Just after her recent 12th birthday, Akama wrote on Zhang's Weibo page, "Wait until I'm old enough to marry you, and then I'm going to say 'I do."
Zhang responded, "I simply can't wait for these next four birthdays of yours to pass, I'm counting down each one."
And they don't care if you think their relationship is odd, or inappropriate.
"There's nothing we can do about this, nor do we feel the need to prove anything to these people," Zhang wrote on his page. "All we can do is continue to persevere with our love, our life, and being together."
The couple first met when Akama was just eight-years-old and Zhang was hired to be her music coach.
After a year of working with Zhang, Akama won the 2009 National New Silk Road Modeling Competition's Children Pageant.
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