Gunfire Reborn Developer to Appeal After 15 Million Deduction

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Duoyi Network, the developer of Gunfire Reborn, says it will appeal a retrial first-instance ruling in chairman Xu Bo's asset-custody dispute with Tang Jing, a case the company says involves hundreds of millions of yuan. In an official statement released recently, Duoyi said it was "deeply shocked and regretful" over the result, especially because the court, while recognizing a custodial legal relationship and finding no commingling of property and no gift, still used discretionary judgment to cut Tang Jing's repayment liability by 15 million yuan.

The statement lays out a fairly simple point, even if the court's reasoning is where Duoyi says the logic breaks down. In the company's account, the court affirmed that the parties were in a custodial legal relationship rather than a gifting arrangement, and that there was no mixing of assets. Even so, the ruling still reduced the defendant's repayment obligation by 15 million yuan. In Duoyi's view, that combination is exactly what makes the ruling hard to square.

Duoyi also laid out the disputed reasoning in unusual detail. According to the statement, the court cited the pair's past romantic relationship, their joint upbringing of multiple children, and a chat record containing the line "leave 15 million for you first". The company argues that the word "first" itself shows the money was being held temporarily rather than gifted. It further says the message was sent while Tang Jing was refusing to return property and making threats and extortion demands, and that the wording was an attempt to limit losses and push through a transfer as quickly as possible.

Duoyi also pushes back hard on the child-related reasoning. The company says that, of the 13 children mentioned, Xu Bo has legal custody and support obligations for only 2. The other 11 U.S. citizen children, it says, were independently born overseas by Tang Jing before she left in 2022, and the two had long agreed that she alone would raise them. Duoyi then cited the China Childbirth Cost Report 2026 and Xu Bo's actual spending data from raising more than 100 other children, arguing that an average annual cost of roughly 26,000 to 29,000 yuan makes a 15 million yuan support-related figure obviously excessive. On Duoyi's account, that makes a 15 million yuan child-support figure obviously disproportionate.

The statement goes further than the 15 million yuan dispute itself. Duoyi claims Tang Jing currently holds hundreds of millions of yuan worth of Xu Bo's assets across Japan, the United States, and Hong Kong, and that she sold multiple properties in Japan without authorization. Beyond the money directly tied to this case, the company says income generated from the large custodial funds is conservatively estimated at 50 million yuan, while another roughly 190 million yuan in principal and interest remains unpaid. Duoyi also says it applied to freeze more than 200 million yuan in assets, but in practice froze only more than 390,000 yuan.

For players, the immediate question usually isn't the current state of Gunfire Reborn itself. It's whether the developer's public credibility, pressure on management, and the reputational fallout will continue to grow. Once a company publicly says it is "deeply shocked and regretful" and vows to appeal, every subsequent legal update is likely to be clipped, reposted, and amplified across the community. And when coverage around a game studio shifts from its releases to an executive dispute, it's rarely easy to pull the conversation back.

For players, the sensible approach is to treat this as two separate questions. If you want to play Gunfire Reborn, watch its content updates, patch frequency, and community feedback. If you want to follow the case, stick to official statements, public court information, and the eventual appeal result rather than secondhand interpretations. In disputes like this, the outcome will turn on the next round of evidence and legal procedure, not on whichever excerpt spreads fastest online.