Still, that doesn't mean that love can't be expressed. In a separate article, China Daily spoke to Zhao Mengmeng, a 31-year-old woman who said she had never told her father she loved him face-to-face ("I find it a bit odd"). Sometimes actions speak louder than words, however — Zhao gave her father, a photo album featuring photographs of them together on almost every one of her birthdays in June 2017. The pictures went viral online, being forwarded hundreds of thousands of times on Weibo.

然而这并不是说爱就无法表达。在另一篇文章中，《中国日报》采访了31岁的赵萌萌，她说她从来没当面对她爸爸说过她爱他。（“我觉得那样会怪怪的”）。但有时行动胜于言辞——赵萌萌在2017年六月送给了她爸爸一个相册，里面装满了他们两人在她每年生日时的合影。照片在网上火了起来，在微博上被转发了几十万次。

"I didn't sleep the night I heard about it," her father told China Daily after the story attracted mainstream attention. "I have now memorized some of the comments on the collection of pictures."

“当我知道时，我一晚上没睡，” 在这件事受到了主流媒体的关注后，她爸爸这样告诉记者。“现在我还能记起一些照片下面的评论。”

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