From August 27 to 28, a storm spanning both the entertainment industry and the crypto world swept across the internet. Sun Yuchen, founder of the TRON (TRON) blockchain and a post-90s crypto tycoon, has filed a lawsuit against well-known actress Jing Tian and her parents, with the amount in dispute exceeding 30 million yuan. Immediately after, Sun Yuchen posted a lengthy article of more than 6,000 Chinese characters on the overseas social platform X. The title is direct and eye-catching—(My girlfriend Jing Tian).
It’s trending like crazy—comments are blowing up, and the entire internet is asking the same question: when did these two get together? And what’s all this about a 30 million yuan bride price?
Lawyers step in: this isn’t a joke—it’s a real lawsuit.
On the evening of August 27, a name first ignited public opinion. The well-known lawyer Zhang Qihui released a post on Weibo with case facts, confirming that Sun Yuchen filed a civil lawsuit as the plaintiff over related property disputes, with “Ms. Jing” and her parents as defendants, for a disputed amount of over 30 million yuan. The case has been formally filed according to law, and the plaintiff has also applied for property preservation.
Zhang Qihui’s name carries enormous weight in the entertainment industry. He is the first lawyer involved in an aviation case in China, and he’s also one of the lawyers that entertainment-industry celebrities fear most—having represented major cases such as Wang Baoqiang’s divorce, Sun Yang’s international arbitration, and Gao Yunchang’s sexual assault case. This time he personally stepped in, showing that Sun Yuchen is taking it seriously.
Zhang Qihui later confirmed to the media that “Ms. Jing” in the lawsuit filing refers to actress Jingtian, and the amount of more than 30 million yuan involved is the bride price that Sun Yuchen is asking to be returned. He emphasized that the lawsuit filing does not mention the surrogacy issue. After the case was accepted, Jingtian’s side依法 raised an objection to jurisdiction; the objection is currently being heard in court, and the case has not yet entered the merits stage.
Sun Yuchen’s 6,000-word long post: from secret crush to breakup.
After the lawyer’s statement, the real “main event” arrived.
On X, Sun Yuchen posted that piece (“My Girlfriend, Jingtian”). The full text is over 6,000 words. He claimed it took him more than ten hours to write, and he barely slept on about two nights. In an interview, he said he finished it in Bhutan: “Almost didn’t sleep for two nights. During the day I still had to handle company matters. Only when no one was looking for me at around midnight could I write.”
The long post contains a massive amount of information, covering nearly the entire process of a hidden romance—from the initial spark to the eventual rupture.
A secret crush for 19 years: he noticed her as early as 2007.
In the article, Sun Yuchen said he noticed Jingtian as early as 2007, and this secret crush lasted nearly 19 years. Back then, he was just an ordinary student, while Jingtian was already a star in the spotlight. After 19 years—when he finally met her after making a fortune through cryptocurrency and joining the ranks of billionaires.
Dating details: booked an island, booked hotels, and wired 30 million yuan.
Sun Yuchen described in detail the process of the two dating. According to him, he once booked an island vacation for Jingtian and also booked an entire high-end hotel floor in Los Angeles, USA for the purpose of egg retrieval, providing her with a private environment.
He wired 30 million yuan to Jingtian’s parents as bride price. He also asked his assistant to look into Jingtian’s family and financial situation, as well as her past relationship experiences.
The article also mentions a detail: Jingtian once revealed that someone threatened her. The person was “someone who used to be with me—finance—went in (prison), took the blame, came out with nowhere to turn, and must find me.” In the end, Jingtian gave that person an 80,000 RMB hush money. The whole incident made her think about it for three days. Sun Yuchen expressed confusion about this in the article, joking, “Was this also something you had to think about for three days?” In the dialogue, the difference in their values is visible. Afterwards, the keyword “Jingtian gave the finance person 80,000 and thought about it for three days” also topped the hot search.
Disagreement over surrogacy and $50 million.
The most controversial part of the long post concerns overseas childbearing arrangements. Sun Yuchen said that later on, the two developed serious disagreements over overseas childbearing arrangements and related costs. Jingtian proposed going to the U.S. for surrogacy and demanded that he pay $50 million for the related expenses.
According to a previous leak by an insider, on the day the eggs were retrieved, Jingtian reversed her earlier attitude. She said she was currently on her menstrual period and, during a phone call to Sun Yuchen, told him that if he wanted her to remain in the United States until the next menstrual cycle, he would have to wire her another $50 million. Sun Yuchen said, “Let me think about it.” Immediately afterward, Jingtian coldly hung up. After Sun Yuchen rejected the condition, Jingtian left without saying goodbye and flew back to China on a commercial airliner. What she left behind was a mess—an advance payment of $200,000 for the surrogacy agency that would not be refunded, refrigerated ovulation stimulation injections that came in a whole case and were never unpacked, and a series of expensive bills that could not be refunded.
The two finally broke up in the first half of 2026.
A disclaimer: “Purely fictional.”
At the end of the long post, there is a line of cryptic small text: “This article is purely fictional. If there are any similarities, it is purely coincidental. No copyright is reserved—feel free to forward and share.” This disclaimer sparked widespread discussion—if it’s purely fictional, then why sue in court to reclaim the bride price?
In a follow-up interview, Sun Yuchen addressed the issue. He said that most of the statements in the article are true statements that align with his own intent: “I wrote that it was fictional in the article because I also can’t guarantee that every detail is 100%. But at least what I wrote about how I feel and what I think—how I said it—that part is confirmed 100%.”
