Ayden Sng is a Singaporean actor, television host, and classically trained musician who spent seven years as one of broadcaster Mediacorp’s most recognizable young stars before making a sharp turn into China’s entertainment industry. He is best known in Singapore for dramas like Loving You and All That Glitters, and more recently for the Chinese boys’ love series Double Helix, which turned him into one of the most searched actors in the genre this year.
For readers meeting him for the first time through Netflix’s Perfect Match or the buzz around Double Helix, here is the fuller picture. His education, his music background, his awards, and the calculated risk that took him from Mediacorp’s list of biggest names to a fresh start in Beijing all explain how he got here.
Quick Facts About Ayden Sng
- Full name: Sng Zheng, known professionally as Ayden Sng
- Chinese name: 孙政 (Sūn Zhèng)
- Born: November 17, 1993, in Singapore
- Occupation: actor, television host, musician
- Education: Raffles Institution, Duke University
- Known for: Loving You, The Unbreakable Bond, All That Glitters, Perfect Match, Double Helix
- Years active: 2019 to present
A Raffles Kid Who Almost Didn’t Become an Actor
Sng attended Raffles Institution and graduated from Duke University, where he majored in International Comparative Studies and was a member of the Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity. Before he ever stepped in front of a camera, he served as a Commando during Singapore’s mandatory National Service, a physically demanding posting reserved for a small share of recruits.
He was also identified as gifted early on. Sng took the Mensa test in primary school and was admitted to the organization, whose members are tested to have an IQ above 130. None of that pointed toward show business.
After graduating, he took a corporate job as a product manager at a consulting firm, where his pay was reportedly more than 6,000 dollars a month, according to Wikipedia’s sourced account of his career. It was a comfortable, conventional path, and he left it anyway.
Trading a Steady Paycheck for Mediacorp
Sng gave up that salary in 2019 to become a full-time Mediacorp artiste, a decision that put him in front of millions of viewers across Singaporean television. He renewed his contract with the broadcaster in June 2021, a sign the bet had paid off.
His early roles built a following quickly. He became known for romantic, emotionally layered characters in dramas built around family and relationships, the kind of roles that anchor Mediacorp’s Mandarin-language lineup. His screen debut actually came earlier, through The Play Book, a short film that gave him his first lead role and caught the industry’s attention before he had even joined Mediacorp full time.
Breakout Roles and a String of Star Awards
Once inside Mediacorp, Sng moved through a run of dramas that each pushed his profile further. He became known locally for Loving You in 2020, The Unbreakable Bond in 2022, and All That Glitters in 2023, the last of which won him The Show Stealer honor at the 2024 Star Awards. He also took his first big-screen lead in the film Seven Days and starred in Silent Walls, rounding out a résumé that mixed television, film, and hosting work.
The recognition kept building year after year. In 2025, Sng won his third consecutive Star Award for Most Popular Rising Star, a category decided by a mix of public voting and industry judging. The following year, he added the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award at the 2026 Star Awards, a title handed to the ten most-voted personalities on the network each year.
Crossing Into China’s Drama Industry
Sng’s ambitions eventually outgrew Singapore’s television market. In 2023, Mediacorp partnered with Chinese talent agency Huanyu Entertainment to represent a small group of its actors on the mainland, and Sng was one of them. China’s drama industry produces far more content and reaches a far larger audience than Singapore’s, though it also comes with tighter content rules and a much more crowded field of young actors chasing the same parts.
That partnership opened the door to his first Chinese production, the Netflix period drama Perfect Match, where he played Yan Zimei, a wealthy character defined by negative traits and hidden intentions, in a story set during the Northern Song Dynasty. In April 2024, he was cast in the Chinese fantasy drama Feud, alongside lead actors Bai Lu and Joseph Zeng.
He also took a supporting role in Hungry Souls: From Hell, With Love, a miniseries produced through a collaboration between CJ ENM Hong Kong and Zhao Wei Films, and appeared on a Chinese reality show where he ran a café with fellow cast members. Each project pulled him further from the comfort of Singaporean television and deeper into a market with more competition and more reach.
