Liu Wenxiu, a 19-year-old waitress from Shenzhen, has been
praised for stopping a 16-year-old boy from committing suicide with
a simple kiss.
Liu was passing by a pedestrian bridge in downtown Shenzhen when
she spotted hundreds of onlookers watching a young man with a knife
in his hand, threatening to jump.
She managed to get close to the boy by telling the police that
she was his girlfriend and also the reason for his attempt to
commit suicide.
According to local television, the boy’s mother had passed away,
his stepmother didn’t treat him well and she left with all his
father’s money.
“He told me he didn’t have a home anymore, nobody cared about
him and no one trusted him. I showed him the scars on my right
wrist as I used to be suicidal too because nobody in my family was
happy. That boy, he was like a younger me. He had to be saved –
because I’ve been there before and I knew exactly how it was,” said
Liu.
The negotiation on the bridge ended like a romantic movie when
Liu hugged the boy and kissed him unexpectedly. Police took
advantage of the situation to take away the boy’s knife and pull
him inside the handrail of the bridge.
Liu left after the rescue, but local police needed her help
again because the boy refused to reveal his story without her
presence, reports Asia One.
Liu Wenxiu,
19, a hotel waitress in Shenzhen, has become an online celebrity
for her heroic and romantic act of saving a suicidal 16-year-old
with a kiss.
