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China ‘mistress counsellor’ restores broken marriages by persuading lovers to depart

Counsellor once rejected US$42,000 offer from a wife asking her to make husband’s mistress leave him

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In China, a “mistress counsellor” adopts a distinctive strategy by helping lovers part ways to mend broken marriages. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/QQ.com
Alice Yanin Shanghai

A woman in central China who runs a workshop persuading mistresses to leave the married men they are having an affair with has trended on mainland social media.

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Wang Zhenxi, 39, is a Henan-based relationship counsellor who has been specialising in “mistress dispelling” for eight years, during which time she has received enquiries from about 10,000 potential clients, according to Dahe News.

Wang said she set up her company in 2016 after being a victim herself.

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“My husband had an affair and I could not accept it. To go through those ‘dark days’, I started learning psychology and reading books on emotions,” she said.

Wang said she later managed to “safeguard” her marriage.

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