Zhao Lusi

A carefully managed public identity becomes both plot and performance in Zhao Lusi’s completed 2025 contribution. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1998, the Chinese actor entered serial drama through supporting and web-based productions before The Romance of Tiger and Rose established her as a lead able to combine comic timing, period exposition and romance. The Long Ballad, Love Like the Galaxy and Hidden Love expanded her audience across historical and contemporary settings. Her direct, conversational screen manner has proved useful for characters whose apparent openness covers calculation, insecurity or self-preservation.

The thirty-two-episode urban drama Love’s Ambition, adapted from Zhang Yueran’s novel Da Qiao Xiao Qiao, completed its run from late September to October 2025. Zhao plays Qiao Yan, who reinvents herself as the polished broadcaster Xu Yan and constructs a socially advantageous marriage to businessman Shen Haoming. When her background and the mutual deceptions in the relationship are exposed, the character moves through divorce, unemployment, live-streaming work and the gradual rebuilding of professional autonomy.

The role begins from active fabrication rather than uncomplicated romantic sympathy. Xu Yan is capable and strategic, ashamed of her origins, materially ambitious and resentful of the marriage’s conditions while benefiting from them. Zhao preserves enough calculation and defensiveness for those choices to remain uncomfortable.

She appears in all thirty-two episodes, carrying the consequences beyond the collapse of the aspirational image instead of ending the arc at romantic reconciliation. Zhao also received an on-screen credit as the female lead’s stylist. Xu Yan’s extensive controlled wardrobe functions as evidence she manufactures about class, taste and command, so the styling contribution remains inside character construction rather than operating as a separate fashion accomplishment.