A young Cuban woman known on TikTok as @katherine_caridad became the talk of the week after she posted a video over six minutes long, detailing how she met the Chinese man who is now her husband and father of her child in 2020.
The story unfolded when Katherine accompanied her mother to clean a house rented by a Chinese citizen. "I'm a Cuban with a Chinese child, and here's the story time of how I met my child's father, my husband, my man," she begins in the video, filmed during her skincare routine.
Katherine was instantly captivated when the tenant arrived in a black SUV. "I see this black SUV pull up, wow, out steps a tall man in a blue long-sleeved shirt and black dress pants, and I'm like, who is this guy?" she recalls with a laugh.
When he came up to greet her, she welcomed him with a "ni hao," which broke the ice with laughter. As they sat across from each other, they discovered a shared love for basketball. "We both loved sports; his country played basketball, and I played basketball in Cuba. We had so much in common. This man is mine, I declare it," she shares.
That very day, Katherine took a bold step and ended her relationship with her Cuban boyfriend. "I went home and broke up with him. I was honest because I was attracted to someone else," she admits candidly.
Their relationship progressed with two dates and a surprise appearance by the man at a family birthday party of hers, laden with gifts, even before they had shared a kiss. That first kiss, reminiscent of a movie scene, happened during a blackout. He turned off his car lights and kissed her as they arrived at her house. "The power went out on that block, and when he came in, he turned off the car lights, held my head and neck, and kissed me," she narrates.
Shortly after, he invited her to move in with him. Before that, he closed a store after hours so she could shop for clothes to her liking, paying extra to the storekeeper. "I'll pay you extra just to close the store so she can come in and buy anything she wants. I left with two carts full of clothes," Katherine recalls.
Katherine's video is part of a growing trend among Cuban women with Chinese partners documenting their intercultural love stories on social media.
The most renowned case is that of influencer Lucy María González Machado (@thezhoufam), living 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 ointment," and shared family values.
Lucy María also went viral sharing her experiences with prices in China and, more recently, discussing teaching Spanish to her children in Switzerland.
Katherine's video amassed over 597,600 views in just three days, with nearly 25,000 likes and more than 730 comments, concluding with the phrase that sums up seven years of history: "Seven years together and here is our creation."