After Fan Bingbing & Vicki Zhao, Is Ruby Lin The Latest My Fair Princess Star To Get Cancelled In China?
The Taiwanese star recently deregistered her studio in China and netizens think there's something fishy going on.
What's happening to the cast of the OG My Fair Princess, the hit 1998 Chinese series that shot Vicki Zhao, Ruby Lin and Fan Bingbing to fame.
First there was Bingbing’s big, career-ending tax evasion scandal in 2018. Then yesterday (Aug 26), it was revealed that Vicki's name and work have been wiped clean from Chinese websites for reasons that still remain a mystery.
Now, there are rumours that Ruby is in some sort of trouble too.
It all started when the topic 'Ruby Lin's Movie & Film Work Studio Deregisters' made the top of Weibo's Trending Topics List.
Since 2009, Ruby has produced her own dramas and films, like The Glamorous Imperial Concubine and more recently, The Arc of Life. But according to new reports, Ruby’s studio, which was set up in Hengdian, has cancelled its business registration license in China.
The timing of the news coincides with Vicki's scandal which has led netizens to speculate that Ruby might have been dragged into something more serious.
When contacted by the media, Ruby’s agent revealed that they had applied to cancel the studio’s business registration license “long ago”, as they wanted to “integrate their resources”.
However, one netizen claimed that Ruby’s business partner, Liu Caihong, recently lost a lawsuit, and had to cough up 36mil yuan (S$7.5mil) in damages and that Ruby had likely applied to deregister her studio in order to protect her assets.
Other netizens are also speculating that Ruby intends to withdraw completely from the Chinese market. After all, the actress has been focusing more on producing Taiwanese dramas in recent months. Also, in December last year, Ruby’s husband, Taiwanese actor Wallace Huo also shuttered his Chinese studio.
However, despite all those possible reasons, netizens still think that there's something fishy going.
Judging from how the Chinese showbiz scene is bubbling over with scandals right now (click here, here and here to read more), we don't blame them.
Photos: Ruby Lin/Instagram, Fan Bingbing/Weibo
