Xu Qian, who was the China overall champion of Miss Tourism World 2004, was mysteriously killed in Lijiang in November 2007. The murderer was Wei Lei, Xu Qian's employer who had hired her for taking photos. According to Wei Lei's confession, the two of them had had sexual relations twice, and after the passion they "made a suicide pact". Wei Lei claimed he was helping Xu Qian commit suicide. Recently, the court of first instance thought that it was too difficult to obtain evidence in this case, and since Wei Lei turned himself in and was willing to compensate, he was leniently sentenced to death with reprieve.