Chinese Man Dumps Girlfriend Over Hotel Wi-Fi Auto-Connect

The South China Morning Post has a funny (or ridiculous?) story about how a man dumped his girlfriend as they checked into a hotel, after her phone auto-connected to the Wi-Fi. I wouldn’t usually cover stories like this, but the twist here is that she wasn’t lying, and there was an innocent explanation.

Man breaks up with girlfriend over Wi-Fi auto-connect

A man broke up with his girlfriend as they checked into a hotel in Chongqing, China, over the recent May Day holiday. The two were locals, so I imagine they were there for one type of “mattress run” or another (the type that earns points, or the type that only includes a stay of a couple of hours).

As the couple arrived at the hotel, the man discovered that his girlfriend’s phone automatically connected to the Wi-Fi network. This was the first time that they had stayed at this hotel together. This only came to light because the girlfriend forgot to bring her actual physical ID to check-in, and instead, tried to find her digital identity card.

So the man asked his girlfriend if she had been at the hotel with someone else, which she denied. She said it was her first time at the hotel, but couldn’t explain why her phone connected to the Wi-Fi. The argument couldn’t be settled, so the man ditched her, based on the assumption that she wasn’t loyal. However, she insisted she was telling the truth. When she told her friends about this after the fact, they were even skeptical of her honesty.

The innocent explanation for the Wi-Fi connection

The ex-girlfriend wanted to prove her innocence… and was successful! The woman realized that another hotel in Chongqing where she used to work had the same username and password for the Wi-Fi (which… that’s odd in and of itself).

So she contacted her ex-boyfriend to explain, but he refused to talk to her, and deleted her account on a chat app. She then contacted a local TV station to have a chance to explain herself. She added that she didn’t actually want to get back together again, but just wanted to set the record straight.

A local TV reporter went to her previous workplace to connect to the Wi-Fi, and then went to the hotel that she had visited with her ex-boyfriend. Sure enough, the reporter’s phone also auto-connected to the Wi-Fi there.

Bottom line

A Chinese couple broke up, after a man discovered that his girlfriend’s phone auto-connected to the hotel Wi-Fi. He assumed that this meant that she was cheating, but she insisted that wasn’t true. As it turns out, she wasn’t lying — she had worked at another hotel with the same Wi-Fi username and password, and she even proved it to a TV reporter.

Man, talk about some relationship drama!