BEIJING (Reuters) - A 99-year-old Chinese widower who posted a lonely hearts message in a local newspaper looking for a second wife has been swamped with offers, the semi-official China News Service said on Thursday. Zhang Kebiao, a ruddy faced author who looked "only about 80", was seeking someone to relieve the loneliness and torment after his first spouse died two years ago, the report said. "Any woman will do, but I hope that she understands the old saying, `half of woman is man`", ran his lonely hearts message. In addition to several women in their 20s who wrote expressing interest in Zhang, one 58-year-old woman had already flown to his home in eastern Zhejiang province to meet him, the agency said.