After 11 years of marriage, Mrs Chen was heartbroken when she discovered a message on her husband’s mobile phone from another woman, one who called him “honey”.

He admitted the affair, but after she spoke to her parents and considered the future of her two children, the desperate 39-year-old decided divorce was not the answer.

Instead Mrs Chen turned to another option, seeking help from one of scores of companies in China which offer ‘mistress dispelling’ services.