30-Second Overview: Rainie Yang was born in Taipei in 1984; her father's business failure left a debt of 9 million NTD, and her mother worked three jobs. In 2000, at age 16, she joined the BMG virtual girl group 4 in Love, which disbanded two years later. In 2005, The Devil in You and Ambiguous made her famous across the Chinese-speaking world; her album Ambiguous sold over a million copies in Asia and received IFPI Platinum certification. In 2010, she won the Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 45th Golden Bell Awards for My Romantic Providence (her only major Golden Bell Award to date). The CD2 of the celebratory edition of Rainie & Love...? Rain Love in 2010 was a limited Japanese single disc; she sang Taiwanese songs into a Japanese context for the first time. In 2012, the first stop of her For Love Start Rainie World Tour was in Hong Kong's Red Arena, where she performed three consecutive shows. She challenged singing Take Me Away while suspended upside down three meters in the air; the aftereffects of her burst facial capillaries plagued her for nine years before she spoke out. In 2016, she played Zheng Ruwei in the Public Television Service (PTS) drama Tumi, featuring A/B dual timelines, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards but did not win (a Waterloo moment). In 2019, she proposed in Okinawa and registered her marriage in Hefei; in November of the same year, with Delete & Pick Up, she participated in her album as a producer for the first time. In 2021, she went to Changsha to record the second season of Sisters Who Make Waves, finishing third in the X-SISTER group with 1.9 million votes. On September 9, 2025, on the same month and day as the 20th anniversary of the original Ambiguous, she self-produced and released Ambiguous 2025 Version. This is a 25-year story, the core of which is that every stage, every album, and every cross-border performance is a field where she negotiates with "who defines me."
On September 9, 2025, Rainie Yang was 41 years old and posted a new cover for Ambiguous on social media.
The name in the producer column was her own. 1
That day marked exactly 20 years since the release of her 2005 album Ambiguous. Twenty years ago, the song Ambiguous transformed a 21-year-old girl, who had just disbanded from the virtual girl group 4 in Love and gone solo, into the star of that generation's Mandopop best known for portraying "female high school students." The lyrics, composition, arrangement, and production of that song were not hers. She was the interpreter.
Twenty years later, this Ambiguous 2025 was re-recorded, re-arranged, and self-produced from start to finish.
This is not a commemorative album; it is rewriting the self that was defined by others 20 years ago.
📝 Curator's Note
It is rare for a female artist in the Mandopop circle to debut at 16 and still release new works at 41. Even rarer is the fact that when she debuted, she sang songs written for idol dramas; 25 years later, she re-recorded the same song. The core of this article is not "how famous Rainie Yang is," but rather the story of how she spent 25 years, inch by inch, in recording studios, on the Red Arena stage, on suspension cables, in PTS Drama Theater, on Changsha Mango TV, and in Beijing Tencent studios, to take herself back from being an avatar.
9 Million, and Mother's Three Jobs
The starting point of the story is not November 4, 2000, when 4 in Love debuted. It is after she was born in Taipei on June 4, 1984, and the 9 million NTD debt left by her father's business failure. 2
Her parents divorced early, leaving behind a life chased by debt. Her mother worked three jobs in succession: setting up a scallion pancake stall in a traditional market, working as a clerk in a laundry, and finally running a street stall selling dumplings and hot and sour soup. 2
Rainie Yang lightly mentioned in an interview many years later:
✦ "My mother never let me know her hardships." 2
This sentence is the key to understanding her motivation for debuting. She joined BMG at 16 in 2000 not with the dream of an artist's story, but as a job to pay off her father's debt. She later said that in those years, the highest single expense she spent was less than 5,000 NTD. 2 For five or six whole years, she lived with her mother and handed almost all her earnings home.
The debt was paid off earlier than expected: The Devil in You and Ambiguous in 2005 turned things around for her, and that 9 million NTD debt was roughly paid off around 2005-2006. 3
The Four Girls Named Weather
In November 2000, BMG launched the four-member girl group 4 in Love. The concept of the name was weather: Rainie (Rain), Sunnie (Sun), Windie (Wind), Cloudie (Cloud). 4 Rainie was Rainie Yang; the other three were Huang Hsiao-jou, Chang Chih-hui, and Leng Chia-lin.
