‘How dare he!’: Chinese man sues adult son for mocking him after he failed a maths quiz at family gathering gone wrong


By Liya Su

An 80-year-old man in China has filed a lawsuit suing his financially dependent son for mocking him for failing a maths quiz at a family gathering gone wrong.

The man, given the pseudonym Luo Wen by local media, from Jiangxi province, southeastern China, requested a one-time payment of 100,000 yuan (US$14,800) from his son, Luo Jun, in a lawsuit filed at a local court in May.

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