On 13 April 2018, the Second People’s Hospital in Changzhou, to the east of Nanjing, admitted a 33-year-old man with a knife slash to the throat, a 29-year-old woman with a slashed face and a battered 25-year-old.
Officers at Xilin police station in Zhonglou district of Changzhou learned that the 25-year-old wife Xiao Mei, of her Anhui husband Xiao Peng, had become enraged upon learning that her husband was having an affair with 29-year-old Xiao Min from Sichuan.
Surrounded by her in laws, Miss Xiao stormed into an unspecified room and ordered Mistress Xiao to remain on the bed. The wife declared her intention was to disfigure the mistress. After repeatedly slapping her across the face, she drew a knife and slashed her face, leaving one 8cm long gash from her eyebrow to her mouth, reports Jiangsu Sina.
After the mistress fought back, and wanting to stop the fight, Mr. Xiao, in desperation, stabbed himself in the throat, slicing open his trachea. At this point, mistress Xiao then snatched her phone and called an ambulance.
After emergency surgery, all three survived the brawl while the police are continuing their investigation. Mistress attacks and public mistress shaming is nothing new to China, with videos surfacing on the Internet that show the public hunt, together with the beating and shaming of mistresses.
Jilted wives have gone so far as to develop companies that make it their sole purpose to assist other wives in their suspicions of their wandering husbands. “Mistress Killer”, Zhang Yufeng, makes a profitable business by offering her clients revenge-based investigations that often end in bloody and published shaming.
