Chinese woman tries renting a boyfriend online and it was extremely awkward

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Chinese woman tries renting a boyfriend online and it was extremely awkward
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You'd think that with dating apps like Tinder and Happn, finding a guy good e**ugh to take home your parents wouldn't be that much of an issue.

Unfortunately, that's **t the case for the 27-year-old Li Chenxi, who's been feeling the pressure from her traditional Chinese parents to settle down.

Afraid of being typecast as one of China's "leftover women (http://mashable.com/2016/04/06/china-leftover-women-single-skii/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)," Li decided to rent a boyfriend (http://mashable.com/2016/02/04/rent-boyfriend-girlfriend-chinese-new-year/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) from a Chinese site in Beijing, and documented her plan to fool her parents into believing that she's got a boyfriend called Sean.

Li met up with her candidate and concocted a convincing story on how they met and why she kept their relationship a secret for so long. When the time came to introduce Sean to her parents, Li's mother immediately saw through her lie, insisting that her daughter's 24-year-old beau was "too young and good-looking" to be with her. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/05/chinese-woman-rents-boyfriend/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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