'Tiger Wife' who wooed doomed major general
Wu Fangfang left her husband and married Guo Zhenggang as his star was rising, reports say
Graft-busters announced this month they were investigating Major General Guo Zhenggang, but the end of his career nearly came in 2012 - when a woman burst into his office claiming she was carrying his illegitimate child, according to a report by a weekly magazine.
Extra-marital affairs are strictly forbidden by military regulations and Guo, then a rising star within the PLA, appeared faced with a difficult choice.
He was already married to an official working at the communication headquarters of the PLA General Staff, and with whom he shared a daughter, Hong Kong-based Phoenix Weekly reported.
Guo, 42, had just finished refresher courses at the PLA National Defence University in Beijing, a sign the son of then-deputy chairman of the Central Military Commission, Guo Boxiong , would likely be promoted within a few years.
It was around that time he met Wu Fangfang , a 45-year-old businesswoman based in Hangzhou , the capital of Zhejiang province, the weekly cited a retired official at the junior Guo's department as saying.
She had ended a 21-year marriage with a local judge the year before. Her affair with Guo apparently intensified rapidly, and she soon became pregnant.