‘I don’t care how much’: Woman in China spends 10 years of savings to build farmer father luxury villa, faces ‘self-serving’ online backlash


By Fran Lu

Daughter forks out a fortune to build farmer father plush home but faces social media criticism villa designed for her, not him. Woman, who sells clothes online, insists plush 3-storey villa is a way to say ‘thank you’ to the man who raised her. — SCMP

A woman in China who spent 10 years worth of her savings on a luxurious house for her farmer father has triggered social media speculation that she only did so to burnish her own personal online brand.

The woman, who goes by the name Ziyu, is a fashion designer and used to own more than 20 clothing stores in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan province in southern China, before she lost everything during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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