A Chinese man who won the $29.9 million lottery prize is keeping it a secret from his wife and child in order to prevent them from becoming complacent.
The Nanning Evening News reported that the guy who only went by the name Mr. Li visited the lottery office by himself in Nanning, in the southern region of Guangxi, to claim his win. He was wearing a bright yellow costume that covered his head in the pictures of him accepting the prize.
“I didn’t tell my wife and child for fear that they would be too complacent and would not work or work hard in the future,” the man told the newspaper last week.
He claimed to have given 5 million yuan to charity and was undecided about what to do with the remaining money. After taxes, he receives approximately 171.6 million yuan.
According to the Nanning Evening News, the winning ticket was purchased by the man in a store in Litang, a 120,000-person town located just east of Nanning, the regional capital. He drove to the larger city the following day to deliver the winning ticket to the lottery’s administrative office.
“I only slept in a hotel because I was afraid to go out and lose the lottery ticket,” he said.