A Vancouver lawyer must be licking his wounds after taking his scorned-love case to court and losing big time, the CBC reports. Dongdong Huang claimed Peipei Li duped him into thinking they were in love and marriage-bound so he would lavish her with over $1 million in gifts and cash—but a judge said Huang was just infatuated. His behavior with Li was sometimes "obsessive and borderline (at least) stalking," BC Supreme Court Justice Elaine Adair wrote Monday in a judgment. "In my opinion, Dr. Huang's assertions that Ms. Li represented she was in love with him and available for a long-term spousal relationship with him are a product of Dr. Huang's imagination and his infatuation with Ms. Li." Huang, who's also a published poet, wrote a poem about her titled "Long-awaited Puppy Love."
Adair based her ruling partly on WeChat messages in which Li gave Huang the cold shoulder ("I have clearly expressed my thoughts that I will not be with you," Li wrote) and photos Huang took of her wearing a big diamond engagement ring—which he apparently ignored. Adair acknowledged that Li shouldn't have let Huang wire her family in China $580,000, but said it wasn't tantamount to fraud. As for Li, the South China Morning Post reports that she dove into a whirlwind Vegas marriage with Chinese tech tycoon Luhua Rao in 2016 only to find he had a wife and family back in China. That marriage flamed out in a divorce and a lawsuit over millions of dollars in cash and assets. For the record, Li is 35, while Huang is 62, and Rao appears to be in his 50s, per the CBC.
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