Warrior Zhuo and the Fish Farmer, a TikTok love story

As women all over the world struggle to avoid nuptial nonsense if they can, the ancient institution has lost none of its lustre in China, where love and marriage blossom beside the street, and Warrior Zhuo met her match.

Chinese media loves a love story. Zero-to-hero narratives with fairy-tale endings are not hard to find in the world’s most populous nation.

With disastrous Valentine’s Days still fresh in many memories, suckers and losers everywhere can take hope in how a beautiful Chinese warrior princess took pity on a handsome young reject she found sobbing by the side of the road.

Two years after relieving a stranger of a bunch of toxic roses on Valentine’s Day, the SCMP tells how “Warrior Zhou” is to marry heartbroken Meng, who she found wandering the streets of a small town in the central Chinese province of Henan.

Valentine’s Day proposal

It was Valentine’s…