Romantic student's public declaration of love literally goes up in smoke
It may be winter in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, but this guy's love still burns hot for his girl.
The lovestruck college undergrad laid out a ring of candles and petals in the shape of a heart, at the dormitory yard of the Zhengzhou University of Finance.
Unfortunately, security personnel didn't seem to vibe with his public declaration of love, and showed up only to extinguish his flames in a big spectacle of smoke.
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His love interest hadn't even arrived yet to witness his romantic gesture, according to people at the scene, who started circulating pictures of the event live on Monday night.
A large crowd had gathered as he laid out the candles with the help of a couple of friends.
Some Weibo users (China's version of Twitter) were sympathetic to the unnamed student.
A user called Astro 7, said: "I wonder what sort of heartbreak those teachers who extinguished the flames went through in their youth, to have forgotten how young love feels."
Others enjoyed the schadenfreude of the moment. "Haha, the girl may have been thankful for the intervention," said Aaron.
"It was a corny gesture anyway!" said Min Gao.
Victoria Ho is Mashable's Asia Editor, based in Singapore. She previously reported on news and tech at The Business Times, TechCrunch and ZDNet. When she isn't writing, she's making music with her band
