Two geese from southern China's Guangdong province recently went viral on the web for their “goodbye kiss” on Valentine's Day.

In a picture posted on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, a male goose is standing beside a motorcycle and "kissing" a female one on the backseat, as if saying goodbye to each other.

Netizens were moved by their "romance" and the picture was reposted more than 18,000 times after its initial upload.

People even made up several versions of love stories about the two geese.

The most popular ending was that they finally live together happily ever after and have many goslings. While for food-lovers, their destiny would be a dish of delicious food. Netizens even imaged some romantic plots like the TV series.

But the owner of the geese, surnamed Deng, said that they are not kissing goodbye.

She explained that the two geese were kept by her parents, and they planned to give one of them as a gift to their relatives. When they tied up the female one, the male one tried to unhitch it by stretching out its neck. So the picture was like they were kissing goodbye.

Deng also disclosed the lovebirds have been cooked into meal.

Hu Yiqing, professor from the School of Journalism and Communication of Nanjing University, explained that the pictures arose netizens’ sympathetic tenderness for love, adding it was the netizens’ imagination that made the story more interesting.