She helped create a heavenly-king superstar who, in his debut, won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor. The following year, his film "Hidden Secrets" had a box office revenue of two billion in the Chinese-speaking world. After being released simultaneously in North America, it earned 500 million USD and swept that year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Score, and many other awards. It is, to this day, the only Chinese-language movie that has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He established his status in the entertainment industry in just two years, and at that time, he was only twenty-five years old.
Equally significant to his innate acting prowess was, of course, his strikingly handsome appearance.
In "Hidden Secrets," he played the role of a frivolous playboy, which was a great success. However, in real life, he was rather expressionless, rarely smiling or talking. Standing behind the smiling Tilly Flower, he seemed like a moving iceberg.
