Chilling Murder Behind Netflix’s 3 Body Problem as Killer Sentenced to Death for Plot Hatched in ‘Breaking Bad’ Lab

IT’S the new Netflix adventure that sci-fi fans have been craving since the channel picked up the rights four years ago.

But the dystopian world of 3 Body problemwhich came out yesterday, has nothing to do with the dark drama behind the show – which saw Chinese gamemaker Lin Qi die in a sinister poison plot on Christmas Day 2020.

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The death of 39-year-old Lin by jealous colleague Xu Yao sent shockwaves through the TV and gaming industries.

Lin was the founder of gaming company Yoozoo, which owns the film rights to the bestseller Chinese trilogy and also produced Game Of Thrones: Winter is Coming – and had a net worth of around £960 million (6.8 billion yuan).

But disgruntled TV executive Xu, who was obsessed with Breaking Bad, plotted to kill him after signing a big money deal with Netflix.

He set up his own laboratory where he experimented with more than 100 poisons – testing them on dogs and cats, many of which died – before lacing Lin’s tea with a “cocktail of poison”.

Earlier today, Xu was sentenced to death in China after being found guilty of poisoning the billionaire producer and four other colleagues.

Plot ‘inspired by Breaking Bad’

Xu, a graduate of Michigan Law School, was head of Yoozoo’s subsidiary, the Three-Body Universe, which owned the film rights to Cixin Lui’s science fiction books, when the Netflix deal was announced in September 2020.

While Lin was named as executive producer, Xu was furious that his name was not included in the announcement.

Xu had reportedly become obsessed with HBO series Break badwhich follows a high school chemistry teacher who cooks crystal meth and becomes a drug lord.

Inspired by the series, he founded his own laboratory Shanghai where he manufactured and tested toxins he bought from the dark web and tested them on defenseless pets.

Initially it appeared that the poison was served in lethal cups of Chinese pu’erh tea, but according to news outlet Caixin, the twisted Xu put poisoned pills in a bottle containing 30 probiotic tablets, which were then taken by Lin, his secretary and other colleagues.

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Lin fell ill and admitted herself to the hospital on December 16, 2020.

Four others fell ill but recovered and Xu was arrested by police not long afterwards.

According to court documents, Lin was treated for mercury poisoning but was found to have been killed by a neurotoxin found in puffer fish.

Despite receiving 40 liters of blood transfusions, he died ten days later on Christmas Day.

Yoozoo later released a statement, saying, “Goodbye youth.

“We will be together, remain kind, continue to believe in the good and continue the fight against all that is bad.”

‘Genocide’ scandal

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Despite Lin’s tragic death, Netflix’s new hit 3 Body Problem was released this week.

Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and DB Weiss continued the project and produced the eight-part adaptation, which aired Thursday.

However, adapting Liu Cixin’s three books – Remembrance of Earth’s Past, The Dark Forest and Death’s End – into film was not without controversy.

Author Liu was a former computer engineer and was born in Beijing in 1963 – just three years earlier Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution started in China.

During that time, intellectuals were labeled as counter-revolutionaries and sent to labor camps.

Millions are believed to have died as a result and Liu’s novel falls against this backdrop.

The eight-part series begins in communist China during the height of Chairman Mao’s genocide in the 1960s.

The adaptation then jumps forward to present-day Britain, where scientists are stunned and killed by an unexplained phenomenon.

But even before production began, the film received backlash from a group of US Republican senators who accused Liu of “reenacting dangerous CCP propaganda”.

They pointed to a 2019 New York Times interview with the author, in which he responded to a question about the mass internment of Uighur Muslims in China.

Liu said: “Would you rather they chop up bodies at train stations and schools in terrorist attacks? At least the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty.”

As a result, Senators Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, Martha McSally, Kevin Cramer, and Thom Tillis responded by writing a letter to Netflix, claiming it was “normalizing” the Chinese government’s brutal incarceration of millions of Uighur Muslims.

It said: ‘These crimes are committed systematically and on a scale that could distinguish them from genocide.

“Unfortunately, a number of American companies continue to actively or tacitly allow the normalization of, or excuses for, these crimes.

The decision to create an adaptation of Mr. Liu’s work can be seen as such a normalization.

“While Congress is seriously considering the systemic crimes against the Uyghurs, we are deeply concerned by Netflix’s decision to do business with an individual who reenacts dangerous CCP propaganda.”

Netflix responded to the letter and rejected the criticism.

They said the comment had “nothing at all to do with his book or this Netflix show” and that the company “judges individual projects on their merits.”

The 3 Body Problem is now streaming on Netflix.

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