The most significant change in the case is Chinese netizens’ attitude towards such a story. Gone are the days when people trust government rhetoric. Gone, too, are the days when people automatically buy into stories depicting an “evil” government.

Yesterday, on the 47th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution’s official starting date, a few apologies made by individuals who have made mistakes during that 10 years of madness went viral online, and ignited discussions of who should be responsible for all the chaos.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie’s Tuesday piece of her double mastectomy is making waves on both print and social media. China is no exception, as one netizen warmilk put it: “The whole nation is talking about her and her breasts.”

The principal of the Second Elementary School in the city of Wanning, Hainan province, took 6 of his female students to a local hotel on May 8. Joined him later was a local government official. Chinese netizens once again called for amendment of “prostitutioning the underaged” law.

“We thought we could expect a Gorbachev. But it turns out they [officials] are more like North Korea’s Kim family,” sighed one netizen. The Chinese dream, which has been at the center of government propaganda since Xi took power, is only but a dream to the ordinary people.

What would you do if you don’t trust your own government? For China’s always-cynical netizens, the answer is easy – to appeal to the US government. The 6 most recent petitions submitted to the White House are all from China.

Two protests happened in China this past Sunday. One in Kunming to protest against the setup of a chemical plant; and the other in Changsha to protest against a speech by a “rightist.” They each represent an ideology that is celebrated by many, younger generations in particular, in China.

To answer netizens’ calls for a re-investigation into Zhu Ling’s 19-year-old poisoning case, Chinese authorities blocked all words and deleted all posts related to the case on Sina Weibo, on World Press Freedom Day.

Wall Street financial powerhouses finally started to short gold, leading to a crash in global price of gold. What they didn’t expect was that a group of Chinese middle-aged ladies rushed into the battlefield, who snapped up 300 ton of gold with more than RMB 100 billion yuan in a few days.

What can a 19-year-old cold case tell about China’s rule of law? Everything, in the eyes of many Chinese netizens who now demand a re-investigation of the poisoning case of Zhu Ling in 1995.