Rotten Mango - 17 Celebrities Accused Of Hosting Secret Party To Torture & Kill 1 Actor Yu Menglong

Episode Date: October 18, 2025

September 11th, 2025, Yu Menglong, a Chinese actor with 25M followers is found dead in pools of his own blood after an alleged industry dinner party. Police quickly claim that he ‘drunkly fell’ fr...om the fifth floor of the luxury Beijing apartment and close his case. Chinese netizens couldn’t disagree more. A list is released of all the high ranking celebrities that were alleged to have been at the fatal dinner party. A late-billionaire’s wife who inherited all of his money after he suspiciously died in prison. A director known for his bright red hair and predatory behavior towards young male actors. An art director of a museum exhibit showcasing alleged preserved human torture scenes that was visited by Yu Menglong prior to his death. The husband of that same art director, who is also the owner of the luxury Beijing apartment where Yu Menglong ‘fell.’ And those are just four of the 17 guests that netizens suspect were with Yu Menglong during the last moments of his life. That list plus his two beloved dogs that have also mysteriously ceased to exist. And what about the other ten different celebrities under Yu Menglong’s same talent management who have also passed away under very suspicious circumstances? This is part two of the Yu Menglong case.   Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Batabing, Badaboo. September 11th, 2025, a very famous Chinese actor by the name of Yu Meng Long, with over 25 million followers. He had performed in a series of hit dramas, and his career was only getting bigger. He suspiciously falls from the fifth floor of a high-rise building in Beijing, a residential building that he does not live in from the fifth floor. There are so many questions. First of all, can you really die from falling from the fifth floor? floor? And did he fall? Was he pushed? Was it a self-exit? Why are authorities being so vague? Why are authorities investigating for approximately 12 hours before concluding that there was no foul play?
Starting point is 00:00:42 How is there no foul play? When this is not his apartment, nobody knows whose apartment this belongs to. He was allegedly at this very suspicious dinner party with industry professionals, including his manager, other well-known celebrities, industry investors. These are millionaire billionaires who fund these projects, who fund these movies. He's at a secret dinner party. The police don't investigate these people when he falls to his death from this fifth floor window. The window itself has been a huge point of contention. It's not a balcony. It's not like a little balcony that you want to jump over. It's not any of that. It's just a window that you open and it has a mesh screen. That window is pretty tall, falling at 35 inches tall. That's about waist height. So how does
Starting point is 00:01:29 he burst through this mesh net and then fall out the window. The police say it was a drunken accident. They say he got way too wasted and maybe he stumbled and maybe he fell through the net and then fell out the building. That's the only conclusion that we can come to. People obviously have questions. Lots of questions and the police don't want to answer anything. In fact, if you ask any of these questions on Chinese social media, your account is likely going to get suspended. You're likely going to get banned. So now, the biggest question people have are, why is the Chinese government censoring a celebrity's death? It doesn't make sense. If the Chinese government has nothing to do with the celebrities passing, why don't they just have the police investigate further? Why don't
Starting point is 00:02:12 they investigate everyone at the dinner party? Why don't they look for CCTV camera at the residential complex? Nothing's making sense. Who is connected to the government where they would have this type of power to censor everything? It's like overnight, Yu Meng Long, goes from being a beloved celebrity, an actor, to being an enemy of the state? Who's doing that? Well, people have a list. There is a list of 17 people going around. And this 17 list, the 17 person list, people are saying, we have all these reasons of why we think they were present at the dinner party. And the first one to go down is a red-haired film director by the name of Cheng Qing Song. He's famously known for having like bright magenta looking. It's a very bad dye job, but he has bright red hair. And I don't think
Starting point is 00:03:03 that he has any particular works that are very standout. That's why people think it's suspicious. How does he stay in business when he doesn't have any spectacular films? It doesn't make any sense. And he's very, very wealthy. And he's very well connected. People say he was at that dinner party. And we know he was at that dinner party. And that feeling of injustice is a big deal. So director Chang comes out and he says, I feel very burdened by this accusation that I was at this so-called dinner party. First of all, guys, I don't know what you're talking about. And I have the evidence to show that I was not there at that fifth floor unit in this Beijing high rise. I was at dinner with a different friend of mine. Tian Hai Rong. She is the widow of this billionaire Chinese
Starting point is 00:03:49 businessman and she's a good friend of mine. And so, of course, we were at dinner. So he posts these screenshots from WeChat, his text messages, with Ting Heirong to show, look, I wasn't there. I was at a different dinner party. The text messages read, are you there yet? This is Director Cheng asking. Ting replies with a voice message. And, okay, so WeChat is kind of like I message where if you respond with a voice message, you can convert it to text.
Starting point is 00:04:16 And so he's converted to text so he can take a screenshot and show the people, show the internet. This is our conversation. I'm not hiding anything from you. I was not at the dinner party where Yu Meng Long suspiciously died. Please, stop connecting me there. Ting Heong responds, why are you there so early? I'm on the way.
Starting point is 00:04:34 You can order a cup of coffee first at the lobby. I met a reservation inside the restaurant, inside of the Bulgari Hotel, but just get some coffee in the lobby first. I'm going to be there soon. This is from September 10th, around 6.30 p.m. The night prior. Yes, the night prior. We still don't know what time Yumeneng allegedly fell to his death.
Starting point is 00:04:53 We just know that he was found at around 6 in the morning by a neighbor who was walking the dog. We don't really know anything else. He responds, well, I got here 40 minutes ago. Why did you get there so early? Didn't we say that we were going to meet at 6.30? This timing is just, can you just sit and wait and take a break? There's a little bit of traffic here. I was working this afternoon.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Yeah, no, it's okay. Ting sends a heart emoji, a hug emoji, and she responds, you know, I'm coming from the airport, so the journey is quite long. and he responds, no rush. That's it. That's like the contents of this screenshot. And netizens think, what does this even mean? What does this do? How is this an alibi?
Starting point is 00:05:33 Text messages with your friend should not constitute as an alibi to a crime. People think it's weird that he's even posting this. And also, just because you meet someone at dinner for 6.30 at 6.30 p.m., doesn't mean you don't go anywhere else after. It doesn't prove that you even went to dinner with her. I mean, no pictures from that night, nothing else to place you somewhere outside of the crime, just text messages? Because of how suspicious the messages are, and the fact that he's releasing this as an alibi, people start going over and asking Tian Hiron, the widower of the billionaire,
Starting point is 00:06:08 Hey, can you talk about this? Because like, what do you mean you were at the bulgarie hotel with him? Are you sure he's not lying? Are these real text messages? You're friends with this director? What's going on? she comes out and she says I never wanted to explain myself to the internet
Starting point is 00:06:24 You know, I'm from an older generation I don't really check the internet I was told by family and friends that I'm getting roped up into this madness I don't even know these people I don't even know you Minglo Let me tell you what happened September 10th I had dinner with a good friend of mine
Starting point is 00:06:40 Director Chang well I thought was a good friend of mine Okay, I don't know why he's dragging me into this mess now by posting these screenshots He could have just said that he had dinner with a friend But instead, now my name is out there. My name is connected to this. I'm getting cyber bullied. Because people think she's also one of the 17 people now.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Yes, because they're like, she's so rich. She's so well connected. She's always got her little fingers in the entertainment industry. She must have been at the dinner party too. Like who's to say that they even went to the Bulgari Hotel? Maybe they just went to the dinner party and they forged these messages. And she's saying, I don't know what any of you guys are talking about. This is impacting my family.
Starting point is 00:07:19 This cyberbullying is impacting my reality now, my family. So I'm also going to post screenshots of the text messages that I had with director Chang on September 10th, and I will point out something very strange. First of all, I think it's strange that he's pulling me into this madness. And second of all, I think it's very strange that he chose to delete this one text message that he sent me that night. Right before he told me, no rush at the very end of the thread that he showed you guys on the internet, he had said, I'm dealing with something. No rush. So I'm dealing with something, no rush.
Starting point is 00:07:54 He deleted, I'm dealing with something. I'm just saying, why lie to the internet? Like, why drag me into this? That's all I'm saying. I'm just going to post my text messages out there. So netizens are like, okay, we've got the exact same text thread minus or plus one message from two different people, from director Chang and now his buddy, Ting, Hiro. So they're comparing these two sets of screenshots. Both of them are taken on an iPhone and both of them are very suspicious. This is like shooting your own foot. Now people have more ammo to study the different things, pieces of evidence out there. The first thing that they notice is that the audio messages, when they're both converted to text, they have 16 characters per line, including spaces and
Starting point is 00:08:38 punctuation. Typically on WeChat, it's 15 characters per line. People start sending their friends audio messages converting to text, taking screenshots, showing, hey, I have an iPhone, I probably have the exact same model, and it's 15 characters per line. But other people are commenting, well, sometimes when you change the text size on your phone, you could maybe do 16. Sometimes it's like the screen size if you have like the pro, not the pro max or like, you know, it could change. But people are like, it's still, it's still weird. Let's look for something else. And they find something else. You know how we chat or any other messaging app? It likes to refresh you on the time and date. It'll say, even if you're in the midst of a conversation, it'll be like,
Starting point is 00:09:17 well, now it's 10 minutes later, so I'm going to give you the time in the middle of the screen. It's not like you have to slide to the right to see all these text messages. It's just right there in the middle of the screen. Well, they see that and they see all these different timestamps, and they try to line them up. And the colons of all the timestamps, normally on we chat, are very consistent, very uniform. They're not matching anymore. Yeah. So some people suspect that it's Photoshop. Yes. time is, yeah, moved. And it's not like it went from 152 to 12.01.
Starting point is 00:09:51 It's like, it's always been 6.640, 642, 643. So it's weird. Why would this little colon for the time mark keep moving? People think that's very strange. But again, this is not proof. This is not evidence of anything. Another thing that they thought was very strange was that sometimes the time itself would not add up, not even just the colones of the time markers, but the time itself. For example,
Starting point is 00:10:18 the hug emoji, the heart emoji that Tang Hai Rong sends director Chang, she sends that at 643 p.m. But he receives that message at 641 p.m. How do you receive a message that someone hasn't sent yet? Unless maybe the default settings for your time on your phone are different. Or she sent it 643 he received something else at 641 that he deleted it so there's like multiple messages before those hug and heart that that's why it's showing 641 yes that's also another thing people think either it's completely photoshopped and they did a bad job or they're deleting messages and reconstructing a storyline without any incriminating information And so people are like, now we have these two sets of text messages and both of you guys are suspicious because first of all, both of you guys have been suspicious from the get-go.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Director Chang, he does not have a spectacular background. He does not have a spectacular reputation in the industry. People call him a creep. They call him like a Chester the Molester. Like, it's, first, I do think that he does look a little bit sleazy. He does look a little bit greasy. and as a film director, he does this thing where he just sexually harasses people. I will say that director Chang is openly gay, and nobody really cares about that at all.
Starting point is 00:11:45 I mean, I'm sure like any other country, there's some homophobic people, but truly, nobody really cared. The only thing that people were upset about is that time and time again, there would be these rumors, there would be these conversations, scandals that come out of director Chang sexually harassing male models, male influencers, and male budding actors who want to get into the industry. And the way he does it is very stereotypically predatory of the industry. He would say, you want a job? Let's go eat. Sometimes he would just find a male influencer that he finds attractive online
Starting point is 00:12:19 and sexually harass them nonstop sending DMs. Like, I'm hungry. I want to eat. You know what I want. Do you like me? Do you want to meet up saying very suspicious things? Which I know why you're thinking that, okay? It lines up because.
Starting point is 00:12:35 September 10th, that very night that this dinner party allegedly happens, he posts on Twitter one word, yummy. No context, nothing. No picture, no picture of food, just yummy. That's why he's getting roped into this. Well, that and a lot of other reasons, but that's one of the big reasons. He's always had this very strong standing reputation of harassing young men. There was at one point he's 34 years old dating a 19 year old.
Starting point is 00:13:09 And still, that's already creepy. People kept saying that he's an old cow that likes to eat fresh grass. Because it's just, it's very unsettling. But even while he's dating that 19 year old, he would go online and harass other 18, 19 year old male models. So people already don't like him. And the fact that he posts this alibi, it's just rubbing people the wrong way. You're not proving anything by sharing text messages with a friend. And they're already suspicious.
Starting point is 00:13:35 And Ting Hai Rong, people are coming for her too. First of all, you have a billionaire husband, got arrested for money laundering, and then in prison right before he gets out at the very young age of like he's in his 40s, he just drops dead in prison and then you inherit all of his money and then the rest of your life you just chase after seemingly young, allegedly, young actors in the industry to date and have boy toys and boy play things.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Like that's your whole life. You stick your little grubby fingers to try to get all the idols to do things with you because you invest in their projects, that's the vibe that's always been a small reputation of hers that's been following her around. And so people don't like these people already, and these text messages are not helping. What are you hiding?
Starting point is 00:14:21 So these two come out and they say, you know what? I got you. I'm going to give you more information. Here are receipts. You want receipts? I got you. I'll give you receipts. Here is a paper receipt of the Bulgari Hotel
Starting point is 00:14:35 in which us two, we ate in for a table of two, September 10th, at around 6.47-ish, because, you know, the timing was, I got there late, because I was going from the airport, you get it. So they post a picture of this paper receipt sitting on a marble counter. And then to go along with that, because of course, people are going to be like, you could have bought that. You could have posted online. You could have asked a friend, where did you eat dinner last night? Or at September 10th, give me the receipt. I'm going to act like it's me. So they post. a screenshot of their bank, their bank transaction that coincides with the date and with the exact amount for the bulgari restaurant. So they're like, see, the money is coming from my bank and I'm going to give you a screenshot of that, okay? A few things. You know when you keep talking because you want to absolve yourself of any guilt, but the more these people are talking, the more guilty they seem, that's exactly what happens. At first, netizens are like, okay, that's a lot of receipts. but you look at the receipts. It's interesting. This receipts itself has been studied to hell and back. The itemized list shows three dishes, two sodas, and a portion of Italian cheese.
Starting point is 00:15:44 It's a table for two at table 13 in the Bulgari hotel restaurant. The grand total, including service charges and taxes, comes out to be $215. Obviously, there are comments on how ridiculous it is to spend $215 on two people. But another thing netizens notice is, the picture of this receipt they're posting this like early october what does that mean it's been a month since september 10th it's been like weeks uh-huh and you're telling me the receipt looks pristine it doesn't look wrinkled it looks like it was just printed yesterday it looks fresh off the roll fresh off the printer which is very strange because these two people they're very wealthy they don't seem like the type to save their receipts for bookkeeping they don't seem like the type
Starting point is 00:16:32 that's like, oh, that was a business dinner, I got to put it in my bookkeeping. They seem like the type that's like, if it's under $10,000, I don't even need a receipt. Yeah. But suddenly you have the most pristine collection of receipts that is not crumpled, that you don't just shove into your pocket or your purse. It doesn't make any sense. But the more damning piece of evidence is the receipt shows a time of 7.10 p.m. That's when the receipt is. That's when the, okay, so it says time, 7.10 p.m.
Starting point is 00:16:59 At the very least, some people are interpreting it differently. it doesn't make sense that they would be done eating at 7.10 p.m. Because their text messages, they were supposed to meet at 6.30, but she's running so late. And then also, it's a hotel. It's a five-star hotel. Any hotel, regardless of the stars, but the more stars, the more wait time at restaurants, typically. They sit down, you get wine, you get drinks, like it takes, you're sitting there for 40 minutes chit-chatting before your food comes out at the Bulgary hotel. they're speed eating like this is a tripoli it doesn't make any sense
Starting point is 00:17:34 or this is when the tab is open maybe so that's the next thing people are like okay this is when the tab was open yeah they start the order they take the order at 710 p.m okay put it into the system and now it's probably going to take like another 30 minutes for the food to come out 7 10 30 736 so about 26 minutes later yeah they're definitely not done eating because again if the food is put in the system at 7.10, let's say the fastest it comes out, I mean, 15 minutes later, what is that? That's 725. And then you're done at 736? I doubt it. There's no way. An Italian cheese plate, you're not scarfing cheese down like that. You're sitting there and you're talking. So why is it
Starting point is 00:18:20 at the very end of their text messages? You don't see the text message itself, but like I said, in the we chat likes to float these little time markers when more text messages. are sent. You just see this in the middle of the screen at the very bottom of the screenshot, 7.36 p.m. There's a message. A message. So it's them two sitting inside of this high-end restaurant in the Bulgari Hotel, texting each other at the same table. Why would they do that?
