After 24 tireless years of searching, a Chinese couple has finally been reunited with their daughter who vanished without a trace when she was just three-years-old.
In 1994, Wang Mingqing and Liu Dengying were selling fruit at a busy stand in the city of Chengdu with their daughter Qifeng. Mr Mingqing went to a neighbouring stall for a moment to find change for a customer, but when he returned Qifeng was gone.
The heartbroken parents never gave up the search for their missing daughter. As the BBC reports, the pair took up regular advertisements, ran online appeals and Mr Wang even took a job as a taxi driver in 2015.
Mr Wang gave out cards with Qifeng’s details to every passenger he picked up and stuck a large notice about his daughter on his rear window.
“One day, my daughter may just be the person sitting in my car!” he said, according to local reports.
His plan gained national attention. There was finally a breakthrough in 2017 when an image drawn by a police sketch artist was circulated online.
Kang Ying, a woman who had been raised by adopted parents after being found on the side of the road, spotted the picture—and thought it looked a lot like herself.
According to The Independent, Miss Ying reached out to Mr Yang. She cried after learning she had many of the Qifeng’s traits, including a small forehead scar A DNA test confirmed she was indeed the girl who went missing 24 years ago.
At last, her parents’ heartwrenching search was over.
“I can’t tell you how much hope, disappointment and despair we have gone through these past 24 years,” Mr Wang told Beijing Youth Daily. “Now we can finally meet again.”
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