Chinese influencer gives up wealth, success to travel China in a motor home with her adoptive father to repay kindness
- A young Chinese woman has walked away from a successful online business to travel the country with her adoptive father
- She was abandoned by her birth parents as a baby and rescued by her adoptive father whom she helped escape poverty with her lucrative business
A 24-year-old woman in central China has given up her lucrative business to travel with her adoptive father who raised her by collecting rubbish after finding her abandoned by the roadside as a baby.
Zhang Baige, an influencer and former online retailer from Luoyang, in central China’s Henan province, started travelling with her 74-year-old adoptive father, Zhang Shuangqi, in a motor home across the country last year to rekindle their relationship.
Baige, who was abandoned by her birth parents in a field and found by Zhang, lifted her adoptive father out of poverty over the past seven years by selling goods online.
However, she sold her company last year to embark on a motor home tour around China with her father last May.
She has been posting about their life on the road together ever since on live-streaming platform Douyin, attracting more than 4 million followers.
It all started when Zhang found Baige by the roadside on his way to his farming village in 1997. She was believed to be just 4 months old, while he was already 50 but had remained single because of poverty.
“He made 2 yuan (30 US cents) a day by taking care of a skip bin back then and he spent 1 yuan on a photo of me, the only photo of me as a child,” Baige recalled in one video she shared on Douyin.