{"id":2210638,"date":"2024-04-01T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgruntled-exec-from-company-that-owns-netflixs-3-body-problem-rights-sentenced-to-death-in-china\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:44:40","slug":"disgruntled-exec-from-company-that-owns-netflixs-3-body-problem-rights-sentenced-to-death-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disgruntled-exec-from-company-that-owns-netflixs-3-body-problem-rights-sentenced-to-death-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Exec from Netflix&#8217;s &#8216;3 Body Problem&#8217; Rights Holder Sentenced to Death in China due to Discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisgruntled-exec-from-company-that-owns-netflixs-3-body-problem-rights-sentenced-to-death-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210638&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former Yoozoo Games lawyer\u200d in China was sentenced to death for poisoning the company&#8217;s founder, Lin Qi. Xu Yao poisoned Lin during a business dispute \u2062in 2020, leading to his death in December. Xu was described as &#8220;disgruntled&#8221; and subsequently arrested. Yoozoo Games owns the rights to Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;3 Body Problem.&#8221; The series, \u200dbased on \u200ba sci-fi trilogy, is produced by &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; creators. A Yoozoo\u200b Games lawyer in\u200c China, Xu Yao, got the death penalty\u2064 for poisoning the company&#8217;s \u200dfounder, Lin Qi, amid a\u2064 2020 \u2062business conflict, resulting in Lin&#8217;s\u200c demise in December. Xu, labeled &#8220;disgruntled,&#8221;\u2062 was\u2062 arrested afterward. Yoozoo Games possesses the rights to Netflix&#8217;s &#8220;3 Body Problem,&#8221; a sci-fi trilogy adapted by &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; creators.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former lawyer who worked for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinese<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  gaming company Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday for fatally <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/murder\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">poisoning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  its billionaire founder, Lin Qi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xu Yao was accused of serving Lin and other colleagues poison following a dispute over business operations, per a report from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/03\/ex-gaming-exec-company-3-body-problem-film-rights-sentenced-death-1235872375\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deadline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Lin became very ill between September and December 2020 and died from complications on Christmas Day 2020. Xu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/01\/world\/asia\/china-three-body-problem-murder.html\">described<\/a> as \u201cdisgruntled\u201d by the New York Times, was taken into custody by Chinese police several days later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yoozoo Games owns the rights to the massively popular new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netflix\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  series, \u201c3 Body Problem.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The company gave Netflix the right to produce an adaptation of the sci-fi trilogy in 2020, the outlet noted. \u201c3 Body Problem\u201d is produced by \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Lin was also named as an executive producer for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-68705857\">reported<\/a> that Xu was hired as the company\u2019s chief risk officer in 2017. He initially had a good relationship with Lin and his co-workers. The publication noted that Lin appointed Xu to spearhead a subsidiary called The Three Body Universe one year after his hiring. Both men worked together closely on putting together the Netflix deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Authorities claim that Xu made his plans to poison his enemies when those relationships fractured after Lin put other executives in charge of business operations. He first tested the poison on animals, then moved on to people. An article from The Hollywood Reporter citing local media said that Lin gave Xu and others poisoned tea, while the Deadline report claims the poison was distributed via fake probiotic pills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2020, company reps issued a statement on the passing of its founder on its official Weibo microblog. \u201cGoodbye youth,\u201d it said. \u201cWe will be together, continue to be kind, continue to believe in goodness, and continue the fight against all that is bad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c3 Body Problem\u201d has become a huge success for Netflix, with 11 million views in its first four days on the streaming platform. It follows an astrophysicist who sees her father beaten to death during a struggle session in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She is conscripted by the military to help save Earth from an alien invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Xu Yao, a former lawyer at Yoozoo Games, was sentenced to death for fatally poisoning the company&#8217;s billionaire founder, Lin Qi, over a business dispute. Lin fell seriously ill in September after being served poison by Xu and passed away. 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