Annie Yi had just returned home from a holiday in the UK with her husband Qin Hao and daughter Mi Li, joking about gaining some 'happy weight.' On August 2nd, a topic climbed Weibo's hot search: “Annie Yi says Qin Hao rarely comes home.” In response, Annie Yi furiously denounced the circulating online video for taking her remarks out of context, also expressing discontent towards netizens who have long tried to provoke issues in her previous marriage and spread rumors about her current one, warning she would defend the facts through legal means.
The incident stemmed from Annie Yi mentioning on a recent livestream: “I’m still very much a 'romance brain.' I just feel my husband is rarely home, and recently he’s been around more because there aren’t really any good scripts. Indeed, in the 13 years since I met him, he’s hardly ever taken a break. I also feel he has too few memories with our daughter. All the photos on my phone are of me with our daughter, and my husband hardly ever appears. So whenever my husband is in Shanghai, I feel restless.”
In fact, she was showing off her happy marriage in this statement, and even shared a photo of the couple on her birthday, with Qin Hao looking flushed from drinking. Recently, Qin Hao also appeared in Annie Yi’s livestream to help boost her sales.
She was upset that clickbait accounts spun her remarks to create a narrative of marital crisis, so she reposted a court announcement on Weibo, which included a public apology from a netizen to Qin Hao, admitting they should not have spread false information about him. Just in April, she already had to address rumors about her husband’s alleged secret romance with Michelle Chen.
She used the netizen’s apology as a warning: “Please stop taking things out of context, okay? I clearly said that this year, after Chinese New Year, Mr. Qin has been at home and hasn’t been filming for nine months, because he was too busy in previous years. This year, he wants to select scripts carefully and spend more time with our daughter. So I also want to stay home and live as a family of three. Every time I livestream, I just want to finish quickly and go home; even Mi Li always says, ‘Mom, you’re too busy.’ What era are we in that people are still doing this out-of-context manipulation! Can you really get away with no legal consequences?”
Old and new grievances welled up: “In my previous relationship, people would try to provoke things just to watch the drama. In this relationship, there are all kinds of rumors. Everyone, try to live happily, bring some goodness into the world, offer more blessings, and the world will be bright and brilliant. If you raise your energy, your life will get better too, and become abundant. (If I encounter) any rumors, I will absolutely defend the facts with legal means—clickbait accounts, have some self-respect.”
In fact, she was showing off her happy marriage in this statement, and even shared a photo of the couple on her birthday, with Qin Hao looking flushed from drinking. Recently, Qin Hao also appeared in Annie Yi’s livestream to help boost her sales.
She was upset that clickbait accounts spun her remarks to create a narrative of marital crisis, so she reposted a court announcement on Weibo, which included a public apology from a netizen to Qin Hao, admitting they should not have spread false information about him. Just in April, she already had to address rumors about her husband’s alleged secret romance with Michelle Chen.
She used the netizen’s apology as a warning: “Please stop taking things out of context, okay? I clearly said that this year, after Chinese New Year, Mr. Qin has been at home and hasn’t been filming for nine months, because he was too busy in previous years. This year, he wants to select scripts carefully and spend more time with our daughter. So I also want to stay home and live as a family of three. Every time I livestream, I just want to finish quickly and go home; even Mi Li always says, ‘Mom, you’re too busy.’ What era are we in that people are still doing this out-of-context manipulation! Can you really get away with no legal consequences?”
Old and new grievances welled up: “In my previous relationship, people would try to provoke things just to watch the drama. In this relationship, there are all kinds of rumors. Everyone, try to live happily, bring some goodness into the world, offer more blessings, and the world will be bright and brilliant. If you raise your energy, your life will get better too, and become abundant. (If I encounter) any rumors, I will absolutely defend the facts with legal means—clickbait accounts, have some self-respect.”