The marketing concept for the band's debut was a 3D virtual avatar: BMG packaged four real people with a virtual girl group visual, which was a conceptual innovation in the Mandopop scene at the time. The first album Fall In Love was released in November 2000, and the second Who's Afraid of Who in July 2001. 4
Then in 2002, 4 in Love disbanded. 4
(This incident is often mistakenly associated with the 1999 921 earthquake, but research shows this is a causal-free urban legend. The disbandment was purely due to commercial considerations and inconsistent development paths for the members.)
When the band ended, Rainie Yang was 18. For three years, she played as a color block within a group under the weather name "Rainie." In 2003, she played a supporting role in TTV's The Rose of Versailles, acting alongside S.H.E and Cheng Yuan-chang, marking her first attempt to transition from a group member to an individual actor. 5
But what truly made her become Rainie Yang the name was the drama and the song from two years later.
Qi Yue, and the Vocabulary of an Entire Generation of Teenagers
In 2005, The Devil in You premiered. She played the high school student Qi Yue, with the male lead He Jun-xiang (called A Meng in the drama).
The ending theme was Ambiguous. On September 9 of the same year, the Ambiguous album was released. 6
The records of this song later were astonishing: Asian sales broke 1 million copies, IFPI certified Platinum, KTV点播 remained number one for a long time, and it was a phenomenon-level popular mobile ringtone. 6 But these numbers are not the most important thing about this song.
What was most important about Ambiguous was that it became the vocabulary for that generation of teenagers for the state of "not boyfriend and girlfriend but also not just friends." In 2005, in an era without dating apps, still using MySpace and MSN, this song gave an entire generation of Taiwanese teenagers a word to describe their unclear feelings.
Rainie Yang was 21 years old; when she sang this song, she was the interpreter. The lyrics were written by Chen Xin-yan, the composition by Xiao Leng, and the producer was Chen Zi-hong. The direction of the entire album was not led by her; it was an album tailored by the company for the female lead of an idol drama. 6
This was the first identity tension in her career: She became famous, but what was famous was "Qi Yue the high school student," not "Rainie Yang the person."
Chen Bao-zhu of the 45th Golden Bell Awards
In 2007, in Love Swap, she played Tong Chia-ti, a girl whose love god body swapped with a human. In 2009, she played a more complex character: Chen Bao-zhu in My Romantic Providence, paired with Luo Zhi-xiang. 5
In 2010, she won the Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 45th Golden Bell Awards for this role. 7
This is her only major Golden Bell Award from debut to the present.
She has been nominated for the Golden Melody Awards multiple times (the closest was in 2021, when the 32nd edition's Delete & Pick Up was called a "pearl missed by the media"), but she has never truly won. 7 This fact is important for understanding her career: She has never been fully accepted by the highest academic award in the Mandopop scene; her legitimacy comes from market sales, idol drama ratings, and the Chinese-speaking teenagers' emotional connection to the "Ambiguous Generation."
In 2011, Drunk After Love paired with Chang Hsiao-chuan, she played Lin Hsiao-ju, premiering on TTV on April 17. It was her second time standing at the center of a high-rating idol drama. The era of this drama overlapped with her second representative album Rain Love (released January 4, 2010). Together, these two events made 2009-2012 the most stable period for her positioning as an "idol drama female lead + lyrical female singer." 5
But here arises another tension: She became increasingly good at playing "youthful, sentimental girls," and increasingly difficult to break free from that image.
✦ Every album was produced for the Rainie Yang who "would sing this kind of song"—until she was no longer that.
From _Rain Love_ to _Tree Rings_ Ten Albums
In the two years between winning the 45th Golden Bell and establishing the "Ambiguous Generation," Rainie Yang was constantly releasing albums. Love Encounter in 2006 followed the market momentum of Ambiguous; Half-Sweet Declaration in 2008 attempted to transition from a youthful girl to a mature woman, but the true watershed was the 2010 Rainie & Love...? Rain Love. 8
The title track Rain Love of this album was the ending theme of My Romantic Providence, the same drama that made her win the Best Actress at the 45th Golden Bell Awards. She once again relied on a popular idol drama to turn a song into a KTV must-play. But more special was the colorful celebratory edition CD2, a Japanese single limited disc of this album. 8 It included the Japanese version of Ambiguous and Love's Magic; she sang her songs into a Japanese context for the first time. This was not a Japanese release issued in Japan; it was an experiment where she tried to bring Taiwanese sounds into a Japanese context.
