It said “in response to the online reports of a person with the surname of Wu repeatedly luring young women for sex and other related accusations, the police has arrested Wu (male, 30 years old with Canadian nationality) on suspicion of rape…further investigation is pending.”.

While the police didn’t specify who the person is, given the recent debacle surrounding Kris Wu’s personal life and the fact that the nationality and age revealed match that of his, the post gained over half a million shares within 30 minutes and became top trending news on the social media platform, overshadowing the Tokyo Olympic Games.

A young woman who said she’d dated the pop star accused him of targeting young and sometimes underage females for sex, allegations Wu denied.

The Shanghai-based beauty brand Kans, owned by C-beauty giant Chicmax, was the first to react and announce it had terminated Wu’s endorsement contract on Weibo.

She shared screenshots of alleged conversations between Wu and underage girls on Weibo and claimed that she has struggled with mental health, and even had suicidal thoughts due to his infidelity and cyberbullying from his fans.

Instead, she shared that Wu’s team reached out to her and proposed to settle the accusations with money.

She later shared a video of her receiving two bank transfers totaling 500,000 renminbi from Wu Stacy Yu and Wu Yi Fan, which appeared to be Kris Wu’s mother’s name and his name in Chinese pinyin spelling.

However, the police investigation published a week later on Weibo directly contradicted the statement Wu released

The post said Wu’s agent did ask Du to go to the home of Wu on December 5 on the pretext of selecting her to appear in a music video