A young Cuban identified on TikTok as @katherine_caridad became a trending topic this week by posting a video of over six minutes in which she shares the story of how she met the Chinese man who is now her husband and the father of her child in 2020.
It all began when Katherine accompanied her mother to clean a house rented by a Chinese citizen. "I'm a Cuban with a Chinese son, and I'm here to share the story of how I met my son's father, my husband, my man," the young woman starts in the video, recorded while she goes through her skincare routine.
Upon seeing the tenant arrive in a black pickup truck, Katherine was immediately drawn in. "I see a black truck pulling up, wow, out steps this classy guy, a tall man in a long-sleeve blue shirt and black pants, that outfit, and I'm thinking: who is this rogue?" she recounts with laughter.
When he came over to greet her, she welcomed him with a "ni hao" that burst into laughter. Sitting across from each other, they discovered that they both shared a passion for basketball. "We both loved the sport; he played basketball in his country and I played basketball in Cuba. We had a lot in common. This man is mine, I decree it, I affirm it," she says.
That same day, Katherine made a radical decision: she ended her relationship with her Cuban boyfriend with whom she was living. "That day I came home and broke up with him. I was honest because I liked him," she explains straightforwardly.
The story progressed with two dates and a surprise appearance by the man at a family member's birthday party, loaded with gifts, without Katherine having given him a kiss yet. The first kiss came in a cinematic fashion: during a blackout, he turned off the car lights and kissed her as she arrived home. "The lights go out in the whole block, when I enter and, bam, he turns off the car lights, grabs me by the head, the neck, and gives me a kiss," she recounts.
Soon after, he invited her to move in with him. Before that, he closed a store outside of regular hours so she could shop for clothes to her liking, paying the manager extra. "I'm going to pay extra just to have the store closed so she can come in and buy whatever she wants. I left there with two carts full of clothes," Katherine recalls.
Katherine's video is part of a growing trend of Cuban women with Chinese partners who share their intercultural love stories on social media.
The most well-known case is that of the influencer Lucy María González Machado (@thezhoufam), based in Switzerland and married to a man of Chinese descent, who reflected on the cultural similarities between Cuba and China in a viral video from August 2025, highlighting rice, "Chinese pomade," and shared family values.
Lucy María also went viral for sharing her experience with prices in China and, more recently, for discussing teaching Spanish to her children in Switzerland.
The video by Katherine surpassed 597,600 views in just three days, with nearly 25,000 likes and over 730 comments, and concluded with the phrase that sums up seven years of history: "Seven years of relationship and here is our creation."
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