A thug was sentenced to death in China last month for poisoning Lin Qi, a billionaire who went out of his way to get “3 Body Problem” on Netflix.

Five years after GoT’s controversial finale David Benioff and DB Weiss worked with him Alexander Woo to deliver us a new sci-fi series of his Netflix.

Titled “3 Body problem‘, the series follows a group of friends who become involved in a mystery rooted in China during Cultural Revolution.

After its release on March 21, the series “3 Body problem” rocketed to the top of the chart 10 best tv series of Netflix and it still remains at the top, with viewers calling the series a “masterpiece”.

But some time before she premiered in Netflixone of the people who helped bring the streaming service to life was murdered.

Specifically, five years ago, Mr Lin Qia businessman and video game mogul, began working with Netflix and the creators of the series. But in 2020 he was poisoned in Shanghai.

THAT Linen he was only 39 years old then was murdered by Xu Yaoa very close associate of his who worked at Lin’s toy company, Youzu Interactive.

ISLAND Linen spent millions of dollars to buy all the copyrights to the book”The three-body problem”, hoping to create one franchise from series and TV series. He hired Xu in 2017 as a lawyer to run a subsidiary of his firm called The Three-Body Universebut according to the New York Times Xu he was demoted and took a significant pay cut due to his poor performance.

According to Chinese business magazine Caixin, Xu began setting up a laboratory where he experimented with poisons he had bought on the dark web and tested them on animals. So he managed to make the perfect poison to kill his boss.

THAT Xu was arrested on 18 December 2020but refused to say what poison he had used, hampering doctors’ efforts to save his life Linen.