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| Compliments to the Wrong Man! Wang Xingyue’s Moody Photo Sparks Hilarious Misunderstanding (Weibo) |
Rising Chinese actor Wang Xingyue has once again proven he’s unintentionally iconic—this time by accidentally soft-launching his own father.
It all started when Wang posted a pair of ultra-aesthetic photos to social media, the kind that scream “mysterious lead in a slow-burn urban romance.”
One shot featured a man in a fitted grey tee and cap, quietly checking his phone. The second captured a reflective moment through a car’s rear-view mirror, with only a soft focus on a pair of thoughtful eyes. The lighting, the mood, the vibes—top tier.
Naturally, fans lost it.
The comments section quickly turned poetic. One netizen even wrote a now-viral line likening the figure to “a ruler of the business world, mysterious and charismatic, shedding his daytime facade to reveal his nighttime softness and solitude.” Dramatic? Yes. Wrong? Also yes.
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Because just when everyone was getting ready to add the photo to their “Wang Xingyue boyfriend material” Pinterest board, the man himself jumped in with a cheeky one-liner:
“? That’s my dad.”
Cue collective online meltdown.
Turns out, the moody shots were actually posted as a sweet tribute for International Father’s Day, and the handsome figure was none other than Papa Wang himself.
Fans immediately switched gears—from flirty to flustered.
“Compliments went to the wrong person,” one laughed.
“My eyes betrayed me,” another sighed.
One fan even dubbed him “the Tony Leung of dads,” and honestly, we see it.
Some fans couldn’t get over the uncanny resemblance between father and son, joking, “like father, like son—they literally copied and pasted the same face.”
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But for longtime fans, this was just another wholesome addition to Wang Xingyue’s well-loved reputation as a family man. His bond with his dad has been in the spotlight before—especially during his stint on the variety show Wonderland (《五十公里桃花坞》), where he was seen FaceTiming his father in Hunan dialect to ask for cooking advice.
He’s also shared in past interviews that he once rang his dad crying in the middle of the night after a college breakup. The two are incredibly close, and fans adore the way Wang never shies away from showing affection and vulnerability.
So while the compliments may have initially gone to the wrong person, netizens are now fully on board with both Wang Xingyue and Wang Dad being total stunners—inside and out.