A man recently made news headlines for his years-long struggle to find a suitable wife. He claims to have asked around 80,000 women if they wanted to date him over the last eight years but got rejected 80,000 times.
He first made the news in 2013, when photos of him walking through the streets of Beijing while holding a sign that advertised his desire to find a wife along with his links to his social media profiles went viral online.
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His father died of cancer a couple of years prior and he felt like he needed to get married and start a family. Things didn’t turn out the way he had hoped, and five years on, he is still looking for Mrs. Right.
These days isn’t walking around with signs anymore, but he’s putting just as much effort, if not more, into finding a wife.
He goes on dating websites, befriends women on social media and even walks up to them on the street and asks them if they have a boyfriend.
Still, he always gets rejected. Some say it’s because he’s trying too hard and comes off as aggressive or desperate, but Niu has a different explanation.
Shameless
He says women these days can be “shameless” when it comes to selecting romantic partners.
Most prefer tall and handsome men who can sweet-talk their way into their hearts, but he is “short and ugly” and doesn’t like to tell lies just to impress women.
Money is also a big issue, as single women are looking for men with good salaries who own their own home in the city. “They say that as a man, you have to have a house,” and he doesn’t, unfortunately.