‘Like a lighthouse for the lonely’: Chinese woman sells over 30,000 goodnight text messages at US$0.15 each to people needing comfort

Wong Biying was struggling with loneliness and insomnia about a decade ago. She decided to start a service to offer others in similar circumstances a feeling that someone cared about them. — SCMP

For Wong Biying, 35, the act of helping others turned out to be exactly what she needed to help herself.

The woman from Guangdong province in southern China went viral in early May after the Internet discovered she had made over 30,000 yuan (US$4,415 or RM19,510) selling goodnight texts for one yuan (US$0.15 or 66sen) per message.