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Ding Yu Xi’s Happy Birthday posters are stills from The Road to Splendor and Southern Anecdote as actor hits 30

Michelle Topham July 20, 2025

Escape to Your Hearts Zhao Ling Happy Birthday poster Ding Yu Xi turns

Chinese actor Ding Yu Xi stars in both upcoming Chinese dramas The Road to Splendor on Tencent, and Southern Anecdote on iQIYI.

So, it’s not surprising both production companies used stills from their dramas to wish the now-30-year-old actor a “Happy Birthday” earlier today.

Ding Yu Xi’s first Happy Birthday poster (see above) featuring a still of the actor as Zhao Ling in The Road to Splendor was dropped by streaming service Tencent Video, along with a message about his role in Escape to Your Heart:

#HappyBirthdayDingYuxi0720#

“Smashing salt smugglers with wit as his blade,
Battling fierce on sands where courage is laid.
In python robes, he towers o’er the throne,
Claiming glory—his fate is his own!”

#TheRoadtoSplendor#
Happy Birthday to Zhao Ling (@丁禹兮)! May your new year shine as bright as your on-screen triumphs—soaring free, unbound by the skies!

Ding Yu Xi happy birthday poster

Meanwhile, YOUKU dropped two Happy Birthday visuals (above and below) with the Chinese actor as Zhang Hai Xia from Southern Anecdote, with a short and sweet birthday message:

iQIYI Original Series Southern Anecdote

“Ambition soars high to unravel mysteries; a hero’s heart shines bright over the southern seas.”

Happy Birthday to Southern Anecdote agent Zhang Hai Xia (@丁禹兮)!

RELATED: Ding Yu Xi’s The Road to Splendor officially begins filming at Hengdian World Studios, China this week

Ding yu xi happy birthday from iQiYI

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British-American journalist currently residing in Vienna, Austria and obsessed beyond measure with C-dramas, a subject I have been writing about for more than two decades. How many C-dramas have I watched? Many many hundreds. How many are still in my backlog? Hundreds more.

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