‘I was brave once, he has been brave all his life’: paralysed wife stabbed nine times foiling robbery pays tribute to selfless husband

Millions of netizens have been moved by the story of a Chinese man who has spent more than three decades taking care of his disabled Good Samaritan wife who suffered horrific injuries when she intervened to save others from a knife-wielding robber.

The selfless act of bravery by Xie Fang came when she was a migrant worker in Changsha in central China’s Hunan province in the 1980s. At that time she confronted an armed robber who had sneaked into the restaurant where she worked intent on stealing money.