The biggest scandal on the whole internet right now is definitely the thing between Sun Yuchen and Jing Tian—it's getting more and more absurd the deeper people dig, and more and more suffocating the more you read. At first, it was simply an emotional dispute between a man and a woman, with money and personal interests tangled up. But Sun Yuchen has, step by step, turned it into an internet-wide public-opinion explosion.

A lot of people are eating the瓜 without even understanding what’s going on. Some are calling Jing Tian greedy for money, and some are calling Sun Yuchen extreme. It wasn’t until Hu Xijin stepped in with a long article that the whole thing was laid out and broken down in detail.

Hu Xijin directly concluded that Sun Yuchen’s actions are not about safeguarding his rights at all—this is pure malicious retaliation, with his moral bottom line completely shattered.

In Hu Xijin’s view, the root cause is that Sun Yuchen failed to win Jing Tian’s pursuit, and the two of them ended up entangled in controversy over huge betrothal gifts and large sums of money.

Whether the rumored 30 million yuan in betrothal gifts and 50 million USD are true or not, the plain fact is: this is basically a civil dispute over money.

Under normal logic, if they can’t work things out, then you go through legal procedures. If you owe money, you pay it back; if you need to provide evidence, you provide it—nothing more, nothing less.

But Sun Yuchen didn’t. He chose the darkest, most ruthless, most destructive move: exposing private information, openly tearing things apart, and making personal matters so widely known that everyone on earth can see.

The purpose isn’t even about getting money—it’s to make someone thoroughly “socially dead.”

Hu Xijin has a metaphor, and it really hits the nail on the head.

Sun Yuchen’s way of exposing someone else’s privacy is comparable to a man, after a breakup, posting his ex-girlfriend’s intimate photos. This isn’t an argument, and it’s not a dispute—it’s purely malicious venting anger, precisely ruining a person’s life.

Hu Xijin also said it’s no different from pushing someone off a building or disfiguring them. The only difference is that one harms the body, while the other destroys a life. The methods are different, but the maliciousness is the same.

Right now, the whole internet’s momentum is really chaotic. Some people are blindly jumping on the bandwagon to attack Jing Tian, while others are trying to whitewash Sun Yuchen’s extreme behavior. But we need to keep priorities straight. Greed is a flaw, but vicious character is the real evil. Private grudges are minor matters; destroying someone’s life is a major one.

This time, Sun Yuchen has “won” public attention but “lost” everything about his character. It looks like he has the upper hand in the moment, but in reality he has completely exposed the bigger picture—and his mindset. As for Jing Tian, yes, she does have her own problems. But absolutely none of this deserves such malicious retaliation, and absolutely it doesn’t reach the standard of an industry-wide ban. You can join the gossip, but don’t let yourself be swept along by the wrong rhythm. You can choose a side, but don’t flip good and evil. Peaceful parting ways, in good form, is the most decent bottom line for adults.

Sun Ge, this time you really lost a man’s sense of composure.