A woman in China who suffered horrific burns in a kitchen fire when she was young has revealed that she and her fiance share the same birthday. - Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
SHANGHAI: A young woman in eastern China who suffered 95 per cent burns in an accident many years ago has revealed that she and her fiancé were born on the same day.
“Karma is so magic. We were born on the same day of the same month of the same year,” said the 25-year-old blogger Dai Wanyue, along with her fiancé, displaying their own identity cards in front of a camera online.
“We are engaged. Please give us your blessings,” she said.
Dai is a home furnishing blogger and photographer based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, Jiupai News reported.
She was born and grew up in a village in Guangshui, central Hubei province.
Her life was devastated in 2006 when she was cooking a meal for her pregnant mother at home, and the kitchen caught fire.
Although Dai survived, 95 per cent of her body was seared, and all her fingers, except her left thumb, had to be amputated.
After undergoing multiple rounds of surgery and a two-year rehabilitation regime, she returned to school to study.
Dai said she achieved high scores at school and had many friends thanks to her easy-going personality.
She said at first she did not think she was different from others, but later she felt inferior.
Dai Wanyue and her fiancé have found happiness together despite adversity. - Photo: Weibo
“People around me repeatedly told me that it was impossible for me to have a good life. No matter how hard I studied, I would not meet someone who loves me. No matter how rich I was, I would never become beautiful, they said,” recalled Dai.
She studied animation major at a college in Wuhan in Hubei province and took up a job as a designer in her hometown.
Years ago, Dai quit her designer’s job to move to Hangzhou where she works as a blogger and photographer.
“Everyone has the right to live as they choose and to achieve their glory,” she was quoted as saying.
As a home furnishing influencer, Dai receives 20-30 advertisement cooperation orders each month, bringing her a monthly income of 10,000 yuan (US$1,400).
“In the past, I dared not face the camera. Now I know that I am also entitled to stand in the sunshine and present a unique me,” she said.
Her fiancé, Zhu Shiyu, hails from eastern Jiangsu province. No further personal details about him were provided in the report.
But at the engagement banquet in Guangshui in Hubei on April 18, a viral video shows Zhu’s father saying: “Wanyue is outstanding. We all like her.”
Mainland social media has been captivated by Dai’s story, which has attracted best wishes and admiration from a huge number of internet users.
“Hope you stay happy and live together till you are old and grey,” one person said.
“She is so strong. If I were in her position, I would have surrendered to fate,” said another. - South China Morning Post
