A British man who works in a school in east China's Jiangsu Province used a special method to
court a local girl: He proposed marriage on a skyride as they were
going up a mountain.
The drama was arranged on Purple Mountain a major peak in
Nanjing, the provincial capital by Tom and his colleagues, the
Modern Express reported
Tom comes from Yorkshire, England, and has been in love with Li
Xin for more than a year since he came to teach at an international
school in Nanjing two years ago.
Leaning on Tom's shoulder while traveling on a cable car, Li was
flushed with excitement and accepted his bouquet of flowers and a
diamond ring, the Nanjing-based newspaper reported.
Tom said of Li: "When I first arrived in Nanjing single, she
gave me warmth. She is warm, gentle and kind."
Tom said he planned the drama, as he once heard from Li that she
had never ridden the 2,350-meter skyride up Purple Mountain, known
as the "lung of Nanjing".
On March 7, Tom asked his colleague surnamed Ding, and a car
driver to pick Li up at her home at 8 am.
"Where are we going?" Li asked.
Ding replied: "To a place you will not forget as long as you
live."
The perplexed Li followed, and arrived at the Bunker City
station of the Purple Mountain Sightseeing Cable Car.
There, a car decorated with roses, pine needles, baby's breath
flowers and pink yarn was waiting.
Li embarked on the cable car alone and was on her way up the
mountain.
At 9:25 AM, when the car was about 50 meters from the Purple
Mountain Observatory, Tom turned up from behind a stone pillar at
the observatory with a bouquet of flowers, smiling.
Tom had arrived at the observatory before 7 AM, and another
colleague of his, surnamed Zhou, pleaded for help from the skyride
company, which agreed to the flower decoration and a stop at the
observatory to pick up Tom.
By the way, Li said yes.
(China Daily March 14, 2007)
