Man in China fails to find life partner after 20 blind dates, sees role reversed, helps more than 300 couples find love in 7 years
- Man started visiting matchmaking parks, worked as middleman
- Finds love of his life through work, now married with a daughter
A man in China has proved that even if your search for a partner is a forlorn one, it does not mean you cannot find love for someone else.
Zhou Shipeng has become a successful matchmaker, helping 346 couples find love over the past seven years, even though he struck out after going on 20 blind dates.
The 34-year-old from Hebei province in northern China went on a string of blind dates in 2016 after his parents pressured him to find a wife.
But when he constantly failed to find the right match, he decided to start a business to help others find love, as well as himself, according to Qingdou Video.
In 2017, Zhou decided he would visit the local matchmaking area every Thursday afternoon and quickly discovered that most advertisers were parents or grandparents seeking partners for their loved ones, a common phenomenon in China.
Zhou saw an opportunity to act as a middleman. He became adept at recording the parents’ desired resumes for their future in-laws – such as height, profession, or dating history – and searching the community for people who met the standards.
