Devoted six-year-old becomes viral hit in China
BEIJING: A six-year-old girl caring for her paralysed father in a remote village in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region has become an online celerity after her father started livestreaming her help.
Tian Haicheng, 39, lost the use of his arms and legs in a road accident in March 2016. Two months later, his wife left, taking away their son.
He now lives with his daughter and his nearly 70-year-old parents. After surgery, he was left with 120,000 yuan (RM71,000) in debt.
Every day, along with his parents, his daughter washes his face, shaves him, helps him use his cellphone and gives him water and medicine.
After learning of the prospect of earning money through livestreaming, Tian uploaded his first video on the Tencent-backed livestreaming start-up Kuaishou in November 2016.
His popularity rose rapidly after he uploaded videos of his daughter taking care of him.
Now, he has over 450,000 followers and his income from Kuaishou is nearly 70,000 yuan (RM42,000).
Tian plans to give most of the earnings to his father, who paid off most of the debt, and to save some for his daughter’s college education. — China Daily/Asia News Network