A Chinese woman who repaid all her boyfriend’s 600,000-yuan (US$82,000) debt and looked after his family for nine years after he died following a car accident, has moved many people online.
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Wang Ting, 34, from central China’s Hunan province, lost her boyfriend, Zeng Zhi, who she had been together with for years, in 2016.
She discovered that after Zeng, a businessman, passed away he still owed salaries to his staff, payments for purchases and loans he received from friends.
Wang said despite the folk belief that a person’s debt goes away when they die, and that people around her tried to talk her out of it, she insisted on repaying Zeng’s debts, because his parents could not afford it, only having a 50,000-yuan (US$7,000) annual income.
“If I do not repay the debt, how would those people support their children and elderly?” she said.
“I need to bring his life story to a perfect close,” Wang said, adding she did not want his legacy to be one of dishonesty.