A man fell into a "painful love drama" made up by a female netizen and played multiple roles without knowing it. He felt guilty and took poison to die in love. After her parents learned the truth, they took the female netizen to court to seek compensation.
Recently, the People's Court of Wuwei City, Anhui Province made a judgment on this bizarre dispute over the rights to life, body, and health, and found that the defendant Chen was secondary responsible for Wang's death.
In February 2022, 20-year-old Wang met the woman Chen through an online dating software. The two developed a good impression of each other through frequent online chats, and gradually developed into an online relationship.
Chen, nicknamed "Good Girl", is actually a divorced and remarried woman. She packages herself on the Internet as a "white, rich and beautiful" person who is young and beautiful, has a wealthy family and has a successful career. She claims to be a vice president of a company. General manager, family is very rich, etc. The two parties maintained close online chats until September of the same year. When Wang made a request for an offline meeting, the two parties agreed to meet in Hefei on October 11, 2022.
Seeing that the meeting time was approaching, on the afternoon of October 10, "good girl" Chen stopped replying to Wang's messages. Fearing that the truth would be exposed, Chen made up the lie that the "good girl" died in a car accident on the way to buy a meeting gift for Wang, and asked netizen Xiong to inform Wang about the "car accident." Xiong was afraid that something would happen, so he refused to tell his lie and quit the chat.
Chen then used false identities such as "Passenger A" and "Passenger B" to fabricate lies to prove that "Chen was in a car accident". At the same time, he also fabricated superstitious lies such as lingering ghosts through WeChat chats to exaggerate the "good girl"'s hatred of Wang. How sincere the love was, and the intensive WeChat chat was used to test whether Wang really loved the "good girl", etc., which made Wang gullible and felt deeply guilty.
Wang felt sorry for Chen who suddenly "passed away", so he sent a photo to "Passenger B" (actually played by Chen) of buying pesticides with the intention of committing suicide. "Passenger B" was afraid and repeatedly advised Wang to "don't do stupid things." However, Wang still committed suicide by taking pesticides one day in mid-October. Although he was discovered by his family and sent to the hospital, he died after resuscitation failed.
Wang’s parents learned that Chen’s fictitious “love drama” caused their son’s death by taking poison, so they sued the court and requested that Chen be ordered to pay a total of 1.08 million in compensation for medical expenses, death compensation, spiritual consolation and other losses. Yu Yuan.
After being summoned by the court, the defendant Chen failed to appear in court without justifiable reasons, and the court heard the case in absentia in accordance with the law.
After hearing, the court held that the deceased Wang, as a person with full capacity for civil conduct, had the cognitive abilities of a normal adult and should have a full understanding of the harmful consequences of taking poison, so Wang himself should bear the main responsibility. The series of behaviors committed by the defendant Chen during the "online dating" process with Wang clearly exceeded the understanding and tolerance of the public and violated public order and good customs.
According to Article 1005 of the Civil Code, "If a natural person's rights to life, body, or health are infringed upon or are in other critical situations, organizations or individuals with legal obligations for help shall promptly provide rescue." In a dangerous situation where he has shown suicidal thoughts, Chen should have the obligation to provide relief and truthfully tell the truth about his previous inappropriate behavior in fictional editing. Although Chen tried to comfort him many times, he ultimately failed to truthfully tell Wang the truth.
Therefore, Chen’s inaction is illegal. Chen also had subjective faults. After Chen made up the lie about the death of the "good girl", he could have ended his relationship with Wang. However, in order to satisfy his abnormal emotional selfish desires, he continued to treat Wang from the perspective of others under multiple pseudonyms. It was obviously a mistake for someone to conduct a test.
His repeated fabrication of the cause of "death" and the fantasy of still caring for Wang after his death caused Wang to fall deeply into self-blame and guilt and commit suicide, which was intentional.
And even though it was known that Wang wanted to die for his love, Chen still did not tell the truth, which was even more at fault. There is a considerable causal relationship between Chen's inappropriate behavior and Wang's death. But judging from the impact and consequences it can have on a normal adult, Chen's role should be secondary, and Wang should bear the main responsibility.
The court found that the total losses in this case, including medical expenses, death compensation, and spiritual consolation, were more than 1.08 million yuan. The defendant Chen should bear 40% of the responsibility for Wang’s death, and Wang himself should bear 60% of the responsibility. The court then ordered the defendant Chen to compensate the plaintiff Wang’s parents for various losses of more than 430,000 yuan.
After the verdict was announced, both parties accepted the verdict.
Source: People's Court Newspaper
Editor: Xiao Yan
