In December of that year, his extramarital lover, surnamed Ling, gave birth to a son, Xiaowen, after using an embryo that had been previously fertilized and frozen at a private clinic.A Chinese court ruled against a woman claiming inheritance rights for her son born from her deceased lover's frozen embryo.
Ling, the mother, could not prove the embryo was fertilized by Wen or that she had permission to use his sperm. A woman surnamed Ling filed a lawsuit demanding the inheritance rights of a baby she allegedly had using her deceased lover’s spermwith the Qingcheng court, demanding that Wen’s wife share Wen’s life insurance, property, and company equity shares with Xiaowen.