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Ying Zhao is a web-fiction author about whom little is publicly known; details such as nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background have not been disclosed. Four of the author's works are held in the collection: The Hapless Tale of the Meridian Gate (Wumen Jiongshi), The Winding Jianghu Road, There Is a South Wall in the Heart, and A Collection of Ying Zhao's Finest Works. The Hapless Tale of the Meridian Gate, in three volumes, was adapted into a television drama titled Second First Meeting, starring Song Yiren and Guo Junchen, and remains Ying Zhao's best-known representative work. Judging by common categories, Ying Zhao's writing mainly involves time-travel alternate history, otherworldly continents, and modern romance, placing the author within classic web-fiction romance and time-travel genres. The works often use ancient courts or the jianghu as settings, developing character relationships and emotional threads through time-travel premises, with a generally light and humorous style that has found an audience among readers of similar fiction. Owing to limited public information, further details about the author's writing career and personal background cannot be confirmed, and readers may chiefly come to know the writing through the works listed above.