The Enticement
''The Enticement'' () is a 2022 Chinese streaming television series directed by Wen Chenglin, and starring Leon Jay Williams, Eva Huang and Yang Zi. The series entered production in Beijing in September 2012. It was aired on Sohu on July 28, 2022. Plot Before his death, Chen Tiannuo, president of Tiannuo Group, gave two Dong Qichang paintings worth 200 million to Xia Wei, a descendant of the Xia family. At this time, Tiannuo Group faced financial crisis and faced bankruptcy, forcing Chen Tiannuo's eldest son, Chen Jinyu, into a corner. Chen Jinyu thought that he wanted Xia Wei to marry his younger brother Chen Mingyu, so that the Chen family would at least get part of the property, and the pure Xia Wei stepped into Chen Jinyu's trap step by step. In the process of Xia Wei and Chen Mingyu's contact, they finally fell in love, and at the same time Xia Wei also discovered Chen Jinyu's conspiracy. Chen Mingyu can't face Xia Wei, Xia Wei wakes up Mingyu with love. In the end, the lovers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leon Jay Williams
Leon Jay Williams (, born 30 July 1976), also known as Li Wei-lian, is a Singaporean actor, singer and model who also frequently works in Taiwan and mainland China. In addition to Mandarin Chinese, he speaks English; he sometimes displays this ability in his work on television shows. He was a former model. Acting career He is known for starring in several Taiwanese dramas, including ''Green Forest, My Home'' and ''Heaven's Wedding Gown''. He has also made a cameo appearance in ''Smiling Pasta''. His most recent drama appearance is in "Zhang Xiao Wu's Spring". Williams was also a former Mister Singapore and Mister International Man. He used to sign to ECI Global Talent Management. Since 2022, he signed with Mediacorp's The Celebrity Agency after relocating back to Singapore. Personal life Williams is of mixed English, German, Japanese and Chinese descent: his paternal grandfather is English, while his paternal grandmother is of mixed Germans and Japanese ancestry. His mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eva Huang
Huang Shengyi (, born February 11, 1983), also known as Eva Huang, is a Chinese actress and singer. Early life and education Huang was born and raised in Shanghai. Her father was educated in the United States and lived there in the early 1990s, while her mother worked as an editor in a newspaper agency in Shanghai. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2001. Career Eva Huang rose to fame after starring in Stephen Chow's action comedy film ''Kung Fu Hustle'' (2004). ''Kung Fu Hustle'' took a record 155 million yuan at box offices across the Chinese mainland, making it China's top-grossing film in 2004. In August the following year, she ended her contract with Chow's company after appearing in a magazine photo shoot without their consent. Huang then starred in ''Dragon Squad'' (2005), which received critical acclaim and was among the first films to be listed in the permanent collection by the National Museum of China. Starting in 2006, Huang worked with China Juli Gro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sohu
Sohu, Inc. () is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine (Sogou.com), on-line multiplayer gaming (ChangYou.com) and other services. History Sohu was founded as Internet Technologies China (ITC) in 1996 by Charles Zhang after he completed his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received venture capital funding from colleagues he met there. The following year, Zhang changed the name of ITC to Sohoo in homage to Yahoo! after meeting its cofounder, Jerry Yang; the name was soon after changed to Sohu to differentiate it from the American company. Sohu has been listed on NASDAQ since 2000 through a variable interest entity (VIE) based in Delaware. Sohu's Sogou.com search engine was in talks to be sold in July 2013 to Qihoo for around $1.4 billion. On September 17, 2013, it was announced that Tencent has invested $448 million for a minority shar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Beijing
} Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, finance, busi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Streaming Television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aerial systems, cable television, and/or satellite television systems. History Up until the 1990s, it was not thought possible that a television programme could be squeezed into the limited telecommunication bandwidth of a copper telephone cable to provide a streaming service of acceptable quality, as the required bandwidth of a digital television signal was around 200Mbit/s, which was 2,000 times greater than the bandwidth of a speech signal over a copper telephone wire. Streaming services were only made possible as a result of two major technological developments: MPEG ( motion-compensated DCT) video compression and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) data transmission. The first worldwide live-streaming event was a radio live ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sina Weibo
Sina Weibo (新浪微博) is a Chinese microblogging ( weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022. The platform has been a huge financial success, with surging stocks, lucrative advertising sales and high revenue and total earnings per quarter. At the start of 2018, it surpassed the US$30 billion market valuation mark for the first time. In March 2014, Sina Corporation announced a spinoff of Sina Weibo as a separate entity called simply "Weibo", and filed an IPO under the symbol WB. Sina carved out 11% of Weibo in the IPO, with Alibaba owning 32% post-IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. In March 2017, Sina launched Sina Weibo International Version. In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14. In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced that i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baidu
Baidu, Inc. ( ; , meaning "hundred times") is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the largest AI and Internet companies in the world. The holding company of the group is incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Baidu was incorporated in January 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu. The Baidu search engine is currently the sixth largest website in the Alexa Internet rankings. Baidu has origins in RankDex, an earlier search engine developed by Robin Li in 1996, before he founded Baidu in 2000. Baidu offers various services, including a Chinese search engine, as well as a mapping service called Baidu Maps. Baidu offers about 57 search and community services, such as Baidu Baike (an online encyclopedia), Baidu Wangpan (a cloud storage service), and Baidu Tieba (a keyword-based discussion forum). Baidu Global Business Unit (GBU) is respo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Huang Shengyi
Huang Shengyi (, born February 11, 1983), also known as Eva Huang, is a Chinese actress and singer. Early life and education Huang was born and raised in Shanghai. Her father was educated in the United States and lived there in the early 1990s, while her mother worked as an editor in a newspaper agency in Shanghai. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2001. Career Eva Huang rose to fame after starring in Stephen Chow's action comedy film ''Kung Fu Hustle'' (2004). ''Kung Fu Hustle'' took a record 155 million yuan at box offices across the Chinese mainland, making it China's top-grossing film in 2004. In August the following year, she ended her contract with Chow's company after appearing in a magazine photo shoot without their consent. Huang then starred in ''Dragon Squad'' (2005), which received critical acclaim and was among the first films to be listed in the permanent collection by the National Museum of China. Starting in 2006, Huang worked with China Juli Gr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Sohu Original Programming
Sohu is a Chinese streaming website. Sohu started its own programs in 2011. Its first show was a short form comedy called ''Qian Duoduo Gets Married'', which led to huge success and to the production of several other successful short form comedy shows, including ''Diors Man'' and ''Wonder Lady''. Original programmings Drama Number of original drama shows: 39 Comedy Number of original comedy shows: 12 Reality Co-productions Exclusive distributions National content distributions International content distributions References {{Reflist Sohu Sohu Sohu original programming ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chinese Television Series
Chinese television dramas ( Simplified Chinese: 中国电视连续剧), sometimes colloquially known as C-dramas, are television dramas originating from China or the Greater China region. China produces more television dramas than any other country. The most popular genre of dramas in China is fantasy romance, with 47 of the 50 most watched dramas in the country in 2016 being in this genre. Chinese television dramas are popular and regularly broadcast throughout Asia; particularly in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Cambodia. Characteristics Since the 1990s, historical serials have been the dominant genre on prime-time television. The trend peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with many palace (also known as "Qing") dramas shown on television. Popular Chinese television dramas, such as Ashes of Love, Story of Yanxi Palace'', Nirvana in Fire'', ''The Journey of Flower'', '' Eternal Love'', ''The Princess Weiyoung ''The Princ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |