Teenage extreme sports enthusiast from Shanghai received a flat from parents who divorced and remarried
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenFran Luin BeijingPublished: 4:00pm, 11 Jul 2026A 19-year-old Chinese student recently made a will bequeathing his personal wealth of 20 million yuan (US$2.9 million) to his childhood friend, sparking heated discussion online.
The teenager from Shanghai, surnamed Li, recently set up a notarised will to bequeath the property under his name, including a flat and savings of millions of yuan, to his childhood friend.
Li claimed that his parents had divorced and remarried, and gave him the property he now owned.
They did not spend much time with him, and so Li felt distant to them.
Li said he was an extreme sports enthusiast and he often put his life at risk.
If anything were to happen to him, he did not want his parents’ spouses, whom he saw as merely strangers, to inherit his property.
