Zhang Meng is a Chinese actress who also is known by the name Alina Zhang. She was born on March 6, 1981, in China but graduated from New South Wales University in Australia in 2003 before returning to China. Zhang Meng launched her career in entertainment after representing China in the 53rd Miss Universe pageant in 2004. She made her acting debut in 2005 and has since appeared in many films and television dramas, including “Love at First Fight” (2007), “The Blue Files” (2008), “Detective Tanglang” (2010) and “Ice Fantasy” (2016).

Zhang Meng

There was a time when Guan Wen (Qin Lan) was an unstoppable force in the workplace. With an uncanny ability to successfully negotiate with the most unreasonable of clients, she quickly rose through the ranks at work. But when she becomes the victim of vicious office attacks by her subordinates, Guan Wen has no choice but to resign.

With her experience, Guan Wen has every confidence that she’ll find another job quickly, but after failing a number of interviews, she begins to have some serious doubts. Starting to feel a little desperate, Guan Wen accepts a position at a failing shopping center. Feeling like a bit of a failure herself, Guan Wen’s spirits sink even further after she has a run-in with her college ex, Ding Ning (Wang Yang). Turning to her two best friends, Chen Xuan Xuan (Liu Yun) and Jing Zhi Qiu (Zhang Meng), for comfort Guan Wen tries to rally her spirits but finds it isn’t easy when all three of them currently seem to be struggling to overcome the challenges of adult life.&nbsp;

Doing their best to support and comfort each other, the three best friends come to find that if life is a battle, they are their own best weapons. With enough determination and perseverance, do these three friends have what it takes to rise victorious once more?&nbsp;

Adapted from the Bilibili web-comic "The&nbsp;Year to 30", “Stand or Fall” is a 2023 Chinese slice-of-life romance drama directed by Wang Ying.

Stand or Fall

🌃Life Issues🌃

Seven years ago, Ruan Liu Zheng (Wang Chu Ran) was married to Ning Zhi Qian (Peng Guan Ying). She was a shy, reticent young woman who was emotionally fragile. Ning Zhi Qian was her opposite. The latter was cruel, and, eventually, the marriage broke apart, leaving Ruan Liu Zheng devastated. She moved away and tried her best to forget all about him. Now, she has trained as a medic. She has discovered that she has a talent for her chosen career path. And she has taken up an offer to work as a junior neurosurgeon at Bei Ya Hospital, back in her hometown.

She accepts the job – but is stunned to find Ning Zhi Qian working as the hospital’s senior neurosurgeon. Still feeling guilt at the way he once treated her, he attempts to right past wrongs by volunteering to become Ruan Liu Zheng’s mentor. But he soon discovers that her personality has hardened in the past seven years – and that she is no longer the timid young woman he once knew. The two clash. But when their work takes them to Africa, Ning Zhi Qian is injured – and the only one who can save him is Ruan Liu Zheng. Could love strike twice for this once-close pair of talented medics?

“Have a Crush on You” is a 2022 Chinese drama series that was directed by Yang Yang.

Have a Crush On You

😍Love Medicine Team💊

Tencent

Chai Xiao Qi (Wan Peng) is an alien woman whose craft crashed on Earth, causing Fang Leng (Bie Thassapak Hsu), a handsome but overbearing CEO to have a traffic accident. She used her alien powers to save him, but this meant that she became marooned on the planet. She also found herself irresistibly attracted to him, and eventually, the two found love. Everything was set for a happy ending, with the duo set to tie the knot. But, on the day of her wedding, as she was preparing to say “I do,” Chai Xiao Qi was taken away by Jiang Shi Yi (Wan Yan Luo Rong), a being from the same planet as Chai Xiao Qi who was previously designated as her perfect mate. Chai Xiao Qi manages to escape and tries to return to Earth. But when she does so, she travels through the wrong worm hole...

She awakes to find herself next to Fang Leng again. But there’s a complication: He doesn’t seem to have any idea who she is...because she has actually traveled back a year in time! She is still besotted with him and tries to win his heart “back,” but he seems to be utterly disinterested in her advances. She tries everything she can in order to win his attention, but he keeps pushing her away. Can Chai Xiao Qi recover her true love, or will he keep on rejecting her?

“My Girlfriend Is an Alien 2” is a 2022 Chinese drama series that was directed by Deng Ke and Gao Cong Kai.

My Girlfriend is an Alien 2

🛸 How to tame a  CEO³🛸 

Xu Wen Chang (Luo Jin) is the permanently laid-back, calm, and generous manager of a Shanghai-based branch of a large real estate chain. The executives at the head office are dissatisfied with the poor sales conversions rate at the branch and suspect that Xu Wen Chang might be at fault. So they decide to take action by sending in Fang Si Jin (Sun Li) to solve the problems be becoming the branch’s co-manager. She is Xu Wen Chang’s polar opposite: an ice-cold, ruthless, ambitious, and results-driven manager.

