A Chinese forsaken lover was able to ease a seven-year itch by spending half his monthly income for an unusual event to get back at his ex-girlfriend.
A Chinese man, only identified by his surname Wang in Chinese media reports, booked four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of the latest "Transformers" movie Friday by spending $40,000, hoping to prove that his ex-girlfriend was wrong to dump him seven years ago for being poor, according to Agence France-Presse.
"Hu Xiaoyun: I was so poor when we were in our fourth year at college in 2007 that I could not afford just two film tickets," the man said in a posting on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo. "You said when you left for Beijing that I will always be that way.
"I have been working hard for the past seven years because of that sentence and today I spent half my monthly income to book all the seats in Beijing's IMAX cinemas on June 27. I just want to say maybe your choice back then was wrong."
Using the online handle Chicken Run 1234 and a profile image as a Na'vi warrior from the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, he included evidence of the contract with a booking agency by posting three receipts of a total 250,000 yuan ($40,000), and called on Internet users to spread the message "until she sees it" and promised to reward reposters with free tickets.
His generous offer, which helped the message go viral and was reposted more than 110,000 times by Friday, proved fruitful as his unidentified ex-girlfriend contacted him through phone a week later. Although the feud, was in the past, he indicated that there was no hope of rekindling their relationship.
"I promised her when we first met that if she left one day, I would make the whole world know I was looking for her," he said.
Previous "Transformers" movies were box-office hits in China and midnight showings of the fourth installment "Age of Extinction" took 40 million yuan in the early hours of Friday, a new national record, according to Chinese media reports.
