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Wang Lei Cried on Screen As Missing Girl’s Father Appeared in His Livestream

2022-05-05 , 2:09 pm

On 3 May, veteran Getai singer and livestreamer Wang Lei invited the father of the missing 22-year-old woman, Chia Min Yong, and the father’s boss to his livestream to clarify the rumours surrounding her disappearance.

If you’re unaware of what has previously occurred, in early April, Wang Lei offered at least RM10,000 on his livestream for the safe return of Ms Chia.

And if it’s the worst-case scenario where Ms Chia has fallen for some nefarious scheme and is being held hostage, he’s willing to give the kidnappers RM50,000 or even negotiate with them, if it means that Ms Chia can return home to her worried family.

This is on top of the RM100,000 that the father’s employer is already offering.

Despite his act of goodwill, he has been met with a barrage of criticism, especially from Malaysian streamers, who have accused him of using the Ms Chia’s disappearance as a means to gain more popularity, or that he has inadvertently worsened the situation and given possible criminals incentive to kidnap the woman for the ransom money.

Wang Lei Did Not Know the Father or Boss Beforehand

In the weeks following his livestream, Wang admits that he’s been criticised by too many people and he’s frankly sick of it.

In his typical mix of coarse Hokkien and Mandarin, he says, “Everyone knows that limpeh (impolite way of referring to oneself) is in the acting industry, and everyone thinks that I’m just f***king acting.”

Hence, the natural solution is to invite the people who are directly involved in the matter, namely Ms Chia’s father and the boss, who introduces himself as Jay on stream.

Wang Lei managed to invite them by first contacting the boss Jay, whose business is based in Singapore, and requesting if he could make an appearance on the livestream.

Jay ups the ante, going as far as inviting the father over to Singapore.

Starting from left to right, the people on screen are Wang Lei (obviously), Jay the boss, and Ms Chia’s father, who Wang Lei calls “Father Xie” (谢爸爸).

Wang explains his rationale to the audience, “(Because) one sentence from them is more effective than limpeh saying ten lines. They don’t even need to say much, just shine light on the facts, and it’ll be like a slap (to the rest).”

Then, Wang Lei cuts straight to the chase.

In fact, he asserts that they might as well treat this livestream like a press conference, where they’re willing to entertain any and all questions regarding Ms Chia’s disappearance and their associations with each other.

He states that this 3 May livestream is the first time he’s ever met the duo in real life.

Afterwards, Jay elaborates that he became acquainted with the veteran getai singer on 8 April, when he came to learn of the disappearance of his employee’s daughter and decided to approach Wang Lei for help to spread the word.

Jay said that Wang agreed to do it “without any hesitation”, going live on Facebook the next day to implore and urge the citizens of Singapore and Malaysia to help find Ms Chia.

The cash reward that Wang offered wasn’t necessary on his part, but he decided to offer it anyway.

Wang Lei Crying on the Livestream

Being a well-known getai singer, most of his new and old fans are quite aware that Wang Lei can be a brash individual who doesn’t have the best verbal filter.

But that’s kind of part of his appeal too, where you can trust him to be honest, even if his words are littered with casual profanities in various Chinese dialects.

During the stream, he talks about how badly Ms Chia’s disappearance has affected her father. He can hardly eat and sleep well as he worries about her well-being, and he can’t even bring himself to commit to his work seriously.

When Wang Lei met Father Xie for the first time before the livestream, he nearly broke down in tears.

Because before the livestream started, he was having a meal with his own daughter, as an early celebration for his birthday, which falls on 4 May.

For the first time in more than 30 years, his daughter kissed him on the cheek.

Ever since the ordeal started, Wang Lei has been enduring all the criticism he’s been receiving, in part because he’s used to it, and secondly, the attention is technically a good thing because now more people are aware of Ms Chia’s disappearance.

But what he can’t tolerate is that his own feelings and worries, as a father who also has a daughter, is being misconstrued as clout-chasing.

Towards the people that have denigrated him, he jabs an accusatory finger at the camera and tells them that “you have no conscience”.

In the end, he couldn’t stop his own waterworks because he saw Father Xie crying as he conveyed his desperation to find his daughter.

Wang also calls some of the newsfeeds “bastards” for randomly publishing articles without any substantial evidence, without considering how a parent might feel when they read the news about their daughter being kidnapped.

And towards the three Malaysian datuks, he feels like they’re not human at all for the false and terrible information they gave.

