When officers arrived at the property in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, Li told them she feared she was being burgled.
A man in eastern China who took a sneaky day off work to play mobile games ended up having to answer to the police after his wife mistook him for a burglar, a local newspaper reported.
The woman, identified only by her surname Li, called the police on Tuesday morning
after returning home from taking her children to school and finding the door to her flat locked from the inside and noises coming from within, Youth Times reported on Thursday.
When officers arrived at the property in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, five minutes later, Li told them she feared she was being burgled.
But when they went inside to check, the only person they found was Li's husband, surnamed Ding, hiding in a wardrobe.
Despite Ding's efforts to explain the situation – to the police and his wife – the officers were unimpressed at being called out for no reason and demanded to see the couple's marriage certificate as proof of their relationship, the report said.
