If I was him I would just start digging with my next stop being China. Her family will make him pay. Not for having a mistress, that is expected, but for have one so uncouth as to humiliate her in public like this.
They tend to be very old fashioned in some ways down there.
He’s going to need a rescue from being rescued.
Are you sure? It sounded like she couldn’t get him to close the deal. They didn’t have kids?