Look Up in 2011 marked the official start of her "lyrical period." Before this, she still danced; after this, she slowly became a female singer known for lyrical songs. The Person Who Wants to Be Happy in 2012 was the product of a micro-film trilogy. Angel's Wings in 2013 was a work from the For Love Start Rainie World Tour; during those years, she was always on stage, and the album became an extension record of her stage performances.
Double Rainie Opera at the end of 2014 was a major aesthetic move: dual-version design, dual title tracks Desperate and Calm Self-Isolation, as if saying "I am two selves." 8 This album moved from Sony to EMI; her company's territory began to loosen.
On September 30, 2016, Tree Rings was released. This was her 17th-anniversary commemorative work since debut, and a clear postural adjustment in her path from idol singer to creative artist. 8 Up to this point, she had accumulated ten official Mandarin albums from her debut to Tree Rings. But these ten albums had a common structural feature: She was the lead singer, not the producer. The direction, arrangement, and narrative subject of each album were decided by the company and producers; she was responsible for interpretation.
This structure would not be truly dismantled until three years later, when Delete & Pick Up appeared.
30,000 People at Red Arena, and Suspended Upside Down Three Meters
In December 2012, the first stop of Rainie Yang's second world tour, the For Love Start Rainie Concert, was selected as the Hong Kong Red Arena Sports Center, opening for three consecutive shows. 9
Red Arena is a symbolic venue for Mandopop singers; being able to open three consecutive shows and sell out represents that you are a top-tier diva in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The box office momentum of those years could support this scale. From a Taipei girl who turned things around with Ambiguous in 2005 to a singer who could fill Red Arena, it took seven years.
But the deepest mark left by this concert was not the box office record. It was her being suspended upside down on a steel cable three meters high, singing Take Me Away. 10
This performance was the most astonishing segment in For Love Start Rainie. It also appeared in the Taipei Small Giant Arena show on March 23, 2013. The stunts for the entire concert included descending from a height of 36 meters, sitting on a "Tornado Swing" to spin 20 times, and immersing in a 1-meter-deep water tank, but the suspension segment was the most dangerous. She sang the entire song Take Me Away upside down at a height of 3 meters, performing it once every show.
The aftereffects of this performance plagued her for nine years before she spoke out. In 2022, she let it slip in an interview:
✦ "After every show, my entire face (especially my forehead) would be in a state of burst capillaries, covered in red dots." 10
She later practiced yoga; her teacher asked her to do a handstand, but she dared not, because she was afraid the makeup artist would collapse the next day. It was not until a Shanghai yoga teacher, introduced by her friend Chen Yen-hsi, taught her the method of "breathing into the pose," that she finally stopped the capillary bursting.
The weight of this narrative is not in the word "brave." It is in the timing of when she told this story: 2022, exactly ten years after the Red Arena premiere in 2012. For ten years, she did not speak. After every concert, her face was covered in red dots, so she repaired herself, continued working, and did not let others know.
This is, on some level, the same thing as her mother's sentence "My mother never let me know her hardships." She had the instinct trained into her since childhood: Do not speak of hardship, just hold on and get through it.
The Other Path Not Chosen
On October 7, 2016, the PTS Drama Theater Tumi premiered in the Friday Drama slot on TTV. 11
This drama was scripted by Golden Bell-winning screenwriter Hsu Yu-ting, directed by Wang Hsiao-di and Huang Tian-ren. The title is derived from Dream of the Red Chamber "When Tumi flowers fade, the story ends," and also homophonous with "Two Me," two selves.