Starting point is 00:18:53 Why would they do that? And why would they not show us the message then? Yeah. And then another thing. You know how we got those screenshots of the Wii chat? It's very clear that both of them, these screenshots come from an iPhone. Why is it that when they post their bank statement, it's an Android all of a sudden? The time, the battery marker, it's all Android interface.
Starting point is 00:19:20 So what does that mean? And what does the Bulgari Hotel have anything to do with this? This is probably the more complicated web of storylines that we've covered in a while where nothing can be taken as a fact, nothing can be confirmed, everything is alleged, but everything starts unraveling in a way that doesn't even make sense. Videos start going viral of what appears to be Yu Meng Long being tortured inside of a bulgary hotel, the same Bulgari hotel that these two allegedly had dinner at. Then these two, a lot of their history starts coming up, and there are allegations that they're
Starting point is 00:19:53 connected to not just Yu Meng Long's passing, but to other famous celebrities passing. You Meng Lung's agency, in fact, there are now conversations of at least 10 different celebrities passing away under very suspicious circumstances from his exact same talent agency. And there's so many things that are very similar to his case. The police are closing the cases immediately. There's lots of rumors circulating. The police want to shut down all conversations. They don't want to reinvestigate.
Starting point is 00:20:23 They don't want to disprove any rumors. They just wait until all of it quiets down. and everyone forgets about it. And these people, they keep coming up in even some of those other celebrity passings. This is part two of the Yumen Long case. These are the people that were allegedly present at the secret dinner party
Starting point is 00:20:44 in which Yumen Long passes away suspiciously. We have alleged statements from his cousin, his mother, and a lot of people who are connecting his passing to another famous singer who passed away nine years ago, who are connected to all the same people. policy and advocacy organization that represent over 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups throughout New York. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support our growing team and we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes
Starting point is 00:21:42 are available about rotten mango podcast.com. We will also be linking a signature petition on the website demanding justice for you Meng Long. A quick disclaimer, there are lots of sensitivities in this episode, brief mentions of self-exit, corruption, drugging, physical assault, essay, And a lot of perhaps more political conversations that have been taking place, this is just a recap of all the different discourse online. This is not me taking a political stance against one nation or another, especially when I have yet to visit a country. I don't even think that I am in a position to take any judgments.
Starting point is 00:22:19 But today's case does take place in China. We had our professional translators working almost around the clock to help gather the information for this case. In this case, I mean, if you haven't watched part one already, go watch that first because there's no way that I can even give you a full recap on it. But it is the most confusing case in the sense of there is nothing that is confirmed. There is nothing that we know to be definitively true. I mean, categorically, everything is alleged. Everything is a rumor. Even rumors are getting debunked. There will be times where my researchers are like, yes, this is what happened. And then they'll call me in the middle of the right and be like,
Starting point is 00:22:55 that's not what happened. They just disproved it. Okay. let me tell you, but then after people are disproving it, other people don't believe in the disproving of the rumor. So there's like 20 different camps of people for every allegation, for every suspicious leak that's been out there. So the information in this episode is largely unverified, limited, constantly getting deleted, re-uploaded. I imagine this episode, I actually don't know if it will age well or not. For the sole reason that with cases like this, we're very hesitant to talk about it because the last thing we want to do is spread an unconfirmed rumor or to indirectly accidentally cast light onto someone that may have no involvement.
Starting point is 00:23:34 That's a huge fear of ours. But with this one, I just don't know if there will ever be a time where the authorities will come out and give us any concrete information. And I think that what has happened with other celebrities that were part of you, Meng Lung, agency, people have just stopped the conversation because it's been yours. And so this is what we know and this is what the online discourse is. But again, do your own research, come to your own opinion. The only things that I can tell you with full confidence in this episode is that Yu Meng Long, a famous beloved Chinese actor, is dead. The facts around his death are suspicious
Starting point is 00:24:12 in my opinion. The government, the police are behaving even more suspiciously and those are the only concrete facts that we really have. I cannot confirm with certainty just about anything else. Nobody has been detained, convicted. Nobody has really spoken out to give any fact-based information on why they're not related to this case or why they are. It's just everything is very hazy. And legally speaking, his death has been ruled an accident. So with that being said, we're going to go over all of the people that were allegedly involved and all the conspiracies that range from believable to kind of like a movie. They're really intense. There are times where I would get so sucked into a conspiracy while researching that I would have to take a moment to be like,
Starting point is 00:24:57 wait, is this too crazy? Like, am I going down a rabbit hole and believing in something too crazy? Because the sense is kind of there, but I've never seen stuff like this happen in real life. So is this just unhinged conspiracy theories? And to that I just say, there are times where you have a conspiracy theory and the reality is not that dark. The conspiracy theory is like a combination of the top 10 movies of that year meshed into one giant aluminum tinfoil hat theory and the reality is a little bit more simple. And there are times where the reality is a lot darker than the conspiracy theories themselves and everything is a lot worse in reality than we ever thought. So I don't know what the case is with this situation. It could be true. It could be
Starting point is 00:25:42 worse, we don't know, but I'm going to go through all of it with you today. So with that disclaimer, let's get started. How do you know when a celebrity actually needs help? Even if they are saying things, how would you know if it's real? That has been the case with you Meng Long's last live streams. People have been pouring through his social media history. They've been going through his pictures, any of his tweets to see, is there something we're missing? And they have put together a series of clips. So in part one, we went over. He looked like he had bruises on his eyes, it looked like he had these injuries that he was hiding with makeup when he was out and about and fans were taking pictures and videos of him. But in his own live streams, fans have found some
Starting point is 00:26:21 very strange things. We don't know if these have been taken out of context, so take it with a grain of salt. But in one live stream, Yumen Long is wearing what appears to be a blue suit. He looks like he's working and it just looks like he's reading comments from his fans during the live stream. He kind of has his hand covering his mouth as he's reading the comments. And some people say it actually doesn't look like he's reading the comments. His eyes aren't necessarily moving left to right. They're not moving up and down. They're just kind of staring at the comments almost as if he's looking at the comments, but his attention is maybe elsewhere in the room. Like he's trying to listen in the room. He's trying to get a vibe of if anybody in the physical
Starting point is 00:27:01 room with him is staring at him. And then eventually he says, um, puts his hand down. He says, while he's covering his mouth, puts his hand down and immediately mouth something before talking. And it sounds like a very breathy low, save me. Save me. You can barely hear him. You can see his lips moving. You can hear some breathiness. It's kind of sounds like save me, but you don't really hear it. It sounds weird. And then immediately afterwards, he starts voicing out his words like this. So it's like, save me. And then voicing out his words. like this. Just talking about normal things. Netizens have ripped this live stream apart saying, is this a moment where he's reaching out for help because it doesn't make any sense? Why would he say
Starting point is 00:27:48 save me like that? Others are saying, no, it's because the internet was lagging. So maybe his mouth and his voice weren't matching up. And so his mouth looked like it was saying save me, but it wasn't, it was just not catching up to the sound. Other people are saying that doesn't make sense because I distinctively hear a save me. Then there are conversations that, that breathy save me was edited in later by someone who wants this to go viral. So there is so much discourse around this live stream, but it doesn't help that there are just a lot of weird things that he did before his passing. In the month of August, there are social media posts after social media post where it seems like Yumen Long is unwell. In another live stream,
Starting point is 00:28:28 he voices out the words, help me. A lot louder this time. His fans hear it, but they do nothing. everyone assumed that he was talking about his network being bad. So right before this, he's talking about how his network connection is not the best and the live stream isn't really working well. And then he says, help me. And so people are wondering, maybe he tried to play it off with whoever is in the room with him because the whole insinuation is that his agency, his manager are in control of him. There are people who believe that he has been held captive for a really long time,
Starting point is 00:29:02 that he's been doing work events, he's been live streaming while being held captive so that nobody is suspicious. So they think that he's saying, help me as in like, maybe everyone in the room will think that I'm talking about the network, but I'm telling you, help me. Then there is another moment that people have dissected. So I know in America we have the DV violence symbol for help. So if you are in a car and a police officer drives up, or if you're in an airport and you're talking to a TSA gate agent, you have your open palm, all five fingers up, like a high five. You tuck in your thumb and then you close your fist around your thumb. He has done that motion multiple times in his live streams. So he'll have five hands out and then he'll kind of tuck his thumb in, covering his
Starting point is 00:29:50 mouth, and then he'll tuck it all the way in and do a fist and cover his mouth. He does it very naturally. So some people are wondering, is this just a natural motion he does? And then in Chinese, I think some people think it's 540, which in Chinese is, it's wu-40 sounds very similar to I'm dead. So it's like another signal that people are picking up. There's also another poem that started going around. And I couldn't verify if this was exactly from him because I couldn't find any of the original sourcing. Neither could the rest of the team. But it seems like he was writing a poem about a rainy day and how he's learning some magic tricks. It's the most random poem. Even if I were to give you the translation for it because of the way that the
Starting point is 00:30:36 sentence structure and English and Chinese are so vastly different, it wouldn't make sense. But it felt very random in the sense of today's a rainy day. Don't forget your umbrella. I learned a new magic trick today. Like it's very out of nowhere. Like the poem itself is not artistic. It doesn't make any sense. But people were saying if you take the first character of every single line of this poem, it says, today they want me to die. And that has been circulating. So these are all the reasons that people think that he has been held captive for months, which begs the question, who's keeping him captive? Why are they keeping him captive? September 11th, 2025, my sister-in-law actually opens up her little red book app.
Starting point is 00:31:18 Do you guys remember when TikTok was going to get banned in the U.S.? It was a very bizarre side plot in the U.S. timeline. everybody starts posting dramatic goodbyes and then immediately downloading another app called Little Red Book. This is that app. In China, it's probably the more new, more foreigner-friendly application. Like Doying is Chinese TikTok, the original TikTok. But Shan Ho-Shu is kind of like Pinterest, Instagram. It's for younger people. Lots of foreigners love it.
Starting point is 00:31:46 And she opens up the app. And the first message that she gets is like, hello, are you aware of the content guidelines on this application, you are not to repost like negative celebrity trivial matters. Like please refer to the terms and conditions as a user. Click here to accept and close. It was the most bizarre out of place notification that she got to the point where she screenshots it and sent it to her friends because she thought it was very strange. And it wasn't because of like she was posting anything and getting like a strike or another
Starting point is 00:32:18 alert. She doesn't post. This is like a mass notification to everything. user. Every single one. And she is just confused. And everyone is like, oh, this has to do with you meng long. Because September 11th, 2025, the same day that you meng long has is found deceased at the end, at the bottom of the building, the cyberspace administration of China demands a meeting with the executives of Little Red Book. The purpose of the discussion is your trending list, the trending list. With the users and your algorithms decide to push more
Starting point is 00:32:50 out into the ether, they're saying, you guys frequently have celebrity personal dynamics, interpersonal relationships between high-profile people. It's just trivial. It's trivial, nonsensical matters that really impact the online ecology and it's the ecosystem of the younger generations online. This is not good. They should focus on things that really matter. This is actually a thing. The cyberspace administration of China, they were the ones to ban feminine men. That was like a thing. They didn't really want a lot of what you would call pretty boy celebrities, which is like a bigger thing in East Asia, Korea as well, because they felt like it was instilling weak values in the men in China. So overnight, all these idols that
Starting point is 00:33:34 fit that category were scared to get banned. So they're like posting workout videos in the gym. So they're saying like, we are trying to cultivate the perfect ecosystem to influence the entire nation in a positive way. And all of this gossip about celebrity. celebrity drama is not going to be good. And this gossip that they're talking about is the death of Yu Meng Long. Later, anyone online questioning the cause of Yu Meng Long's death on Little Red Note were automatically getting deleted, banned, and suspended. But people have gone to threads, they've gone to Twitter,
Starting point is 00:34:09 they've gone to all these different foreign social media platforms to come up with what they believe happened. And it actually starts way, way before September 10th or September 11th. They go all the way back into August. They start analyzing all of you Menglong's live streams like I was talking about, but they also start going through all of his public performances, his public appearances, and it's around the beginning of August that you start to see a massive decline in what appears to be his mental state and physical state. That is what people are saying online.
Starting point is 00:34:40 I don't personally know any of these people. So what presents in a video could not be what's happening in reality, but it does look suspicious. So this is where the series of the bruising of the face is showing up, and then also he just looks incredibly skinny and frail. Prior to this, when he is at work events, or even when he's traveling, he's never really the most outgoing extroverted person, but he's very attentive to his fans. But during the month of August, any fan meetings he has where people are running into him and recording him, he seems really disassociating. He seems like he's trying to have a conversation, but he's not really there. That's how everyone is described.
Starting point is 00:35:17 it. He's still posting on Weibo, but nothing in particular, perhaps just a series of travel photos, and most of it is not even of him. Most of it includes shots of plants and like serene backgrounds, but we don't even know if he's traveling. This could have all been taken in Beijing. So it seems like since August, he has been held captive until September. That is the theory that's been going around. His managers, his agency, all of these higher up people have been holding him hostage and not like chained up in the basement but they have someone watching his every move they're watching him live stream they're watching everything he posts they have access to his phone and they're trying to get something out of him what are they trying to get out of him everyone points
Starting point is 00:36:01 to nine years ago a famous singer that i know by the name of kimi but i know yes so he passed away not in years ago from the same agency and people think that there is a connection because even when Kimi passed, there were lots of conversations around, it seems like he had, there were conspiracies that he had pissed off higher ups, that he had rejected somebody that wanted to do something sexual with him, and they were trying to blackball him, and eventually it led to his passing. There were a lot of different theories running around, and the police, the authorities, they were very hush-hush about it, everything pretty much gets closed down. It's very similar to what's happening with you Meng Long. A lot of people believe that they have the same manager. So
Starting point is 00:36:44 start going online and they start typing into different search bars, do they have the same manager? Do Kimi and Yu Meng Long have the same manager? And these search bars would say, yes, they do. They have the exact same manager. Doing AI. Yeah, it's like the AI generated search, which like I know how we feel about AI, but like, you know, it's the AI generated search. People are looking at it and they go, okay, so they have the same manager. I mean, there's no proof, right? There's no like, no one's going into the company records, but that's what Doying is saying. The very, very, next day after all of this blows up people are reposting it on threads on Twitter you go back to doing and you ask do they have the same manager suddenly it's no the answer has been shot it
Starting point is 00:37:28 yeah side by side it's so weird I would say like most of these search platforms when they use the AI feature it's not very accurate like accuracy is not the name of the game with these top searches like even like the Google AI overview it's like most people say it's not accurate right but with this, to change it the next day, is weird because they just leave up the inaccurate information. They don't go ahead and change it. So why would they change it? Who would call to have it changed? People start digging into the manager.
Starting point is 00:37:58 And we mentioned in part one of this entire case, the manager does not seem to have an entertainment background. There are rumors that he is part of an organized crime syndicate. He's just hired muscles. People say that he is more a, I would say hitman is maybe taking it too far, but like the cleanup. The cleanup of organized crime. You got a dirty job on your hands. This is the guy that you call. And they are very closely intertwined with a lot of powerful executives and investors. He was hired into the company as yes, a manager, but really his formal occupation
Starting point is 00:38:32 would just be to watch over these subjects to make sure that they're not stepping out of line, to make sure that they're not saying anything, to make sure everything goes as normal. I will see this manager is also a very strange guy If you dig into his old post There are um he likes to post All of these people like to post weird things They love trying to be edgy artsy But it's not
Starting point is 00:38:54 It's just uncomfortable It's just very scary He likes to post a series of photos Where it shows a man Suran wrapped to a table It looks like an episode of like a serial killer show So you got an actual person Well it's what it looks like in the first three photos
Starting point is 00:39:10 Okay And it looks like a person. Saran wrapped to an operation table, like a steel table. And then someone is grabbing his head in one photo. So it looks like he's about to get a head massage. And then all of a sudden a knife appears. And they cut this man's head into six different sections. It looks like a cake.
