- Born
- Dec 18, 1993
- From
- Dongguan, Guangdong
- Active since
- 2018
- Agency
- Super Up (超级向上)
- Also known as
- Ryan Cheng · Yang Huixiang
Cheng Lei (born Yang Huixiang on 18 December 1993 in Dongguan, Guangdong; also known as Ryan Cheng) graduated in 2017 from the Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied architectural design, and entered acting after working as an extra while at college. He played the emperor Jing Qing in The Queen of Attack (进击的皇后, 2021) and Xiao Hansheng in A Familiar Stranger (虚颜, 2022), then Gong Shangjue in My Journey to You (云之羽, 2023), Shang Bieli in Follow Your Heart (颜心记, 2024), Xiao Jue in Legend of the Female General (锦月如歌, 2025) and Xiahou Dan in How Dare You!? (成何体统, 2026). He founded his own studio in 2021 and is represented by Super Up (超级向上).
Dramas
The Lament of Autumn
玉簟秋
2026 · 40 episodes · Hunan TV, Mango TV
6 articles
How Dare You!?
成何体统
2026 · 32 episodes · iQIYI
1 article
Legend of the Female General
锦月如歌
2025 · 36 episodes · Mango TV, Tencent Video
1 article
Fangs of Fortune
大梦归离
2024 · 34 episodes · iQIYI
1 article
My Journey to You
云之羽
2023 · 24 episodes · iQIYI
1 article
Our coverage
Short to long: China's micro-dramas start sending hits and stars upstream
Two premieres on one October day show the traffic between vertical micro-dramas and long Chinese television running the other way: a four-billion-view phone hit remade as a 24-episode series, and last year's biggest micro-drama actress in a Republican-era drama. What the long platforms are buying, what the actors have to relearn, and why a hashtag about short dramas making people stupid makes the move matter.