Life Stories

A retiree in Shaoxing who grew seven bottle gourds in a row became an unlikely tourist attraction — until an interview revealed he and his wife had lost their only child, and the strangers calling them grandma and grandpa were warming a grief two decades old.

Life Stories

Windfall From a Typo: A 1,000-Yuan Top-Up Became 2.6 Quadrillion Yuan, and a Court Ordered It Back

An employee who typed a 16-digit account ID into the amount field credited a Hunan man with 2.64 quadrillion yuan of virtual points; he spent 250,000 yuan of them in twenty days, refused to return the money, and has now lost in court on unjust-enrichment grounds.

Life Stories

'Why Must I Work and Do the Housework Too?' A Viral Complaint Reopens China's Second-Shift Debate

A post asking why one person should have to hold a job and keep a home became one of Weibo's most-argued-over questions this week. The answer, for many Chinese women, is obvious — and so is the pushback.