Li Yuchen | 68-year-old man in Yulin, Guangxi, has 9 children with his intellectually disabled wife, the youngest is only 2 years old

By Li Yuchen

On February 9, 2026, a blogger named “Marlboro” entered a household in Yulin, Guangxi.

He probably didn’t expect that this visit would lead to his video being completely deleted two days later.

In the video, five children were sitting on a bench outside the door. The youngest was barefoot, and the slightly older ones were wearing plastic slippers—also barefoot. The temperature in Guangxi in February was only a few degrees Celsius.

Their father is 68 years old this year, and their mother has intellectual disabilities. They have a total of 9 children.

The youngest is 2 years old. Calculating, the old man was still making his wife pregnant at the age of 66.

The blogger asked him: Why do you still want to have so many children at such an old age?

The old man said: The more children, the better.

This would have been called responding to the call in the 1960s. In the 1980s, it was called a guerrilla team for overpopulation. In 2026, it’s called—I don’t know what to call it. Anyway, the family planning department doesn’t care anymore; they are now busy urging others to have children.

The sixth child is a girl.

She cried at the camera.

She said that her mother doesn’t know how to take care of the children. When she comes home from school, she has to feed her younger brother, and she has to help her younger brother take a bath at night. According to her, her father beats them if anything goes wrong. She said that there is no electric light in the house.

No electric light.

It’s 2026, the price of a house outside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing is 60,000 yuan per square meter, young people in Shenzhen are squeezed into the urban villages and are working until 3 a.m., and live streaming rooms in Hangzhou can sell several hundred million yuan in one night—but this household in Yulin, Guangxi, has no electric light.

The blogger asked the girl: Is there anything I can help you with?

The girl said: Can you buy shoes for my brother and mother?

She didn’t want toys, a cell phone, or pocket money. What she wanted was shoes. Because her mother was barefoot, and her brother was also barefoot. February, a few degrees Celsius, barefoot.

In the video, the children’s mother is standing aside.

She is wearing very dirty, thin clothes, trembling all over, and saying nothing. When the camera sweeps over her, you can see that her eyes are empty.

After watching the video, the first reaction of the netizens was not sadness, but fear.

Someone asked: Where did this woman come from? Does she have legal procedures?

Someone said: It reminds me of Feng County.

Feng County, 2022, the chained woman. The woman who was chained with an iron chain in a dilapidated house and gave birth to eight children. What happened in the end? Five notices were issued, which were contradictory, full of doubts, some bloggers were detained for reporting this matter, information was blocked, and the real situation of the chained woman herself has not been verified by any credible source.

Now there’s another one.

Yulin, Guangxi, a mentally disabled woman, 9 children, the youngest is 2 years old.

I dare not say this is human trafficking. I have no evidence. But I want to ask: How did a mentally disabled woman “voluntarily” give birth to 9 children with a man? Can she express her consent? Does she know what consent is?

What is this called legally?

The blogger added a sentence at the end of the video:

“9 children, 2 are at their maternal grandmother’s house, 2 are gone, and now 5 young children are at home going to school.”

2 are gone.

Three words, two lives. How did they leave? Died of illness? Accident? Or something else? No one knows, the video didn’t say, and no one can ask anymore—because the video has been deleted.

On February 11, the original video disappeared from Douyin. Searching for keywords, nothing can be found.

What can be found are only a few reposted secondary creation accounts, and reports from some overseas media.

The domestic voices are silent.

I checked the data.

In 2023, China’s birth rate dropped to 6.39‰, a new low since 1949. But in the same year, the number of marriage registrations unexpectedly rebounded—7.682 million couples, an increase of 12.4% compared to the previous year, the first rebound in nearly a decade. Despite this, the trend of young people not having children, lying flat, and giving up has not been reversed, and experts are still anxious and shouting “childbirth is the responsibility of every citizen” every day.

But what is the reality?

The reality is that in a corner of Yulin, Guangxi, a 68-year-old man and his mentally disabled wife have completed the fertility indicators for young people across the country—9 children, on average, enough for three urban couples to use.

Are the experts satisfied?

I don’t know.

I only know that the sixth little girl cannot do her homework after school, cannot play, and cannot do anything that a 12-year-old child should do. She has to feed her younger brother, help her younger brother take a bath, and in a house without lights, support this family for a mentally disabled mother and a 68-year-old father.

Her life, from the moment she was born, has been nailed down.

A blogger watched the video and said a sentence. He said:

“It’s hard to say. If the child had no choice, would he appear in this kind of family?”

I think of a word, “original family”.

This word has been very popular in recent years. Psychologists talk about it over and over again, and there are articles everywhere in the public accounts about “how the original family affects your life”. The middle class in the city are very anxious, fearing that the interest classes they have signed up for their children are not enough, fearing that their educational methods are not scientific enough, fearing that their children will lose at the starting line.

But what is the starting line?

The starting line is that some children are born in Haidian, Beijing, their parents are programmers and financial practitioners, they go to international schools from childhood, and they go to Europe for study tours during the holidays. Their worries in life are whether to choose Tsinghua University or Peking University.

Some children are born in Yulin, Guangxi, their father is 68 years old, their mother is mentally disabled, there is no electric light in the house, there are no shoes on their feet, and their task in life is to feed their younger brother, help their younger brother take a bath, and pray that they will not become the third one who “leaves”.

This is not called different starting lines.

This is called, some people are born at the finish line, and some people are born in the abyss.

The video has been deleted.

There will be no trending searches. There will be no investigations. There will be no follow-up reports.

In a few days, everyone will forget about it. New hot topics will appear, new traffic will surge, and the algorithm will wash everything clean. Those five children will continue to grow up in that house without lights. That girl will continue to feed her younger brother, help her younger brother take a bath, and be beaten by her father. That mentally disabled mother will continue to be barefoot, trembling all over, and saying nothing.

And that 68-year-old man will continue to feel that the more children, the better.

I don’t know how to end this article.

After thinking about it, I can only use the blogger’s words:

“A disastrous start.”

Some people’s lives, from the first second, have already collapsed.

Li Yuchen’s article stands in the dust

Written on February 13, 2026

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