The core design of the story is parallel timeline A/B dual-line narrative: The female lead Zheng Ruwei faces a life fork; Option A is chasing dreams to work in Shanghai and maintaining a long-distance relationship with boyfriend Tang You-yen; Option B is giving up the promotion to stay in Taiwan and marry the boyfriend. Rainie Yang had to play two life trajectories alone, living two choices simultaneously in the same drama. The male lead Yen Yu-lin played the boyfriend, and Lu Ssi-ming played the male supporting role. 11
When Hsu Yu-ting finished the script and watched Rainie Yang's performance, she said:
✦ "I was really stunned! That was completely not Rainie Yang; that was Zheng Ruwei." 11
Rainie Yang's description of this drama was more direct:
✦ "Tumi is just a big demon king, forcing me all the way." 11
Tumi was nominated for three nominations at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards: Best Actress in a Drama Series (Rainie Yang), Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Lu Ssi-ming, first nomination in 16 years), and Screenplay Award (Hsu Yu-ting). 12
The result was: Rainie Yang's Waterloo — she did not win. This was her closest attempt to a second Golden Bell Award in six years since winning the Best Actress at the 45th Golden Bell Awards for My Romantic Providence, but it did not happen.
The significance of Tumi for Rainie Yang is not in the awards. The A/B dual-line narrative of this drama, on some level, produced a strange echo with her own life trajectory. In 2016, she was at the 17th anniversary moment of Tree Rings, in the second year of dating Li Ronghao, thinking about how to walk the next ten years, and Zheng Ruwei's "multiple-choice question" story perfectly acted out the question of "where did the path not chosen in life go?"
She acted out the other path not chosen, but the Golden Bell did not certify this fact. From then on, she no longer relied on the Golden Bell to define her legitimacy.
Changsha, Mango, and "I Will Still Keep Dancing"
On January 22, 2021, the second season of Hunan TV's Sisters Who Make Waves premiered on Mango TV. 13
Rainie Yang was not a debut sister; she was a challenge guest. After becoming famous in the challenge battle, she rode the waves all the way, and finally in the live grand finale on April 9, 2021, she took third place, with 1.9 million votes. The first place was Na Ying with 5.42 million votes, and the second place was Zhou Bichang with 5.12 million votes. The seven-member girl group they formed was called X-SISTER; other members were Joey Yung, Angelababy, Yang Yu-ying, and Jike Junyi. 13
For a 37-year-old Taiwanese female singer who was already a "Mandopop Diva" in the Ambiguous generation, taking third place in a Chinese talent show is a bright achievement. But what should make us stop and look at is not the ranking, but why she went. From that position, she chose to enter a field where she had to prove herself again on camera: dancing, singing live, and collaborating with other sisters. This is not what a singer already standing at a high position should do, but she did it.
On August 28, 2022, Boiling Campus premiered on the Tencent Video platform. She served as a "Boiling Counselor" (mentor), jointly guiding 20 national university dance clubs with Cai Xukun, Tan Jian-ci, and Meng Jia. 14
In 2023, she went to record The Great Dance Club. The dance theme for that episode was "Reconciliation"; after dancing, she said to the camera:
✦ "I don't not know how to dance, and I'm turning four next year; this old lady will still keep dancing." 15
Since 2011's Look Up, she had long been limited by waist injuries in dancing, and it was rare to see her dance on public stages. Boiling Campus in 2022 and The Great Dance Club in 2023 were her long-awaited dance returns. Not returning lightly, but after calculating waist injuries, age, and physical limits, she still chose to take back the dance field.
In 2024, she went to Hunan TV's Singer 2024 as a debut singer, singing The Song Not Written for Anyone, but later did not enter the finals due to schedule conflicts. 16
These five years (2021-2024), she almost shifted half the focus of her career to Chinese variety shows: Sisters Who Make Waves, Boiling Campus, The Great Dance Club, Singer 2024. This shift has sparked much discussion in Taiwanese media and fan circles; some feel she abandoned the Taiwanese market, while others feel she is just following the center of gravity of the Mandopop industry.
But if you compare these five years with the 2019 album Delete & Pick Up, which was the "first time participating fully as a producer," you see another layer of narrative: She is using every platform to test what else she can do. Red Arena tested suspension; Tumi tested dual lines; Sisters Who Make Waves tested variety shows; The Great Dance Club tested reconciliation. Every field was a re-negotiation of the question "What kind of Rainie Yang is Rainie Yang?"
