A man in China has gone viral after spending nearly an entire day on his knees begging his ex to take him back.

Armed with a bouquet of flowers, the unidentified man reportedly kneeled outside his ex-girlfriend’s office building in Dazhou, Sichuan province, from 1 p.m. on March 28 until 10 a.m. the next day.

According to South China Morning Post, both police and the general public urged him to give up his efforts and go home.

The man reportedly asked the police if it was illegal to kneel there and that if it wasn’t, then that they should leave him alone.

“Many of us tried to talk him into leaving,”one member of the public was quoted as saying.

“It’s not necessary to keep on kneeling. The girlfriend is not willing to show up but you are still here, losing face”, he ended.

With no sign of his ex-girlfriend, the man finally left at 10 am on March 29 saying he “could not bear the cold any longer”.