China Trending News: Wang Zhenxi specialises in a unique vocation — one that she claims saves marriages. For the last eight years, the woman living in central China has been into what she calls “mistress dispelling”, a profession she chose after a personal experience of betrayal in relationship.
Wang, 39, is a relationship counsellor in Henan, and she claims to have got enquiries from nearly 10,000 potential clients in the last eight years, according to a report in the South China Morning Post. She runs a workshop where she counsel mistresses, persuading them to leave the married men they are in a relationship with.
Wang started her venture in 2016, after coming out of her own "dark days" when her husband apparently had an affair with someone.
“I could not accept it. To go through those ‘dark days’, I started learning psychology and reading books on emotions,” she was quoted as saying, adding that she was eventually able to “safeguard” her marriage.
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Wang Zhenxi, The 'Mistress-Counseller'
After clearing psychology exams, Wang Zhenxi obtained a counselling licence, and started writing articles on marriage and emotions. Online fame followed and people started to seek relationship advice from her confiding in her about their partners’ infidelity, the SCMP report said.
“I responded to them individually, devising a solution to persuade the mistress to leave,” she was quoted as saying.
Wang termed this her "marriage correction method".
She now travels around the country for most part of the year to meet clients, their partners, and the mistresses.
Wang charges 700 yuan (around Rs 8,265) per hour for the services rendered by her in each case, and sometimes even arranges blind dates for the mistresses to help find them new boyfriends.
A particular client she helped — a 32-year-old wife whose husband was having an affair with someone — is now her assistant. Wang was able to persuade the mistress to leave the woman's husband who eventually returned to his family.
The assistant now helps her new clients by sharing her own experience, according to the report.
Wang, however, believes an affair is a symptom of unattended issues in a relationship, and hence mere the lover's departure won't solve the problem forever.
"One mistress may leave, (but) another may take her place,” she cautions.