The pair met at work – Wang is a cinematographer, Chen a musician and film composer – and live in New Tapei City in Taiwan.

They also have two cats. "They’re our important family members," Wang wrote in an email to BuzzFeed News.

But as Wang and Chen are both women, they cannot marry.

"In the traditional Chinese society, an unmarried person is always like a child in their family," Wang said. "Parents won’t recognise their child as a grown-up unless he or she is married.

"If we were able to get married... we could finally bring each other to the dinner on Chinese New Year’s Eve, which is very meaningful to Chinese people."