Daijiworld Media Network – Beijing

Beijing, Aug 25: A 19-year-old university student, Zhang Kun, working as a delivery person in Leshan, Sichuan province, rescued a woman who had been trapped in her bedroom for 30 hours, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

The incident occurred on August 12, when Zhang, on a summer job, noticed a white pillow on the sidewalk with the emergency numbers “110” and “625” written in blood. Realising it was a cry for help, he immediately alerted the police.

Police traced the distress signal to a homestay on the 25th floor of a building, where they found a woman, identified by her surname Zhou, locked inside her bedroom. A sudden gust of wind had slammed the door shut, and a broken latch left her trapped without food, water, or her mobile phone.

Desperate, Zhou used her own blood to write the emergency numbers on the pillow and threw it out of the window. “When the police broke down the door, I was as excited as if I were seeing family,” she told Red Star News.

Though Zhou offered him money as gratitude, Zhang declined, calling it a small act of kindness that anyone would have done. After the story went viral on Chinese social media, Meituan, the company where Zhang worked, honoured him with the title of Pioneer Rider and a reward of 2,000 yuan.