Married couple discover photo of them both from 11 years before they met

Two strangers pose for a photo at the exact same spot, in front of a towering red sculpture in a town square in China. By mere chance they appear in the same photo, their respected gazes trained on the two separate cameras taking their picture. But in a little more than a decade they will be married.

This unlikely series of events happened to a couple in China who recently discovered the photo by chance. Xue and her now husband Ye, who were only identified by their surnames in local media reports, were unknowingly standing several meters apart in July 2000, 11 years before they met in different city a thousand miles away.

The two were both visiting May Fourth Square in the eastern beachside city of Qingdao. Xue was accompanying her mother who was recovering from surgery and took the trip to boost her spirits. Ye was part of a package tour group booked by his mother, who has to drop out at the last minute due to appendicitis.

At the exact same moment both posed for pictures in front of the squares central sculpture, which commemorates the May Fourth movement, when Chinese students took to the streets to protest their country’s ill treatment in the Treaty of Versailles, ending the first world war.

Source: theguardian