New Delhi: A touching story out of China illustrates the timeless nature of love. A woman continues to repay her dead boyfriend’s debts and looks after his family. Wang Ting, 34, lost her boyfriend Zheng Ji in a tragic car crash in 2016. Chinese businessman Zheng has a trail of unpaid wages for his staff, unpaid bills and loans from friends.
She was left with his debts—and a sense that if she didn’t get them off, the families and friends who lent Zheng money would be financially burdened in the wake of his death, Wang told the newspaper. Despite her own limited financial resources, Wang utilised her $27,000 savings to pay off her boyfriend’s parents’ debts. She even borrowed more than $9,000 to pay it off from a friend.
Returning debts, however, was not Wang’s end. She has kept in touch with her late boyfriend’s parents and, in 2020, when Wang was married, invited them to the wedding. She said, “I have six parents now.” Though Wang operates in two food and tourism businesses, she never forgot her first love of ginger jam.
Not only has Wang stepped up to the plate to help, but she has likewise found herself serving as a crutch for her deceased boyfriend’s family. On a trip here and there, she also takes his mother, the lady who was crushed when her son killed himself, and all the emotional scars through his suicide – to be ever so careful of her wounds, of never ever using the wrong word, the wrong saying, and then a want, a desire to do more, to go out there, and give back to the good folk. Wang has also been on hand for Zheng’s ailing father, who has heart disease, taking him to and from the hospital and visiting him regularly. She also pays into a pension fund for Zheng’s mother so she has money in her old age.
What is extraordinary love if it is not Wang — bringing out the image of being a carer for the family of the man she loved and who has passed away?