Remember when Chinese actress Yang Mi publicly declared that she would never lend money to her friends? Well, this story shows us why that controversial stance — she was called “heartless” and a “miser” ‘cos of that — might be a wise idea after all.

On Wednesday (Mar 10), veteran journalist Bai Lu Mei, who’s famed for juicy celeb exposés, penned a column in Hongkong’s Apple Daily about former actress Sharla Cheung (also known as Cheung Man or Zhang Min), who was apparently a little too generous with her hard-earned dough.