Mistress Contest Goes Awry For Married Chinese Businessman

A married Chinese businessman with five mistresses was forced by difficult economic times to eliminate four of his girlfriends, so he held a secret pageant to decide. The businessman known only by his last name, Fan, got his comeuppance, though, when the first mistress eliminated, a 29-year-old identified as Yu, drove everyone off a cliff. The internets. You can’t make them up.

It seems the contest was staged, without the women knowing, in May. Mr. Fan’s judge, an instructor from a local modeling agency, rated the women on beauty, singing ability, and how much liquor they could hold– you know, the usual. Yu, who was a waitress in the coastal city of Qingdao when she met Fan, was the first to go because of her looks. Yeowch. She maybe should have seen this cruel shit coming, though, as she was mistress number five to a man who was married and had four other mistresses at the time. The women all knew about each other, apparently, but none of them left because Fan kept them rent free and gave them an allowance of $730 a month. Well, times is tough.

But Yu was not going out like a punk. She somehow tricked all the gals (including the wife) and Fan into riding in a car with her on a sightseeing trip before she left the compound. It was on that trip that she drove the car off a cliff. Police initially thought it was an accident, but recently discovered a letter she wrote that explained the whole sordid–uh–affair.

Tragically, though, only Yu died in the accident. The rest sustained injuries. But Yu’s revenge did not end there. Fan had to shut down his company in order to pay Yu’s parents $84, 744 as compensation for her death and the other five women, (including his wife) left his ass. 

Chinese mistress contest takes tragic turn [CNN]