Born in
Hebei, China, and the only child of a single-parent family, Zhai moved to Singapore with his mother, at the age of seven. Zhai's mother has since relocated to
Maryland, U.S. for her beauty business, when he was 19. She had initially planned for Zhai to join her after he completed his studies in Singapore, but his participation in the
Star Search 2019 competition changed the plans. At 1.87m tall, Zhai is formerly a part-time model and an engineering student at
Temasek Polytechnic. Zhai is also a
TikTok personality who has accumulated more than 115K followers and 1.3 million "likes" to date. == Filmography ==