After graduating from college in 2013, a young woman in Urumqi became known among her friends and colleagues as a generous spender who always paid the bills when she went out with others. Was this woman from an affluent family? The fact is her parents are ordinary workers, and the girl herself had an ordinary job. So where did she get all that money?

The answer is, after starting a new job, the woman, surnamed Lin, began to embezzle money from her company. At first Lin embezzled between 500 and 2,000 yuan each time. Because she was the company’s accountant, no one even noticed in the beginning. But soon she got caught up in the vanity of having so much money. She began to pay for everything when she was around her friends, and she often flaunted her money in front of them.

When Lin was finally caught, she had embezzled a total of 180,000 yuan from the company over the course of a year. Since Lin’s family borrowed money to pay back the stolen money and Lin herself made a confession, Lin was only sentenced to two years of jail time with a two-year suspended sentence.