While Xu Wen Chang always puts the needs of his staff first, and they adore him for this approach. These wildly different outlooks cause conflicts right from the outset, but surprisingly over time, they start to drift toward a shared vision – one that the whole branch starts to get behind. But as they start to spend more time together, these very contrasting managers start to wonder if they might also have romantic feelings for each other, despite their plethora of differences!

This drama is a remake of the 2016 Japanese series “Your Home Is My Business.”

“I Will Find You a Better Home” is a 2020 Chinese drama series that was directed by An Ji An.

I Will Find You a Better Home

Home Sweet Home 

Chai Xiao Qi (Wan Peng) is an alien woman from a faraway planet. When she lands in her spacecraft on Earth, she comes across Fang Leng (Bie Thassapak Hsu), a handsome, control-freak CEO, whose car has crashed and is about to explode. She uses her superhuman powers to save him from the blast, but it takes its toll on her – leading her to lose a homing device that she needs in order to return home. Now she is stuck on Earth and forced to pretend she is a normal earthling – when in fact she is anything but. To add to the trouble, she finds she is uncontrollably attracted to human male hormones.

Fang Leng, meanwhile, cannot remember what happened to him on the night of the accident. He also suffers from a strange form of amnesia that leads him to forget the women he knows when it rains. Chai Xiao Qi’s quest to retrieve her device leads her back to Fang Leng. Over time, the duo becomes attracted to one another. Can a man – and an overbearing man with such a strange predicament at that – really fall for an extraterrestrial being? And what will happen when Fang Leng’s half-brother Fang Lie (Wang You Jun) also develops a crush on Chai Xiao Qi?

“My Girlfriend Is an Alien” is a 2019 Chinese drama series that was directed by Deng Ke and Gao Zong Kai.

My Girlfriend is an Alien

🛸UFOund me in the Star 💫

Tencent TV

High schooler Li Cu (Leo Wu) has his world turned upside down when he is recruited by experienced tomb raider Wu Xie (Qin Hao) – and whisked off to a deadly part of the Badain Jaran Desert.

The region is notorious: No explorer has ever returned alive. But Wu Xie resolves to unearth the secrets of the desert together with Li Cu and a band of hardy adventurers.

Wu Xie is not the only explorer keen to recruit Lu Ci. The high schooler's back is covered in mysterious markings that provide crucial clues on how to navigate the desert – and discover the lost treasure in the region's tombs.

As the explorers continue their quest, they must contend with a whole range of threats – including rival tomb raiders, fierce mummies, and more!

"Sand Sea" is a 2018 Chinese drama series produce by Fang Fang and Bai Yi Cong.

Sand Sea

Hunan TV

One hundred years after a great war between the Ice Tribe and the Fire Tribe, the only two remaining royal heirs of the Ice Tribe struggle for power. 

Prince Ka Suo (Feng Shao Feng) and his younger half-brother, Yong Kong Shi (Ma Tian Yu), are the only pureblood illusionists and royal heirs left in the Ice Tribe. Ka Suo reluctantly ascends to the throne to help rebuild the kingdom, but he wants nothing more than the freedom to be with his love, Li Luo (Victoria Song), who can never marry him despite rising to become a powerful sorceress because she was born a commoner. 

Kong Shi does everything in his power to take the throne away from Ka Suo, while Yan Da (Zhang Meng), the only daughter of the Fire Tribe royal family, is willing to give up everything for Kong Shi. 

When both Kong Shi and Li Luo suddenly go missing, can Ka Suo protect his kingdom alone when another war breaks out? 

“Ice Fantasy” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Ju Jue Liang. It is based on the novel City of Fantasy by Guo Jing Ming.

Ice Fantasy

Gone with the Shirt Team

Yan Da

In a time of great unrest at the end of the Warring States period, Jing Ke (Le Geng) attempts to assassinate King Zheng of Qin and fails. Now on the run from Qin’s soldiers, Jing hires Gai Nie (Lu Yi), the world’s best swordsman, to protect his son, Jing Tian Ming (Jiang Jin Fu; Wu Zu Jin Xi as the child Tian Ming). When Gai single-handedly defeats 300 armed soldiers at the Qin border, the angry King Zheng orders that both Gai and Tian Ming be killed at any cost. The king’s ministers hire Wei Zhuang (Sun Yi Zhou), a brilliant swordsman who studied under the same master as Gai, to go after them. Gai and Tiang Ming, meanwhile, meet a group of Mohist swordsman and a young girl named Gao Yue (Hu Bing Qing) and are taken to the Mohist Fortress, a secret place nestled between towering mountain peaks that houses the Mohist School, a final stronghold of anti-Qin forces. Among them is Rong Duan Mu (Michelle Chen), the skilled Mohist doctor and Gao Yue’s older sister, with whom Gai falls in love. But when King Zheng sends a massive group of elite troops and Wei brings his own tram of swordsmen assassins, the epic battle that ensues at Mohist Fortress will determine the next king. “The Legend of Qin” is a 2015 Chinese historical drama series directed by Zheng Wei Wen. It is adapted from China’s No.1 martial arts animation film by the same title.

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