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Chinese student sets up a will bequeathing US$2.9 million estate to childhood friend
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A 19-year-old Chinese student recently made a will bequeathing his personal wealth of 20 million yuan (US2.9 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...
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