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‘China’s most pitiful man’: shocked husband discovers 4 daughters he had with wife of 16 years are not his, files for divorce

  • Man takes daughters for DNA tests, discovers shocking reality
  • Wife says ‘I don’t think I’ve betrayed him. Is the blood relationship that important?’

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A husband in China has filed for divorce after he discovered that all the children he “had” with his wife of 16 years were not his. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock
Alice Yanin Shanghai

A divorce hearing in China has heard evidence from a husband that none of the four children his wife of 16 years has given birth to are his.

A court in Jiangxi province in the east of the country heard the extraordinary evidence at the end of December last year.

The divorce papers were filed by Chen Zhixian against his wife, who was only identified by her surname, Yu, according to the news outlet cqcb.com.

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Chen and his lawyer presented new evidence to show that Yu gave birth to a baby girl in November last year in a hospital outside their hometown, the report said.

According to hospital documents, the man who was present at the birth was surnamed Wu who Chen suspects had an affair with his wife.

The wife in the case is pictured with two of her daughters. She has questioned the veracity of the DNA tests her husband had carried out Photo: Baidu
The wife in the case is pictured with two of her daughters. She has questioned the veracity of the DNA tests her husband had carried out Photo: Baidu

Chen is regarded by people on mainland social media as China’s most pitiful man because of his wife’s serial adultery. Their other three “daughters”, also not his, were born in 2008, 2010 and 2018.

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