Two university students have generated a lot of attention by publicly advertising to be 'rent-a-girlfriend' to single men in need of love and affection.
The unnamed girls put on the popular stunt on January 2 while visiting the shores of West Lake in Hangzhou, east China, one of the countries' major tourist destinations, according to People's Daily Online.
Holding up signs for hundreds of visitors to see, the women offered multiple 'accompanying services' including going to the movies, shopping and dinner dates for an unspecified monetary price.
On the lookout: The two unnamed girls offered services like movie dates to men at West Lake, east China
Business-savvy: The entrepreneurs declined to say how much money they were looking for for their company
Attention: The students, who merely claimed to be looking for extra cash, drew plenty of curious gazes
When asked by passers-by, the pair claimed to be business-savvy students who wanted to make some extra income in their spare time.
Seeing a gap in the market for single men in desperate need of female company, they figured that offering themselves as temporary girlfriends would do the trick.
West Lake was packed with visitors over the four-day New Year holiday last week and the girls took their chance with the big crowds, with pictures of their antics going viral on social media.
Many commenters on Weibo were quick to praise the beauty of the girls as well as their go-getting attitude and entrepreneurial spirit, with many offering to pay for the specified services.
Going viral: Many visitors posted pictures of the girls to Weibo, on which they impressed many men online
Business: Although they were quickly surrounded by crowds, its not certain whether they got any customers
By the lake, they were swamped by a crowd of curious potential customers, although it is not certain whether anyone took them up on their offers.
Some passers-by criticised their stunt as attention-seeking and turned their noses up at the girl's activities, although such behaviour is not unusual these days.
The stunt is part of a growing trend of 'rent-a-girlfriend' relationships across China, in which bachelors pay for temporary romantic company in order to appease demands from pushy parents.
In October, a week-long national holiday saw a particular surge in the business as desperate single men paid up to 1,000 Yuan (£100) on various apps to hire a 'girlfriend' they had never met before, whom they'd bring back home to meet parents.
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