BEIJING (SCMP): Social media in China has been left awestruck by a story of serendipity that brought a couple together with a car accident.
A 36-year-old man, surnamed Li, and his 23-year-old wife tied the knot in central China’s Hunan province in February.
When they “met” each other in December 2023, he was the driver of a car that caused an accident, and she was the victim.
Li was driving fast at the time because he was dealing with an emergency.
He hit the unidentified woman who was riding an electric bicycle.
He immediately got out of the car to check on her. The woman, who was later diagnosed to have broken her collarbone, said “No worries” when he apologised to her while she was still lying on the ground.
Li said he thought she was a kind person.
The woman’s parents also absolved Li of blame and did not demand compensation.
In return, Li visited the hospital every day to look after her. They shared a lot of personal stories with each other. As a result of their interactions the woman confessed her love for Li three weeks after the accident.
Li rejected her in the beginning, saying he was too old for her. Then one day, he agreed to go to watch a film with her, because he “owed her that for knocking into her”.
She fell pregnant last September, and they were married in February.
A salesperson and businessman Li has debts, while his wife just graduated from university and works at a local milk tea shop.
Li said marriage was not in his life plan before he met her. He thanked his wife for her “bravery”.
Li, who lives with his wife’s family because it was closer to his workplace, said his wife and parents-in-law were very nice to him.
She even rejected the 188,000-yuan (US$26,000) bride price he had prepared, knowing he was in debt, and asked him to invest the money in his business.
Li also revealed that the crash that bonded them was the sixth he had in two months, but strangely, the last since they met.
Their marriage received many good wishes online.
“Your story is like the plot of an idol drama. Best wishes to you,” one person said.
“It was fate that brought them together, despite the circumstances being quite unconventional,” said another. - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
