Grieving mother of two dead children faces a mixed reaction on social media after she hooks up with ‘bad boy with charm’

The heartbroken Chinese mother whose son and daughter were killed when they were thrown from their 15th-floor home by their father five years ago has announced a new romantic relationship, sparking controversy online.

Tragedy struck on November 2, 2020, when Chen Meilin’s children, her two-year-old daughter Xuexue and one-year-old son Ruirui, were thrown out of the window of their father’s 15th-floor flat in southwestern China’s Chongqing Municipality.

The father, Zhang Bo, committed the horrific crime so that he could wed his girlfriend, Ye Chengchen, who refused to marry a man who had children.

Ye had been involved in an affair with Zhang before his divorce.