A man in China who went through great hardship to reunite with his family 34 years after being kidnapped announced a tragic breakup with them a year after the reunion.

Yu Baobao, 37, said on his social media account, which has 326,000 followers, that he had severed ties with his biological family for money reasons.

Yu lived using the name Li Qiang for 34 years until he found his biological family and discovered his real name in September last year.

He was kidnapped from his grandparents’ house in Sichuan province, southwestern China, when he was two years old.

A wealthy family in Henan province, central China, bought him from human traffickers, but did not treat him well and often beat him.