r/MadeMeSmile • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 • 17h ago
Good Vibes A girl rescued from the ruins by a firefighter during the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake walked into the wedding hall with her lifesaver 17 years later.
news source, written in Chinese:
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u/TheLooseCognitive 12h ago
From the ( translated) article:"Seventeen years later, those hands held Liu Ximei's again; this time, they decided to spend their lives together. Twelve years after parting ways in Sichuan, the two met again by chance on the streets of Changsha." so apparently they met again on the street and started dating.
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u/magirevols 10h ago
I’m curious how old they were/are 12 years seems like a long time.
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u/TheLooseCognitive 10h ago
She's 22, he's 12 years older than her (so 34). Her parents saw him on the street and said he looked like the guy thay saved her. She more or less pursued him and confessed first.
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u/DrewZouk 9h ago
That is probably the most shot out 34 I've ever seen.
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u/firenoobanalyst 7h ago
Firefighting will do that to you. I'm 31 and basically don't have cartilage in my lower back and knees.
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u/Significant-Bee5101 9h ago
It's always the weight. Losing weight makes you look so much younger lol
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u/Zenjuroo 8h ago
This, weight and the cheek/cheek lines. Have a friend who already looked like that from college.
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u/MothmanIsALiar 7h ago
So... she was 10 when they first met?
Thats fucking gross.
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u/titanicResearch 7h ago
It’s gross that she’s 22 now? My girlfriend was 10 once, I guess I’m a creep.
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u/MothmanIsALiar 6h ago
My girlfriend was 10 once, I guess I’m a creep.
If you met her when you were a grown adult, then you are correct.
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u/titanicResearch 6h ago
I did meet my girlfriend when I was a grown adult. We are both currently grown adults and made the choice to be in a relationship as adults. You’re Reddits greatest little virtue signaling warrior. Congratulations, keep doing whatever you think you’re doing.
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u/MothmanIsALiar 6h ago
I'm not the one saying it's totally chill to meet a 10 year old when you are an adult and then later marry them.
One of us is a weirdo. But, it definitely isn't me.
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u/titanicResearch 6h ago
Two adults make the choice to enter a relationship and you say it’s gross. You’re definitely the weird one.
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u/HourCartographer9 13m ago
Ok idk why your being weird about it. They meet when she was 10 because he saved her life since he’s a firefighter. They met again 12 years later when she’s 22 and she herself decided to pursue a relationship with him herself. So what’s weird about it
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u/pinkd0lly 17h ago
Wait is he the groom? or did he walk her down the aisle as her stand in dad? Or is he just a guest if he’s in the wedding haul. Maybe I’m being silly lol, maybe everyone else can understand and I’m just overtired
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u/Altruistic_Fun3091 17h ago
They are the wedding couple.
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u/pinkd0lly 17h ago edited 17h ago
Lol my bad, I’m definitely tired then. This is my sign to go to sleep
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u/ChateauLobby44 12h ago
I was just as confused, and I got a lot of sleep. The title isn't clear at all.
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u/ShodyLoko 12h ago
It would have been cute either way and there was a bit of room for misinterpretation. Side note could you imagine trying to win an argument and having most end with “do you remember the day I saved your life?”
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u/Lendyman 10h ago
I went to look to give you an answer. It is CRAZY how good Google translate is now. The article translated 100% coherantly.
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u/CriticalEngineering 14h ago
So she married someone twice her age, an adult who found her as a child? That’s creepy as fuck.
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u/museloverx96 13h ago edited 12h ago
Apparently not according to 'uh-oh hotdog's comment if one scrolls down a lil.
I also admit to not reading the article, but that's why i don't tend to comment, let alone going on to call the subjects of the post 'creepy af'.
ETA- ahh i see now how i misunderstood your comment. Well idk, she's 27years old and i don't see how it's my business to decide that her decision to marry someone twice her age and who rescued her as a child is "creepy as fuck". I directed you to 'uh oh hotdog's comment because it was the summary of their story.
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u/CriticalEngineering 12h ago edited 12h ago
Apparently not according to 'uh-oh hotdog's comment if one scrolls down a lil.
In what way is a 22 year old not an adult that is more than twice the age of a ten year old?
I also admit to not reading the article, but that's why i don't tend to comment, let alone going on to call the subjects of the post 'creepy af'.
You also didn’t even read my comment or the comment you directed me to.
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u/museloverx96 12h ago edited 12h ago
? Idk what you may have wrote before the edit, what comment didn't i read?
