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A Man Demolished a Stranger's Vacant Ningbo Apartment to Keep Up a Rich-Boyfriend Act

A Ningbo mother's ten-million-yuan dowry apartment for her daughter was gutted to bare concrete by a stranger who registered as its tenant through the compound's own management system; police say he wanted his girlfriend to believe the home was his. The case has put the safeguards of China's high-end compound living on trial.

A One-Year-Old Ate a Poisoned Egg. The Neighbor Meant to Kill Weasels.

A One-Year-Old Ate a Poisoned Egg. The Neighbor Meant to Kill Weasels.

In a Guizhou village, a toddler suffered brain damage after eating an egg laced with a banned rat poison a neighbor had scattered to protect his chickens — a case that has turned rural pest control, and fluoroacetate, into a national question.

How a 27-Year-Old Streamer Survived a Fall From the 35th Floor

One year after falling from a 35th-floor balcony in Changsha — a height doctors call very rarely survivable — the streamer Wan Wan'an has announced her return, her organs recovered apart from a lost right leg. A tree broke the fall; a 50-day ICU stay and ten operations did the rest.

One Hour of Speakerphone on Train G735: Why China's Railways Can't Enforce Quiet

14 Oct 2026

In the latest preview of 'My That Girl', the mother of retired Olympic diver Zhang Jiaqi sits down with a psychologist and calls herself a fool — while Hong Kong mogul Xiang Tai publicly tells the diver to keep sending money and stop seeing her.

Zhang Jiaqi's Mother Books a Therapy Session on Reality TV as Xiang Tai Urges the Family Apart

14 Oct 2026

A bride-to-be's post about arguing with her parents over whether her fiancé's 'three golds' should be cash instead of jewelry drew 11,000 likes in a day, because it lands on an old question with new stakes: at today's gold prices, what is the tradition for — protecting the bride, or pricing her?

'Cash or the Gold?': A Bride's Fight With Her Parents Over the Three Golds Is China's Wedding Debate in Miniature

13 Oct 2026

A Chinese fan-fiction writer found the one-of-a-kind notebook she had mailed her best friend listed on a secondhand site — and, chasing the apparent betrayal, learned that her friend had died in August, leaving two daughters and debts, and had never once tried to sell the book herself. The listing was her husband's. The story has become the week's most-argued tale of friendship, fandom and marriage on Chinese social media.

Never Sold, Only Kept: The Fanfic Notebook Listed for Sale After Its Owner's Death

12 Oct 2026

'Racing Against Time': Dongdong, the Blogger Who Worked Through Nine Years of Terminal Cancer, Dies at 31

12 Oct 2026

Xiaoyue, half of a Chinese online couple famous for the 52-centimetre difference between her 2.2-metre frame and her boyfriend's 1.68 metres, has died at 26 after a tumour condition her partner believed was operable. She leaves a child not yet one year old.

Xiaoyue, the 2.2-Metre Influencer Known for Her Height Gap With Her Boyfriend, Dies at 26

11 Oct 2026

Frame-by-frame viewing of Mango TV's 'That Daughter of Mine' turned two dinner-table moments — a mother's hidden meat and a mother who 'forgot' to mention a son — into the week's biggest argument about how Chinese families treat their daughters.

Meat Under the Rice: A Variety-Show Dinner Detail Becomes China's Parenting Debate

11 Oct 2026

A love story in which every relative arrives with cash has gone viral for a reason that has little to do with romance: in China's marriage market, a Shanghai flat and a master's degree are the two currencies being weighed against each other.

Both Families Thought They'd Struck Gold: A Blind-Date Story Reignites China's Marriage Debate

11 Oct 2026

Knowing They Shouldn't Buy, China's Renters Still Long for a Home of Their Own

10 Oct 2026

Li Leyou, the girl reality TV placed with a city family twelve years ago, moved out in September. This week a florist's account of her discounted Mother's Day bouquet went viral, the family's son accused her of secretly hiring paid trolls, and an influencer who waded in was banned — while the country argues again about who profits when a childhood is also a channel.

The 60-Yuan Bouquet at the Center of China's Biggest Influencer-Family Feud

10 Oct 2026

Parents at a middle school in Wuhan were assigned to take turns supervising the school's extended evening study sessions — the student's own mother or father only, with instructions to note down misbehaving students. The school calls the rota voluntary 'home-school cooperation'; the district education bureau has opened an investigation.

A Wuhan School Put Parents on Evening-Study Duty, and the District Is Investigating

10 Oct 2026

A seven-year-old's Iceland vlogs top China's trending lists, but the debates underneath are about class and childhood: why the family hides a marriage, defends a public school, and answers for an expired fever medicine.

Why China's Most-Watched Seven-Year-Old Goes to the Neighbourhood Public School

9 Oct 2026

Shallow Water, Big Fish: Why 30 Million Yuan Is Safer in a Big Chinese City

9 Oct 2026

Retiring Without Heirs: Why One Shanghai Woman's Later-Life Plan Has China Talking

8 Oct 2026

A Weibo post claiming a scenic-area pony died after holiday riders broke its back has become one of the week's most shared animal-welfare stories, with the comments turning into a public list of animal experiences many Chinese now refuse to buy.

Viral Post Says Holiday Tourists Rode a Scenic Pony Until Its Spine Broke

8 Oct 2026