‘Money can’t buy happiness’: Chinese man abducted as toddler and adopted by billionaire family returns, aged 27, to bosom of multimillionaire birth parents
- Quarter-of-a-century after he was abducted, aged 2, by human traffickers, 27-year-old Chinese man leaves his billionaire adoptive family to return home
- He discovers birth parents are multimillionaires as his father vows to eventually hand the family business over to him
A Chinese man who was abducted as a toddler and ended up being adopted by a billionaire family 25 years ago has been found by his birth parents, who turned out to be multimillionaires.
Mei Zhiqiang, 27, has been dubbed a “natural-born Fu’erdai”, or “rich second generation” and “the abducted young master” by Chinese social media following his reunion with birth parents in June last year.
After returning to his birth family, Mei has finally talked about choosing to rejoin his real family in an interview with Chinese news outlet Jiupai News, which was released on February 3, saying “money can’t buy happiness”.
In 1997, 28-month-old Mei was abducted in southwestern China’s Yunnan province while playing outside his home.
After his parents, Mei Xianhua and Pan Chang’e, migrant workers from eastern China’s Jiangxi province, discovered that their son had disappeared, they began a desperate two-decade-long search for him.
