How Dare You!? cast and characters
成何体统 · Cheng He Ti Tong
Who plays whom in How Dare You!?, and how the 18 characters are connected. Identity reveals stay closed until you open them.
Main cast
How they are connected
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Yu WanyinWang Churan
Beizhou in disguise 北舟Played by Cui Yibodyguard
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- Mute Girl 哑女Played by Liu Sichenpoisons
Xiahou DanCheng Lei- Yu Wanyin 庾晚音Played by Wang Churanallies, then lovers
Xiahou Bo 夏侯泊Played by Tang Xiaotianrivals for the throne
Empress Dowager 太后Played by Ma Sufoster mother
Beizhou 北舟Played by Fan Siu-wongprotector
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- A-Bai 阿白Played by Cheng Hongxinsecret ally
Xie Yong'erHu Yixuan- Xiahou Bo 夏侯泊Played by Tang Xiaotianlovers, then enemies
- Yu Wanyin 庾晚音Played by Wang Churanrivals, then friends
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Who's who
- Yu Wanyin (Wang Churan): really Wang Cuihua, a junior office worker who wished her way into a novel. She spots in her first days at court that the emperor is a fellow transmigrator.
- Xiahou Dan (Cheng Lei): really Zhang San, a middle-school student who landed in the book as a boy. He has played the mad tyrant for years to stay alive and suffers crippling headaches.
- Xiahou Bo, Prince Duan (Tang Xiaotian): the hero of the original story, a prince whose low-born mother made him an outcast. The book says he will end up on the throne.
- Xie Yong'er (Hu Yixuan): the book's heroine, who believes she is the chosen one and backs Prince Duan, until she sees who he really is.
- The Empress Dowager (Ma Su): Xiahou Dan's foster mother and his enemy at court.
- Beizhou (Fan Siu-wong, and Cui Yi in disguise): a martial-arts master devoted to the memory of Xiahou Dan's mother. He moves into the palace disguised as a matron to guard Yu Wanyin.
- A-Bai (Cheng Hongxin): a cheerful young officer with more than one name.
- Er Lan, Li Yunxi, Yang Duojie and Cen Jintian: the able, honest officials the leads bring to court.
Identity Reveals
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- Yu Wanyin is Wang Cuihua, an office worker from the modern world, and Xiahou Dan is Zhang San, a boy who arrived years before her.
- Xie Yong'er is a transmigrator too. She comes from a story one layer further down: the palace novel she thinks she is living in is itself the setting of the book Wang Cuihua read.
- The palace matron who guards Yu Wanyin is Beizhou in disguise, and so was the madam of the pleasure house where the leads first find him.
- A-Bai is Lin Xuanying, Xiahou Dan's agent in the Right Army.
- The body in the emperor's coffin is Beizhou's.
Supporting cast
Zhang Ruihan 张瑞涵as Li Yunxi
He Lei 赫雷as Cen Jintian
Cheng Hongxin 程泓鑫as A-Bai
Hao Han 郝汉as Xiao Tiancai
Sun Bin 孙斌as Mu Yun
Li Mufeng 李沐风as Tu'er
Qiu Xinzhi 邱心志as The Nameless Guest
Liu Sichen 刘思辰as Mute Girl
Hou Changrong 侯长荣as Elder Xu