A man has written to a local newspaper to apologise for beating up his wife in a drunken rage and forcing her to parade half-naked in the streets after deciding that she’d been unfaithful.

Zhang Ni ordered his wife, Wang, to strip down to her underwear and marched her out into the streets of Yushan County, China, wearing a sign that read: “I want to sell my body.”

Just moments before she was stripped Wang was allegedly beaten by her husband, who had been out drinking with his friends.