‘Shameless!’: crowd cheers for wife in China who catches cheating husband and lover in the act in a dramatic confrontation in the street
- In a video posted on social media, the woman is seen stopping a car in the street then smashing a window with a brick and yelling at her husband and his lover in the car
- The wife has been praised for her actions which generated an outpouring of sympathy online
On June 26, a woman, surnamed Li, 41, from Langfang, Hebei province, northern China, smashed the window of a car in the street with a brick, drawing a crowd of onlookers.
In videos posted online, Li stopped the car in which her husband and his lover were sitting and began yelling at her husband who was in the driver’s seat.
“She can only be a lover as long as I still have our marriage certificate,” Li was heard shouting. “You are shameless to take her to a hotel with me knowing!”
Li then began punching the car windows after yelling at the two to get out of the vehicle, attracting a large crowd.
Later, Li found a brick and began using it to smash the car windows, threatening the pair if they did not get out.
“Don’t hurt your hand,” one onlooker told Li, as the crowd applauded her.
According to a witness, Li had followed her husband and his lover from a nearby town.
Finally, the police arrived and took the pair in the car and Li into custody.
In a June 29 live stream, Li said she lost her temper after her husband refused to leave with her.
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“He should have gone home with me because I had already caught them,” Li explained. “But he insisted on leaving with his lover.”
“If he had explained and consoled me, I would not have made a scene in the street.”
Li said that her husband has been unemployed for over six months and the money in their bank account was running out.
“If I divorce him now, it means I’ll be left with nothing after 10 years of marriage,” she said.
Many people supported Li, while others advised her to file for a divorce.
“She wouldn’t be acting like this if she was not being pushed hard,” one person commented. “The man and his lover will face repercussions.”
Another wrote: “You should divorce him as soon as possible and find ways to fight for your interests.”
To stop the divorce rate from rising, a 30-day divorce cooling-off period was introduced in the Civil Code in the beginning of 2021, requiring a couple seeking a divorce to wait for 30 days before finalising the procedures.