Starting point is 00:39:26 It's like a, is it cake video? And then those four pieces are like, the pieces of his head are arranged on a plate. It's clearly not a real person. It's clearly either some sort of sculpture or AI generated art or drawing or something. Something. But his whole caption with that is something that is whole can be cut into pieces. But those pieces can never be whole again. And so people think, this guy, this manager is just weird. We don't really know anything about this man. We don't know how he got into the role of being you Meng Long's manager. We don't know much about him. All we know is that he likes to post these types of things. So people believe that the person that lured Yiu Meng Long to the party, the dinner party that night, is. is the manager. They think that Yu Meng Long is not one to go out with any of these people. He's not one
Starting point is 00:40:17 to go on any of these drinking meetings with investors. He's someone that likes to very much follow the rules. He likes to stay home. He likes to cook with his two dogs. He has a corgi and a French bulldog. He's a very big homebody that just works hard. He's not someone that likes to really go out to dinner and get drunk with other celebrities. Not that anything's particularly wrong with that. But he would not have showed up to a dinner party unless his manager had invited him. So he gets lured to this apartment by his manager and there's a bunch of investors, a big, bunch of a big business partners that are there. And they all want to sleep with you, Menglow. Over the past 10 years, at least nine other artists have died under very strange circumstances from this same agency.
Starting point is 00:41:01 And that's why they believe the manager is very heavily involved. With the nine others, sometimes the cause of death is listed as self-exit. Sometimes it's an accident but always netizens have questions about them and i don't think it's a situation where netizens just cannot grasp the idea of one of their beloved celebrities having depression it just there's no answers to any of these it just doesn't make any sense and the whole agency itself is very suspicious they say the format of the agency and we kind of touched upon it on episode one is that it's a government-run state agency you can't sue them this is like suing the government And if you think suing the United States of America is hard,
Starting point is 00:41:41 probably suing China is not even a viable option for anybody. It just doesn't make sense. So this government agency will go around and mass sign a bunch of talent. After the end of a talent reality show, they'll go and sign 20 new people. And then they'll pick one or two. They're going to make them really famous. The other ones, they're just going to hold them hostage.
Starting point is 00:42:01 Freeze their careers, refrigerate their careers. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly, yes. Theories. And then they can't get, out. Out of those maybe 18 celebrities left, maybe half of them come from really well-off families because it's hard to get into the celebrity world into the entertainment business without some sort
Starting point is 00:42:19 of funding and backing. So these celebrities families will say, you know what, I just want out of this contract. So I'm going to pay whatever crazy fee you want me to pay and I need to leave. I need to go sign with someone who's actually going to invest resources into my career. So they sign the contract and they leave. Then you have a handful of people left. These are people that come from backgrounds where they can't afford a breakup fee. Those termination fees are like millions of dollars. With Yumeneng Long, it was 30 million. They can't afford that.
Starting point is 00:42:46 Like, they would be in debt for the rest of their lives and the next life. It wouldn't make sense. So they can't do anything. They can't sue the agency for not giving them what they were promised. They can't get out of the agency and find work elsewhere. So they're just stuck. So what do they do when they're stuck? This is when investors can come and decide if they like you.
Starting point is 00:43:07 and these people are considered free-for-all playthings. They will open up shell companies, allegedly open up shell companies in their name to launder money. These massive investors and business owners will launder money through their names. Other times they will use them as victims for their sexual fantasies, allegedly. That has been the rumor. But it is true that there were companies open in their name that's dealing, firearms and military weaponry. Yeah, so that seems pretty much confirmed. You Meng Long had multiple shell companies in his name, and all of them were pertaining to military contract sales.
Starting point is 00:43:49 And this is not someone who would money launder. None of the money was going back into his accounts. It's going in and out. And you're talking about millions, tens of millions of dollars. And he isn't seeing any of that money. He doesn't know anything about the military, but it's getting laundered in his name. There is a very famous Chinese celebrity by the name of Yang Mi. We've talked about her briefly on our other podcast, Moral of the Story. And she's massive. She's probably one of the biggest stars in China. She worked on Eternal Love with You Meng Long, and she has her own agency.
Starting point is 00:44:23 And it seems like they have a very sibling dynamic. I mean, they played siblings, but they also have one in real life, like sibling dynamic. She traveled to Beijing at least three separate times with the sole intention of signing Yu Meng Long. Really? And the agency would just not let him go. I think that she knew that they were not putting enough resources into him. And she wanted to help him. I don't know if she knew anything deeper.
Starting point is 00:44:44 I'm not saying that she knows anything sinister. But I think that she was like, he's not getting enough roles as he deserves. I think I could do a lot more for him. Company would not let him go. And this company is not really doing anything for his career either. And it seems like if this is what the company is doing, because they're a state-run agency, they could theoretically get away with it. Remember how I said there were nine other people in the past decade that suspiciously passed in this company?
Starting point is 00:45:11 Just to give you an idea, one of them is a female artist who ends up, this is what the police say happened. She took off all her clothes, got completely naked, and then jumped to her death, that this was a self-exit. A female celebrity who is pretty much probably always objectified online, being vulnerable, in a very vulnerable situation psychologically, is then going to take off all her clothes and then plummet to her passing so that she can be photographed in the nude so that people can objectify her more so that people can sell these photos like it just doesn't make any sense but anytime people tried to ask those questions they were getting deleted another signed talent is a newscaster he died in an accident and his mom later came out to say that the police told her that she needs to sign a document that her son did drugs was high and fell off
Starting point is 00:46:05 the building. Or she could not see her son and her son could not be released back into her custody. And people believe that with each passing and with each suspicious circumstance, that there are a handful of people that seem to consistently show up in those moments. The first one is a man by the name of Shin Chi. Shinchi has been an enigma in the entertainment industry for a very long time because everyone is like, I don't know how this man came up. I don't know what kind of funding he has, but he's very well connected politically. November 2018, Xin Qi is 27 years old. He becomes the chairman of the China National Electric Investment Group's new energy company, the chairman. Yes, 27 years old. This is a government-run entity, meaning how would his 27-year-old
Starting point is 00:46:52 be appointed that position unless he has absolutely incredibly strong, powerful people in the ranks that are handing him these positions, aka he's a political nepo baby. If he were just really smart and capable, even if he were to follow the route of getting into government, nobody would promote a 27-year-old for being outstanding. Politics has hierarchies, legacies, seniority, favoritism. They're not just going to give him a position for being the most capable,
Starting point is 00:47:22 which I don't think he is regardless. Which means, who the hell is Shin Chi? He goes from being the chairman of this state-run investment group, to suddenly being like a film producer, he just makes movies. He invests in movies. He's like a major name in the entertainment industry. How do you even break out like that? Again, you go from that investment group chairman to the entertainment industry and you're
Starting point is 00:47:45 succeeding across all fronts. And when you look into his past, nobody can find his family history. He doesn't talk much about his childhood. Who is he? Who are his parents? Because you can only get these types of positions if your parents have high up government positions. One insider from the industry spoke out and anonymously told a reporter online. Like, do whatever you want with this
Starting point is 00:48:09 information, but he's connected to top party leaders. He's got strong ties with the leaders of CCTV, which is the state-run TV agency, the government-run TV network, news network. And weirdly, anytime you hop on a call with this guy, he uses a number that doesn't even route back to him. It's like, you know, you see the caller ID, but it's not him. Like, you don't see Shin Chi. It's weird. Like, it's just like this other guy's name. So it seems like a fake number. And they are able to pull up that number because I guess this insider has had conversations with him. This number is linked to at least
Starting point is 00:48:44 99 companies registered. When you register a business, you have to have a phone number that goes along with it. It's this number that's mainly used. And this number is also connected to Yu Meng Lung's shell companies. Really? So everyone's saying, okay, Xin Qi seems to be, if this is true, if all of this information is not fake, not AI generated somehow, not edited with absolute perfection, and these are real tips given to real reporters, then yes, it seems like there is a connection between these shell companies, Shinqi, whoever that man is, and Yu Meng Long.
Starting point is 00:49:19 But that's not the only connection. Shin Qi has been Yu Meng Long's top fan for years. Top fan in China is a little bit different from maybe America. Top fan does not typically mean you love the celebrity the most. You're the number one fan. It typically means you are the fan with the most power. You can buy billboards. You've got money.
Starting point is 00:49:41 You've got connections. You are a highly influential fan. You can make things happen for your favorite celebrity because you yourself have power. That's what they call a top fan. Shinchi has been Yu Meng Long's top fan for years. He actually runs Yu Meng Long's favorite. Band club.
Starting point is 00:49:57 It's crazy. Wow. And he is reported to be gay. And he seems to have some sort of crush or some sort of infatuation with you Meng Long has been the conspiracy online. And again, I don't think that I need to be the one to give you a disclaimer. But sexual orientation has no correlation with someone's ability to commit a crime or to be a vile person. I mean, I think if you look at most episodes on this channel, straight people commit so many heinous crimes.
Starting point is 00:50:22 Like, if you're trying to use this as a way to be homophobic, you should try a different video. Nothing on our channel. But people think that he had this infatuation with Yu Meng Long and has been trying to get Yu Meng Long to consent and to do sexual things for him, sexual favors. And the best way to do that is to stunt his career growth. So after all of the big hit dramas that he was in, around 2020 to 23, Yumen Long is off the radar.
Starting point is 00:50:50 He goes into the village to teach children. He's basically starving. He comes back and he jokes that he has no money for. food. Now we know it probably wasn't a joke. But for those three years, it is believed that Shin Chi, and at least another very wealthy influential person, wanted to get Yumen Long, and he was refusing. So they completely halted his career. I think it sounds like a very big conspiracy. But the thing to remember is for these people, if this were to be true, it's not much. It's just vengeful. It's like, okay, fine, you don't want to sleep with me? Then you're not
Starting point is 00:51:24 going to get a job yeah i mean and also you look at his career how could you go from doing such big drama with young me with young me yeah like these are crazy break out rows and then boom off tv for three years something happened and it's not like he was trying and nothing was happening it's like oh that was a flop it wasn't he was just gone yeah he was gone and so people think shinchi is one of those people that wanted to get something from him and it wasn't working and another thing to add to this is there have been reports that from beginning of August, some people even say in the month of July, there were lots of leaked blind items from the paparazzi saying that, hey, there is a very big actor that was in Eternal Love. Now, to be fair, Eternal Love has a lot of
Starting point is 00:52:12 big names, but he was in Eternal Love and we got news of a major scandal from him. Yeah, I think they say like a celebrity from the show with 25 million. Yes. followers which I mean come on how many exactly 25 million who are we talking about and people were saying that these executives these higher ups are leaking this information to the pop rotsie as another way to threaten you meng long and say see we not only have power of your career we can also ruin your whole career like we can just take you off the screens yes but we can make you a very bad person online as well and so this is just adding more and more pressure. So people believe that Xinqi was one of the ones that really wanted to sleep with you
Starting point is 00:52:55 Meng Long and they believe that he was there at that dinner party that night. And just to give you an idea about these dinner parties, a lot of Chinese celebrities have seemingly spoken up about this. And it's kind of the same in East Asian culture, I'm sure Korean culture as well, not just in the entertainment industry, even just the business world. You want to get a business deal done? You got to go get drunk, you got to go to O'Hishik. You have to go and pour alcohol for these higher-ups to get a deal signed. There's this very viable clip of Tao from XO. He is now in China. He also recently got married, I believe. He was talking about, this was from years ago. He was screaming, like getting very riled up in a live stream and he said, I have my own agency. And if you tell me
Starting point is 00:53:36 my employees, my talent, have to go do a business deal and they have to drink something, then get the fuck out. I don't need your money. We don't need you. We don't need you. We don't need your stupid deals. Like, no, I'm not letting them put their health in jeopardy. And I think he was saying health as in like, because you have to get like blackout drunk and that level of alcohol is not good. But people have been recirculating this clip by saying maybe health could mean other things. We don't think that's what he meant. But they're saying like, we just don't know how dark it gets when people get that drunk. We don't know how many people could get taken advantage of. So it does seem like this is a very normal thing that happens, at least these drinking parties.
Starting point is 00:54:15 The reason that Shin-Chi is important to this, though, is a lot of people believe the money laundering is all connected to him. He had opened up the shell companies in Yumang Long's name. He wants to sleep with Yumang Long, and he also has this very shady LinkedIn profile, if you will. How do you go from being nobody to being the chairman of this state-run massive investment group to being this very famous producer and director and doing all of these things in the entertainment industry? Nobody knows who your parents are. So there are rumors that he is the illegitimate child of the head of state of the entire nation. Because even if he, you know, there were previous rumors circulating that maybe he was the illegitimate son of one of the polybrew members, which are like the top 25 most powerful people in the nation. But a lot of people are saying there's no way that the head of state would not just let them go down for it.
Starting point is 00:55:07 Because this looks bad ultimately on the head of state. It doesn't look bad on everyone. It looks, I mean, ultimately when you have one person at the top, like anyone, most nations have a president, you know, it just looks bad on that person. They're the first to be blamed. So why would they go down for a random person's son in the top 25 most powerful politicians? At the end of the day, he's the most powerful. Why would he go down for him?
Starting point is 00:55:32 So they think that this guy, Shinchi, is connected, is the illegitimate son of the head of state of the entire nation. And there have been rumors circulating prior to this. And these, I will say, are rumors that a lot of people who, these are people who very much dislike the government system in China. These are people who are very outspoken about that. And that's their right, right? But they're very anti-CCP.
Starting point is 00:55:57 And they have been saying for months prior to this that there have been lots of rumors and they believe to be true that the head of state has been embezzling money through military contracts, right? Which is, I mean, I think that's a thing that a lot of different heads of state have been accuse stuff, but they're accusing him of doing that. And they're saying now with this, with these military shell companies, maybe it's all connected. Maybe this is the illegitimate son who's funneling and money laundering through this celebrity. And then maybe you meng long finds out and wants to put an end to it or wants to go public with this information. And now he
Starting point is 00:56:28 must die. And now it's going to get covered up because it's not even just about you meng long's death anymore. It's about a whole system. And just to give you an idea, if you run this phone number, Netizens have been able to pull up other companies that are with the same phone number that allegedly belong to Shin Chi. And one of the companies has been operating for five years. They have zero payroll employees, zero employees, and they generate $630 million in revenue in the past five years. Wow.
Starting point is 00:56:59 Its logo probably reads not money laundering at that point, because, I mean, that's money laundering. To give you an idea, other businesses who generate that kind of revenue around even 100 million a year, they will employ on average at the very least 100 people, but typically on the 1,000 people end. You're not going to generate that with zero payroll employees, but they're saying that these different companies, all 99 of them are so profitable, even though nobody's running them, they're just printing money at this point. It doesn't make any sense. these are the allegations i don't know i don't have the paperwork in hand i am not someone who can
Starting point is 00:57:46 certify such legal paperwork so i don't know if this paperwork has been edited and reposted online i don't know but that same number can also be traced back to another very well-known celebrity songyiren and this she has been connected to this dinner party many a times through many a different pieces of evidence. Sonia Ren is a small-time actress. She was on this reality show called Everyone's Stand By, which I did a whole Mott's episode on. It's like a famous Chinese acting reality show where the premise of the show is you gather a group of acting professionals.
