Overview
- The couple met in April after a single five-minute video call and registered their marriage three days later through a local matchmaking centre.
- Gu’s family paid about 265,000 yuan in total, including a 100,000-yuan bride price and a 160,000-yuan matchmaking fee.
- The agency did not provide the promised credit check and premarital medical reports, and a bank check later showed the bride had roughly 100,000 yuan in debt and a disclosed liver-enzyme issue.
- Nine days after the wedding Gu demanded a divorce and sued the matchmaking centre for a refund of the 160,000-yuan fee; the wife has filed a counterclaim seeking 50,000 yuan and alleging depression caused by Gu’s actions.
- The centre has refused to refund the fee, suggested the dispute could be staged to recover money, and the case has prompted wide social-media attention and debate over parental pressure and industry accountability.