On Thursday July 21, 2022, ifeng announced that the 2018 batch of 2018 Beijing Film Academy students' graduation photos had been released. In the circulating photo, netizens questioned Wu Lei 's absence. This has led to various speculations on social media. Several media immediately contacted Wu Lei's staff to provide an explanation.

Through the staff statement, Wu Lei apparently had to do a lot of exercises and work that kept him out of class during the lecture. The college has also given him permission. It was because of this that Wu Lei failed to graduate from the Beijing Film Academy this year. The staff said that Wu Lei will resume his studies as soon as possible after completing his activities as an actor.

Wu Lei was accepted into the Beijing Film Academy in 2018 after scoring a score of 456 in the college entrance examination. He took first place and scored the highest score among more than 30,000 prospective students across China that year. Then on September 14, 2021, Wu Lei was appointed as a student representative to give a speech at the opening ceremony for the 2019 Beijing Film Academy's new student admissions. 

In his speech, Wu Lei said that being an actor is not only to be a star, but also to be a performing artist for the people . Wu Lei started his career in the Chinese entertainment industry as a child actor. He is known for starring in the Chinese drama Home With Aliens (2009) and The Naughty Boy Ma Xiao Tiao (2010). 

Some of the popular Chinese dramas that Wu Lei starred in are The Whirlwind Girl, Fights Break Sphere, Cross Fire, The Long Ballad , and Love Like the Galaxy. Wu Lei's name was listed in the "30 Under 30 Asia" by Forbes China in 2017. This list contains 30 people under the age of 30 who are influential in their fields. He was also included in the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2018, 2019, and 2020. 

In his home country, Wu Lei was known by the nickname "Nation's Little Brother". Later, along with other Chinese actors such as Liu Haoran, Wang Junkai, and Wang Yibo, Wu Lei was known as one of the "Four Little Heavenly Kings". That was the latest news regarding Wu Lei failing to graduate from the Beijing Film Academy this year. 

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