India, Dec. 8 -- A Chinese woman who was rescued as a child from the debris of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake has married the soldier who pulled her to safety.

The remarkable story surfaced on November 29 in Changsha, Hunan province, during the Fifth Annual Han style Collective Wedding Ceremony where 37 couples gathered to wed. As reported by South China Morning Post, the couple, Liang Zhibin and Liu Ximei, shared a love story that began more than 15 years ago in extraordinary circumstances.

In 2008, when the Wenchuan earthquake struck, 22-year-old Liang was serving as a soldier deployed for emergency rescue operations. Liu, then only ten, was trapped on the second floor of a collapsed building, pinned beneath steel bars and bricks...