True Love Nose No Bounds

A FACIAL deformity left a Chinese girl without work and without love – but there was a man out there waiting for her…

- Robert Clunie

ONE could argue forever about whether people are inherently good or bad; often gestures that seem to be made in goodwill turn out to be tainted with the most nefareous of intentions. It is confusing to say the very least; nevertheless, good, virtuous people are out there – even if they are bound to smaller pockets in society. Lin Zhuoqiang is a prime example of a noble soul who looks beyond what is skin-deep only. But this tale begins long before his involvement. Twenty-one-year-old Xu Qinqing was born in the village of Zhengjiaba in China’s Southwest, to a rural family who largely relies on subsistence farming – a way of living that often lures pesky critters toward human habitation. Namely rats.