His Bilingual Edge and Global Streaming Reach
Fluency in both English and Mandarin has been one of Sng’s biggest professional advantages. It let him move between Mandarin-language Singaporean productions and English-language hosting work without needing dedicated coaching, and it made him an easier fit for Chinese productions once he started working across the border.
That same fluency has helped him reach viewers well outside Singapore and China. Perfect Match streams on Netflix, putting his supporting role in front of a global audience that found the show through the platform’s international catalog rather than regional broadcast. Double Helix aired on Viki, a streaming service with a large following among English-speaking fans of Asian dramas, alongside GagaOOLala and YouTube. For viewers who have never watched Singaporean television, these two titles, not his earlier Mediacorp work, are usually where they meet him first.
Leaving Mediacorp for a Fresh Start in Beijing
The biggest shift came in May 2026. Mediacorp’s The Celebrity Agency announced on Instagram that Sng’s contract had concluded, thanking him for the memorable roles that won him fans locally and across the region. According to regional outlet Mothership, Sng chose not to renew the agreement, and later that month he signed with Chinese agency Mejoy Entertainment.
He is now based in Beijing, a move that lines up with the projects he had already been chasing in China. The timing was not a coincidence. His departure came the same month his BL drama Double Helix premiered, and Vogue Singapore described him as perhaps the most recognizable Singaporean actor to enter the boys’ love genre, a format that has become a major star-making space across several Asian markets.
Double Helix, based on the novel A Round Trip to Love, cast Sng as Lu Feng, a rebellious heir who falls for a model student played by Elio Lyu Sitong. The series ran from May 8 to June 13, 2026. Vogue Singapore reported that footage of Sng and Lyu Sitong being swarmed by fans at an airport spread online before any official promotion for the show had even started.
The Musician Behind the Actor
Long before acting, Sng trained as a classical musician. He plays violin, piano, and the erhu, a two-stringed Chinese instrument, and was once a member of the Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra. In 2019, he performed a piece called “Unexpected Sounds: Reimagining the Erhu” at the Singapore Biennale, reworking the traditional instrument into genres it is rarely used for.
That musical background did not disappear once his acting career took off. He hosts Music Chatterbox, an online program produced by the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, and has kept weaving his instrumental skills into interviews and public appearances rather than leaving them behind as a childhood hobby.
Ayden Sng’s Net Worth (Public Estimate)
Sng has not disclosed his finances publicly, and no verified figure exists for his net worth. Celebrity biography site TheCityCeleb estimates his net worth at around 2 million dollars, attributing most of it to his acting income from Mediacorp dramas and his growing body of work in China.
That number should be read as an estimate from a single outlet rather than a confirmed figure, since his earnings from brand deals, hosting work, and his newer Chinese contracts are not broken down publicly anywhere.
Personal Life
Sng keeps his personal life largely private and has not publicly confirmed a relationship. He is the second oldest of five brothers and has spoken about growing up in a large, close-knit family in Singapore. Fan speculation about his real-life connection with Double Helix co-star Elio Lyu Sitong has circulated widely online, but neither actor has confirmed anything beyond their working relationship on the show.
What Comes Next for Ayden Sng
Sng’s move from Mediacorp to Mejoy Entertainment puts him in a much larger, far more competitive industry than the one that made him famous. Singaporean actors who successfully build careers in mainland China’s drama industry are still rare, and fewer still have done it through the BL genre, which carries its own audience expectations and restrictions inside China’s media environment.
His career so far reads like a deliberate pattern rather than luck. Each move, from Huanyu Entertainment’s backing in 2023 to his exit from Mediacorp in 2026, came right as a bigger opportunity was already in hand, rather than as a blind leap. That pattern, more than any single award, is probably what will define how he’s remembered if his run in China keeps growing.