhehan and Deng Lun sold tea online to their fans for years (the China equivalent of a OnlyFansxGoFundMe) after their scandals and continue to do so. I’d much rather watch a disgraced tax evading actor overcome their scandals and continue their career without the bells and whistles of being a liuliang star who makes easy money from advertising Prada or KFC… These tax evaders would be forced to take acting more seriously and develop into better thespians, even so what a waste of human resources to shelve all these dramas that cost a few hundered million each?
I just wish he didn’t drag his feet with the tax evasion stuff. He was one of the better actors among his age group. A little sad he’s out of the entertainment business, but am relieved he has another source of income.