Greetings Brothers,
By request I am going to post some snippets of the letters that Zhen and I have sent to each other over the months that we have been writing. We write at least one full length letter each day so obviously I cannot include all the letters fully. However since some folks want to see what exactly two complete romantics write to each other in these letters and perhaps maybe drop a few kernels of wisdom or maybe humour I will share our story with you.
Here is part of Zhens's response to my first letter to her which is posted in the first letter thread.
But in my deep heart, I always dream of having a happy family myself, family comes first really. I hope to give all my love to my husband and family; I hope you can make my dream come true. I am so sorry to hear about your former marriage, and I hope you can walk out of the shadow. I can see that you are so serious on love and you said that you are searching for the last love. I am the same with you. I had a failed marriage, and my ex-husband found another woman to continue his life. He left my son and me alone. So I am here hoping to find an honest and loyal man, from your words, I do feel you are the man I am looking for all the time, really, I am so move by your words……
He he, I really thank God for bringing you in my life. You are a nice present and I really treasure you in my heart. I think we can obey the fate and form a warm relationship. But we need time to learn more about each other. I think we must know everything about our loves, and make sure it's our true love.
My response inpart to her letter,
As for my past marriage. Well that was also a path along the road to where we go. It was good for the most part and I have no regrets, not even at its passing. yes I will walk from the shadow especially if the woman I seek is there to light the way with her love. As for honest and loyal. Well dear Zhen I am so much more than that. But yes honesty is a trait I do cherish as is loyalty. Without both there can be no lasting love. Do you agree?
As for me coming into your life, well my dear so far I find it a nice place to be. I find you to be a compassionate and tender lady yet also you seem to have a happiness and lightness about you. I agree we must know everything about our love and so perhaps we begin that journey now? Shall we walk this road together? This journey of mutual discovery and sharing and learning who and where we are destined to be?
Another clip from Zhen..
How are you doing now, my dear Brian? I am so excited to receive your warm and loving letter and I can see we are closer to each other by our honest words. I have never had so nice feelings for a man, and I can feel you are so special for me. I do dream of enjoying the big smile on your face when you drank your morning coffee and read my letter. he he, hope you have a good mood the whole day!
My dear Brian, I do hate lies, and I never play games with love and feelings. I am not such fool. I know true love is hard to find, but once I find it, I should try to hold and treasure it by my true heart. When I read your sincere and words, I do smile in my deep heart. I bet you wrote those words with your honest and loving heart. I can feel your true feelings coming out of each single word. I do feel honored to get your nice words and enjoy true happiness from them. You said you do not understand how on earth any man could walk away from me, he he, in my deep heart, I am not only need a man, but a man with a kind and sincere heart. He will never hide anything to me, and he will try to understand, respect, care for and love with all his heart. Some men try to go into my world, but they only pay attention to my face but not my inner world. Outside beauty will fade with time, but inner beauty will always stay with me and make my life more colorful and meaningful, do you agree with me?
This clip here I thik was one of the defining in our relationship thus far. We have talked about the usual things but also expressed who we are and how we think. To me it shows what we all need to keep in mind when writing letters. Truth honesty and openess. Zhen pretty much said everything in that paragraph about what she wants in a man. Luckily we both felt the same way.
Another response from me...
Ha my dear Zhen you have such a knack ( skill) for putting a smile on my face, your words light up my day. Ahh Zhen you are so sweet, and your words are so true, when I write to you I write with my heart and my feelings not just my head. Yes I agree inner beauty is the most treasured of all however it is the outer that first creates the attraction. The outer beauty is easy to see, but the inner, ahhh that is a journey worth making to see someone blossom in front of your eyes, to see and feel the layers of hurt and pain peel away to reveal the most tender and warm and loving heart beneath. That my dear Zhen is the true journey to the heart. That is the journey worth a lifetime of questing to make. That is why we have love. To share our innermost selves with the one person who makes us feel so treasured and loved and yet at the same time allows us to be free to be ourselves. Such a love is so rare in this world and so hard to find and yet it is such a worthy goal to strive for.
Ahh Zhen you are a woman of extraordinary beauty. You are correct though it is your inner self that is the most beautiful. After all when the surface beauty begins to fade and time marches on, that is when we feel our truest love. When the hearts and souls of two people join together for life, and walk that journey to the end of time that is when we know our deepest and truest love. Nothing can come between two hearts joined in such a way their love will be eternal.This is what I seek with all my heart. That deep and everlasting union of two hearts and souls and people.
Yea I know real mushy stuff but as I have said elsewhere, I do not think this stuff up it just flows from my fingers onto the page. Zhen pulls these words by her love for me and mine for her. They come out so effortlessly.
One last from her for this post this one was dated Aug 17th In a previous letter I said to her that we would put all our letters together in a book called the Romance of Zhen and Brian..
My love, I am so happy to know that I am the most beautiful lady in the world to you, he he, my love, I do feel so honored to be your beautiful Zhen, but I am sure you have the power to make me more beautiful, right? I always think of my Brian in my deep heart, he he, can you feel my burning heart for you?
My love, I am sure that I am so blessed to meet you here and I do dream of being with you in the future. I am so lucky to be with you and get your love
I am so happy that I wrote you without any hesitation when I found your profile here, and of course, we should thank the agency and the translator for their help for us, right? Just keep my words in your mind, my love, as long as you put your hands in mine, I will never let you go……I am so eager to see our book which having all of our love story in it……The Romance of Zhen and Brian, he he, so funny!
My love, I am your Zhen, and I will always be yours. I do love the feelings when you tease me, he he, I can see that you are so nice and kind and have such sense of humor
I am so honored and happy to have you in my life, and I am sure once we are together, we will have fun and make our life more colorful and meaningful……
and one last clip from my reply...
Wo ai ni my darling Zhen, wo xiang ni,
Yes my darling I made my tea ahead of time so that I could be with you with no interuptions. Have I said wo ai ni in my heart to you? Well dearest I have to tell you that I have been thinking about you all day today at work. Several times I was lost in your heart and forgot what I was supposed to be doing hehe, so yes my love you have completely captured me.
Yes my Zhen we shall finish our book, or at least volume one. Maybe it will end the night before our marriage. Then Volume 2 can be The Loving Life of Zhen and Brian. In volume one we shall put all of our love letters and all of the pictures we have sent back and forth to each other, and we shall present copies to your family and to mine so they will know how we came together.
Ahh my love it would be my honour to spend your birthday with you. I shall try to make it so. I will try to come for perhaps 3 weeks. While I understand that you must work and may only have one week for holiday, that is ok . I shall amuse myself in your fine city taking in the sights, and the culture. Then perhaps when you are not at work we can meet and dine together and do things in the moments that we can. Ah my love to be with you finally, to see your beautiful smiling face those wonderfull eyes, that long black hair which thrills me so. What more could a man ask for? To spend time with the only woman in his heart, to see her to hear her to touch her, hold her kiss her. Ahh now I think it is such a long time til October hehe.
So there you have it, a few snippets from the best seller (lol) The Romance of Zhen and Brian vol 1. It seems quite amazing to me as I go back and read these letters again how our tone and playfulness changed as the letters and our relationship developed. We had basically committed to each other before the end of week 3 and never looked back.
Regards,
Zhen and Brian
