A policeman pretended to be someone else's son for 10 years so as not to upset his parents (6 photos)

A touching true story that beats any drama. A police officer in eastern China spends 11 years pretending to be a couple's dead son, comforting his paralyzed mother.





They really are very similar, not only to us but to the Chinese as well

How it all started and why

In 2003, a couple in Shanxi Province in northern China lost their son to a gas leak. During the accident, not only did her son die, but the mother of the family, Liang Qiaoying, also received serious injuries - she was left permanently paralyzed and with severe cognitive impairment (her brain was damaged).

But she still remembered her son and grieved terribly for him. And then Liang Qiaoying's husband lied to her that her son was alive and well, he had simply gone to work in a city far away from here. Since after the injury the woman became very trusting and not critical of other people's words, she believed it.



Make allowance for the 10-year difference in the photos

Then at some point, Xia saw Jiang Jingwei, a police officer from Shanghai, on a TV program and noticed his striking resemblance to their late son. He contacted Jiang through a reality show in late 2013, hoping he could help.

And he agreed! Officer Jiang met the couple on the show (something like Looking for You) as their "son." And the woman hugged him with tears in her eyes - she believed him immediately. From then on, she knew for sure that this officer was her son.





That very reunion on the show

He was not against it.

A white lie, 11 years long

For 11 years now, he has been regularly calling his “parents” via video link and having heart-to-heart talks.



"Son" took parents on vacation, wife in wheelchair

In 2016, Jiang invited the couple on a tour of Shanghai, and in early 2018, he took time off to go to Shanxi to celebrate the Lunar New Year with them.

In a recent video call, the "father" noticed Officer Jiang's gray hair and said, "Son, you're getting old." He's grown old with his new family and has never exposed himself to his mother, for whom the whole show was staged.



This lie has been going on for so long that he has aged

One can only imagine how grateful the big woman's husband is to this policeman.

Jiang himself said that taking care of his "parents" has never been a burden to him, but a rewarding and warm experience.

"As a policeman, I also show the same care and compassion to the elderly in my community," he added.



Sometimes comes to visit to see his mother