‘Love doesn’t come from begging’: jilted Chinese man spends night in rain on his knees outside ex-girlfriend’s office to beseech her to take him back

Rejected boyfriend spends night on his knees with a bunch of flowers outside workplace of woman who ditched him

Passers-by and police try in vain to get him to stop but man continues his lovesick vigil for 21 hours before giving up

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The story of a Chinese man who spent the whole night on his knees in the rain outside the office of a woman who had jilted him, begging her to take him back, has caused a stir on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite/handout

Published: 4:00pm, 2 Apr 2023

A lovesick Chinese man who spent a whole night on his knees in the rain outside his former girlfriend’s workplace begging her to take him back has caused a stir on mainland social media.

The jilted boyfriend knelt outside the entrance of the woman’s office building in Dazhou, in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, from 1pm on March 28 until 10am the next day with a big bunch of roses.

A video of his extreme 21-hour lovelorn plea has been viewed 150 million times on Weibo.

As he begged his ex-partner to take him back, local residents gathered around him and urged him to give up his efforts, the video media outlet Jiupai News reported.

Despite the man’s extreme actions and a bunch of flowers, his ex-girlfriend was nowhere to be seen. Photo: Baidu

Throughout the time the man spent on his knees his ex-girlfriend was nowhere to be seen, the report said.