During any rough time in our lives, the idea of comfort food makes the situation a little more bearable. In the case of one Chinese woman absolutely crushed from being dumped by her boyfriend, she decided her comfort food of choice would be fried chicken. A lot of fried chicken.

Tan Shen, 26, from Chengdu in China's southwest Sichuan Province stopped by a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant on her way home in order to do some thinking after being dumped, but she ended up staying at the restaurant far longer than anybody would have expected.

"I hadn't planned on staying there long, I just wanted some chicken wings," she told the media.

But one order of chicken wings didn't turn out to be enough to clear her mind. Reluctant to return home and confront her apartment filled with memories of her ex and wanting more time to think, she stayed and continued to order more fried chicken. She even phoned into work sick so she could stay at the KFC.

From the look of some of the pictures, it seems like Shen took to using her purse as a pillow in order to sleep in the restaurant booths.

Employees at the open 24-hour restaurant say at first nobody noticed her. After a few days, however, some of them started to recognize her and then became concerned. She wasn't doing anything wrong, and continued to buy food, so she was allowed to stay.

"She was after all a paying customer, even if a bit of an odd one," one employee says.

Shen eventually left the restaurant after a week when local media showed up and started taking interest in her story. She boarded a train and returned home, growing sick of the taste of chicken. After a week eating chicken wings and fries, I would sincerely hope so.

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