A Rich Chinese Woman Has Dumped Her Poor Boyfriend After Seeing His Family's CNY Meal
She felt the dinner his farmer parents prepared for her was "too humble" for her tastes.
By Sadho Ram — 11 Feb 2016, 01:39 PM
Talk about being picky. A 27-year-old woman from Shanghai has dumped her good-looking boyfriend. Reason being, she felt the guy, with whom she was for a year, was just too poor for her.
This tragic love story has gone viral on the Chinese Internet over the last few days after being shared by the woman herself. She states that she is a 27-year-old from a well-off family in Shanghai, working in HR at a foreign company. While her boyfriend comes from a poor village in Jiangxi province.
The two had been together for a year, despite protests from her parents, who worried that her boyfriend wouldn't be able to buy a house in Shanghai for their marriage, and is too poor anyway for their daughter.
Still, the woman says that she thought that things were good, but abruptly changed her mind when she visited his family's home for Spring Festival this year and sat down at the dinner table. She writes: "This is what was put on the table for us to eat when we arrived today..."
Apparently, when she saw the food served in front of her she "wanted to throw up", she wrote, adding that "it was 100 times worse than what I had imagined. I can't accept it."
The woman decided right then and there to call the whole thing off and catch the first train back to Shanghai. According to The Daily Mail, in a lengthy post on a BBS forum, she wrote: "I can't leave now, there is no transport. I will share a room with his sister tonight and leave the next morning."
Needless to say, there was much furore over her post. However, what's surprising is that while people were outraged by her act, many did side with her, saying they could relate to her plight.
'Wunderkammer Li Yi Meng' wrote on Weibo: 'I can truly understand her. She made the right choice. I got married this year. My husband comes from rural Hunan, I come from Harbin.'
'This year, after I had the Chinese New Year's meal at my mother-in-law's house, I cried… If I hadn't got married, I would certainly break up.'
"The families of a couple should be well-matched. I can see where she's coming from," one netizen commented.
"Breaking up was the right thing to do, but she should have been a little smoother about it," another wrote in.
But that doesn't mean that netizens are letting the woman off the hook, most have also criticized the woman for her lack of manners, while also taking some shots at "leftover women."
"You say that you are such a high-class person, and then you go to someone's house as an honored guest and behave like that?" commented one Weibo user.
"This looks like a good countryside meal, you're just a b#*ch," wrote in another.
On the other hand, someone saw a good opportunity to show off some of their Photoshop skills and wrote in to say that the food was good, it just needed a little bit of colour:
