The day after the sci-fi drama 3 Body Problem premiered on Netflix, lawyer Xu Yao was sentenced to death in China for poisoning the series' billionaire executive producer Lin Qi.

Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business, the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s Court said. Lin, who was 39 ...

Former Yoozoo Games executive Xu Yao was sentenced to death on Friday for the 2020 murder of Lin Qi, founder of the Chinese gaming company and billionaire “3 Body Problem” producer.. The ...

Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business, the court said. Latest U.S.

How Netflix show 3 body problem found itself at centre of real-life poisoning plot Lin Qi, who was 39, died on Christmas day 2020 Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent ...

Xu Yao was arrested in 2020 shortly after Lin Qi, the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company known as Yoozoo Games, was poisoned to death at the age of 39.

Lin Qi, a billionaire fan of “The Three-Body Problem”, had big plans to bring his favorite Chinese sci-fi novel to TV, cinema and video-game screens. But he never lived to see it.

It was at this dire moment that Xu Yao, chief risk control officer of Yoozoo, entered the picture, and the fate of Lin Qi and “The Three-Body Problem” adaptation took a drastically different turn. In ...

Mr. Lin’s fate would change when he hired Mr. Xu, a lawyer, in 2017 to head a subsidiary of Yoozoo called The Three-Body Universe that held the rights to Mr. Liu’s novels.

Lin Qi, who helped bring "3 Body Problem" to screens, died before the series aired. He was poisoned in 2020 by Xu Yao, who headed up a subsidiary that oversaw adaptations of the book.