A man divorces his wife after making a discovery that leaves him devastated.

A man in China is experiencing these days one of the worst nightmares that any husband and/or father can experience. And the reason for this struck him when he discovered a lie as dark as it was long.

It’s been 16 years of deception. That was the time that Chen Zhixian, the protagonist of this story, spent from the moment he married Yu Hua until the day he discovered that everything was a fiction, a mistake. And his life came to a standstill.

It happens that Zhixian revealed that the three children she gave birth to Yu Hua during the wedding, and those he thought were his, are actually not. And the news completely devastated him.

The case became public and caught the attention of the national media, which immediately echoed it and the news reached every corner of the Asian giant. sparking heated debates.

A beginning without love and the first alarm not heard

The story of Chen Zhixian and Yu Hua, a woman eight years his junior, had a somewhat hair-raising start. Apparently neither had much enthusiasm for the other. However, shortly after meeting, they got married.

According to Chinese media, Chen Zhixian did not want to get married. But his parents had been pressuring him for a long time to settle down. So, as soon as he crossed paths with Yu Hua, who seemed like a simple and down-to-earth woman, the man simply proposed marriagewithout taking the time to get to know her.

The first signal came immediately but he didn’t notice it. It was then that Yu Hua informed him that she was pregnant with him. Zhixian welcomed the news with great happiness. I was ecstatic. So much so that when the baby was born, she didn’t realize it The dates didn’t match.

The fact is that, in order for the woman to have given birth on the date she did, I must have already been pregnant when he met Zhixian. However, in the emotional state she was in, she didn’t suspect anything. Still.

A long time away from home and the lie that grows

A few months after the baby’s arrival, Zhixian became a long-distance freight forwarder, requiring him to be away for much of the year. Away from home, in Dexing, Jianxi province; and return only for short periods of time.

And so the years passed until, in 2016, Yu Hua became pregnant again and gave birth to another baby girl. This time the man, even though she thought it was hers, He began to have doubts. However, he discarded them and was happy for the new girl.

The strongest suspicions arose when three years later the woman became pregnant again. The man calculated the dates and realized it she was not at home when the child was conceived.

So he confronted his wife about it, but she insisted that the baby was hers and, in the end, the man accepted his version and welcomed her third daughter.

The truth always comes to light

It was in November 2022 that Chen Zhixian finally became convinced that his wife had not been faithful to him. It was after learning that the woman had been in a relationship with a man named Wu and so on she had given birth to her fourth daughter at a hospital in the city of Shangrao.

But on this occasion the man did not confront his wife, perhaps knowing her power of conviction. Zhixian instead He hired a lawyer to investigate.

And the lawyer did his job. He went to the hospital and found it The woman had in fact given birth to a girl there that month, but the form included Chen Zhixian’s name as the father and a forged signature.

Once confirmed, the man wasted no time and immediately requested and ordered a divorce a paternity test for each of his three children.

The result was devastating: none of the three daughters he raised as his own were conceived with him.

Heartbroken, Zhixian took his wife to court, and although they were not his, However, he asked for paternity of the childrenbut also compensation for their emotional suffering.

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The case has made headlines in China for more than a year, with both sides receiving a fair amount of support and criticism. The woman managed to rally some support afterward accuse Chen of domestic violence and telling reporters that he had even hit his mother, who was trying to protect her.

Finally, last December, with the eyes of the nation focused on them, Justice has given his verdict final on the topic.

Chen Zhixian was granted custody of his two eldest daughters by the court judges, while his wife was ordered to give up her rights to material assets and pay monthly alimony to her ex-husband.

Chen Zhixian told Chinese media that the revelations about his ex-wife’s infidelity and the paternity of his daughters made him was traumatized but he plans to move on and start a new life.