Wang is of the opinion that the news outlets and the three datuks owe a serious apology, not him or the boss, but to the family.

Wang quotes, “(What) humans do, Heaven sees. There will be retribution.” Then he addresses the three datuks specifically, “If I were you, I think you should return your ‘datuk’ title back to your government. Return it, don’t be a disgrace.”

He also swears colourfully at the news outlets that mock them for offering such a small sum of money, and for saying that it’s precisely because of the ransom money that they’re offering that is killing the chances of them ever finding Ms Chia.

Capitalising on a daughter’s disappearance for traffic and profit is despicable, enough said.

Well, that’s the best way to sum up Wang Lei’s rant, without listing all the Hokkien vulgarities he hurls in a span of a few minutes. He has a large vocabulary, okay?

By this point, Wang is shouting at the camera in a hoarse voice, questioning if they’re ever asked for the family’s permission whenever they write those baseless and demeaning articles.

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No Proof that Ms Chia is Kidnapped or Trapped in Myanmar

Ms Chia’s father also says his piece on the livestream.

Father Xie said that his family hasn’t gone down to Myanmar to look for his daughter, and that there has been no record of his daughter even leaving the country, based on police investigations.

Between random news articles and the police who have access to official travelling records, it’s clear who the family should be trusting.

Secondly, he clarifies that he has not been contracted by three Malaysian datuks who claimed that his daughter is being held hostage in Myanmar.

Wang places emphasis on the fact that it hasn’t been confirmed what exactly happened to the woman after she went missing, and there’s no evidence that suggests that she has been kidnapped or has somehow ended up in Myanmar.

After asking Father Xie about his occupation, the getai singer felt that there was no reason for any illegal group to kidnap Ms Chia as a “cash cow”, since Father Xie doesn’t earn that much as an individual who works in the renovation sector.

Therefore, whatever the Penang politician, Mr Patrick Ooi, alleged he heard from his informants and subsequently reported to Nanyang Siang Pao, is mostly likely false.

Wang also confirmed with Father Xie that his daughter hadn’t been arguing with anyone in the family prior to her sudden disappearance.

On the day of her disappearance, Ms Chia informed her mother around 8am in the morning that she was going to meet a prospective client for her insurance job, and that she would be home for dinner. She also asked her older brother to fetch her from the same place three days later, to which he accepted.

Based on previous evidence, it’s clear that Ms Chia had a harmonious relationship with her parents, since most of the messages and letters that she left behind wrote that she didn’t wish to be a financial burden to her parents and how she wants to be filial to them.

Ms Chia isn’t the type of daughter who would trouble her parents needlessly either, which makes her disappearance all the more worrisome.

Father Xie Pleads for His Daughter’s Return

Around 26 minutes into the livestream, Father Xie digs through his bag to look for a blue letter that has been folded into a heart shape.

It was written and given to him during Chinese New Year when her father was about to go back to work in Singapore, and he treasures it greatly. He stored the letter in a sealed red envelope and kept it in his wallet, carrying it with him at all times.

Wang and Father Xie were too distraught by Ms Chia’s heartfelt gesture to read the letter, so the responsibility was given to Jay to read the letter aloud to the audience.

Translation:

An Amulet of Protection made by a daughter for (her) father ♡

Hoping that Daddy remains healthy, living till a hundred years

Having a smooth career, feeling happy and blissful

Hoping he can accomplish everything his heart desires

(Your) daughter will work hard to earn money in hopes that Daddy can retire early

So that the family can reunite and never separate

Wishing that Daddy has a smooth-sailing journey, and have an easy time at work

Come back home early for the family to be complete ♡

Throughout the entire reading, Father Xie cries silently.

It’s evident that the father and daughter share a very close relationship.

He just wants his daughter back, safe and sound.

A Message to the Audience and Ms Chia

At the end of the video, Wang Lei and Jay reaffirm that the reward money, not ransom money, still stands at RM150,000.

Father Xie makes a direct plea to his daughter to return home as soon as possible, before he chokes up again from his tears.

Likewise, Wang Lei addresses Ms Chia directly, telling her that if she’s watching this livestream, please contact her parents at least to let them know that she’s safe.

The boss Jay also reiterates their message, telling 22-year-old woman to give her parents a call.

Ms Chia, it has been a full month since you were last seen.

Your family is really worried about you, and they miss you dearly.