Stalker tries to sue woman to track her down after 'love at first sight' in Chinese bookstore
Dec 18 2018
After bumping into a woman in a Chinese bookstore, a man has taken his obsessive mission to find her to an extreme level — suing her in order to try to track her down.
Key points:
- Sun believed the legal system might be able to provide him with her details
- Chinese netizens on Weibo were shocked by Sun's persistent actions and advised women nearby to avoid him
- The court refused to hear his action, warning him to discontinue his search
According to Chinese news platform Pear Beijing, the stalker — known only as Sun — crossed paths with the woman in a Beijing bookstore in September.
Sun said that after the pair made brief eye contact he was enamoured by the woman, who was wearing a yellow hoodie, but he lost sight of her in the crowd before he could talk to her.
Then for the next 50 days, Sun returned to the store instead of going to his job, hoping for the chance to see her again.
In a last desperate attempt to trace the woman, Sun decided to file a lawsuit at the local Dongcheng courthouse on December 10, believing that by doing so the legal system might be able to provide him with her details.
The story went viral on Chinese social media, with Weibo posts containing the hashtag "Man attempts to sue the person he is looking for" racking up more than 400 million views in total.
Most commenters were shocked and disgusted by his actions, referring to him as a stalker and warning the woman, and others, to be careful in the area.
"I think this bookstore should sue him. Girls will be afraid to go to this bookstore because of him!" one Weibo user commented.
According to a document filed in court, Sun sued the woman for giving him "emotional distress".
"On the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a girl appeared on the first floor of Wangfujing Bookstore wearing a tight yellow jacket, incarnadine stockings, medium-long blonde hair that had inward curls and wearing headphones," Sun said in the document, adding that the girl was so beautiful that "nobody would talk to her".
When describing the girl, he listed her name, ethnic background, contact number and place of birth as "unknown", stating that he only knew she was female.
The document asked for the court to "please issue a public notice to the defendant … to request her to appear in court to confront the plaintiff".
He asked for the court to get the woman to speak with him to "liberate" him "from great mental anguish" and help his life return to normal.
"The difficulty of finding the lady … may cause the plaintiff to accept the result of losing the meaning of his life," the court document said.
The courthouse turned down his case, local media reported, warning him not to attempt to try and continue his attempts to find her.
But Sun told Pear Beijing he is considering other options.
Out of China's population of 1.4 billion people, there are nearly 34 million more men than women, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.
China's one-child policy, which was in effect from 1979 to 2015, has had a lasting impact on the gender make-up of China.
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