 Hu won the Popularity award at the 1st China Student Television Festival, and Best Actor in the fantasy genre at the 2010 Huading Awards.To avoid being typecast, Hu subsequently stopped accepting any role in period dramas after he finished filming "The Myth".He took on leading roles in modern dramas; "Bitter Coffee (2011)", "Modern People" (2012) and "Unbeatable" (2012), as well as war drama "Shangri-La" (2012).