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The gaming tycoon Lin Qi, a billionaire millennial, whose company Yoozoo Games owns the rights for film adaptations of the Chinese science fiction epic, 3 Body Problem, was murdered by a colleague named Xu Yao, a 43-year-old former executive in Lin’s company.
He was sentenced last month to death for murder by a court in Shanghai for poisoning Lin Qi to death. While the court made some details about Lin Qi’s killing public, a Chinese news outlet put it, “as bizarre as a Hollywood blockbuster.”
In 2017, Lin hired Xu, a lawyer, to head a Yoozoo subsidiary called The Three-Body Universe that held the rights to Liu’s novels. However, he was soon demoted with a pay cut because of his poor performance, which made him furious says the Chinese business magazine Caixin.
“At least we know that Xu Yao and Lin Qi have read The Three-Body Problem thoroughly. Lose your humanity and you lose a lot; lose your animal nature and you lose everything,” said one comment on China’s Weibo.
Following Lin’s death, Yoozoo issued a statement on its official Weibo microblog which read, “Goodbye youth… We will be together, continue to be kind, continue to believe in goodness, and continue the fight against all that is bad.”
In an editorial published on its website, China Military Online called the Netflix series an example of American “cultural hegemony.”
“It can be clearly seen that after the United States seized this popular intellectual property with its superpower strength, it wanted to transform and remake it,” the editorial said. “The purpose was to eliminate as much as possible the reputation of modern China.”
Since its release on 21 March, 3 Body Problem debuted with 11 million views in its first four days and has remained among Netflix’s most-watched programmes earning positive reviews in China.
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