Everyone knows that Chinese families put a lot of pressure on the younger generations to get married, but you know a line has been crossed when a guy resorted to kidnapping out of fear of familial pressure.

32-year-old Liu kidnapped a 24-year-old woman, surnamed Tan, on February 9 at around 08:00. She was on the way to the Dalian Development District where she works in a factory, when Liu suddenly appeared, grabbed her and put his hand in her mouth. According to Tan he said “Don’t move. Come back to my hometown for Spring Festival and act as my wife”.

She says that Liu then tied her up and threw her over his shoulder and carried her away into the bushes.  

Meanwhile, her boyfriend was looking for her as she hadn’t contacted him that morning. After she didn’t answer her phone, he got worried and called the police who looked at surveillance footage from her route to work and saw the kidnapping.

At around 10:30 the same morning, the police found Tan tied up in the bushes by the roadside. Liu was sitting next to her.

When interviewed by police, Liu said that he was ‘distressed’ that none of his relationships had ended in marriage and that everyone in his family is already married.

He didn’t know how to face his relatives and felt ‘immense psychological pressure’ about going home for Spring Festival. He had been plotting for about a month to kidnap a woman to take home and introduce as his girlfriend. He had come prepared that morning with a rope to restrain his victim.

Police contacted Liu’s parents who were extremely shocked at what their son had done, but had noticed that he had become increasingly introverted.

Liu is still in police custody pending charges.

Source: Tencent

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