Chinese woman dumps boyfriend after being put off by his family's Chinese New Year meal

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A 27-year-old woman from Shanghai, China, decided to dump her boyfriend after she went to his family home, and discovered that they weren't well-off enough.

The unnamed woman took to her Weibo account to justify why she was leaving her boyfriend of one year. While the good-looking, hard-working guy had been treating her well, she felt he was just too poor for her.

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According to a string of Weibo posts she made, she claims to come from a well-off family in Shanghai, while her boyfriend's parents are farmers in a village in the Jiangxi province. Her parents had raised concerns initially that her boyfriend was not a good match for her, but she continued to date him.

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However, the relationship came to an abrupt end when the wealth disparity between the woman and her boyfriend became all too clear during a visit to his hometown for Chinese New Year over the weekend.

She said the dishes they served were "too humble" for her liking and caused her to take the first train out of Jiangxi to return home to Shanghai, reported People's Daily Online.

"When I saw their food, I wanted to throw up. It was 100 times worse than what I had imagined. I can't accept it," the woman wrote.

The woman's lengthy post on the KDS online forum caused quite a stir amongst Chinese netizens. Some said they could relate to her plight, but most were outraged by her audacity and lack of good manners.

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"Breaking up is not a problem, but you should still respect others, I feel like this woman looks down on farmers," one Weibo commenter said.

Others called her out on being too proud and that she was suffering from "princess syndrome."

In recent years, China's rising wealth gap has been a growing polarising issue, with people wondering if one can find love with someone of another social standing. In his sophomore novel China Rich Girlfriend, author Kevin Kwan (of Crazy Rich Asians fame) pointed out how far removed China's 'fu er dai' — second-generation rich kids — were from reality.

[H/T: Shanghaiist]