The Man Who Worked for Others for Thirteen Years
At the end of 2014, she met Li Ronghao. 17
Li Ronghao is a year and a bit younger than her, from Hefei, Anhui. His identity in the Mandopop scene is different from hers. He is a creative singer + producer; he started writing songs for others, arranging, and producing from 2001, and only released his first album Model (2013) after 13 years. For 13 years, he was always working for others. 17
The two first collaborated in 2014 (Li invited her to guest star at the album launch); they started dating in 2015; their relationship was made public in 2017. 17
The focus of this article on this relationship lies in a specific fact: For the first time, she had a man by her side whose professional core was "making his own music." What Li Ronghao did was exactly what Rainie Yang had never had the opportunity to do: control the arrangement, production, and complete perspective of her own works.
On July 11, 2019, Li Ronghao's 34th birthday, he proposed in an Okinawa hotel. 17 On September 17 of the same year, the two registered their marriage in Hefei; on September 11, Rainie publicly announced the wedding on Weibo.
The same year, 2019. She did something she had never done since her debut.
She Wrote Her Own Name in the Producer Column for the First Time
On November 27, 2019, Rainie Yang released her 11th album, Delete & Pick Up. 18
This was her first time participating fully in her album as a producer. 18 Lyrics, composition, production direction, and planning concepts were all led by herself. From the debut of 4 in Love in November 2000 to the release of Delete & Pick Up in November 2019, 19 whole years had passed.
Delete & Pick Up is the album's title track. The theme used was not the idol drama-style "love and pain," but a middle-aged woman reorganizing relationships and choices in her life. This was an album written by a 35-year-old Rainie Yang for herself.
Delete & Pick Up did not win a Golden Melody Award; in 2021, the 32nd edition was called a "pearl missed by the media" by the press, and the Best Mandarin Female Singer award went to someone else. 7 But the significance of this album for Rainie Yang herself is not in the awards. It was her first record as "herself" rather than a "product packaged for the company."
Four years later, on June 17-18, 2023, her "LIKE A STAR" concert took place at Taipei Small Giant Arena; this was her fifth assault on the arena. 19 She was 39 years old. From the BMG virtual avatar of 4 in Love to a singer who could fill Taipei Small Giant Arena for two nights alone, it took 23 years.
The Same Song Twenty Years Later
On September 9, 2025, Rainie Yang was 41 years old and released Ambiguous 2025 Version. 1
This date is not a coincidence. September 9, 2005, the original Ambiguous was released; exactly 20 years later, same month and day.
The album name is straightforward: Ambiguous: Rewoven. Re-woven.
The music production of Ambiguous 2025 was completely led by Rainie Yang. She did not find someone else to "remix" this song. She transformed from a 21-year-old Rainie who could not decide her own works into a 41-year-old Rainie who could decide everything herself, and then re-interpreted that self from 20 years ago with this new identity.
The existence of this song itself is a 25-year story arc.
✦ Those 20 years did not disappear — they are the extra layer of thickness in the new arrangement.
Twenty years ago, she sang Ambiguous to narrate a state she was also experiencing; twenty years later, she re-recorded this song to converse with that 21-year-old self. The distance in between is from albums made for her by others to albums she made for herself; from idol drama high school student to Golden Bell Best Actress to producer; from burst capillaries after Red Arena suspension to "I will still keep dancing" in The Great Dance Club; from being chased by a 9 million NTD debt to being able to choose what music she wants to make.
In the first half of 2026, she is expected to release a new album. 19 That will be the second self-produced major album after Delete & Pick Up.
That 16-year-old weather avatar named Rainie in the BMG recording studio 25 years ago has grown into a woman who produces her own music, sings while suspended in Red Arena, acts out the other path not chosen in Tumi, takes third place in Changsha Mango TV, and serves as a dance mentor in Tencent.
Every field was a field where she negotiated with "who defines me."
