To test how nice her blind date would be, Miss Zhang invited 23 family members around for dinner. The point of this strange strategy was to find out how ready Mr. Lui would be to aid her and her family.
Lui would help her and her family. Zhang was shocked, though, at how things turned out differently.
The event happened in a restaurant in the province of Zhejiang in eastern China. Zhang thought it would be a good idea to urge Lui to prove his potential as a provider by paying for lunch for her large family and being nice.
Lui was shocked to learn that he would be eating alongside 23 other people. He had planned to wow Zhang by taking her out to a nice dinner.
Mr. Lui presumably didn’t want to pay for the group’s costs because they were more than he expected. As lunch went on, things got worse, and the bill rose to an incredible 20,000 yuan (about $3,100).
Mr. Lui decided to leave the restaurant instead of paying the high bill, so Zhang and her family had to pay for it.
That wasn’t the end of the story. Zhang decided to sue Mr. Lui because she thought he was partly to blame for the debt and was upset about how the date went.
The court’s decision that Mr. Lui should only pay 1,400 yuan, which is a small percentage of the entire cost, showed that Zhang was largely responsible for the bill.
This episode highlights how risky it is to put someone through such a harsh and obvious character test. Zhang may have wanted to make sure that Lui was generous and could take care of her family, but the way she did it was seen as too harsh and not necessary.
The outcome is an excellent reminder that it’s crucial to talk openly and have reasonable expectations in the beginning of any relationship. Honesty and directness frequently offer a more substantial and constructive basis for evaluating an individual’s character than complex systems.