Starting point is 00:58:23 Most of them are newcomers or they had their heyday and now maybe they're falling off a little bit. They get booked onto this show and they're doing skits, mini-dramas and they're doing improv acting and you have this panel of judges of world-renowned actors who are going on to judge their acting ability not just their influencer count but like genuine their profession and she was the she actually made me cry that's crazy right thinking back yeah they had this um they called it performance city and all of the contestants were to go into this massive fake city and they could go through the costume department and dress up and whatever their character were to be
Starting point is 00:59:03 and the judges would walk around while they're improvving these different character storylines. She chose one that was very emotionally gripping. A lot of the other characters, they were couples who were fighting or selling peas and selling all these like street vendors and none of it was
Starting point is 00:59:19 that particularly good. She was very smart and she was very believable. So she dressed up in what I guess you would call back in the day like a beggar and she had a sign up. On her sign that she held up above her head there's misspelling of a word but she did it on purpose to show that she's undereducated
Starting point is 00:59:38 as this character and it was really well done uh she never broke character it was freezing cold in there and she was shivering because she was that dedicated to the character i cried watching that because i just felt like it was so good that's her she has been placed at the scene of the crime whether it's true or not i'm just going to give you what people have found online there have been rumors circulating long before she was even on that show that I didn't know about, but they said that Song Yi Ren's personal and professional lives were vastly different. They were just saying is weird. They said online, her career is very much girl next door, soft girl image, oh, I've never
Starting point is 01:00:18 seen anything inappropriate. Like that was always strongly associated with her. But sometimes other co-stars and other friends would talk about her, and they would let it slip that her nickname for a really long time was Xiao Tai Me. What does that mean specifically? It's like the bad kids in school And she's like the head of it It's like a little princess in the bad kids crowd
Starting point is 01:00:41 That they will bully you Like the bully in K drama Yes Like that's the vibe Okay yes Yeah I am our researchers were having a hard time Trying to describe it too One of them said it's like
Starting point is 01:00:52 The direct translation would be like Little bad girl Others were saying no it's like Head bully head bully girl is the vibe like it's just not a it's actually very mean it's not a nice you don't get pride from being called that but soongy ren actually went on a live stream once and said yeah like that's what i used to be called but that's when i was young i've grown up i don't do that anymore i was out there drinking clubbing partying every day i dyed my hair blonde but i don't do that anymore because that's what i did when i was young which has been a huge debate online with some people saying actually i went to school with her because she went to school of in Canada. And she, smoking, drinking, and dyeing her hair was the least crazy thing she did. She actually went around bragging to all of the people at her school that she slept with
Starting point is 01:01:37 50 different guys. She was 17 at the time. If that were true, that is also very alarming and perhaps something to look into. Perhaps she could have been a victim at when she was 17 years old. I don't know. Nobody knows. It's just what an internet user has alleged. But there has always been this very subtle clashing of people saying.
Starting point is 01:01:58 saying she's so different off camera, nothing fits her online persona. Even former alleged classmates came out and said, look, I'm not going to badmouth her. I'm not going to say anything bad, but all I will say is don't believe in celebrity personas because they're all fake. One of Song Yeran's biggest scandals was last year in 2024, and paparazzi caught her going to a bathhouse with three guys, like a sauna. Okay, bathhouse seems like a sauna. And I think the biggest part that people were, that was so scandalous, was she's touching
Starting point is 01:02:28 the abs of the first guy so she'd be like talking they're out on the street and then she'd kind of place her hand on his chest and then she would hold the wrist of another guy walking and then later that night there was another third guy and she was spotted touching his arm they dramatically described this as feeling him up feeling him down just groping caressing i mean nevertheless it was a pretty interesting unique scandalous situation for a female celebrity in china to be caught photographed in, especially someone who presents herself as this very innocent, soft girl next door. So a new theory has come about recently that Song Yeran is a madam. She befriended Yu Meng Long in an effort to finally seal the deal and get Shin Qi, the powerful executive,
Starting point is 01:03:12 what he wants, which is Yumen Long. She's going to lure her friend. So people are saying that she is the madam. She is an actress. So she rubs shoulders with all these actors and actresses. She befriends them. She has this very disarming personality. And then she's like, you know what? Come out. Come hang out with me. Come to my place. And at her place, they'll be introduced to an executive who has always had their eyes on them. And she knows this because she is the middleman. And she's like, oh my gosh, you guys should meet. Oh, this is an investor. Blah, blah, blah. Why don't you come to this dinner party? They're pouring drinks. There are further conspiracies and allegations that perhaps the drinks are drugged. Perhaps it's full on essay. Other times people are saying she's just the middleman
Starting point is 01:03:53 connecting these two parties and hopefully it's consensual most of the time but clearly if that were the case with you meng long that's not what's happening but they think that she is a madam they think that that must be the way she makes money because here's an interesting discovery that it's been made songy ren she lives in the same apartment complex as where you meng long passes away but she doesn't just live in the same apartment complex she lives in the same building from which he allegedly falls to his death and there's more about that she claims that she moved out nine months ago
Starting point is 01:04:26 she said yeah I did live there but I moved out nine months ago so yeah I did live in that building I mean there's pictures of her posing in that building there's selfies she's taken there's like this one picture where she's holding a giant acorn and it's like building 18 and again it could be photoshopped
Starting point is 01:04:41 but she has said I moved out nine months ago so we don't know if maybe the building number was photoshopped and maybe it was a different building but it doesn't seem like it seems like it seems like it was that building. There are other allegations that she never moved out and there are other photos circulating of an apartment unit where in East Asia there's a lot of times where you just hang dry your clothes. So you get one of those like drying tables and it's up against the window of one of the apartment units and there's this blue dress shirt and white pants that are
Starting point is 01:05:07 hang drying in front of the window. Someone had snapped a photo of it for whatever reason and they believe that those clothes belong to you Meng Long because he was photographed wearing similar to close and they think that for the past month before his death, he was being bounced around somewhat being held captive, not necessarily chained up, not necessarily like, I'm going to tie you up so you can't leave, but being watched and held captive under likely verbal threats. Like if you try to leave, I'm going to ruin your career. So it's not like the door is padlocked, but perhaps he can't. And they think that Song Yeran was one of the people holding him captive. I do think that this conspiracy theory does get crazier and crazier, but one thing to
Starting point is 01:05:51 note is a lot of people were confused. She's on an acting competition show. She's not a major celebrity. She's a small-time actress. How can she afford to live in an apartment building like this to even begin with? So people think, well, that's because she makes her money not from being an actress, but from being a madam, right? That's what people think. But they still are wondering, okay let's say she's a madam she gets money from these executives she tries to force all these other celebrities into sleeping with executives that still doesn't explain why she wouldn't be the fall guy because people are like let's be real if there's executives involved and she is just a madam she'd be the fall guy there would be some sort of narrative of she got jealous she pushed him
Starting point is 01:06:34 or she was the only one at that dinner party left everybody already left and then they got drunk maybe they were doing drugs like she would be the fall guy because there's so much suspicion. Why not have a fall guy? So there comes the suspicion that her parents are very well connected. She moved to Canada when she was young. Her dad was a professor and in the medical field. I believe he's a doctor and then at one point he was teaching but her mom was in marketing which is very vague. But in Canada she went on to have this huge company where the distribution to that company and it's very vague what the company even does but they had tens of millions of dollars in. sales within like the first few years of opening up and people say you don't do that just by being talented you do that by being very well connected by being politically connected she has had multiple talks and conversations with business leaders and government officials who run business sectors for like international trade and foreign trade and international businesses and she seems like she there are rumors that she's also very close with the first
Starting point is 01:07:42 lady of China. I don't know. I've never seen a picture of them together. Song Yeran's mother is very close. This literally could just be someone tweeting random, whatever they can think of and hallucinate in their brain from across the sea. I don't know. Or it could be true or there could be 10% truth.
Starting point is 01:08:01 I don't know. But I think people are saying there's no way that she wouldn't be a fall guy unless her parents are also well connected. I know she currently like is so majorly hated. across the war all over China, right? Yeah. And it's not just because she lives or maybe previously lived in the same apartment. There's a lot of other things.
Starting point is 01:08:23 The things tying her to that night is her phone strap. She's initially placed on this list of 17 people because she posted a ton of pictures outside the building, living in that same building where Yuman Long passes away. But also there are these selfies where she's pretending to be on the phone. I don't know if she's promoting the phone, her phone strap, her face. I don't know, but it's like pretending to be on a phone. And she's posing with her phone.
Starting point is 01:08:45 And her phone has the world's largest blue ribbon phone strap. It's like a phone ribbon. It's like if you were to, I don't even know if it could be called a phone strap. It's like a giant dangling blue ribbon. It's like putting a Laboooooo on your phone. It's that big. It's just huge. It's a charm, right?
Starting point is 01:09:01 Yeah, it's a massive charm. And that's what it looks like. Now, eventually a series of people videos start making the rounds. And I call them people videos because it appears that someone is inside their apartment. unit filming through their peephole. When people are walking in the hallway, you just see shadows, you just see figures, it looks like a horror movie. You don't really see the people even though they're on the other side of the door. People videos go viral and it sounds like a man crying and you see these figures ushering this man down the hallway. And then behind them is a woman
Starting point is 01:09:33 on her phone and it looks like she's filming them because her phone is popped up all the way up and there's just no reason for her to be holding her phone like that unless she's trying to get a signal. So it looks like she's filming them. And the phone shadow on this wall has this giant lanyard attached to it. And people think that looks like the phone strap that Song Yiren was showing off. Otherwise, what the hell is that shadow? Now, I will say a lot of people have more or less debunked these people videos. They were posted by a Thai woman September 16th of 2025.
Starting point is 01:10:03 So technically, the timeline makes sense in that it was posted after Yumen Long's death, because there are a lot of other leaked videos that people found the original videos to have been posted before his passing. So it wouldn't make sense because, I mean, time just doesn't work like that. But timeline-wise, it makes sense. However, a lot of people are saying,
Starting point is 01:10:19 you can clearly see that this was not in China. You can clearly see that this is not in Beijing. Other people are saying this Thai woman, like she has nothing to do with this case. If you look at her other previous videos, it has nothing to do with her. But even that has been debunked. So people are arguing, well, actually, we don't know that.
Starting point is 01:10:36 We don't know any of that. person who posted it hasn't come forward to say that. How do we know that? How do we know if you want to muddy the waters of a conspiracy? What would you do? Pump out other stuff. Pump out more conspiracies. Make it so crazy that nobody knows what's true and what's not true. Others are saying, well, the Thai woman posted it because she might have friends in China who are like, I don't know what to do with this video because I can't post it. You got to post it. Yeah, I think this really has to come down to what each person believe. I think you're right. It does come down to what each person believes, but I also think that it doesn't really matter if the video is true or not, because I think
Starting point is 01:11:12 these circumstances around his death are suspicious enough. I think even if videos are getting debunked left and right, I don't think that should make anyone feel like his death was a drunk accident like the police claim, unless there is factual information, evidence that comes out that says he was. I think that this feels like we could go in a loop. You know, people are saying, well, obviously, the government is spreading misinformation because if they spread such crazy misinformation and then they debunk it, then it's like, oh, now all the information must be fake or it must all be crazy. Or sometimes people think the government could be spreading this conspiracy to get even more outlandish because the general population is not going to believe that aliens came down
Starting point is 01:11:57 from the skies to do something. So they think there's a lot of cat and mouse between even the censoring party and the censored people, but I don't know. if we have to go with the safest option, which is, let's say, the P-Pol videos are in fact completely debunked. They do not exist or they don't exist in the context of this case. This is not Yumen Long. This has nothing to do with this case. It's just a random video that has been connected. Let's say that's the truth. Then what connects Song Yiren to this entire incident other than the fact that she may or may not have lived in the same building? She may or may not have moved out nine months ago. There's lots of celebrities.
Starting point is 01:12:36 that live inside of this apartment complex, what places her at this dinner party? August 10th, she uploads a series of photos. So this is exactly one month before Yumen Long's passing. And I don't think that she knew this. It's clear that she doesn't because, you know, when you upload photos, you can upload live photos. And when people click on them,
Starting point is 01:12:55 it's like that awkward three seconds of motion and you can hear some things in the background. There's a lot of selfies of her where, I don't know, maybe it's an artistic choice, but I would just never upload those of live photos. It's not cool. She just looks like she's posing very awkwardly. And then she posts a series of them.
Starting point is 01:13:13 So some of them are selfies of her. Some of them are photos of all the food that she's been eating. And you can hear people in the background. They're like mini little videos. The first one that has been a giant point of contention is of her taking pictures of food. And she's talking while taking this picture. And you hear her saying, he keeps resisting. He's still resisting.
Starting point is 01:13:34 Resisting what? Who is he? Mm-hmm. Then another live photo, you can hear near the end. It sounds like someone saying, is painful or what? Like, it's hurting or what? It sounds a little aggressive is what people say. And then there's almost like this smack noise right before it.
Starting point is 01:13:51 Like, it's painful or what? Now, some people are saying it doesn't sound like it's painful or what. It kind of maybe sounds like hurting. People are pointing out you can kind of hear pain or some variation of hurt and some variation of a slap. It's not entirely clear, but you can almost also hear someone say no or something along that line. This has been a huge point of contention. Now, in another live photo, people think that someone in the back is saying, why did you kidnap Long Long, which is Yumen Long's nickname.
Starting point is 01:14:24 I will say that one is a little bit more debatable as people are saying, well, I don't hear it. Some people are saying I absolutely hear it. It's been back and forth. But the he keeps resisting one, it's clear. The audio is like as clear as this podcast. And there's another picture that has also been in that little photo dump timeline is she's at a sushi restaurant and you see a little cloth on top of someone's phone. And that phone is very specific. It's an iPhone with this silicone orange phone case on it.
Starting point is 01:14:56 And that's the same month, Yumeneng took a picture. Someone's taking a picture of him taking a picture and it's the same phone case. I've never seen one singular person outside of Yul Meng Long have this. specific phone case. No, because the new iPhone is orange. Yes. So that's common. But this is before the new iPhone came out, which is very uncommon to see someone have a orange, bright orange phone. It's like an orange juice color silicone phone case. So it's like a very specific texture. It's a very specific look and it's sitting on the table and there's a little like rolled hand towel on top of it, which makes people believe that he's still resisting. He doesn't have control over his phone. They took his
Starting point is 01:15:35 phone and they're slapping him around to do whatever it means. These are the live photos that make Song Yiren part of the 17 list. This is it. Now, she does go back and she edits this original post. These pictures are still boldly up. I mean, I don't know if it's just maybe she thinks it makes her look less guilty if she doesn't take it down, but they're still up. The comments read, this is the most popular Song Yeran will ever be. Who are you talking about resisting? Who's resisting, huh? explain who is resisting others are commenting hell is empty because all the demons are here netizens also report that song iran has a personal alternate account on wabo where she allegedly starts asking people who are questioning her online so let's say songy ren someone's commenting
Starting point is 01:16:20 songy ren why are you doing this why were you there tell us why are you so evil and then this random account that people have connected with hongy ren keeps commenting what are you to the person who hates songy ren what are you If you don't want your personal information exposed, be good. Otherwise, you won't even know how you died. Damn. It's unclear if this account is truly hers and if these messages were actually sent. We don't even really know where she is right now.
Starting point is 01:16:46 Clearly, she has not been detained. She has not been really questioned. Sometimes her social media accounts IP show that her location is in Jiangsu, China. Other times it shows Japan. So people were very briefly confused. Like, is she fleeing the country? Did she flee to Japan to try and get away from all of this? or is she changing her VPN so that she can throw people off from her location?
Starting point is 01:17:07 Song Yeran has come out to state that she has nothing to do with any of this. In her statement, she says, recently I've been bombarded with online rumors, accusing me of introducing these big bosses to entertainers and luring people to drink and conspiring, fleeing abroad to Japan, even calling me a murder. These rumors and obscenities are suffocating me, significantly impacting my work, my daily life.
Starting point is 01:17:28 I'm experiencing unbearable online violence. In reality, I wasn't there. I wasn't at the dinner. Like everyone else, I only learned of you, Meng Lung's passing that morning. To offer condolences to the deceased and to clarify matters, I hereby issue the following warning regarding these online rumors. The background noise in the live photos are not related to the incident. One photo in question, it was me and three of my friends having dinner at a public restaurant.
