Stranger things are no longer strange anymore in this world, it seems.

We have lived through times when a drone was used to search for love; so perhaps it was only inevitable that the time would come when a drone would be the catalyst that broke up a happy home.

And so it has happened.

A Chinese man has turned his drone into Batman, using it to uncover an affair between his wife and her boss.

Jing, a 33-year-old man from Shiyan, a city of over three million residents in central Hubei province, has apparently become a viral sensation on Chinese social media after he revealed that he used a drone to track his wife to a hideout in the mountains, were she met with her lover.

Apparently, Jing knew his wife more than she may have imagined; because sometime in the last year he took notice of her attitude towards him changing from loving to lukewarm to outright cold, and he figured something must be up.

Sometimes she intentionally ignored him, said Jing, reports from China claim. Then there were also a number of unusual events in his wife’s life, such as upward changes in her position at work and the number of times she said she was going to visit her parents.

Jing got spooked, so he decided to do some sleuthing.

The young man set his aerial surveillance equipment, and when his wife announced that she was visiting er parents for the umpteenth time, he was ready.

At this stage, we have no idea how far the wife’s parents lived from the young couple’s home, or whether Jing just deployed a drone; or he had to use a vehicle as cavalry.

But Jing did release apparent drone footage of his wife – whose surname was identified as Wu – not driving to her parents’, but up a mountain, where she then met a man.

“Her other man is her boss,” Jing was quoted as saying.

“The wife of the boss also works in the same factory so it is inconvenient for them to have an affair there, so my wife was forced to meet him in the wild.”

The released drone data shows Wu walking hand in hand with the man and disappearing into a dilapidated mud house.

About 20 minutes later, they walked out of the building and drove to the factory where Wu works.

Jing says the evidence he gathered from the drone will be used to secure a divorce.

The disloyal wife’s lies being exposed by a drone have sparked much interest on mainland social media.

“It was a good idea to buy a drone. Without this tool, Jing would have never known he was being betrayed. That’s the magical function of technology,” one person quipped on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.

 “In this era of hi-tech, any lie will be debunked,” another online observer said.

“So couples should stick to the principle of loyalty.”