Chinese Husband Sues Wife For Being Ugly (October 26, 2012)
Pre Questions
- What good reasons are there for a husband to sue his wife (or vice versa)?
The Original Article
Northern Chinese resident Jian Feng divorced and sued his wife for $120,000 and won! The story goes that Mr. Feng was deeply in love with his beautiful wife until they had a baby girl.
Feng was horrified at how ugly the baby was and demanded to know who his wife had cheated on him with because the baby resembled neither of the parents
As it turns out, his wife didn’t cheat, but did gloss over the fact that she had spent $100,000 on intense plastic surgery to severely change how she looked before she met him. It’s the kind of thing that can slip your mind on the first date. After his wife revealed this to him, Feng took the only right-minded course of action and divorced and sued her, claiming that she got him to marry her under false pretences. The false pretence presumably being that she was good looking. Incredibly, the (presumably male) judge sympathised with Feng and he won $120,000 in the case.
He won the amount he requested, $120,000 while his now divorced wife had spent $100,000 on extensive plastic surgeries by apparently very gifted South Korean surgeons.
Northern Chinese resident Jian Feng divorced and sued his wife for $120,000 and won! The story goes that Mr. Feng was deeply in love with his beautiful wife until they had a baby girl.
Feng was horrified at how ugly the baby was and demanded to know who his wife had cheated on him with because the baby resembled neither of the parents
As it turns out, his wife didn’t cheat, but did gloss over the fact that she had spent $100,000 on intense plastic surgery to severely change how she looked before she met him. It’s the kind of thing that can slip your mind on the first date. After his wife revealed this to him, Feng took the only right-minded course of action and divorced and sued her, claiming that she got him to marry her under false pretences. The false pretence presumably being that she was good looking. Incredibly, the (presumably male) judge sympathised with Feng and he won $120,000 in the case.
He won the amount he requested, $120,000 while his now divorced wife had spent $100,000 on extensive plastic surgeries by apparently very gifted South Korean surgeons.
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Easy Version
A Chinese man married a beautiful lady. They had a baby. The baby didn't look like the mother or father. The husband thought it was another man's baby because it was so ugly. He asked his wife if she had an affair. The wife said she had had plastic surgery before she met him. The man was very angry. He felt deceived. He divorced his wife and sued her for $120,000. The judge agreed with the man.
A Chinese man married a beautiful lady. They had a baby. The baby didn't look like the mother or father. The husband thought it was another man's baby because it was so ugly. He asked his wife if she had an affair. The wife said she had had plastic surgery before she met him. The man was very angry. He felt deceived. He divorced his wife and sued her for $120,000. The judge agreed with the man.
Conversation Starter Questions
- Do you know anyone who has had plastic surgery?
- How do you feel about plastic surgery? What situations do you think it is ok to have it?
- Would you ever consider having plastic surgery?
- I once read some South Koreans award their kids with plastic surgery if they study hard and enter a good university. How do you feel about this?
- What other methods do people use to change their appearance? eg. Breaking legs to make them longer in China, make up, .........
- Which do you think is more important, beauty or personality?
- Have you been deeply in love before?
- If your baby didn't look like you or your spouse, what would you do?
- Who was bad, the husband, the wife, or both?
- What do you think happened to the baby? Would you tell her about this story in the future if you were the mother?
- Have you ever tried to hide something when dating?
- What other ways do spouses deceive each other before getting married?
- Do you agree with the judge's decision? Are there any court cases where you don't agree with the verdict or sentence?
- Have you ever sued anyone before?
- Is it easy to sue people in your country. What kind of circumstances are people commonly sued in your country?
- What things horrify you?
- Has anything slipped your mind recently?
- What would you do in this situation?
Practice making sentences using the following pattern
- Horrified at how ugly
- Stunned at how beautiful
- Surprised at how dumb eg. I'm surprised at how dumb some politicians are.
- Amused at how strange
- Speechless at how foolish
- Shocked at how devastating eg. I was shocked at how devastating the tsunami was.
- Happy at how thoughtful
- Sad at how cruel
- Sympathize at how unfair
- Delighted at how clever eg, I'm delighted at how clever my student is.
Further Practice
- neither / both
- presumably
- northern, southern, eastern, western, central / north, south, east, west, center
- Slip ones mind
- Take a course of action
- Demand to
- Cheat on
- Turn out
- Spend on
- Reveal to
- Sympathize with
- Right-minded
- Deeply (in)
- Gifted
- Good looking