That Unfortunate Time When You Get Into An Accident And 17 Of Your Girlfriends Show Up

A Chinese man recovering in hospital after a car crash had a shock - when all 17 of his girlfriends turned up to see him. Mr Yuan, from Changsha, was involved in the accident on March 24 and has been in hospital ever since.

A Chinese man had a little explaining to do after a car accident left him in hospital – and his 17 girlfriends rushed to his bedside.

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"I was really worried when I heard that he was in hospital," Xiao Li, a girlfriend of 18 months, told Xiaoxiang Morning Herald. "But when I started seeing more and more beautiful girls show up, I couldn't cry any more."

Xiao says she’s now set up a chat forum for all of Yuan’s partners and she’s discovered that some of the women had been supporting him financially – one of them for nine years. Wang Fang, the mother of Yuan’s child, said: ‘We’ve already had a son together. What can I do now? I don’t love him any more, but I do love my son.’ Another girlfriend, Xiao Ting, said she thought Yuan had been her ‘Mr Right’ and she had already been planning her wedding.

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Yuan's motives appear in part to be financial. Following a divorce in which he allegedly cheated his wife out of 250000 yuan (RM146,000), he allegedly took to swindling girlfriends. He now faces charges of fraud.

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According to China Daily, a police investigation exposed the whole horrible truth on Yuan's past and the crooked pretence he had drawn his female victims into. After cheating his ex-wife out of 250,000 RMB (approximately US$40,000) and divorcing her, he then proceeded to fleece his unsuspecting online girlfriends of tens of thousands of yuan. A closer look at his WeChat account revealed another 200 female targets he had in the crosshairs.

It also turned out that Yuan's duplicity was not confined to his romantic relationships, but that he had also tricked an engineering firm with a Catch Me If You Can inspired con—by gaining employment with a fabricated civil engineering university degree, when, in reality, he possessed a mere middle school diploma.

It was not just women that Mr Yuan deceived. According to China Daily he also fabricated a degree in civil engineering from Central South University, a well-respected university, in order to gain employment, though he only held a middle school diploma.

The story went viral on Chinese social media – although public opinion was divided.
One Sina Weibo microblog user, Duanbiao, said: "Hey brother, when do you give a training class? Single dogs [dudes] don't lack money." Another user, Luk-Yiu, was less congratulatory: "A man with his looks managed to swindle girls and money, what an inspiring story!"