Police in Anhui had to be called to physically separate a kissing couple after things turned from passionate to painful.
According to People’s Daily, the Qianshan County Public Security Bureau received a call at about 5:48pm on Sunday that there was a fight between a couple outside the gate of the disease prevention and control center.
When police officers were dispatched to the scene, they found what at first sight looked like a couple locking lips, but at second glance turned out to be a woman biting a man’s tongue so hard he started bleeding.
Video from mainland social media shows two police officers, unsuccessfully, trying to gently prise the couple apart, which led to muffled screams from the man.
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Officers eventually separated the couple by spraying pepper spray into the woman’s eyes, and the man was taken to hospital.
According to People’s Daily the woman was 26-years-old and the man was 23.
It is not clear what prompted the girlfriend to bite onto her boyfriend’s tongue, but according to mainland news website Sina, it had something to do with online shopping, and the couple had been dating for years.
Mainland news outlets reported this took place on ‘lover’s day’ on May 20, one of three days of the year where couples in China celebrate being in love. The other two are Valentines Day, and the traditional Chinese lover’s day on July 7.
For those of you wondering if May 20 is another cynical marketing ploy to try and get couples to spend even more money, you’re probably right. According to lifestyle magazine That’s Shanghai, May 20 is known as a ‘netizens’ lover’s day in China because the short-form, “520” or “wu er ling”, sounds similar to the Mandarin for “I love you” (“wo ai ni”).