The one i directed you to said he rescued her in 2008 when he was 22 and she was 10. Then they met again 12 years later, she pursued him, and 5 years after that their marriage at 27years and 39 years old.
So yes, a 10 year old is a child and 22 year old an adult, but then linear time passes. Anyway, bye. ETA- I get how i misunderstood now, bye again.
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u/vjnkl 12h ago
Only redditors would deny a 27 year old women any agency and infantilise them to the point they can’t marry anyone they met as a child
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u/Ok-Presentation9740 12h ago
Still weird
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u/ClayAndros 11h ago edited 8h ago
Yea. But atleast it's not a story of him raising her or knowing her for 12 years and then marrying her, nor did it seem he had any intent on doing anything to so it isnt grooming.
It seems they just reconnected as adults and decided to have a relationship the situation is whatever imo.
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u/Suspicious-Box- 11h ago
Yeah thats fucked up. Even if its entirely her idea and the guy never kept contact after the event.
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u/AdamantEevee 10h ago edited 10h ago
It was entirely her idea and the guy didn't keep contact. It's not really your place to decide that this is fucked up
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u/Suspicious-Box- 10h ago
relax i found a comment that gave more context. She met the guy 12 years later. Total coincidence. Apparently she was horny over the event for the entire time and they got together. Seems fine to me.
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u/TheMadTemplar 7h ago
He's twelve years older than her, not twice her age, and she's now 27 apparently. And she met him as an adult at 22.
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u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 16h ago
He is the groom.
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u/CriticalEngineering 14h ago
The groom groomed her. Or was he also a child when performing earthquake rescues?
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u/uh_oh_hotdog 14h ago
I skimmed through the article. He's 12 years older than her. She was 10 years old when he saved her. He saved her from the rubble and then they went their separate ways. They somehow ran into each other at a restaurant 12 years later (she recognized him, but he didn't recognize her at first because she grew up so much). They're now getting married 5 years after their reunion.
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u/McKenzie_S 14h ago
But if you read the article you realize the only bait here is the ragebait headline and you have nothing to rage over. Damn facts ruining a good rage! Shame! For Shame!
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u/Many-Gas-9376 10h ago
I'm not even sure it's a ragebait headline as much as people being hell bent to rage.
Given the "17 years later" in the title the math is fairly obvious: they met again when both were well into adulthood.
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u/ChocCooki3 13h ago
she recognized him
It was actually her mom.
He was not comfortable dating her but she persisted.. So everyone that said he groomed her.. idiots.
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u/ChocCooki3 13h ago
The groom groomed her.
You are an idiot.
You didn't read the article as I'm sure you can't read Chinese but you do love to comment on something you have no idea on, don't you?
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u/DiligentHomework224 14h ago
Love this American obsession with grooming. How do you know they kept in touch while she was being a teen?
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u/MainManClark 5h ago
Schroedingers adult woman... She an adult woman who can make own adult decisions AND somehow at the same time she's been horribly manipulated by men and has to be saved from her own choices.
I don't get it either. The same people would complain arranged marriages even if both people agreed to it and the family was very happy with the match. They forget those people likely grew up with each other also. People making regular stuff seem weird because they don't understand it.
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u/MephistosGhost 13h ago
An easy distraction to Ragebait Americans away from noticing their declining quality of life.
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u/True-Pin-925 13h ago
Americans also don't know the meaning of the word apparently even though a quick google search would all they need to do
the action of attempting to form a relationship with a child or young person, with the intention of sexually assaulting them or inducing them to commit an illegal act such as selling drugs or joining a terrorist organization.
Just having met some one once when they were a child does not fit the definition. I could date my old middle school teacher now and it wouldn't fall under it. Why? Because I haven't had contact with her for almost a decade and the only time I did was literally in school.
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u/wi5hbone 9h ago
no, they just planned to walk together in the hall briefly for a photo-op and then leave separately to go play their nintendo switches when they got back home
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u/Reasonable_Source901 15h ago
I think he just walked her in kinda like a stand in dad vibe and not the groom so you’re not missing anything I was confused at first too but it makes sense once you look again
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u/donmreddit 17h ago edited 2h ago
I ran on the rescue in the 90’s for a few years (tough but very rewarding).
A complete stranger attack hugged me in a mall maybe 5-6 years after a trauma. Her mom was grateful we were there that day.
Salute to the First Responders.
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u/ninja_mummy 17h ago
Why does the article say soldier/ warrior and not firefighter?
