加拿大82岁华裔富豪被崩老头 ，女友精心策划殉情骗局

Imagine this: on a cold February night in 2019, in the iconic Habitat 67 luxury apartment across from Montreal's Old Port, an 82-year-old wealthy Chinese man lies on the cold bathroom floor, quietly awaiting death… Who is he? Mr. Guo, a retired tenured professor at Concordia University, a sports car design expert, and an art collector. And the person he willingly chose to die for was his "de facto wife" of five years, Xu Ying. This isn't a movie; this is a shocking emotional fraud case that actually occurred in the overseas Chinese community—a real-life version of "the old man's suicide" unfolding in Canada! Mr. Guo, an 82-year-old professor at Concordia University, and his girlfriend, Ms. Xu Ying, lived together in the luxurious Habitat 67 apartment across from Montreal's Old Port. On February 22, 2019, Ms. Xu Ying told him that their $2 million investment had failed, leaving them penniless, and that she was suicidal and wanted to end her life by taking sleeping pills. Mr. Guo decided to end his life with the woman he loved. After drinking a packet of sleeping pills smuggled from China, handed to him by Ms. Xu Ying, Mr. Guo waited to die in the bathroom. The publicly available ending of the story is primarily based on a March 2019 report by La Presse and related court documents (Mr. Guo is referred to by the pseudonym "Li Wong" to protect the victim's privacy). Known ending (as of the time of reporting): Mr. Guo was a renowned retired professor, a sports car designer and collector, and owned the largest apartment in Habitat 67 (a landmark building from the 1967 World Expo, with exorbitant property values). He had a secret relationship with Xu Ying (then 48 years old, a former spa worker) for five years, not widely known to family and friends. Xu Ying gradually gained his trust, investment rights, and beneficiary rights through emotional manipulation. This case has been described as "dramatic," highlighting the rare extremes of emotional fraud against overseas Chinese: using "dying together" as bait to gamble with one's life. After surviving, Mr. Guo attempted to recover his losses and protect his remaining assets through legal means. Mr. Guo (Li Wong) miraculously survived: He took a strong sleeping pill smuggled from China and waited to die in the bathroom, but was found the next morning by his son Hugh and rushed to the hospital. After several days in a coma, he awoke and realized it was a carefully orchestrated "death hoax" by Xu Ying. Xu Ying herself had not taken the pills. Xu Ying's reaction: Upon learning at the hospital that Mr. Guo was alive, she expressed surprise and never returned to their luxury apartment in Habitat 67, where they had lived together for five years. She was subsequently arrested, and her phone and computer were seized by the police. Civil suit: Mr. Guo (through his lawyer) filed for an emergency injunction, requesting that: Xu Ying's assets (including those that might be transferred overseas) be identified and frozen to prevent her from transferring or squandering them. The assets involved include approximately 2 million yuan in investments that Mr. Guo was defrauded of (managed through Xu Ying's so-called "reliable friend" in China), art collectibles (which allegedly "disappeared" or depreciated to fakes after being taken back to China for authentication), and the arrangement in his will designating Xu Ying as the sole heir (Mr. Guo's family members were not listed in the will when it was made in 2017). Other individuals involved: The case also involves a friend of Xu Ying (allegedly involved in the fraud, having lent Mr. Guo 300,000 yuan to buy property) and a Mr. Lin from Beihai City, China (the recipient of the 2 million yuan investment).