Starting point is 01:17:56 During the meal, one of my friends was complaining about her husband. So she's saying, you know, he's still resisting. Oh, the friend is saying her husband is still resisting? Yeah, which is kind of crazy. What? Yeah. I thought the best case scenario for her defense, the best case would be like, oh, I was talking to this guy and he doesn't like me, but I'm still going to pursue him. He's still resisting.
Starting point is 01:18:19 It's still predatory and it's still alarming to say in that phrase. But I can't think of, or like maybe a deal. You're like trying to get a deal done and you're like, oh, he's still resisting the con. It's still weird. But, like, the way that she said my friend was talking about her husband, it makes it even more unbelievable. What is your husband resisting? Maybe he's resisting buying a Porsche. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:18:41 You know, but it's just the amount of coincidences in these live photos don't make sense. Another photo, she says, I was eating with my assistant in a restaurant. There were waiters and other guests around. I don't even know. I was completely unaware of what was being said at the time. So she's saying the smacking sounds and the what, is it painful or what? she's saying i don't know those are just like waiters and other people at the restaurant when i was recording this i was taking this photo i have nothing to do with it she said i used to live on a high
Starting point is 01:19:10 floor in that building i didn't live in that unit where people are pointing out the pictures of the clothing that they saw that matches you ming lung she says i lived on a high floor so this is like her way of disproving it she's like i lived on a high floor that's where i took photos of my daily life but i moved out nine months ago i haven't lived there in a very long time there are some low-light photos circulating on the internet. Those are not of me. This seems like she's referring to the P-Pol videos. I am a Chinese citizen.
Starting point is 01:19:38 I have been in Beijing since the incident, and I have not fled abroad. I don't know any so-called political tycoons. At work, I have always relied on myself, and I have not done anything weird. After being cyber-bullied, I've never deleted or edited any content or photos I posted on social media. I just, I want to thank the social media platforms for their legal and regulatory cleanup of rumors after the incident. Because of my contract with the former agency expired in June this year, I was unable to speak from the company or studio. In response to this urgent emergency, I believe that if I come out to clarify, it might have been easier to focus
Starting point is 01:20:13 on me. So she's saying the reason that I didn't come out forward sooner to talk about all of this and to try to disprove all these rumors is because I thought that if I came out during the wake of this tragedy, all the attention would be on me. And it would fall into larger scale online bullying and questioning. So I decided to wait until the dust settles before responding. Spreading rumors and online violence will only cause more innocent people to be implicated and hurt. After going through so much, I really hope that the person who spread rumors can apologize. I've reported the case to the public security department and have entrusted a lawyer to take legal measures. In short, she denies all allegations. She says that she's still in Beijing. She has nothing to do with you Meng
Starting point is 01:20:52 's passing. In fact, if you utter so much as a word about it, she's probably going to sue you. That's her threat at least. I will say September 28th, a new drama. The moment I met you starring Song Yeran went up and immediately gets taken down 48 hours later. People are boycotting this drama to hell and back. What's crazy is she's just gone back to posting normal photo dumps of her daily life. Really?
Starting point is 01:21:17 Acting like none of this is happening. People are commenting no more live photos. Oh, so you're just going to pretend nothing happened? And they also bring up Dylan Wing in a lot of her comment. So I was like, oh my gosh, what is happening with Dylan Wing? If you guys don't know, Dylan Wing is another very beloved actor in China. And he's huge. He also did a lot of fantasy shows too, very good at acting.
Starting point is 01:21:39 But Dylan Wang and Song Yiren were on a reality TV show together previously. And this clip is so weird. He is sharing the story about how he was invited to a gathering at Song Yeran's house initially, previously before all of this. And everybody is like, oh my gosh, like what's going on? And she's like, yeah, I mean, it was like this weird, you know, she was having a party and the whole time, Song Yirang is sitting next him and she starts looking very uncomfortable.
Starting point is 01:22:03 It's like she starts fidgeting. She starts taking sips of her tea. She starts looking side to side and kind of smiling sheepishly. And he's not exposing her for anything. He's just like, there was this one incident where she was saying, you guys are tired. Everyone come over and I prepared these foot baths for everyone. Okay, just to clarify, Dylan Wang and Song Yeran is on a reality show.
Starting point is 01:22:24 They're sitting there sharing a story with a group of us. other celebrities and this story is making so weird and looking a little uncomfortable because it's not a good positive story about her. Yeah. And so he's like, you know, I thought it was so sweet of her because we had been working all day and she's like, I just want to do something nice for everyone. Like I just want to get a foot bath for you, right? So he goes over to the party and everyone's like, there's a foot bath and he's like, oh, this is so sweet. Everyone's like, put your feet in the bath. Put your feet in the foot bath. He's like, oh. Is this a common thing or no for Americans or no? A foot bath? Oh, maybe perhaps not. It's like a
Starting point is 01:22:58 soaking tub with hot water. It's like maybe it's a more, I don't know. Yeah, it's a very common thing we do growing up. Like after a long day, steamy hot pot of hot water, you dip your feet in there. It's like relaxes your whole body. It's like, also in Korea, it's, they say it releases toxins. I guess it would be like taking a regular bath, but obviously just your feet. You just roll up your pants, right?
Starting point is 01:23:20 Yes. So it's like a very relaxing, calming, you know, treatment. I do want to say there's no like sexual connotations or anything. weird about a foot bath. It's just a foot bath. And it's like you go to a manicure or pedicure. And so he's like, okay, everyone is very excited about me putting my feet in the foot bath, right? And there's a lot of people there. So he's like, okay, he rolls up his pants and puts his feet in the foot bath. And everyone starts laughing and cheering wildly, as if, like,
Starting point is 01:23:47 this is the most revolutionary thing that has ever taken place. And yes, Dylan Wang is a revolutionary person. But, like, him putting his feet in a foot bath is, it wouldn't warn. aren't such a response. So he's looking around really uncomfortably and confused and turns out it was a very mean prank. Every single person had dipped their stinky feet into that foot bath
Starting point is 01:24:10 before Dylan Wang and this was I guess some sort of, I don't even know what kind of joke this was. It seems like it was some UN's idea where, you know, this is her way of, I don't know what it was. It's just really bizarre story. It's just, I think that it's just
Starting point is 01:24:25 not nice. And so she looks uncomfortable because her entire celebrity persona is being this nice sweet girl and now people are saying Dylan Wang has warned us from the beginning he probably didn't know anything dark but he probably knew that she was not exactly who she presents of this nice girl next door and he shared that story as like this is weird like I felt uncomfortable by that and I didn't like that which is understandable and people have been commenting his name in the comments they've been bringing up this clip and she's still acting like nothing has happened going about posting her normal life and to do that you really have to know the right people which again comes up we think that her parents the internet thinks that her
Starting point is 01:25:08 parents are heavily politically connected and on top of that she has a very close friend of hers this is the person that got her into the Beijing film academy director Chang the rare hair director yes from the we chat text messages see they're all running the same circle these people that's fine and they're all such close friends they were friends and she was 13 he was like 30 something what can you be friends about so he gets her into the Beijing film academy they're very close friends since then and that places both him and her and shinchi all at the scene of the crime allegedly but there's another one there is a famous singer by the name of fan shi chi yeah fan shichi we're going to call him singer
Starting point is 01:25:55 Fun. Singer Fun has the world's strangest picture that I've ever seen in my life. Do you know that they actually were from the same? Yes, they're from the same. So they were in the, I think it's Superboy, the same show that is what got them famous. Yu Meng Long is placed number 10. Fan Shici was place number one. Like they know each other from the very beginning. And it seems like they've had somewhat of a friendship since the very beginning. Like everyone assumed that they were close friends. There didn't seem to be any sort of bad blood or any sort of tension on that show. it seemed like they got along well. And periodically throughout their career,
Starting point is 01:26:29 I think they've had run-ins, and nobody had any suspicion of anything bizarre happening. But there is this very strange picture of Singer Fun. I think it's the world's strangest picture. It's a selfie of him in the car with sunglasses on. I don't think it's particularly an attractive picture, but the caption reads, ever since I was little,
Starting point is 01:26:47 I swear that I would kill anyone who's more handsome than me. Until today, my sword still hasn't been used. Hashtag fun, she-chi. hashtag early days hashtag just handsome So this is the type of guy that he is Okay But then recently what placed him at that dinner party
Starting point is 01:27:04 Was this leaked video There's lots of voices in the leaked video And people are saying This is the torture before Yu Meng Long's death A lot of people are saying There's just no way that Yu Meng died from falling off the fifth floor That's been a huge conspiracy
Starting point is 01:27:16 Is that people have this theory That he was tortured to either A Get information out of him Such as a USB You remember I went over that theory People think that you Meng Long finally found money laundering evidence between Shin Chi and everybody else, and he downloaded it into a USB and said, I want out of this. I don't want any of this. I don't want to go to drinking parties with anyone.
Starting point is 01:27:36 I just want to have a normal career. Keep me out of this. He brings the USB. They want to get the USB out of him. He swallows it and they're trying to torture him to see if maybe he can spit it up. Maybe he needs to tell them if there's another copy elsewhere. That's been a huge running theory. Another running theory is that they're just torturing him because they like it
Starting point is 01:27:57 or perhaps they want him to consent to sleeping with him and he just won't. There's this audio, leaked audio, where you hear what sounds like singer Fun's voice and it's saying, you're lucky that I didn't beat you to death. As a man, it's just a little blood. What's the big deal? It's not a fucking thing. A lot of people say it sounds just like Singer Fun. and it is a very venomous way of talking.
Starting point is 01:28:25 I don't know if this is AI generated. I don't know. I mean, with cases these days, specifically cases where authorities will not come out and confirm or deny anything, it's getting so crazy with AI. The amount of times that we have to look frame by frame to see if we can spot
Starting point is 01:28:42 any sort of discrepancy that would indicate that it's AI generated, but even then, it's not like I specialize in discovering that. Like, I barely know any. anything so it's just been so difficult and there's so many we've run into even like there are real photos and then people use AI to make that photo move so now it's like oh that looks like the video because it looks just like that photo and then we have to look frame by frame and then we turn out it was
Starting point is 01:29:07 AI it was fake I don't know how it's going to be in I don't know six months like I mean six months is bad like six years would be so yeah yeah so bad this one specifically um oh i think it was we were talking to you about it it was the craziest thing we were all sitting there and i was like something about this is so weird this is the video that gets singer fun roped into all of this he's saying all of this and yu meng long you hear dog howling and then yu meng long's voice comes out and it's the weirdest calmest voice and he says oh Fuli is here to save me Fuli is his dog
Starting point is 01:29:54 So people were saying Listen to this entire leaked video This guy, Singer Fon, is torturing Yumeng Long, bleeding, making him bleed He's like, oh, blood's nothing, right? And then the dog starts barking And Yumen Long is like, My dog is here to save me
Starting point is 01:30:09 And then you hear just seconds and minutes of the sound of a dog howling And Yumen Lung wailing, like sobbing. And it sounds like, like his dog is being tortured in front of him. That's what it sounds like. Right. But then it gets confusing because that whole part where he says,
Starting point is 01:30:31 Fully is here to save me, his dog's name Fully, that's from his live stream. So we don't know how much of this video is accurate. Singer Fun saying that, it sounds like him, could be AI, but it sounds like him, but it could be AI. We don't know. And then this part seems like it was edited in because it sounds just like him saying it in his live stream where he's cooking and then he sees his dog and he's like oh phileas here to save me and it's just calm it doesn't match the tone of the rest of the video but then when you have the dog howling and you meng long crying it sounds like it yeah it sounds like him crying so it's like what is it possible that 80% of this video is true and the 20% is edited is it possible that 90% is true is it possible that only 50% is true and if any part of it is true that's our
Starting point is 01:31:19 very alarming. And then there has been this conspiracy that's been running around, which I've been talking to you about, about people saying, oh, well, it's been debunked. Well, has it really been debunked? Who said it's debunked? Another big problem with this case is there are speculations that the people in power, perhaps even the government, they take a very real audio clip and they intentionally fake it. Because they're like, this audio clip is probably going to get out there somehow. Someone's leaking information, so it's going to get out. So why don't we put it out first, but we insert some fake audio throw it out there some internet sleuth is going to say well wait this is fake this is fake and now this whole audio that would have been leaked as real is now fake yeah because we edited in this random little word in there yeah that you can hear from his other live stream yeah that's a very easy way for them to invalidate anything that's even real right and it's a very smart way of doing it because now it makes everybody question and i see people fighting in the comments So it's been a whole thing of like how much of it can we trust even if it is debunked and like what part of it is debunked?
Starting point is 01:32:26 It doesn't mean the whole video is debunked. We don't know. But it does connect to another leaked video. So in the video, people believe that fun, singer fun was torturing you Meng Long and later tortured the dog in front of you Meng Long, ultimately killing the dog in front of you Meng Long. And the reason that people believe that part of the audio is real is because there's another. video recording outside of you meng long's residential window and this is from allegedly a neighbor of umeng long and again this could be fake this could be real this could be half fake we don't know but you just hear muffled wailing and it sounds like umeng long sobbing fully i'm so sad i can't
Starting point is 01:33:07 do this i'm so miserable fully fully is his dog's name there's so much blood you you kill my dog i'm going to insert the audio but just a trigger warning skip ahead maybe 30 seconds no maybe like seconds if you don't want to hear it. I don't know how good AI content is getting, but this sounds sound very visceral. It doesn't sound like AI generated screaming. It sounds gut-wrenching. But this makes people believe people believe that Singer Fun is there and that they killed you Menglone's dog to get him to comply. People are now asking Singer Fun in his comments, what is 12 years of friendship to you?
Starting point is 01:34:17 your shameless betrayal and lies have been exposed. But what's crazier is that four days after you Meng Long's passing, Singer Fun posts on Weibo, I'm very happy. Are you guys happy? If you're happy, are you ready to meet me in Chengdu? Which was for his next concert
Starting point is 01:34:34 that sold exactly 15 tickets. The comments all read, his friend is dead. What is this motherfucker happy about? Ultimately, only 15 tickets were sold for that concert. They had to cancel the entire thing. His studio tried to make it seem like he had to cancel it because he's sick. But all the net is in comments read,
Starting point is 01:34:53 Oh, you're not feeling well? I hope you don't make it. Hope the disease defeats you. ASAP, you must not get through this. Hi, Ting. People think it's weird that he has not made any sort of big statement disproving any of this. And the one thing that people think could debunk that singer fun is there. The docs.
Starting point is 01:35:14 If this audio is not real, then the dogs are fine. Where are you Meng Lung's beloved dogs? Like he loves these dogs. An employee of the agency that you Meng Lung was signed with, the one that everybody hates right now, and a supposed close friend of Yul Mang Longs, she's like, I work at the agency,
Starting point is 01:35:32 but I've been a good friend of Yumen Lung forever. She says, in fact, there was a time where I was really sad and I had some bad thoughts and he was the one that stopped me. He was the one texting me. And so I don't believe that he would ever self-execis. So it must have been a drunken accident. Basically, that's her whole stance on all of this. This was like the message that we're seeing when this first happened.
Starting point is 01:35:54 She's the first one to come on and say, this could not be self-exit because Yumanlo saved me when I had the thought. But she's so convinced that it is a drunk accident, which people are saying that doesn't make sense because if you work at the agency and you are a so-called close friend of Yumen Long's, you would know that he would not drink that much right before a CCTV giant performance said he has the next day on a government-run television program. So you would know that.
Starting point is 01:36:20 People don't like her because the dots are not connecting. But some people are open to it. They say, well, if you're such a close friend, can you tell us that you Meng Long's dogs are fine? Because then maybe we don't need to cancel Singer Fun and maybe we are cyberbullying him. Maybe he's innocent. Just let us know where the dogs are.