See Also
- Zhang Xuan and An Pu — Another Taiwanese female singer who moved from a girl singer to a complete author identity, contrasting two paths of "from being defined to self-definition"
- Wei Wu-xuan — Two Golden Melody Best Mandarin Female Singer winners from the same generation, forming a structural contrast of "market vs. academy" with Rainie Yang
- Taiwan Pop Music — The historical context of the Mandopop industry structure and the dual-track positioning of idol dramas/singers
- Taiwan KTV Culture — The social context of Ambiguous becoming the KTV点播 king in 2005, and the role of KTV as a node in the dissemination of Mandopop
- Tanya Chua — Wrote Loneliness is a Sense of Security (2013) for Rainie Yang; four-time Golden Melody Best Singer and producer dual identity
References
- Ambiguous 2025 Version Album Info — Rainie Yang's self-produced version of Ambiguous MV released on September 9, 2025, with the Ambiguous: Rewoven album released simultaneously. The release date aligns with the 20th anniversary of the original Ambiguous on September 9, 2005.↩
- Mirror Media 2020 Rainie Yang Interview — A detailed public interview record organizing Rainie Yang's childhood family background, her father's 9 million NTD debt, and the sequence of her mother's three jobs (market scallion pancake → laundry → street dumpling and hot and sour soup stall), including Rainie Yang's own words "My mother never let me know her hardships."↩
- CTWANT Rainie Yang Family Interview — Rainie Yang has publicly mentioned in multiple interviews that the debt repayment timeline was approximately 2005-2006, after the commercial success of Ambiguous and The Devil in You.↩
- Wikipedia 4 in Love Entry — A four-member girl group launched by BMG in 2000, using a weather concept for naming (Rainie/Sunnie/Windie/Cloudie) and a 3D virtual avatar marketing concept. First album Fall In Love in November 2000, second Who's Afraid of Who in July 2001, disbanded in 2002.↩
- Wikipedia Rainie Yang Filmography — Lists complete representative works including The Rose of Versailles (2003 TTV), The Devil in You (2005), Love Swap (2007), My Romantic Providence (2009), Drunk After Love (2011 paired with Chang Hsiao-chuan), etc., along with characters and co-stars.↩
- Ambiguous Album 2005 Release Record — Rainie Yang's album released on September 9, 2005, including the ending theme Ambiguous from the idol drama The Devil in You. Asian sales broke 1 million copies, IFPI Platinum certification. Lyrics: Chen Xin-yan; Composition: Xiao Leng; Producer: Chen Zi-hong.↩
- 45th Golden Bell Awards Winner List + Historical Golden Melody Nominations — Rainie Yang won the Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 45th Golden Bell Awards in 2010 for her role as Chen Bao-zhu in My Romantic Providence, which is her only major Golden Bell Award to date. In 2021, the 32nd Golden Melody Awards' Delete & Pick Up was called a "pearl missed by the media."↩
- Rainie & Love...? Rain Love Colorful Celebratory Edition + Historical Album List — Taiwan Sony Music official album page. Rainie & Love...? Rain Love released on January 4, 2010; the colorful celebratory edition CD2 was a Japanese single limited disc, including the Japanese version of Ambiguous and Love's Magic. Look Up in 2011, The Person Who Wants to Be Happy in 2012, Double Rainie Opera on December 12, 2014, Tree Rings on September 30, 2016, which was the 17th-anniversary commemorative work.↩
- Rainie Yang For Love Start Rainie World Tour 2012 Red Arena Premiere — Second world tour concert; the first stop was Hong Kong Red Arena Sports Center, opening for three consecutive shows, setting a box office record for Mandopop female singers at Red Arena. On May 4, 2025, during the LIKE A STAR World Tour, she returned to Hong Kong after seven years, holding the event at AsiaWorld-Arena.↩
