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TIL A young Chinese woman ran away to Beijing to avoid a planned marriage, but was followed by her fiance. After she became pregnant, her fiance abandoned her at a hotel and she narrowly avoided being sold to a brothel. A newspaper editor saved her and she wrote several novels before dying at 30

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