Among the many horrifying stories about Chinese hospitals, a good number involve patients stealing from the hospital or other patients. Last month, six were arrested in Shenzhen for doing just that. Last week, we told you about patients in Shenzhen taking dine and dash to ridiculous new levels.

But a story that recently came from Beijing and went viral has a few more shades of grey.

Last week, a Beijing man named Liao Dan became an internet celebrity and was named “Rescuing Wife Man” after he was accused of forging a seal and defrauding a hospital of 172,000 RMB to pay his wife’s medical fees. His wife was diagnosed with uremia four years ago. A few days later, a Guangdong man sent 172,000 RMB to the Beijing man to help him return the money, the Guangzhou Daily reports.

Chen Lihao, committee member of Zhuhai Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the CEO of YGSofting Co., Ltd, sent money to Liao after hearing his story and sympathizing. He hopes Liao’s penalty will be reduced because the money has now been returned. Chen said he doesn’t condone forging the seal, but thinks Liao deserves help because he was acting selflessly. “We should applaud the man’s devotion to his wife, and our society should do more to combat uremia,” said Chen.

One user of Sina Weibo said that in the grand scheme of things, it was a small amount of money considering he was trying to save his wife.

The story of a Beijing man being sent to jail and a stranger from Guangdong helping him could have been something out of All Men Are Brothers, one of China’s “four great novels.”