A young Romeo who dated at least 17 Juliets at once - including fathering a child with one of them - got his comeuppance after a car accident when doctors contacted his "relatives" - and all his girlfriends turned up at the same time. 
 
 The man from Changsha, in Hunan province, identified only by his surname, Yuan was taken to hospital on March 24 with injuries not believed to be life threatening. 
 
 His girlfriends - and hospital staff - were stunned to discover the truth when they arrived en masse to find they were going out with the same man, Changsha newspaper Xiaoxiang Chen Bao reported on Friday. 
 
 One of the girlfriends, who called herself Xiao Li, said: "I've been with him for a year and a half. [After hearing he'd been in an accident] I cried so hard I didn't have any tears left. 
 
 "I was really worried when I heard that he was in hospital. But when I started seeing more and more beautiful girls show up, I couldn't cry any more." 
 
 Xiao said she had set up an online chat group made up of 17 of Yuan's partners. She said she had learned that some of Yuan's other girlfriends had given him money each month - sometimes large sums - with one woman providing him with financial support for nine years. 
 
 Wang Fang, another of Yuan's partners, said: "We've already had a son together. What can I do now? I don't love him any more, but I do love my son." 
 
 Another girlfriend, who gave her name as Xiao Ting, said she had believed that Yuan was her "Mr Right", and she had already started to plan their wedding. 
 
 More than 6,000 comments have been posted on social media. Some expressed admiration for the man, while others said the women should have been smarter and discovered his deceit. 
 
 A commentator from Jiangsu province wrote: "A liar always acts perfectly. The only thing he paid them were compliments, which are all that women wanting a perfect life will need. So as a consequence, they were cheated on." ||||| A screenshot from a local TV program from Hunan province shows the swindler Yuan. 
 
 Swindler had 17 girlfriends, taken to court 
 
 A playboy who had relations with 17 women was exposed after all his "girlfriends" finally met with each other, uncovering the man's schemes, the Hunan-based Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported on Thursday. 
 
 The man, surnamed Yuan, received visits and greetings from more than a dozen women between the ages of 20 to 40-years-old, all of which claimed to be his wives or girlfriends, after he was hospitalized due to injuries in a car accident. 
 
 All the lovers didn't realize the man's deception until they met in his ward and told each other about their identities and "love stories" with Yuan through WeChat. Some have even stayed with him for 10 years. 
 
 Yuan, a nobody bearing simply a middle school diploma, from Changsha county, Changsha city of Hunan province, fabricated his education background as a university graduate majoring in civil engineering from Central South University, a top university in the central China province. He worked in a big company in charge of revamping expressways. 
 
 He had swindled tens of thousands yuan from his 17 girlfriends after he divorced his ex-wife and cheated her of 250,000 yuan. His case will be charged as a criminal case for alleged fraud. 
 
 That's it for this installment of trending, come back for more interesting stories from the Chinese internet. ||||| A man who faked his own death to cheat on his insurance turned himself in when he discovered his wife had killed herself and their two young children because of his disappearance. 
 
 The man, 34, and identified only by his surname He, surrendered to police on Friday and has been detained on charges of insurance fraud and intentional damage to property, according to a police statement on social media platform WeChat. 
 
 He, from China’s southern province of Hunan, confessed that he had bought a life insurance policy worth 1 million yuan (US$144,000) on September 7, without telling his wife. He then rented a car from his employer and drove it into a river so his family would be able to claim the insurance, the police said. 
 
 Thinking that her husband was dead, his wife, Dai Guihua, 31, left her last note on WeChat on Wednesday and disappeared with their son and daughter, aged four and two, sparking a search by local authorities in Xinhua county. 
 
 Their bodies were retrieved the next day from a lake near their home in Langtang township. Police have ruled out murder, according to a statement by Langtang township government on WeChat. 
 
 In her 1,000-word note, Dai, a homemaker, said that, after He went missing, she lost the will to live in the face of growing family pressure. 
 
 She wrote that He’s family complained that she spent too much money and was mentally ill. They also opposed her plan to get a job in the city, according to the note, which was widely shared online. 
 
 “I wanted to leave by myself, but thinking that my children would suffer without both their parents, I decided to take them with me,” wrote Dai, who it was revealed had lost both of her parents when she was young. 
 
 Local police said He had resorted to the insurance fraud because he was more than 100,000 yuan in debt. In a video posted by the WeChat public account, Xinhua Focus, over the weekend, He was shown kneeling on the ground and wailing for his wife and children. 
 
 He said he went to Guizhou after engineering the accident, but returned after seeing his wife’s note online. He also said in the video that he was in debt because of his daughter’s illness and his car loans. 
 
 He’s family confirmed the girl had been diagnosed with epilepsy last year and had since been on medication, according to Beijing Youth Daily. 
 
 Calls to the county’s police bureau and publicity department went unanswered.
– Sometimes all it takes for a wounded man to heal is a little TLC—or a lot of TLC, if all 17 of your girlfriends show up. A Chinese man identified only by the surname Yuan was in a car accident on March 24 and was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, per local media. But when staff started contacting his loved ones, more people than anyone expected showed up at his bedside. Yuan had apparently been dating at least 17 women at the same time—including one who says she has a son with him, the South China Morning Post reports—with no one aware of the others' existence until his accident. "I was really worried when I heard that he was in hospital," one paramour says, per the Morning Post. "But when I started seeing more and more beautiful girls show up, I couldn't cry any more." Another deceived lover reveals she had been planning a wedding with him, while the one who claims to have a child by him laments, "What can I do now? I don't love him any more, but I do love my son." Yuan, who was reportedly with some of these women as long as 10 years, is also accused of stealing more than $40,000 from his ex-wife and conning at least some of these 17 girlfriends out of their own funds, China Daily reports; the paper says he'll be charged with fraud. This isn't the only scam Yuan is said to have pulled: Even though it seems he only graduated from middle school, he reportedly worked for a company that rebuilt highways after claiming that he had a civil engineering degree, China Daily notes. (Romance scams can be big business.)