A popular Beijing live-streamer has again become the center of scrutiny after revealing that she is a victim of domestic violence.

Wang Rui'er, 23, accused her long-term unnamed boyfriend of physically abusing her over the course of their three-year relationship, and announced that she was breaking up with him, telling him to "get lost."

Forwarded almost 32,000 times since it was posted on Saturday, the post also contains a photograph in which Wang is seen suffering from a number of injuries. Wang's right eye is noticeably swollen while her lip and both knees have a number of bruises on them.

Wang uses this opportunity to come clean, confessing that money was initially her motivation for being in the relationship. However, Wang said the abuse has only gotten worse over time, saying: "If it is just money that I am after, how could I have endured these three years (of our relationship)?" Wang explained that despite the abuse, she chose to remain in the relationship even though she had a number of "rich suitors" she could choose from.

Wang said after Friday's abuse, she had had enough. "I could accept just about anything except yesterday when you beat my breasts to the point where they have almost exploded – even if you were willing to pay a lot of money to pay for the surgery," said Wang.

It's not known what role, if any, local police have in the incident.

Wang is well known in China as the sexy model with the "million yuan fake breasts", owing to the cosmetic surgeries she has admitted to having. As part of China's nascent live video streaming trend, Wang has achieved internet fame by hosting her own popularly-received live stream channel.

Despite having many fans that include 270,000 Weibo followers, many of the top comments responding to Wang's post are very unfriendly. Although some are sympathetic, many disregard her claims of domestic abuse as "fake" and accuse her of promoting herself.

One top comment reads, "This is clearly a prostitute who happened to meet a john with heavy tastes. Beat her for all she's worth, stop pretending." Another cites her fake eyelashes and reads, "This is the first time I've seen a victim of domestic violence wear make-up." Yet another top comment insults Wang: "How can your boyfriend treat you like this!!! So inhumane! He beat you up bad, but didn't finish the job and kill you!!!!"

Netizens also noted that Wang took the time to alter the photograph detailing her injuries by obscuring her breasts with a "mosaic" photo effect, whereas Wang does not seem to show any modesty in her other revealing selfies and photos.

Netizens may be harsh and unforgiving towards Wang because this isn't the first time she has appeared in the Chinese media as the victim.

In January 2013, Wang convened a press conference to deny rumors that she had been gang-raped by a group of 10 men during a shoot for a pornographic video made in Japan. Wang (seen above) wiped away tears as she said she had been tricked by unscrupulous Japanese film producers who changed the story of the movie without her consent. Insisting that she has a "moral line that can't be crossed," Wang said she quit the movie and came home to China earlier than planned.

Amid this attention, Wang went on to win a supermodel contest held just two months afterwards.

Some netizens were critical of Wang for publicizing the domestic abuse instead of reporting it to the police. And yet, similar incidents had occurred before in China.

In 2011, Kim Lee posted photos of her battered face to the Weibo micro-blogging platform, accusing her husband and Crazy English founder Li Yang of domestic abuse. For being one of China's first high-profile cases of breaking the silence on domestic abuse, Lee was awarded a divorce in 2014.

In the wake of this breakthrough, China reacted by passing its first anti-domestic violence law last summer. However, with Chinese judges still reluctant to hand out restraining orders to protect victims of abuse, it seems as though the taboo remains in place. After all, Li publicly admitted wife battering is normal in China. "I hit her sometimes, but I never thought she would make it public since it's not Chinese tradition to expose family conflicts to outsiders," Li told China Daily.

Another consequence has been the increasing willingness of Chinese celebrities to use social networks to discuss their infidelities and misbehavior.

In 2011, Chinese actor Wen Zhang broke Weibo records when he used Weibo to make a public apology when he was discovered to be cheating on his wife Ma Yili with Yao Di, both actress with whom Wen had worked with on separate television shows. Weibo was also the platform of choice for gold medalist-winning badminton star Lin Dan when he publicly apologized for cheating on his wife while she was pregnant with his unborn baby.

The most sensational celebrity meltdown by far has to be last summer's ugly feud between Chinese actor Wang Baoqiang and his wife. The pair used Weibo to make humiliating public accusations that would soon terminate in a bitter divorce.

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