The two people’s backgrounds: parallel lines with no intersection—how did they end up crossing paths?
Jingtian, born in 1988 in Xi’an, Shaanxi, is an actress in Mainland China. Representative works include (The Romance of Tiger and Rose), (Bands of Love and Legacy), etc. Since her debut, she has been known as a “resources-based celebrity,” having appeared in many major productions, but she has always come with the label of “mysterious background.”
Sun Yuchen, born in 1990, is the founder of the TRON blockchain (TRON). He is among the earliest cryptocurrency entrepreneurs in China. He joined Ripple Labs in 2013 as the Chief Representative for Greater China. In 2017, he founded TRON and raised about $70 million through an initial token offering. Since then, TRON’s public-chain ecosystem has continued to expand, and TRC20-USDT has become one of the stablecoin standards with the largest global circulation. He also acquired BitTorrent, invested in the crypto exchange Poloniex, and participated in Huobi’s restructuring. In 2019, he bought Buffett’s charitable lunch for $4.567888 million, making him famous overnight.
The two had no public intersection or business ties before this. One is in the entertainment industry, the other is in the coin/cryptocurrency world: one is an actress born in the 1980s, the other a post-1990s entrepreneur. How they ended up together is still unknown to the public.
Jingtian’s response: My eyes are still not good, but I believe in the law!
Jingtian, at the center of the storm, chose a direct response.
On the morning of August 28, Jingtian posted on her personal social platform:
“In the past, now, and in the future, I will never sell my love for money, and I will never sell my soul. I still believe in love, and I still have bad taste in picking people. I’m still short on wisdom. But I believe in the law, I believe in kindness, and I believe that justice and fairness will ultimately exist. Time will prove everything.”
That self-deprecating line—“My eyes are still not good”—instantly struck a chord, and large numbers of netizens rushed to comment: “It’s not that your eyes are bad. It’s that the overall quality in the market is too poor.”
Before that, Jingtian’s studio had already released a formal statement on the evening of August 27: “Reputation is an artist’s lifeline, and it’s also the soft underbelly of an artist. But we have the courage to say no to the behavior of opportunistic ‘colliding’ that uses an artist’s reputation as leverage. The studio said everything would be left to the court to handle, and aside from publishing follow-up rights-protection updates, they would not respond to other issues.”
Public reaction: one-sided sympathy and intense questioning.
After the incident escalated, public opinion almost completely sided with Jingtian.
“You need to let me criticize you a couple of times—the way you pick people is too bad”; “It’s not that your eyes are bad. It’s that the quality in the market is generally too poor. Who would have thought that a man who boasts of being a top-tier wealthy tycoon would be like this”; “Focus on your career and stay away from jerks, okay?”
The doubts about Sun Yuchen are equally sharp. “Throughout, the man keeps subtly saying that Jingtian wasted money extravagantly and put on a display, and he really looks down on him. The whole post beautifies himself, and every time he asks for money he doesn’t hesitate—but whenever it’s about him spending money, he never forgets to spell out every detail.”
Some netizens also pointed out an even more realistic predicament: “He packages himself as someone deeply affectionate, but every fact is an extreme insult to the woman. It’s terrifying—he seems psychologically abnormal. Not normal.”
Is it emotional expression, or yet another round of marketing?
Sun Yuchen is never a low-key person. After the 2019 Buffett lunch controversy hit a peak, he even publicly apologized, saying he was “deeply ashamed” of his behavior of “excessive marketing and being addicted to hype.”
This time, when he proactively put his ex-girlfriend, tens of millions of yuan in bride price, a private relationship, and a lawsuit on social media, the same question resurfaced: Is this simply an ordinary person’s emotional expression after a relationship ends, or is it another round of Sun Yuchen-style attention marketing?
When facing this question, Sun Yuchen’s answer was: “I wrote an article myself and posted it on my own Twitter. It’s simply my own feelings and thoughts—that’s it.” He said the lawsuit portion was handled by lawyers, and he published the article mainly because he had some emotions and feelings he wanted to express.
When asked whether he had considered the possible negative effects it might bring, his answer was: “I didn’t think about it.”
Regarding why he was so determined to sue to get back the 30 million-yuan bride price, Sun Yuchen gave two reasons: first, the lawyer’s advice; second, “it also feels a bit ironic, really. This might be the only connection between the two of us. Besides this matter, there’s no other connection.”
He also mentioned that before publishing the short essay, he sent the article to an AI assistant, Claude, and the latter offered suggestions, but he didn’t accept them. His attitude toward AI was “unconditional trust,” until the issue of emotions created their first disagreement. He even admitted that to this day he still isn’t sure whether the breakup was the right decision, and that this has caused him considerable “inner friction.”
The case’s trajectory: the judicial process has just begun!
The case is still at an early stage. Jingtian’s side has raised an objection to jurisdiction, and that objection is still being reviewed by the court. The case has not yet entered the merits stage, and there is currently no final ruling result.
Zhang Qihui called on all sectors to respect judicial procedures and view the case progress rationally. Jingtian’s studio also said that they had “no intention of occupying public resources; everything will be handled by the court.”
But Sun Yuchen’s 6,000-word long post has already completely exposed this private relationship that should have remained confidential. No matter how the court ultimately rules, the public impact of this controversy on the two of them—especially Jingtian—probably cannot be ended by a judgment letter alone.
As one netizen put it: “To ruin a woman, you just need to confidently fabricate a few thousand words—that’s all.”