This is all the info I've gathered and want to share with fans who love Ryan Peng (Chinese actor who played Mek). I wish him all the best as an actor or any profession he chooses to become. Ryan (born 1999) is too young to be dragged into this mess.
1. This BL series was announced as early as 2017 but the final cast only been confirmed on late 2019 and the series shooting process was started not long after and only officially aired on March 2020. Throughout the 2 years that spend on casting process, we have seen bits and pieces of promo casting photos with many different people including NineSaint was involved at some point.
2. The production company TRI Creations partnered with a Chinese company to help fund the show, and one of the company's stipulations was the inclusion of a Chinese actor Ryan Peng (Mek). Ryan changed his name from Peng Junjie Raff to Peng Jiabo Ryan in December 2019
3. In all of his scenes the actor speaks Mandarin, and they dubbed him over in Thai.
4. Tri-Creation released a statement about Ryan's termination because he has been behaving inappropriately while filming the series. Since his contract termination, he will be excluded from any promotional events, fan-meets or anything related to the series.
5. Tri-Creation emphasized that there were no problems between them and the China Team. They also mentioned that they gave Ryan several opportunities to change but it wasn't effective.He caused a lot of "delay" (they had someone dub him in the series) Maybe this delay is because he was slower than the rest in memorizing the script. Although he speaks Chinese, he still has to know when to speak.
6. We only know what the company said. We don't know Ryan's side of the story. I might be biased while saying this but I can't bring myself to believe that Ryan was rude to the staff. Although there was a language barrier, he seemed to have fun with all actors.
7. Ryan had a post in weibo where he say that he never show bad behavior and never disrespect anyone. He post it some time in December.
8. The filming was already over. They were in post production and they fired him. If it was for unproffesional attitude they should've done it long way before they ended filming.
9. It reminded me of Saint incident in Love by Chance (2018). it's not the first time that something like that happen on BL world. 9. They did changed main actors quite a few times. So I guess there's a lot more going on behind the scenes
10. This is not good at all for his career. Having a bad working reputation especially being so young is absolutely going to affect his career. If he was a more high profile actor they would have handled it differently. Many new actors are not always given a second chance, as there's more than enough good looking guys wanting to get into the entertainment business.
11. Fun fact to note that MD (playing Dr Thara) was the only one that survived all the cast reshuffle.