Starting point is 01:36:38 Are they okay? And she comes out to say, the dogs are fine, okay? They're being taken care of by a close. friend of you meng long what's very interesting right off the bat is that her post are not being censored anyone asking about the dog their posts are getting buried it's getting deleted it's getting it's getting it's getting wishy-washy on different platforms sometimes it goes down quicker than others but she's doing full on posts about you meng long's dogs and being like don't worry guys umeng long is gone but his dogs are here and they're fine and they're with his friend
Starting point is 01:37:11 the post are up so people start asking okay well if the dog are fun can you just ask that friend for a photo of the dogs we just want a photo of the dogs to make sure that they're okay a photo a video just disapproved a lot of things yeah just give us time and date and a photo of the dogs and we're good and she starts commenting back you guys are so weird you don't think that you're so weird and ridiculous when you minglo was alive you didn't even care about him but now that he's gone everyone cares about his dogs what do you mean such a bizarre response just give us a picture of his dogs it's very evasive to say the least.
Starting point is 01:37:48 This lady is also allegedly very close with Kimmy before he passed away suspiciously, and she just keeps repeating that all of this was a drunk accident and you guys are weird for wanting pictures of the dogs, for wanting proof of life of the dogs. She's a screenwriter for the agency, but others have been coming out to say, I don't think so.
Starting point is 01:38:07 I think she's politically well-connected. I think she is actually running a lot of the show behind the scenes because the way that she's coming out to make these bold statements and claims, you're not just a screenwriter from the agency. Even the chairman of the agency stepped down because of all this happening. And this screenwriter gets to go online and say all sorts of things and she hasn't been fired. They're just letting her do this.
Starting point is 01:38:32 Are you the one running things? And to that, I mean, you could just play it off as a very goofy rumor. Like if you are genuinely just like an employee at a company and people accuse you of being Jeff Bezos, it's just like a, this is so goofy. this is ridiculous. Like, I'm not even going to pay attention to it because of how unrooted in reality it is. That would be a typical response. But instead, she starts commenting, like, someone who's saying stuff like that probably
Starting point is 01:38:55 has never been inside of an office before. No common sense at all. It's very defensive. Yeah. Which makes people think, is it true then? It doesn't make sense. She's also very unhinged, I will just say. She goes on to post a certificate of a star that she had purchased.
Starting point is 01:39:14 And she says, prince has his own planet now and it's just a picture of a star certificate yeah like you know how you can purchase like a star yeah in the in the space and it's for you meng loong and there is a giant star emoji on there covering something which is already strange and on the certificate it reads dear you meng long you are everything when you are with me and everything is you when you are not does that sound like just a thing that you do when you work together like you are just colleagues you're a screenwriter for an agency he's talent for the agency sure you guys can have a friendship but to to put that on the star is very odd people looked up the coordinates and the star is um you know
Starting point is 01:39:57 how should put that giant emoji covering it people look up the coordinates and that star is not just called the yumen long star it's yumeng long and her name together on the star Then at the very end, there is another word. It's an Arabic word. I'm going to butcher it. Like she literally named the start. It's almost like Stephanie plus panda. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:40:20 This is so chilling. Yeah. And she puts this Arabic word, yeah, for me. Apparently it means like you bury me. It's supposed to be a very romantic and somber way of saying, I hope to die before you so that you can bury me. because if you leave first, I can't live without you. It's like a very strong, romantic gesture of like,
Starting point is 01:40:46 I will not be okay if you're gone. So you must be the one to bury me. Netizens were so irked by all of this because, well, for one, it's just creepy. Like, what do you mean you guys work together and you bought a star and you're putting all these different romantic connotations? And you seem like you're more higher up in the agency than you want to lead on.
Starting point is 01:41:04 And also, why can't you just give us a picture of the dogs? And we hate this star. netizens were so irked that they bought their own star and they named it little fish which is you meng long's nickname you means fish in china so they call in little fish now side note it is said that she has a second account that she uses frequently and september 10th she writes the last time is terrifying you won't know it's the last time there is no goodbye no signs just regrets good night that's a very cryptic message before Everything went down on the next day. Yeah, before the first post goes up at around 11 in the morning the next day. She posts this allegedly on her alleged second account. There's no way to prove that this is her account. There's no way to prove that this has any relation to the Eumenloon case.
Starting point is 01:41:56 But if it is, it seems like she knows a lot. Yeah, this woman is so, so weird. Yeah. Just like the dog thing to me is the biggest red flag because that's such an easy thing. Because she inserted herself into this whole dog thing. She's like, no, the dogs are not dead. You guys stop talking about the dogs are dead. Like somebody's taking care of.
Starting point is 01:42:15 And then as soon as people asking for a photo, she got so mad. And she's yet to stand a photo, which is such an easy thing to do. She could easily just take a video of herself going to see the dog. Yeah. Or you just even ask the friend for a photo. It doesn't add up. This places her also on that list. People don't know if she was there that night.
Starting point is 01:42:36 People don't know if perhaps she just knows a lot, coordinated a lot. A lot of netizens are on the belief that she knew more than she's leading on, that she knew more than September 11th morning came around, paparazzi released the information. They think that either she was called that night or she was there that night. Then we have the red-haired director. We're coming back to him. So the reason that he's placed at the scene is because he's always harassing young men.
Starting point is 01:43:03 It seems like he was very into you Meng Long. another thing is there is a picture of him at a fashion show the next day after you meng long's passing and these are paparazzi photos and there appears to be what looks like blood on his shoes like if you were to step in blood and it would dry on your shoes it's not like splattered where he would even notice it's not so obvious where it's like oh no that seems like a design choice or that seems like this it just seems like on the very edge near the sole of his shoe coming up the ridges a little bit of his sneakers it looks like he stepped in something dark and red.
Starting point is 01:43:38 It is weird. I mean, I don't remember last time I got red on my shoes. It's a very specific color. Yeah, that is weird. Yeah. It's not like brown and dirt. It's red. And he's best friends with Tonya Ren, who has also been placed at the scene. So everyone, and remember September 10th that night, he posts delicious, like yummy on Waybo.
Starting point is 01:44:00 So again, that puts him at that scene. And then there's a new photo that starts circulating. In neighborhood forums and later on social media platforms, one of the biggest questions was, who the hell are these two guys holding hands at the scene of the crime? Which, by the way, it's not really a scene of the crime because the investigation has closed it as a drunk accident, but most people think it's the scene of the crime. They're like, who are these two dudes? Can you explain the photo again?
Starting point is 01:44:23 Yes. The situation, what are we talking about? Of course. So this is, a lot of neighbors had gone to that building to try and see what's going on, investigate, and all the police are trying to tape it off. They're not even letting security in. it's very controlled but outside the building you see building 18 and at the very bottom right before the door opens before you get into the building there's a bunch of police officers scattered about
Starting point is 01:44:45 and you see this man in white and he has his back turned toward the cameras you can't really see his face and he's sitting on what looks like the ledge it's a little sidewalk ledge and then a man in black is standing next to him and you only see his side profile and he's there he's like holding his hand They look like they're caressing comforting each other. But it's not this deep sense of profound comfort of we are in immense grief. Let's cry together. It's almost like those jokes of the young couple at Disneyland lines. Like you always see that weird high school couple that's like all up on each other.
Starting point is 01:45:21 And you're like, whoa, this is Disneyland. What's going on? Like, please, let's be appropriate. Like, it feels like that. It's like they're just like holding each other's hands. It's not that inappropriate, but it's like, it's weird. It's like a calmer comforting. The feeling I got was, like, I thought maybe one of them is the one that put their shirt on Yuman Lo, like they're the friends of Yuman Lo, and they're just looking at the situation, comforting each other by holding their hands.
Starting point is 01:45:46 Like, what the fuck? But it doesn't feel like a deep profound. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I'm in grief because no one slumped over. I feel like if you're really that sad of a friend passing and seeing that friend pass, I feel like you'd be slumped over and someone would be like, like patting your back yeah yeah i don't think it'd be like here's my hand hold my hand while you're standing next to me yeah so people thought it was really weird but they're like who the hell are these two guys holding hands because they must have been at the dinner party the guy in white obviously
Starting point is 01:46:17 you can't see him because his back is turned to the camera but the man in black you can see his side profile and people are saying it looks just like director ching now a little bit of context the man in black has black hair director chang has bright flaming red hair and he comes out to say you guys I have had this flaming red hair for years
Starting point is 01:46:40 I've never had black hair I didn't have black hair September 10th September 11th and I don't have black hair now people are saying okay well we didn't see you September 10th and September 11th so we don't know if maybe you just dyed your hair back but I will say the day after when he did go to the fashion show he did have red hair
Starting point is 01:46:57 so he's saying that's not me but people still believe he was there that night because of the delicious comment that he made on wibo that random post he's friends with hong yi ren he's known to be very creepy and a lot of people believe that he was trying to sleep with umeng long and allegedly i don't know if it's true or not i read that when kimi passed away he also posted delicious on wibo not only that he was obsessed with kimi as well people are saying that he His obsession moved on from Kimi after his passing to Yumang Long. He was obsessed with Kimi, still posts about Kimi on his anniversary of his passing,
Starting point is 01:47:40 posts all sorts of nonsense. And this has actually been a huge point of contention. After Yu Meng Long's passing, he posts about Kimi. And people are like, why is he posting about Kimi? Because it's making him look more suspicious. So not only do we think that you are connected to Yu Meng Long's passing, We also think you're reminding us that we think that you're connected to Kimi's passing. Why would you do that?
Starting point is 01:48:03 Yeah, because the whole world thinks you did this to you, Mano. And you brought up another singer that passed under very suspicious circumstances. That's a really weird action when people are thinking, yeah. People are thinking that's his way of telling people, the very powerful people. You know you need to protect me because he's getting a lot of the heat. Him and Song Yiren and the singer fun are getting a lot of heat right now. Because there's just a lot more to dig through. A lot of the other people, yes, they're powerful.
Starting point is 01:48:34 They're well connected allegedly. But there's not a lot of... There's not a lot of conversation about them because you don't really know that much about them. You don't have them doing interviews. You don't have them doing outrageous things on camera. You don't have social media posts to study. So the message is not for the public. It's for those people who's involved, you know, allegedly.
Starting point is 01:48:54 Wow. It's the allegation is. like hey you remember what i know let's not forget what i know what exactly is he posting he's posting about like i've talked to kimi's parents posted this video because he should have turned 37 this year but he's gone and i'm just posting he will forever be youthful which again people think is weird because he does have an obsession with young boys men right it was just like very vague and weird stuff to the point where people are like okay we think he's posting this to remind these powerful people, since he is one of the few getting dragged through the mud,
Starting point is 01:49:32 don't forget that I know a lot of stuff too. But if he's not the guy in the black shirt, because people are saying, we think that he was there, but we don't think he's the guy in the black shirt. I mean, like, the side profile is alarmingly similar, but you're right, he does have black hair and director Chang always has red hair. Who are these two guys holding hands at the scene of the crime? That's where Ji Guanguang comes in. Ji Guanguang is the owner of the apartment building in which Yu Meng Lung passes away from.
Starting point is 01:50:01 He's a writer, screenwriter. His biggest work was, I think it's a show called Come On You Are the Best. He's also written some books. According to an online detective, he is the homeowner, and he was the host of the dinner party, and he's not necessarily the most successful, but that just means he's well-connected. He's politically powerful. He loves Rolex watches. He loves spending a lot of money, but he doesn't really have the same.
Starting point is 01:50:25 success to back it up so like he must be one of the politically well-connected people as well in there it just doesn't make sense so those two watches were allegedly his yes in y monglo's pocket yes if it is true that there were Rolex watches um people think that it was his he he seems to be a huge friend of the brand Rolex that is so weird now she Tao is Ji guang-gwang's husband so they think that ji guang-gwang is the man in white and she Tao his husband is the man in black comforting him. So they are at the scene. But we don't really know that much about him.
Starting point is 01:51:02 We just have this rumor that Ji Guanguang's father was the former premier of the state council. So it seems like there has already been allegations at the forefront since long time ago that he is very politically well-connected. But being politically well-connected is not necessarily a bad thing until now. So they get placed at that dinner party. And Ji-Wong-Gang doesn't really mean. make any statements that are convincing, he just goes off to immediately turn off his comment
Starting point is 01:51:30 section. And people think that is very suspicious. There's also another photo of him where it's a very blurry photo of him inside of his apartment unit. And it looks just like what the apartment's units look like in this building. It looks like the window that you Meng Long fall out of in the back of this photo. So we've got Ji Guangdong, we've got his husband. And that husband is definitely not director cheng but director chang is placed at the scene of the crime and then he goes on to keep fighting it he's like i'm not going to shut up about this i'm going to post these we chat photos i'm going to show you guys my messages and that is how tian hai rong gets placed at the scene of the dinner party the billionaire widow yeah that allegedly also wanted uman hirong her husband is
Starting point is 01:52:20 was at one point one of the richest men in china he went to prison for money laundering. He died suspiciously in prison and she inherited billions of dollars. She has been friends with the red hair director for at least the past 20 years. And people are saying she is the money behind all of this. I mean, yes, all of these people are politically well connected. What does that mean? They have boatloads of money. They've got a lot of it. But they're using their political connections to get away from this, Scott Frey. They're going to have the authorities not investigate. They're going to shut it down online. It's going to be censored.
Starting point is 01:52:56 But what about her? If you've got no political connections. So people are saying everyone can be the fall guy. You can be the fall guy. If that people are thinking that you Meng Long was murdered, let's give them a murderer. That's the easiest way out of this. Why does it have to be this heart? Why do we have to have all these rumors and these conspiracy theories?
Starting point is 01:53:17 They want a murder? Give them a murder. That's usually what bad people do. So why is there no murder being placed at the scene of the crime? Why is there no fall guy? And so you've got people thinking, okay, well, maybe Song Yoran was just a madam that was working in the business, but people are like, there's no way because then she would have been the easiest fall guy. Shinchi, he might be related to the head of the administration. So there's no way he's going to be the fall guy.
Starting point is 01:53:41 Director with the red hair, he's telling them straight up allegedly online, I've got so much information. You don't want me to be the fall guy. Same with the manager, Yuman Lung's manager. Maybe they know too much information. then you've got Ji Guang Gong and his husband, perhaps they're so politically well-connected that they're not going to go down for it. And now you just have Ting Hai Rong.
Starting point is 01:54:01 She's a billionaire, but it's a little bit different in China where billionaires have so much power. They do, but they don't have as much power as they would in America. They are still subject to the head of the administration. At the end of the day, they are not the top dog. And so why can't she go down?
Starting point is 01:54:20 They could just say, hey, she's a creepy widow, and she was obsessed with this guy. He didn't want her because she's older and like maybe he doesn't like her. Whatever, she got enraged. She kicked him off the building. She pushed him off the building. She hired one of these random people off the street
Starting point is 01:54:35 to push him off the building. They could have made her the fall guy. Allegedly, she is the pockets in all of this. Neighbors have reported that people were going around offering tens of thousands of dollars per resident to not talk to any media, to not talk to the police, and to just shut their mouth.
Starting point is 01:54:51 Don't post anything. don't go on Instagram, don't go on reels, don't go on threads, which is where a lot of people have been circulating information. Just shut up and here is money. People did calculations. You're talking about tens of millions of dollars. The only person that would have quick access to that kind of funds is Tian Hiron. It doesn't make any sense. Additionally, some people said that they didn't take the money. There are allegations that netizens there did not take any of the money. They didn't want it, and they were perhaps talking to some reporters, talking, posting a bit online. Their tires were allegedly slashed.
Starting point is 01:55:27 That has been the rumor that's been going around. They've had red paint splashed on their doors, and within days, a lot of the units in this complex go up for sale. These units are going up for sale at crazy discounted rates. People are panic selling. Now, originally, the thought was, well, that makes sense. You have very bad news in an apartment complex. you don't want that to affect your equity in the house. So maybe you want to be the first few to sell before it really starts plummeting and people
Starting point is 01:55:54 all want out. It's kind of like the stock market. Everyone's panic selling. That was the initial thought. With the amount of money that people would be losing, it doesn't make any sense. And also, lots of tragedies happen in Beijing at all sorts of different apartment complexes. And typically, like, you just ride the wave. And like in a year, you won't lose any money.
