On social media

PHOTOS: HUANG XIAOMING/WEIBO, LI FEIER/WEIBO

GOING FOR THE WIN: Chinese actress Li Feier has posted on social media for the first time since she was involved in a controversy over her past relationship with actor Huang Xiaoming.

Last Thursday, she posted on Weibo a photo of herself looking at a game of weiqi, a strategy board game also known as Go. The 33-year-old actress wrote in Chinese: "With the outcome undecided, you or I can still win."

Interestingly, the pieces on the set formed the Chinese character "ying", which means "win".

Li has not made any public comments since Chinese actress Angelababy, 31, clarified that she was not the "third party" in Huang's previous relationship with Li. He made a similar clarification.

Li's relationship with Huang, 43, came under the spotlight after she became one of the contestants on the second season of reality television series Sisters Who Make Waves.

She had hinted in an interview with a Hong Kong magazine in 2011 that Angelababy - who married Huang in 2015 - came between her and the actor when they were dating between 2007 and 2010.

Huang, who hosted Sisters Who Make Waves, quit the series earlier this month, saying he did not want the incident to overshadow the other participants on the show.

Some netizens interpreted Li's post as her reaction to the controversy. Others reckoned she was merely saying that she hopes to win the reality TV series, which features 30 female celebrities over the age of 30 and which began airing last Friday.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 25, 2021, with the headline On social media. Subscribe