JD.com billionaire Richard Liu’s wife, Zhang Zetian, hopes ‘clouds will part’ as husband’s sexual assault case continues

Zhang, who married Liu in 2015, posted a photo on her WeChat Moments page showing two adult hands and a hand of a young child holding a mooncake, the traditional treat given out during the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival which was on Monday.

“As long as the whole family is together, life is complete. Hope that with perseverance the clouds will part to show the moon,” Zhang, 24, wrote in the photo caption.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also called the Mooncake Festival, is celebrated by Chinese during a full moon in September and is a time for family and friends to gather. Zhang's spokeswoman was contacted for a response but declined to comment at this time.

The five-week long saga, sparked when a 21-year-old female University of Minnesota student filed a complaint to police, has dragged on without resolution, creating a cloud of uncertainly around the Nasdaq-listed Chinese e-commerce giant.

JD.com’s shares plunged 7.47 per cent on Monday after Reuters published a WeChat Moments post that showed the female student telling one of her friends that Liu had forced her to have sex with him.