Vu Meng Lung barely survived being pushed off the building the first time — but the second fall is what forced all of China to ask: who’s covering up the crime? th

Chinese showbiz has never lacked drama, but Vu Meng Lung’s story belongs to the category “too dark to turn into a movie.”

It all began one rainy afternoon in Beijing. Vu Meng Lung — at the peak of her career with a string of leading roles — was rushed to the hospital with multiple injuries after “falling” from the 7th floor of an office building. Media reports were brief: an accident while moving between filming locations. But widely circulated images showed signs of struggle on her sleeves and bruises around her neck — unmistakable evidence of violence before the fall.

Vu Meng Lung survived against all odds, but her complete silence afterward left the public bewildered. She filed no lawsuits, gave no interviews, simply canceled her contracts and vanished from the spotlight. Many believed she had been paid off or intimidated into submission.

Then, just six months later, history repeated itself in the most horrifying way. A middle-aged man — later identified as a senior executive at the management company that once worked with Vu Meng Lung — plunged from the exact same 7th floor. This time there was no miracle: he died on impact. Police ruled it a “suicide due to work stress.” But netizens refused to buy it. Why the same building? Why the same floor? And why did the cameras “fail” both times?

Anonymous accounts started leaking evidence: threatening messages sent to Vu Meng Lung before the incident, contracts containing massive “reputation damage” penalty clauses worth tens of millions of yuan if internal secrets were revealed, and testimony from a former witness who claimed to have seen a group of men in black drag Vu Meng Lung into the elevator right before the fall.

On Douyin and Weibo, the question “Who was the second person who fell?” became the hottest topic for 48 hours before being completely scrubbed. Some users even speculated that the second victim was actually the person who had pushed Vu Meng Lung — and was later “silenced” to tie up loose ends.

Whatever the truth may be, this case has exposed one of the ugliest corners of China’s entertainment industry: a place where power, money, and enforced silence can turn anyone into either victim or perpetrator with a single push. Vu Meng Lung now lives quietly overseas, while the story of the two falls remains an unhealed scar in the public’s mind — a stark reminder that sometimes reality is far more terrifying than any horror script.