24-year-old pop star romantically, grossly linked to 12-year-old model

We've all heard of guys dating girls half their age, but 24-year-old Chinese pop star Zhang Muyi has taken it to icky extremes: He's publicly declared his love for Canadian model/singer Akama Miki, who's just 12. The pair have posted lovesick messages to each other on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, where each has hundreds of thousands of followers. "Wait until I'm old enough to marry you, and then I'm going to say 'I do,'" Miki swooned in one post. Muyi later wrote this creepy message to her: "I simply can't wait for these next four birthdays of yours to pass, I'm counting down each one." There's no suggestion the pair's relationship is physical, and some have suggested it's just a publicity stunt. Surely there are better ways to make headlines. [Source]

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