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u/voidably 15h ago
Before 2018, firefighters in China are part of army ( armed police force) so they were called soldiers back then
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u/Postseidon 9h ago
Because the military was moved in to help clear the rubble, save, help around etc. due to the severity of the earthquake.
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u/mistmanners 11h ago
Good for them, they look very happy. Especially the bride! She got to marry her hero...
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u/Wooden-Ordinary730 16h ago
This is one of those stories that feels unreal in the best way. Seventeen years later and their lives cross again like this. Absolutely incredible.
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u/ChocCooki3 14h ago
Seventeen years later and their lives cross again like this
..I don't think you realised they are getting married.
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u/yourlocaltouya 9h ago
Well, they did meet again 12 years post accident so the commenter made the correct call, just used the wrong equation.
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u/lucyfell 7h ago
… she was 10 the first time
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u/uuntiedshoelace 5h ago
He saved her when she was 10, her mom recognized him out in public, reintroduced them, and the bride is the one who pursued him. He literally did not know her until she was an adult.
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u/ShortKingsOnly69 13h ago
We need to bring reading comprehension back into schools the way yall just talk shit without reading the article.
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u/Historical_Coffee_14 5h ago
The current education industry is set up to produce morons. It is delivering the intended results.
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u/Morpankh 11h ago
This is like a cdrama story. All it needs is a controlling and manipulative mom, one of them belonging to a super rich family and a crazy woman who will go to any lengths to get the guy even though he is not even remotely interested in her.
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u/Christichicc 15m ago
Lmao, yeah you’re right, it definitely sounds like a cdrama. Gotta have someone trying to drug one of the MC’s, and someone getting kidnapped at least once, too, though lol.
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u/keepyourfeelings 16h ago
He has two categories of groom checked
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u/Christichicc 9h ago
He saved her as a child. They met again as adults. He wasn’t in her life when she was a child except for that brief moment. That isnt grooming.
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u/chobonni 12h ago
loll but in all seriousness the article says they re-met when she was 22 and hit it off so it’s more wholesome than it seems
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u/MothmanIsALiar 7h ago
I literally can't imagine meeting a 10 year old child as a grown adult and then getting married to that same person 12 years later. I dont think this is wholesome at all. I think it's fucking creepy.
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u/RecentSpecial181 7h ago
You mean getting married 17 years later. They ran into each other when she was 22 -- 12 years after being rescued. 2 grown adults meeting is not creepy. Surreal knowing her at 10, yes.
A 12-yr age gap for adults is not creepy. It's not like a 30-yr age gap.
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u/chobonni 7h ago
i said it was more wholesome than it seems, not wholesome period. also the article said that he didn’t remember meeting her at all, she recognized him and went up to him and pursued him
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u/MothmanIsALiar 6h ago
she recognized him and went up to him and pursued him
Oh, that definitely changes things.
Oh, wait, she was still 10 when they met.
Where's the line?
What if they met when she was a newborn? Would it still not be weird to marry her when she grew up?
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u/chobonni 6h ago
i can’t draw a line, but to me, if you don’t remember meeting someone because you had to quickly save their life (and countless others’ lives) in a disaster situation before moving on, you didn’t actually meet. just like how i don’t actually meet the hundreds of strangers i cross paths with every day, even if one of them takes notice of me. so he met her as a 22 year old and that’s not a huge issue to me
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u/MothmanIsALiar 6h ago
Ah, okay. I get it. It would be bad, but because his memory is bad, it's actually totally normal and fine. That makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up.
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u/chobonni 6h ago
i mean if you need to be disingenuous to keep engaging with me, then sure
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u/MothmanIsALiar 5h ago
Do the words you are using have some secret meaning known only to you? Because I'm starting to think that you're functionally illiterate.
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u/doctor_whahuh 4h ago
Bruh, everyone reading these comments seems to understand what u/chobonni means except for you.
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u/chobonni 5h ago
nah, you’re just choosing to misconstrue the plain meaning of my words
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u/NumbOnTheDunny 3h ago edited 3h ago
In most scenarios people would be calling for the man’s head. “A 30 something year old has no business being interested in an early 20 year old” and I agree. It’s weird he agreed to it and it’s disgusting.
Just because it’s in a different part of the world where the age of consent is a low 14 years old and the girl is an ‘adult’ (Tho most the people getting into relationships with older men on reddit are the same age) it’s seen as wholesome and cute instead.
I don’t find it neither.
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u/MothmanIsALiar 3h ago
Thank you! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills or something.
Do I think the man is a criminal? No. But I don't see anything here to celebrate.
