ONE newspaper editor in Shenzhen, of South China's Guangdong Province, who was acquainted with Muzimei, said she certainly wanted to become famous through her provocative behaviour. Although the editor didn't agree to a direct interview with the Shanghai Star, she commented through one of her colleagues.

The editor said Muzimei, or Li Li, has been longing for fame for years. She became accustomed to one-night stands after the first man she truly loved made her pregnant and dumped her when she was in college.

She had failed to graduate as a philosophy major from Zhongshan University in Guangdong and she had bad relations with all her roommates in college.

She was fired by a famous South China newspaper because she couldn't complete her work. She was then employed by City Pictorial, but was asked to quit after her diary was publicized.