A girl’s best friend: man asks for sweetheart’s hand with a 33-tonne ‘meteorite’
Liu Fei had million yuan to buy a flat, but instead spent it on a very large rock
Instead of selecting a precious stone to mount on a ring, a man in far western China has proposed to his girlfriend by unveiling a 33-tonne “meteorite” placed in a public square, a news website reported.
The proposal on Tuesday in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang autonomous region, was successful and attracted a large crowd, according to ChinaNews.com.
The report said the man bought the supposed space boulder for about 1 million yuan (US$144,645), which was originally meant to be a payment for a new flat.
The man, Liu Fei, invited his friends to help him with his proposal – as he stepped inside a heart symbol shaped by rose petals and he kneeled before his girlfriend, Wang Fangfang, one of his buddies removed the red sheet that covered the giant meteorite.
Liu first stumbled upon the rock when the couple visited the ancient city of Kashgar. Liu heard that a local collector was in possession of an extraterrestrial rock so the couple paid a visit to have a look. Liu asked Wang if she liked it, and she said yes.
To impress Wang, his girlfriend of four years, Liu bought the meteorite and had it placed in a public square in Urumqi two days before his proposal.