A Chinese man has been shocked to learn that the “birth father” he reunited with 16 years ago was a fake and had lied about his identity.
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Wang Gang, 41, who never met his birth parents, grew up in seven foster families, and began earning his own money at 13.
In 2008, at the age of 25, Wang decided to search for his family. He tracked down a foster family in eastern China’s Shandong province, who introduced another foster father surnamed Hou.
Hou told Wang that he was actually his illegitimate son in front of a room of reporters, and showed him a photo of him when he was three.
They happily reunited, but when Wang took Hou to the hospital for a check-up last December, he did a DNA kinship test for the first time in 16 years, and discovered the shocking truth that Hou was not his birth father.
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Wang said he asked Hou to do the test since they reunited, but Hou kept turning him down saying it was too much trouble to go to the DNA testing centre in another city.