‘Don’t let him drink too much’: Online praise as caring Chinese daughter enters boozy father’s chat group, urges friends to limit his alcohol intake

Worried daughter recalls numerous times her father hurt himself after drinking and once arrived home with ‘injuries all over his body’. Boozing dad welcomes her intervention and has not been drunk since she posted her plea on his social media friends group. — SCMP

A caring Chinese daughter, at the end of her tether with her alcoholic father, has written a heartfelt online letter to his drinking buddies, begging them “not to drink with him”.

The worried university student, surnamed Ying, from eastern China’s Zhejiang province, posted the letter on her father’s friend-based WeChat account on the night of May 11.