29th August 2026 – (Beijing) Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has published a sprawling first-person account of his relationship with actress Jing Tian, detailing a nineteen-year fixation that began in a Peking University dormitory and ended, he writes, with an eleven-second silence on a trans-Pacific phone call over fifty million US dollars.
The essay, titled My Girlfriend Jing Tian and posted on X, arrived as Sun’s lawyer Zhang Qihuai confirmed a civil lawsuit against Jing Tian and her parents, Jing Guoqing and Tian Xin’ai, in Xi’an over more than thirty million yuan transferred as betrothal gifts during a seven-month romance that reportedly ended in the first half of 2026. Jing Tian’s studio has challenged jurisdiction and said it would leave the dispute to the courts; the actress wrote on Weibo that she would never sell her love for money.
In the narrative Sun presents — which he closes with a disclaimer calling the text purely fictional — he says he first noticed Jing Tian in 2007 from a QQ instant-messaging advertisement on an old Lenovo laptop while living in university housing that cost one thousand yuan a year. He recalls hesitating for three days over a one hundred and fifty yuan coat while she was filming lavish projects such as The Warring States, with Sun Honglei, Wu Zhenyu and Kim Hee-sun, and later Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall with Matt Damon and Andy Lau. As his wealth from blockchain ventures grew, they eventually met at Rosewood Hong Kong.
The account describes extraordinary spending: buying out cinema seats for Zootropolis 2, chartering a Gulfstream G700, booking entire hotel floors and flying a thirty-person entourage from Tenerife to the Maldives resort Soneva Jani, where he says he proposed on 2nd January 2026. He writes that he transferred thirty million yuan in betrothal money to accounts linked to Jing Guoqing and Tian Xin’ai after she asked for traditional gifts ahead of marriage talks.
The rupture, as Sun tells it, centred on surrogacy. He says Jing Tian proposed having a child through surrogacy with a birth planned for 2027, flew to California on 28th February and took a whole floor for thirty days at Montage Laguna Beach at a cost of one million US dollars. On the eighth day, he alleges, she telephoned from the cliff-top resort and refused to proceed with egg retrieval unless fifty million US dollars in cash was visible — the first time, he claims, he told her he needed to think.
Sun writes that he consulted Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, asking whether she no longer loved him and whether paying would harm his finances. The model, he says, replied that it did not understand love but insisted he should not hand over the money. After eleven seconds of silence on the call, he says, the relationship was over. He describes empty luxury — a vacant hotel floor cleaned daily by staff, a Gulfstream waiting awkwardly in Van Nuys — while nothing of the life he imagined actually happened.
Leftover bills, he notes, included unrefrigerated fertility medication returned from a Los Angeles clinic, a two hundred thousand US dollar surrogacy deposit and compensation for adhesive tape damage at a Ritz-Carlton property in Tenerife. Zhang Qihuai has said the lawsuit focuses on recovering the betrothal transfers and does not currently seek relief over surrogacy claims, though he has described surrogacy as an objective fact outside the pleadings. Sun has acknowledged writing the essay himself while marking it fictional; Jing Tian has mocked her own judgment in men and pledged to let time and the courts speak.