China woman pays off US$140,000 debt for ‘sleazy’ boyfriend, settles bogus ransom demand, cost of fake medical emergency
- Woman forks out US$28,000 a year for 5 years to pay off man’s debts
- He then fakes kidnapping, drug crime, death while living with another woman
A grieving woman spent five years repaying her “dead” boyfriend’s one million yuan (US$140,000) debt and also handed over ransom money to his “kidnapper”, only to discover he had been stringing her along.
Using the alias Zhang, the woman from Zhejiang province in eastern China, said she was angry and sad that she had been fooled by her boyfriend, Yu, for six years.
When Zhang fell in love with Yu in 2017, she knew that he owed a lot of money after he told her a failed business venture had left him in debt.
Instead of leaving, Zhang, who runs a hotel business, chose to stand by him.
“I kept encouraging him and telling him that we would make the money to pay off his debts,” Zhang said.
The besotted woman helped her lover pay back 200,000 yuan (US$28,000) within a year, then a similar amount annually for another four years, until in February 2022, Zhang had cleared all Yu’s debts for him.
