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Niki Chow's management recently explained their reason for uploading photos of the actress and her mainland actor boyfriend, Jeremy Tsui to the Internet – an action that was deemed contradictory to Niki's previous statement, saying that she hopes to make their relationship low profile .

As reported on Xinhua, her manager Marianne Wang revealed that they have decided to publish the photos themselves to discourage a paparazzo who wanted to extort money over the same photos.

Marianne revealed that the said paparazzo sneaked into a Shanghai restaurant where the couple were celebrating their friend's birthday last week and took photos of Niki and Jeremy.

As the said friend would rather not have the photos published, Marianne offered to pay RMB 2,000 (approx. USD 329) to retrieve the photos. However, the greedy photographer instead increased the price to RMB 80,000 (USD 13,179).

"When I refused to pay a single cent, he cut the fee from RMB 80,000 to RMB 20,000!" said Marianne in disbelief.

After discussing with the actress and realised that the photos might be used by the paparazzo anyway, Marianne and Niki decided to upload the photos themselves as to stop the blackmailer from further extortion.