Starting point is 01:56:15 It doesn't make any sense that they would be panic selling. Unless they're scared to live there. They just don't want to live there because they know it is not what they're telling the internet. So why would you feel safe living there? When the internet is saying, okay, these authorities are saying that he fell drunk, but you know that's not true because you heard things that night. Yeah, I think I read somewhere that it was like the neighborhood before was like they have 90 units that's listed for sale. Overnight, it went to like 153 or something just like boom, doubled. In like 12 hours.
Starting point is 01:56:46 That doesn't make sense. You know, something happened. One neighbor says, I live nearby. I was contacted by them. It's not really disclosed who they are, but they gave us a lot of money. My family, they gave my family a lot of money for not revealing anything. We did hear the sound of something falling down that night,
Starting point is 01:57:05 but security told us that one of the units was just like throwing trash away. So we just assumed it was that. They asked us to ignore the sound. Like I was saying in the beginning of the episode, the reason that people are roping Ting Hairoying into all of this, is that she reposted her we chat screenshots. They don't align with everything that's been happening. That receipt of the Bulgari Hotel restaurant receipt,
Starting point is 01:57:26 that was weird. And so people think, yes, you are a very suspect person, and we think that you were there at the dinner party. But she really seals the deal in the Netizen Opinion Department when she decides to repost a statement from the police officials as a way to inadvertently declare her innocence. She reposts the police statement that they have, officially arrested three people in connection with this case.
Starting point is 01:57:50 Okay, this is like the craziest thing. The police finally come out with their own statement. Previously, everybody's talking for the police, saying the police have concluded that there's no foul play. The police come out weeks later. So in China, the police announcements always coming out in this blue navy blue poster. That's like with a stamp of the police on there. That's the official statement.
Starting point is 01:58:12 And that usually gives you the most credible information, as credible as the police. official statement is. And people thought that it was going to be about you meng long long case. So they're like, okay, this is a long one. We see lots of words. So it must be about you meng long's case and we're finally going to get answers. And they kind of briefly touch about you meng long, but more so they just post three people have been detained in connection with this case. They are being investigated. One detainee fabricated a story that you meng long was set up by others and injured before jumping. Another detainee fabricated a story that he was
Starting point is 01:58:46 thrown off the building. And the last detainee fabricated a story that Yu Meng Long's mother was being held under control, resulting in her not being able to comment on this case. All three of them have been placed under compulsory legal measures by the police. This is, this is like it. That's it. All they write about Yu Meng Long is after Yu Meng Long's accidental fall from the building while intoxicated. Police immediately investigated through scene inspection, forensic examinations, interviews, and reviewing of the surveillance footage, criminal suspicion, has been ruled out. The investigation results were shared with the family who have raised no objections. You Meng Long's mother has also issued a statement through the studio's official Waybo account.
Starting point is 01:59:26 We're going to get more on this mother's statement later on, but people are just saying, I mean, it does not take that many neuropathways to figure out that this statement is not going to be received well. Within an hour or so, there are almost a hundred thousand comments left under the official post, but only like eight of them were viewable to the public. Wow. People have gone to repost it, and a lot of those comments read, you should spend less time on social media and more time investigating crimes. What should I pay attention to if my friend invites me to a dinner party at their apartment in Beijing?
Starting point is 02:00:01 Hey, so you guys saw nothing on the fifth floor? No stairs, no elevator, no surveillance cameras, like, are we seeing anything? Other people comment, there is never any sort of drinking party, only other types of parties. But what's crazy about this is Tien Hiron, repost, the photo of the police bulletin that they had posted on Waybo. So you've got two posts. You've got the police's original Weibo posts of this bulletin board. She reposts that picture.
Starting point is 02:00:28 And people are looking at them too, side by side, and they go, that's really strange. Because on the corner of the police post, on the corner, bottom, you see their Weibo handle, like Beijing, Chaiang Police. Then you go to her picture, and you see, on the corner, her username for Weibo. but it's not a bunch of jumbled words it's not her username on top of the police username which means
Starting point is 02:00:53 she must have had the original bulletin she must have had an original copy of what they were going to post this is crazy because the police don't just give that out to people police don't really go out of their way to give their statements and official postings to people for fun
Starting point is 02:01:09 FOIAs FOIAs FOIAs or not really a thing in China so how could she get that if she doesn't have some sort of power over the police there's some sort of connection with the police officers, especially when you consider a reporter called the police just before this official statement was posted, asking for an update on the case,
Starting point is 02:01:25 just a status update. The police straight up tell them, look, if you're not directly related to you Meng Long or you Meng Long's family, I cannot disclose anything about this case. Just wait for the official announcement like everybody else. So why doesn't Tian Hiron just wait for the official announcement like everybody else and just repost it with their handle on this side
Starting point is 02:01:43 just like everybody else? It doesn't make any sense, especially when you consider that doesn't get censored, but all these different bloggers who are reposting leaked information or even journalists sharing what their sources have told them, their accounts are getting restricted or banned on social media. Fishermen on Weibo, Little Red Book, Dauing, they've all been banned. A lot of them have been deleted. Fishermen are coming out and saying, I'm trying to make a living, selling fish. I go out into the deep ocean, deep sea fishing, I come back, I make little doings, I make little
Starting point is 02:02:18 TikToks to bring people to my dried fish store on TikTok shop. And I have been banned. I've been suspended because Yu means fish. And so people trying to get around the censorship instead of saying Yu Meng Long, they've been calling him little fish. And they have just started banning people that have little fish or fish too often in their freaking live stream or their videos. they just start banning all of them.
Starting point is 02:02:43 Even people who are, they're not even fishing. People who are selling fishing hooks, fishing lines, fishing equipment, fishing boat tour companies, all of them are getting suspended. And they're getting very frustrated. And then that inadvertently would trigger a deletion of accounts that would use other words. So once all the fish accounts are getting banned, people are coming forward and fishermen are very upset and they're losing their livelihood. a lot of people have started calling him something else.
Starting point is 02:03:11 They're like, okay, let's try to find a different word that we could use and one that wouldn't affect too many people. One of the easiest ones was Yu Meng Lung's fan base originally called themselves lemons. And people are like, okay, well, lemons, there's not really lemon sellers. Like you don't really, you just go to the market and you buy a lemon. You're not going to have someone that's like, let me show you how I pick my lemons and I'm going to sell you my lemons online. I mean, I'm sure there's some lemon related businesses, but it's not going to be as vast
Starting point is 02:03:38 as the fisherman. Lemon gets banned. Selling umbrellas gets banned because that is... Yu is rain. Also means rain. Yeah. Um, Meng Leng Lung means hazy.
Starting point is 02:03:51 So a lot of people have been describing him as this whole situation as hazy, as rain, as foggy. A lot of celebrities even that were close with you Meng Lung, they're not allowed to talk out. And I don't think anyone wants them to because, look at what's happening. It's so scary out there. So of course, no one wants their favorite celebrity to say anything and get themselves in a very dangerous position. But a lot of celebrities that were close with you, Meng Long, have gone to post pictures of like foggy skies when it's raining or hazy mornings and they'll just write, what a hazy morning. And it's kind of their way of drawing attention to it saying like, I see it. I also am grieving, but I can't say anything. So it's
Starting point is 02:04:38 just been people have been banning selling umbrellas lemons fish catching fish it said that if you are doing any of those or saying any of those words even if you're not talking about you meng long if you're going at the fish market and you're talking about the different types of seafood that they're selling there it's likely that your live stream is going to lose internet connection one netizen jokes but not really it's depressing they say yeah soon enough they're probably going to even banned selling fish at the market at this rate. A lot of Chinese people actually have a term for all of this and they say it's a serpent eating its own tail. And that's how a lot of times censorship has been described. And like I do want to say, I think we're lucky to live in the U.S.
Starting point is 02:05:24 where censorship is maybe not as obvious of a problem, but censorship exists everywhere. Like even in the U.S. Like there's no such thing as I don't think there's any country that does not have censorship to any varying degree, but they say that when censorship gets really bad, it's a serpent eating its own tail. Because something is getting censored, naturally it causes everyone to wonder, why the hell is this getting censored, which then leads to a bigger conversation of the intent of the censorship, the conspiracy theories, the dark, different allegations and suspicious points, which again could not be true, could be absolutely true, we don't know, but this cycle starts and the conspiracies get darker and bigger.
Starting point is 02:06:07 And then that conspiracy getting censored almost adds credibility to the conspiracy and it's a serpent eating its own tail. And it's like this vicious cycle of just we don't know what's true and everyone just gets hurt in the process. And it's not even like the government really benefits either.
Starting point is 02:06:26 And it instills a lot of fear in citizens. I think the reason that people are very upset about this case is I think there are lots of people who just love you Meng Long and I think there's a lot of people who just don't like injustice, but there's also this extreme fear in citizens of if even this celebrity Yumen Long's death can be covered up, so to speak, what about literally every other citizen
Starting point is 02:06:45 who does not have 25, 26 million followers who care about their well-being? Who cares about them? One comment reads, If it truly were just an accident, why such heavy-handed censorship? I just don't get it. And on that note, I'm going to go through some of the rapid-fire conspiracies that do get a little bit more off the beaten path.
Starting point is 02:07:05 These are conspiracies that I probably don't see as frequently connected to any other case. I think that there were times where I would get into going down the rabbit hole for these theories and then I would have to pull myself out and it felt very disorienting because while it does seem very detached from reality, I don't even know what to believe anymore.
Starting point is 02:07:23 It's just gotten that weird. Some accounts have taken it a little unhinged. There are theories that because you Meng Long's birthday coincides with the head of state that he was used as a sacrifice. People have pulled a clip of the head of the administration in China stating that he believes that soon people will live to be 150 years old and that has drawn a crowd of people to believe that there are ritual sacrifices being performed for the rich and powerful. And I know it sounds crazy, but we have the same exact conspiracy theories in the United States with child sacrifices so that the wealthy could get wealthier and that they can
Starting point is 02:07:59 have more success and all of these things. I think it's just embedded in a lot of humans because I guess that's just what we expect from power. And they say that you can deceive the king of hell and extend your lifespan if you find someone whose horoscope matches you and you guys have the same birthday. The king of hell gets a little bit confused.
Starting point is 02:08:20 So they're like, oh, I guess you're already dead. I'm not going to look for you on earth to bring you back down here. That person, they say, is known as the living mummy. living until it's time for them to be sacrificed. They say that he was killed on September 10th because it coincides with the end of the blood moon. So they think that this was a sacrifice for the head of the administration. Again, it sounds like a very crazy theory. I think we've had similar theories happen in the United States. There's no way for me to even give you any sort of concrete evidence for this type of theory. I don't know. Then there is the 798 cube art museum that comes into question a lot. two weeks after you Meng Long's passing, it was recorded that someone had logged onto his Weibo account, and the amount of posts that he had on his Weibo went down. So two weeks after he passes away, someone just deletes one, like, thread of photos?
Starting point is 02:09:13 That's weird. Which ones? And so people start going cross-referencing, they start looking, and they find it's three photos that are connected to You Meng Long visiting what appears to be a museum. It looks like, um, it actually kind of looks like he's in a rug, store. If you look at these three photos, it's him kind of laying down or posing in front of it looks like red rugs that are hung about and there's like rugs stacked on top of each other. It looks very artsy. At one point you see some sort of silver chains on the side. It looks kind of industrial. Maybe it looks like a rug making factory. But interestingly enough, these are the photos that disappears. Like what's in these photos that's even weird?
Starting point is 02:09:54 They try to trace the timeline of when those photos were posted. And it coincides with when Yumen Long had gone and visited this museum called the 798 Museum. So now netizens want to know, what the hell is the 798 Museum in Beijing? What's going on in that museum? And why would someone want to delete pictures that he took inside that museum? They're not even controversial pictures. They're like modeling shots. They're like celebrity selfies.
Starting point is 02:10:18 Like it doesn't make any sense. People find one review because it was very hard to find what's going on inside that museum. Like people were saying, oh, we think this is what was happening in that museum. but it was definitively like some people were saying no I think that's a different museum there was lots of back and forth of like I don't think that's a museum I think that's a fake picture I think that's AI generated September 6 somebody does review an exhibition
Starting point is 02:10:40 from the website of the art museum see that's another thing people are trying to track down which exhibit he went to and like why they would delete it because art museums have different exhibits yeah it changes all the time yes so if they don't find the exact one that he had went to then like it might not mean anything so they're like trying to find the meaning of this exhibit Like, what is this exhibit?
Starting point is 02:10:59 So they find one from September 6th, which was still the exhibit that was in operation when he had gone. And they say, this reviewer says, location is great, parking is great, transportation is great. Ticket is cheap, I highly recommend. And the photos that the user posts are literally just torture scenes of human bodies. They're not real human bodies, so we think, right? I mean, so I think. But there are some people who think they are. I don't know.
Starting point is 02:11:24 It is just like gruesome, looks like horror. movie, there is one where it just looks like a man's face has just blown apart. And they look very graphic and they look, they look real and they don't look real. They look real in the sense of if I saw that in a movie, it would look very believable. I would say, whoa, that does not look super fake. It doesn't look like a clay figurine. It doesn't look like bad CGI. But they don't look real in the sense of if these are real, the decomposition wouldn't make sense unless they're preserve somehow. So it's like this very weird I know some people are saying
Starting point is 02:12:00 these are real humans but they would have to preserve the human. It's just overall it's a weird exhibit but art is subjective I guess but more than that the organizer for this very gory very bloody exhibit
Starting point is 02:12:16 is Ji Guanguang's husband. The owner of the apartment his husband is the one that runs this exhibit. The guy in the black shirt. Holding Ji Guanguang's hand. People wanted to make sure.
Starting point is 02:12:33 Like, are we sure, though, that this is the exhibit that he went to? They cross-reference photos from this user, and they cross-reference the photos that were deleted on Weibo. And it's pretty clear that that is the exhibit that he visited. Yul Meng Lung did not post any of the gory exhibit, but he posted next to it where there are rugs being hung about. There's these, like, chains that are being hung about. he posted there and so why would they delete that and why does it seem like there's not that much
Starting point is 02:13:02 information about this specific exhibit online for people to see because isn't that the whole point of having an art museum you want everyone to know about this exhibit you want to do press tours you want to do press releases articles you want curators to come into your exhibit and write about it and there's just like nothing that doesn't make sense guess who also is pictured frequently visiting this museum uh they're right here Yes, red hair director. Now, allegedly on the museum's website, this is an allegation, this could be photoshopped, I can't tell you, but it was alleged that before this was taken down, it was announced that Yu Meng Long was supposed to have a show at this museum, an exhibit at this museum, like a collaborative exhibit, from September 6th to September 12th. So like, right when that one ends, he's going to have his exhibit, but after his passing, they removed everything about it is what people are saying.
Starting point is 02:13:53 I don't know. I don't know if people who had gone to that exhibit would come out. I don't know if he would have fans that went because these are his fans who support him. And then they would feel inclined to come out. So I don't know if any of this is true. But there is a rumor that it was called unfinished borders, which people are now definitely reading into it, wondering if people were thinking that his life and exhibit were going to be unfinished. That part, I don't know. But it does, there is a connection between Ji Guang Gong's husband, it seems, to the exhibit. and those pictures being deleted. There's another piece in the museum. This museum has been a huge topic of discussion. There's another piece in the museum. It's an old raggedy jacket that looks like it's been rolled around in dirt. Maybe there's blood on there.
Starting point is 02:14:36 It just looks like it's been soiled. This jacket is just hanging on the brick wall of the exhibit and Yumen Long was pictured, allegedly spotted, wearing a similar looking jacket at the airport before. Some people are saying this art museum feels like a bunch of rich people sick, rich people who probably are into gore who like these very bad, nasty things and they are almost incorporating real-life victimization
Starting point is 02:15:06 and this museum altogether in one piece so blatantly in front of everyone and they might get off on that aspect as well. They're saying, what if Yumeng Long was tortured in this jacket and then they hung it up in the museum because they get off on it because why not? People are wondering if this is just like a rape museum of all the artifacts and product of them essaying and their sick sexual fantasies. That's what people are saying online.