- ETtoday 2022 Rainie Yang Suspension Singing "Capillary Burst" 9-Year Aftereffects — Rainie Yang suspended 3 meters high to sing Take Me Away during the 2012-2013 For Love Start Rainie World Tour; nine years later in 2022, she let it slip in an interview: "After every show, my entire face (especially my forehead) would be in a state of burst capillaries, covered in red dots." It was not until a Shanghai yoga teacher, introduced by her friend Chen Yen-hsi, taught her the method of "breathing into the pose" that it was resolved. Free Entertainment and NOWnews reported simultaneously.↩
- ETtoday Starlight Cloud: Tumi Rainie Yang Acting Astonishes; Hsu Yu-ting's Remarks + OKAPI Rainie Yang Tumi Interview — 2016 Drama Theater Tumi screenwriter Hsu Yu-ting's comment on Rainie Yang's performance: "I was really stunned! That was completely not Rainie Yang; that was Zheng Ruwei." In OKAPI's "Person of the Month" interview, Rainie Yang described: "Tumi is just a big demon king, forcing me all the way." Directors Wang Hsiao-di / Huang Tian-ren, co-stars Yen Yu-lin, Lu Ssi-ming. Title derived from Dream of the Red Chamber "When Tumi flowers fade, the story ends" + homophone Two Me.↩
- 52nd Golden Bell Awards Tumi Three Nominations List — CNA 2017 52nd Golden Bell Awards nominations: Tumi received three nominations: Best Actress in a Drama Series (Rainie Yang), Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Lu Ssi-ming, first in 16 years), Screenplay Award (Hsu Yu-ting). Ultimately, Rainie Yang's Best Actress award was a Waterloo, and she did not win. The drama was recognized by the Seoul International Television Festival and Asian Television Awards.↩
- ETtoday 2021 "Rainie Yang Bravely Takes Third" Sisters 2 X-SISTER Formation — 2021 Sisters Who Make Waves Season 2 Grand Finale results: After successfully challenging, Rainie Yang advanced all the way, finally forming the group in third place with 1.9 million votes. First place Na Ying 5.42 million votes, second place Zhou Bichang 5.12 million votes. X-SISTER seven-member group: Na Ying, Zhou Bichang, Rainie Yang, Joey Yung, Angelababy, Yang Yu-ying, Jike Junyi. Premiered on Mango TV on January 22, 2021; live grand finale on April 9, 2021.↩
- Boiling Campus 2022 Tencent Variety Mentor Lineup — Premiered on Tencent Video platform on August 28, 2022; Rainie Yang served as a "Boiling Counselor" (mentor), jointly guiding 20 national university dance club competitions with Cai Xukun (Boiling Producer), Tan Jian-ci, and Meng Jia.↩
- NOWnews 2023 Rainie Yang The Great Dance Club "Old Lady Will Still Keep Dancing" — In 2023, Rainie Yang recorded The Great Dance Club with the theme "Reconciliation"; when forwarding the dance video, she said: "I don't not know how to dance, and I'm turning four next year; this old lady will still keep dancing." Previously, due to waist injuries, she had long been limited in dancing since Look Up in 2011; in 2022-2023, she had an intensive dance return in Chinese variety shows.↩
- Singer 2024 Debut Singer List + Withdrawal Statement — In 2024, Hunan TV's Singer 2024, Rainie Yang was a debut singer, singing The Song Not Written for Anyone, which won the Weibo "Most Anticipated Track" vote. On July 18, she issued a statement that she did not enter the finals due to schedule conflicts; the breakthrough round performance was counted as a performance stage and did not count towards final qualification.↩
- Li Ronghao and Rainie Yang Relationship Timeline — Li Ronghao (born July 11, 1985, in Hefei) started working as a producer and arranger for others from 2001, released his first album Model in 2013. First collaborated with Rainie Yang at the end of 2014, started dating in 2015, relationship made public in 2017, proposed in Okinawa hotel on July 11, 2019 (Li's birthday), registered marriage in Hefei on September 17, wedding in Thailand's Aube Wedding on February 18, 2024.↩
- Delete & Pick Up 2019 Album Production Intro — The 11th album released on November 27, 2019, is Rainie Yang's first personal album to fully participate as a producer and planner. The theme shifted to the emotional reorganization of middle-aged women.↩
- Rainie Yang LIKE A STAR World Tour — Multi-city tour from 2020-2025; Taipei Small Giant Arena on June 17-18, 2023, was the fifth assault on the arena. After the release of Ambiguous 2025 Version on September 9, 2025, a new album is previewed for the first half of 2026.↩