Chinese man buys 12,000 yuan engagement ring in coins after promise to childhood sweetheart
- South China Morning Post
- Aug 7, 2015
- 1 min read
Two jewellery shops in Fuyang, Anhui province, refused Liang Liang's request to buy a ring using change weighing 150kg, before a third finally agreed
A 30 year-old Chinese man used coins worth a total of 12,000 yuan to buy a diamond ring to propose marriage to his former childhood sweetheart, a mainland newspaper reports.
The man, known as Liang Liang, carried the money to the shop in Fuyang in Anhui province by wheeling a tricycle filled with stacks of coins weighing a total of 150kg, the Yingzhou Evening News reported.
The coin with the largest value used in China is worth just one yuan.
Four employees spent half a day counting the coins, which had come neatly wrapped in newspaper.
Liang said he was fulfilling a promise to his fiancé made 20 years earlier when she was his childhood sweetheart.
“Do you remember 20 years ago, I said I would earn money and marry you?” Liang was quoted as saying when he proposed. “Now I’ve earned enough to buy you a ring, please marry me!”
His fiancé accepted and was so moved by his proposal that she burst into tears.
Liang said a couple of jewellery stores had turned him away when he asked them if he could pay for the ring using coins.
The manager of the jewellery shop that sold him the ring said staff had been touched by his story and would put the coins on display to present the “best evidence of true love”.
Source: Scmp.com
