At present, mainland China is in the midst of the national college entrance examination (Gaokao). Actress Narna Xi was exposed for using a designated admission quota to transfer from Beijing to Inner Mongolia for the Gaokao, subsequently entering the Shanghai Theatre Academy with lower scores. She then breached her contract by going abroad, raising questions of privilege due to her father’s background at CCTV. Following the incident spreading online, Chinese state media promptly deleted a video of Narna Xi sending blessings to Gaokao candidates.
Narna Xi rose to fame with her role as Deng Chanyu in the “Fengshen Trilogy”, becoming known as the “Black Beauty”. Public records show that Narna Xi was born in Inner Mongolia in 1989 and attended Beijing No. 11 High School.
According to a well-known entertainment creator named “Master Ye”, who published an article on Sohu.com on the 8th, insiders revealed that Narna Xi’s father works at CCTV, and their family is very well-off. She has been learning horseback riding, martial arts, and Chinese drumming since a young age. Before the Gaokao, Narna Xi returned to Inner Mongolia to take the exam by leveraging her family background and connections, occupying a designated admission quota to enter the Shanghai Theatre Academy with low scores.
The designated admission quota was originally established as a “lower admission threshold + guaranteed placement” mechanism to support education in remote areas. However, after graduating, she did not work at the designated theater troupe as required but instead breached the contract to study in Norway, returning to China three years later to become an assistant at the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
Although the online user did not provide concrete evidence, in 2024, for the promotion of “Fengshen 2”, Narna Xi and the writer and playwright Ran Ping, commonly used by CCTV, revealed during an interview that she attended a designated admission class in college and could work at a theater troupe after graduation, but she wanted to go abroad after graduating and thus did not follow the arrangement. At that time, Ran Ping also said, “Her father and I are colleagues at the television station.”
Currently, the authorities have not officially confirmed the veracity of this matter. However, some netizens discovered that previous CCTV news and People’s Daily had posted videos of Narna Xi sending blessings to Gaokao students, and now all related Weibo posts have been deleted. The topic “CCTV News deleted Narna Xi’s name from blessings video” trended on Weibo, escalating the controversy once again.
In the conclusion of the article, “Master Ye” expressed, “I hope relevant departments investigate this matter promptly to clarify whether Narna Xi and her father have violated any rules, and uphold fairness in education, not chilling the hearts of students.”
Currently, aside from the ongoing drama “Lychee in Chang’an”, Narna Xi also has two unreleased films, “Deep Water” and “Courier: Wind Rises in the Desert”. “Master Ye” predicted that if the revelations about Narna Xi are verified, not only could the drama “Lychee in Chang’an” be in jeopardy, but also the investors of the two unreleased films would be in dire straits.