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Boyfriend poisoned woman's tea, not tea shop, police find

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A Chinese woman accused a popular tea shop, Chagee, of poisoning her drink with mercury granules. She claimed to have found the granules after drinking from a cup purchased on April 27. However, an investigation revealed that her boyfriend was the one who added the mercury to the drink, clearing the tea shop of any wrongdoing. AI

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Boyfriend poisoned woman's tea, not tea shop, police find

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Fran Lu ·

    Chinese woman accuses tea shop of adding mercury to drink discovers boyfriend is culprit

    A Chinese woman who accused a famous chain of milk tea shops of planting mercury in her drink was later found to be the target of poisoning by her boyfriend. The woman, surnamed Zhang, from central China’s Anhui province, initially complained online that a Chagee shop laced her d…

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