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Leaked Posts and a Move-Out: Reality TV's Best-Loved Family Story Sours in Public

Screenshots attributed to the matriarch of China's most beloved reality-TV family — the Dalian household that took in rural X-Change participant Li Leyou a decade ago — insult the young woman's birth family, and the family is having the leaks complained away even as Leyou moves out, abandons the account built on her story, and posts about having nowhere that belongs to her.

Sports

An Emergency-Room Report Before Sun Yingsha's Upset Loss Reopens China's Athlete-Workload Debate

An unverified screenshot suggesting women's table-tennis world No. 1 Sun Yingsha visited an emergency room the night before her shock loss to Thailand's 101st-ranked Orawan Paranang dominated Chinese social media on Thursday, converting one improbable defeat into a fresh argument over how China's sports system manages its stars' health.

News & Politics

Undercover Whistleblower Says a Taicang Villa Hid East China's Largest Underground Surrogacy Operating Room

Shangguan Zhengyi, China's best-known anti-trafficking volunteer, published the results of a nearly four-month undercover operation on Thursday: a villa in Taicang, near Shanghai, housing what he calls East China's largest underground surrogacy operating room. Local authorities confirmed a raid is under way — and are already sparring with him over who found it first.