In 2016, Jiang Fangzhou went to Japan and stayed for a year. In 2017, she published that damn book, and ever since then, bad luck has kept coming.

In 2016, Jiang Fangzhou was invited by a Japanese foundation and went to Tokyo to live for a year, receiving about 20k per month in living expenses. In 2017, she published Tokyo for One Year, selling 150k copies. She had intended a literary comeback, but the bad luck began from then on. The book was immediately questioned as “getting things done with yen,” and in 2021 old accounts were revisited, with the whole internet cursing her as “ultra-pro-Japanese.” After that, controversies kept escalating. In July 2026, her master’s thesis was reported for plagiarism, and Renmin University directly revoked her degree.