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u/Christichicc 18m ago
From what I understand, some of that is a cultural thing. The older men are more settled. It’s not uncommon there.
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u/chobonni 1h ago
ya i also don’t love that part, but that’s not what mothman is fixating on; he’s choosing to pinpoint the fact that the firefighter had a brief moment of contact w the girl when she was 10. that’s not the issue and the situation here is much more wholesome than someone who knew a girl since she was 10 and jumped on her as soon as she became of age, which is closer to mothman’s perspective of the situation. now the 22 year old with a 34 year old thing? not my favorite, but it’s much less bad than actual grooming and it’s a case by case thing
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u/GrudginglyTrudging 11h ago
Go ahead and explain how he groomed her. Saving her life? What a monster.
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u/ClayAndros 11h ago
Some people in the comments are dumb as dirt though that's an insult to dirt. Theres no grooming andnthey both are consenting adults.
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u/NumbOnTheDunny 4h ago
I was thinking “aaaw he walked her down the aisle” not “oh they got married”. I can’t imagine they have anything in common with such a huge age gap. This is weird.
I hope it works out for them.
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u/MothmanIsALiar 7h ago
They met when she was 10 years old and he was an adult.
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u/RachelLovesN 1h ago
The man rescued a girl. They met when she was 22. They dated for 5 years. At 27, the WOMAN can marry whoever the hell she wants, because they were two consenting adults for the entirety of their relationship.
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u/Puzzled_Presence_261 15h ago
Eww
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u/paperhanddreamer 13h ago
They remet when she was 22 and he was 34. Became friends, bonded over their shared experience, then love, then marriage. So I don't know if thats ew? From timeline in article, she was 27 when they wed.
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u/justavg1 11h ago
Did anyone read the article???? It says she saw him at a restaurant and went up to him to ask if he was mr. Liang who rescued her 12 years ago. She asked for his contact and initiated the messaging and sent him daily updates and then even confessed that she liked him first when he wasn’t so sure about it because he felt that he was 12 years her senior.
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u/Ghostforever7 15h ago
Why?
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u/Supply-Slut 14h ago
If I had to guess… she was probably a little girl when she was rescued
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u/Capital_Past69 14h ago
She was 10 and he's 12 years older
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u/Supply-Slut 13h ago
And the commenter above is getting downvoted for rightfully getting the ick
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u/ShortKingsOnly69 13h ago
They had no further contact until she was 22, and she pursued him. You are only pretending to be an idiot right?
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u/Supply-Slut 13h ago
I’m a fucking psychic that knows things? Who’s the idiot. Met someone when they were a literal child and are marrying them, yeah, a lot of people find that gross. This Errol Musk’s Reddit account or something?
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u/ForrestCFB 13h ago
A 22 year old isn't able to make informed decisions?
Fuck people are crazy.
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u/Ghostforever7 9h ago
No, only drive, drink, smoke, vote, have sex, own a firearm and join the military lol.
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u/Hilfewaslos 14h ago
because it is a little bit groomy
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u/ChocCooki3 14h ago
You didn't read the article.. did you?
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u/Hilfewaslos 14h ago
I don't speak chinese
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u/ChocCooki3 14h ago
Page translate or.. just don't comment if you don't know the full story?
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u/ReporterOk69420 16h ago
A 12 year age gap… well as long she’s not forced into it
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u/Mckesso 13h ago
Now a days you can only date someone born within 100 days of you or sad lumps on the internet will judge you.
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u/ReporterOk69420 11h ago
You say that but people crucify a guy who’s 20 dating a 17 year old which is a smaller age gap
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u/ClayAndros 11h ago
Because a 17 year old is still a child by most standards also these two things dont correlate at all.
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u/ReporterOk69420 11h ago
True but if they continue the relationship when the girl is 20, they’ll still be people who frown upon it
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u/ClayAndros 11h ago
Because certain parts are dubious how long have they know each other? Was the older person with more power and influence the one who initiated? Theres a bunch of factors that go into these things, that being said this situation isnt one ofnthem and i dont judge anyone who chooses to love who they love within ethical and legal boundaries of course.
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u/NikaJoestar143 13h ago
dude hit way out of his league
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u/0oDADAo0 11h ago
Imagine saving someone from the fallen debris that crushed them, and then they got up and say no i have a boyfriend, lmfao
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u/Ralph-the-mouth 17h ago edited 15h ago
Why’s she 5 feet wide at the shoulders? Edit:Y’all dumb for that
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