Xiaoli, a woman from the city of Shenzhen in southern China,
from a poor home and the oldest child in her family asked each of her
20 boyfriends to buy her a newly launched iPhone 7.
Her mum is a housewife and her dad is a migrant worker, and she is
the oldest daughter. Her parents are getting old and she might be under a
lot pressure hoping to buy them a house... But it's still unbelievable
that she could use this method!
BBC reports that the woman who is the breadwinner of her family,
got all 20 iPhone7 phones and then sold all of the phones to a mobile
phone recycling site called Hui Shou Bao for 120,000 Chinese yuan (about
£14,500), and used the money to put down a deposit on a house in the
countryside.
Her friend, Qiaoba shared the story online, wrote in her blog post
that when Xiaoli showed her new house to their group of friends, they
were all very surprised when she revealed how she had managed to obtain
the money for the deposit.
"Everyone in the office is talking about this now," wrote Proud Qiaoba, "Who knows what her boyfriends think now this news has become public."
Many people on China's microblogging site Sina Weibo were impressed
at Xiaoli's enterprise and ability in convincing her 20 boyfriends to
each buy her the phone which was only recently launched, on 16 September
of this year.
A hashtag #20 mobiles for a house' quickly began to trend on Weibo,
and became the country's top trend. It has now been used in excess of
13 million times.
Many social media users, have expressed admiration for Xiaoli.
One said: "I can't even find one boyfriend. She can actually
find 20 boyfriends at the same time and even get them to buy her an
iPhone 7."
Another said: "Just want to ask her to teach me such skills."
Another said: she has "a bright future."
While others condemned her: 'Little Bee' wrote that Xiaoli was "the most shameless person".
BBC Trending reports that they approached Hui Shou Bao and a
company spokesperson confirmed that they had indeed bought 20 iPhones
from a female client at the beginning of October and paid 6,000 Chinese
yuan (about £725) for each one.
Xiaoli has refused to speak with BBC Trending.
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