Starting point is 02:15:33 I can't tell you if any of this is true. I will say the jacket does look similar. But that jacket could be just like a, I don't know, a unique lo jacket, a target jacket, like a jacket that everybody wears. I don't know. Like hanging a jacket is like what kind of art is that even so weird. everything's so weird there. Then come the, oh, there's even more about the museum, by the way. There are, there's like this conveyor belt that people have been posting online.
Starting point is 02:16:02 And again, I haven't physically been there. And like, I'm just getting so cautious about AI generated content. So I can't tell you definitively if this is even a picture of the museum. But they say, you know how you go to a dry cleaner? And they have that conveyor belt where they hang the shirts and they push the button and it just rolls. it seems like instead of shirts hanging, it's like skin suits hanging. It looks like someone just rips skinned someone's torso and then hung them on this conveyor belt
Starting point is 02:16:28 and it just keeps moving around and around. And the skin looks very realistic. A lot of medical professionals allegedly have been posting online like, hey, so I work in the medical field. I'm in a research lab and I'm just going to tell you, it's a very good artist or it's something else. So that's what a lot of people have been saying. but overall, they're saying this museum is creepy.
Starting point is 02:16:52 Another one is, there was this one exhibit, a picture going around of an alleged exhibit, where there are just so many shoes. It's not a pair of shoes. Just imagine if you were to just buy one shoe of every pair and fill an entire massive grand ballroom with it. And then each shoe is tied to a red string and they all go up into the ceiling at one focal point
Starting point is 02:17:13 and it's like this mammoth-sized red string shoe. It's very eerie because of how much string there is. You can't even see through the string. And then also it's eerie because you're human and you're like, why is there only one shoe? Why isn't a pair of shoes? Whose shoes are these? Where did you get these shoes?
Starting point is 02:17:30 The shoes look lived in. They look like people wore these shoes for a very long time. So whose shoes are these? People are pointing to one specific shoe, which they believe they are alleging, this is a conspiracy theory, that that is Kimi's shoe. They said that he wore shoes like this very often and they think that that is his. and like we said, the red-haired director was always seen at this museum, and he was seemingly obsessed with Kimi. Additionally, a lot of people think that Kimi's alleged photo from his funeral
Starting point is 02:17:59 many years ago, they think that he was mutilated and tortured to death. That is a conspiracy theory online. They think that it does not appear like he, his body is intact. His family did come out years ago to say, that's not true. Our son was very depressed. I don't know. why people don't want to accept that he was depressed and he self-exited. We didn't want to see his hands. That's why it looks like he has no arms because we asked them to put his hands into the flowers in the casket because they were just bloated and engorged and we didn't like the way that they looked and it was bothering us. And that's why it looks like that. People don't believe that to this day. They think that his casket photos are unnerving. They say that it doesn't look like
Starting point is 02:18:45 he really even has a torso. It looks like he's almost been stuffed with like a cardboard cut out of something to make it seem like his shirt is in place. But again, these are conspiracy theories. And then come the tunnel theories. I feel like every case once the conspiracies start getting a life of its own, there must always be tunnel theories. I know with the Sean Combs case, there was tunnel theories between the tunnel of the Playboy Mansion and his house and everything is always a tunnel. It comes back to a tunnel. But they say, that the museum is connected with an underground tunnel to a very big hotel, the bulgari hotel, the same one that the red-haired director and Tian Hiron had dinner in that night.
Starting point is 02:19:27 They say there is a tunnel, an underground tunnel, so that they can transport him from the hotel to the museum and however they please. I will say when you look at the map, they do seem like in some sort of perpendicular parallel line, but again, cities are built on perpendicular parallel lines, so it's not necessarily the most alarming thing, but I don't know. The Bulgary Hotel has been more or less canceled in Beijing, China right now. There were a few videos that came out from people who claimed to have been in that hotel during that time of, well, a little bit before Yul Meng Long's passing.
Starting point is 02:20:01 And they say that it was weird because you checked into this five-star hotel, one of the alleged reviewers, and they were in the hallway. They hear screaming. They hear all sorts of things. It sounds like someone is getting tortured. And there's like little red droplets. in the hallway floor. Why?
Starting point is 02:20:17 They zoom in on it. It looks like blood. So people are saying that sounds like the people who were allegedly with you meng long. That seems to be connected. Then another person posts another video allegedly at the Bulgary Hotel. But they don't even say that it was at the Bulgary Hotel. They say this is leaked torture video and audio of Yum Meng Long's passing. And you just hear people screaming like spit it out, spit it out, hurry and spit it out.
Starting point is 02:20:41 And this is how the USB theory comes about. of he swallowed a USB and they're trying to get him to spit it out so that he won't have that evidence. But they're just filming the floor of what looks like a hotel floor. The tile is extravagant and the tile is oddly specific. It's an eight point star. So instead of just like a regular star, it has eight different legs on the star. People are like, that is such a specific design. And they start looking into it and that is one of the trademark designs of the Bulgari Hotel chains. They love an eight-point star. And that is how the Bulgari Hotel, the museum, they all become points of captivity in this theory of what happened to you Meng Long, as well as the residential
Starting point is 02:21:28 building. Most of the 17 people have denied any sort of involvement. I just went through the core group of people, but all the other ones, there's not as strong evidence tying them to, these are the main ones that people are focused on. They have denied any sort of involvement. Some of them have come out to say, they don't even know you Meng Long, to which netizens are now, I don't want to say they're making jokes, but they're sarcastically asking all these people, oh, nobody knows him. Then whose house did he go to for the dinner? Who was at the dinner with him if nobody knows him? Other netizens are saying, fine, I guess we were the ones at the dinner party then, because nobody else was. One netizens says, wait, nobody knows Yu Meng Long but us? Only netizens know Yumang Long. Friends of Yumang Long have also
Starting point is 02:22:16 come out and they're just providing character statements almost for Yumang Long. People just want someone to be transparent and someone maybe is. September 12th, the day after you Meng Long's passing, someone claiming to be Yu Meng Long's cousin comes out on Little Red Note to release a statement that very quickly gets banned but it reads, I'm Long Long's cousin. I'm Long Long's cousin. Long Long is Yumeng Long's nickname. Right now, Auntie, Long Long's mom, and several other relatives are in Beijing, keeping watch over Long Long's body and waiting for the police's final investigation results. The autopsy results haven't come out yet.
Starting point is 02:22:52 Auntie and the other family members landed in Beijing late in the night of the 11th, and the family is mainly focused on taking care of Auntie, so please don't worry. And he goes on to list a few very strange things. First of all, nobody alerted the family. This is what the so-called cousin allegedly claims. one alerted the family that you Meng Long passed. They found out through social media just like everybody else on Waybo. The cousin claims a few things in this post that are alarming. The police said that it was an accidental fall. According to them, what happened was pretty much what the media
Starting point is 02:23:24 reported. So he's saying like the police haven't given any of our family members, any additional information. They say that they were drinking at the friend's house until around 4 a.m. and then Long Long went into the bedroom, locked himself in the bedroom. And then at around 6 a.m., two hours later, the dinner party guests, they decide to leave and they go downstairs and they discover that he had fallen. And a neighbor walking her dog also discovers that he had fallen and the police are called to the scene. Police take statements of everybody there and everybody said that they were very close friends of Long Long. But this cousin is saying, I mean, I have talked to other people in this agency that I believe
Starting point is 02:24:01 were close to Long Long and they have told us specifically, the family specifically, that Long Long doesn't even know these people that well. Like, he's not friends with these people. He doesn't even know them like that. He just went because his manager asked him too. He also goes on to state that a few very strange things have happened. Long Long left his phone on the living room sofa. So he goes and he locks himself in this guest bedroom of a person he doesn't even really know.
Starting point is 02:24:25 Because again, they're like, we don't even know that he knows these people. But he's going to sleep over at their house after getting wasted. It doesn't make any sense. And then he's going to leave his phone on the living. room sofa and then go into the bedroom by himself. He also states that there were footprints on the windowsill where he fell. There were dust on the screen window that was found underneath his fingernails. There were marks of his feet scraping the screen window downstairs. He says that police spoke to the neighbors and all they know is that there were like three bottles of liquor
Starting point is 02:24:56 and three bottles of beer that were drunk, but there were no signs of drug use. Like there was security cameras in the hallway captured everyone going upstairs, but nothing else. But nothing else. They didn't capture the fall. They just happened to be not working that day. That's what the cousin, the alleged cousin, claims. The cousin also claims to say that statement that was released by Long Long's dissolved agency, that was written by the police and posted at the police station. He's saying, this is weird. Like, it just doesn't make any sense. He's saying, like, we're not really learning anything. And after arriving, police asked for the entire family members, mobile and we chat number.
Starting point is 02:25:34 and the hotel that the family had to stay at, they couldn't even book it themselves. They were like, no, the talent agency must book the hotel for the entire family, and we need to know which hotel, and we need to know which rooms you guys are staying, and just so we can coordinate better if we need to reach you. But he's just saying it feels kind of weird. Additionally, he alleges that Yul Meng Lung's apartment where he lived in,
Starting point is 02:25:58 family members aren't allowed in, which if this is a drunken fall, it's not a crime. Why can't they go into his apartment? It's not taped off. It's not a crime scene. He ends the post with, I understand a lot of this is necessary for the investigation and handling to control the media attention,
Starting point is 02:26:12 but there are still so many things that I just really cannot understand. Initially, people believe that this is not you Meng Long's cousin, that this is some random liar on the internet. But the cousin, alleged cousin, goes on to post a family photo which includes Yu Meng Long in there. And back in 2011, Yu Meng Long's account posted a comment under the cousin's page. So this is pretty much valid.
Starting point is 02:26:34 It is the cousin. Yeah. And then later, he goes on to post once more. The police came looking for me. Four of them. Two cops, two detectives showed up. I'm not going to be updating this any further. So if you guys are looking for updates, you guys can just unfollow me.
Starting point is 02:26:48 Then another later post. Yumeneng Long's mother and relatives of Yumeneng Long have all left Beijing. I'm not going to post anything more. So just unfollow me. Then the account gets deleted. Remember in the last episode, a lot of, in the last episode, a lot of people were upset that this dissolved studio was the one to announce that the police ruled out any foul play, and they officially announced that Yu Meng Long had passed.
Starting point is 02:27:11 This dissolved studio that nobody knows who's even really controlling, maybe the police, like the cousin alleges, maybe somebody else, even more suspiciously, though, September 16th, 20205, so this is five days after Yu Meng Long's passing. The same studio releases another statement. This time they claim that it's Yu Meng Long's mother that wants this statement out in the world, that she was like, can you please post this for me? because, no, I don't have social media, and I just want this out there.
Starting point is 02:27:36 This is her alleged note to the public. In the recent days, I have suffered enormous pain. My beloved son, Yu Meng Long, accidentally fell to his death after drinking, leaving us forever. This sudden tragedy has plunged us into deep grief. Police have informed me of their investigation results, and all arrangements have been completed. I hope everyone will look at this accident rationally and stop making guesses. I also hope to return to a peaceful life as soon. as possible, carrying my memories of Yu Meng Long and living each day as best as I can.
Starting point is 02:28:08 I believe this to be Yu Meng Long's wish. Netizens do not believe this statement to be real at all. Chief among those reasons, they don't think this is a mother who could write such a formal official sounding statement so soon after her son's passing, and even if she did believe that her son's passing was an accident, there's no celebration of his life. There are no kind words to her beloved son. There's no personal touch. The rumors are harmful.
Starting point is 02:28:34 Stop asking questions. Move on. That's the theme of her message after her son passes away. It just doesn't make sense. And he's only spoken fondly and kindly of his mom. It doesn't seem like they had bad relations at all.
Starting point is 02:28:48 It seems as if the entire message is stop asking questions. Don't investigate. Let's end it here. Which is interesting because another letter starts circulating. And people believe this to be Yumen Long's mother writing this letter.
Starting point is 02:29:00 There is a red thumbprint, so it's like a signed letter. And again, this could be anybody's thumbprint, who's to say this is you Meng Long's thumbprint. But you tell me which one sounds more like his mother. To all the kind-hearted and righteous people from all walks of life, I am Yu Meng Long's mother. In this moment with heart-wrenching grief, I am telling you the truth about my child's tragic misfortune, only hoping to seek a bit of justice from my wrongfully diseased child.
Starting point is 02:29:27 On September 11, 2025, my child left me forever. What I can't accept is that the murderer actually lied to the world that this was an accident, covering up this cruel crime with false statements and trying to erase my child's life. They fabricated lies, confused the public, and attempted to escape legal punishment by relying on their power, but they forgot that a mother's love and memory for her child will never be covered up by lies. I have in my hands key clips before and after my child's accident. Testimonial records of insiders. This is sufficient to prove that my child's death was by no means an accident,
Starting point is 02:30:00 but deliberate harm. Since my child has left us, I have sought helps countless times, only hoping that the murderer can be punished as he deserves and that my child can rest in peace in heaven. But so far, the murderer is still at large and even tried to suppress the truth and block my demands. I know my power is meager,
Starting point is 02:30:16 but I am unwilling to give up. My child was once so sunny and so kind, and he should not leave this world with any grievances, and even less should the murderer downplay his life with the word accident. I earnestly implore every conscientious person if you have ever known anything before or after my child's death and if you are willing to speak up for justice, please help me get justice so that more people can know the truth. I also earnestly implore the relevant departments to face my demands squarely, thoroughly investigate this case,
Starting point is 02:30:49 let the evidence speak for itself, let the murderer pay for his actions, return justice for my child, return clarity to the world. I am willing to be responsible for everywhere to. I say, only hoping to comfort my child's spirit in heaven and let him know that his parents have never given up seeking justice for him. I don't know which one of these is real. I don't know if either of these are real, but if you had to choose, which one sounds real. And then there are speculations that the mother has been detained. There are also concerns that soon if this conversation keeps going, that the authorities are going to start sharing information that looks badly on Yu Meng Long. There has been growing accusations, not accusations, but there has been
Starting point is 02:31:32 this alleged leak document that has been going around with the official Beijing public security seal in the corner. And it claims that Yu Meng Long was under investigation for child molestation. Nobody believes it. And I know that these are things that we should not cast out on. But with everything I've told you so far, could you believe this without further proof? What kind of person would, like, make something like this, right? This is crazy. I think no, I don't think there's anyone online that actually believes this. One person just comments, it's really depressing that he tragically dies,
Starting point is 02:32:10 and then he becomes an enemy to the government overnight, but nobody knows why. There is a video of Yumen Long where he is seen interacting with kids, and people are saying, like, I mean, look at him. He says in the interview, if I didn't get into the entertainment industry, I would have become a teacher. A lot of people have come forward to say really amazing things about him. His former middle school teacher has come out. He donated 2,400 textbooks to an elementary school in his hometown.
Starting point is 02:32:40 It seems like he just, a lot of people say that he likes to live in harmony with the world. That was his energy. He was never super extroverted. He just seemed almost like that peaceful, wise character that's always there. Even 10 days after his passing, there was. a donation made to a charity. And people saw his name and they were very emotional because it seems like he has these donations on auto pay. It seems like automatically every month he's donating to people who need it more than he does. And as of right now, that's all we know
Starting point is 02:33:14 about Yumen Long's case. I don't know if we will ever know more. But it does seem like every time someone suspiciously dies, the conversation seems to get bigger and it seems harder to censor it. And the first video that we posted about you Meng Leng's passing has been age-restricted. I don't think that it's nefarious. I don't think it's anything related to any sort of government entity. I think it's just the content of the story is just, it's going to be age-restricted. So it's inadvertently suppressed in its own way. What are your thoughts on this?
Starting point is 02:33:48 What do you think happened? And do you think we'll ever get answers? Let me know in the comments and be safe and I will see you in this. the next one.

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