【Down Town】

A man's seemingly chivalrous gesture is Down Townheating up discussion on Chinese social media.

Pictures of the man wearing his girlfriend's pink heels started circulating on Weibo, after a user named Xie posted them.

Xie told the local papers [link in Chinese] that they were at a hospital, and the girlfriend was waiting to see the doctor. He had been wearing black sandals, and it appears that they swapped shoes because she found hers uncomfortable.

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When their number was called, she reportedly offered to swap back, but he declined and took her hand, walking off to the clinic in her shoes.

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People on Weibo are applauding his gesture. One said: "How do I get a boyfriend like that?"

Another said: "I'd probably go barefoot than suffer wearing heels."

[H/T Shanghaiist]

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