As the saying goes, “money hurts feelings”, when talking regarding marriage, “lions open their mouths” to ask for high prices or even sky-high gifts, and they break up at any time. Earlier, some netizens asked “What do you think of the girls in Jiangxi” on the mainland question-and-answer platform “Zhihu”. As a result, many “experienced people” shared that Jiangxi’s girlfriend’s family was required to pay over one million (RMB, the same below) gifts Add property, etc., and finally “release” his girlfriend’s experience. One example was extremely exaggerated. The victim, who was born in a middle-class family in Shanghai, was extorted by his wife’s family for hundreds of millions of yuan, including cash gifts of 18.88 million yuan and properties worth 45 million yuan. The victim directly pointed out that Jiangxi women’s gift money for marrying a daughter is “not capped at all, that is to say, Li Ka-shing and others will squeeze it all out.”
Earlier, a “2022 National Betrothal Gift Ranking” was circulated on the Internet, and Jiangxi topped the list with a gift amount of 380,000 yuan excluding buildings and cars. The victim said that his girlfriend is from Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province. She is an only child. They met and fell in love with each other when they were studying in the United States. During the COVID-19 epidemic, they even depended on each other in New York. He felt that “love is priceless” and that “she is the woman I want to spend my whole life with.” , and returned to Shanghai to work together following graduation and were planning to get married.
Although the victim had heard regarding Jiangxi’s exorbitant gift money, he thought he might afford it. He planned to give 1 million yuan in cash gift money, add the woman’s name to the property in the city center under his name, and even buy another house in the place where the woman’s parents live, but he never did. Thinking of the conditions offered by the girlfriend’s parents, it actually included 18.88 million cash gifts, 45 million worth of property in the victim’s name (the victim’s parents bought it in full) to transfer to the woman’s name, and buying a residential unit in the woman’s place for the daughter to live in when she went back to visit relatives (estimated Millions of dollars), hundreds of relatives each paid 100,000 yuan as a “change fee”, Ritz-Carlton hotel weddings, relatives going to Shanghai to watch the ceremony must fly first class, and each child is required to be rewarded with 10 million $20 million in cash and a property worth not less than $20 million.
The girlfriend complained regarding the victim: To marry a wife is to spend most of his net worth
The father of the victim’s girlfriend also threatened, “I know how much money your family has, and what I want is only a quarter or a fifth of what your family gave out. Don’t you even want to pay for this?” How much property and how many properties a family has, they keep saying “it depends on your sincerity”.
The victim revealed that his assets were overestimated by the other party, and he also emphasized to the family that he would not ask his parents to pay the money, and “countered the price” according to the original budget. As a result, he was scolded, “If you don’t give enough gift money, you won’t cherish it”, “My daughter married outside You must have security without the support of your mother’s family”, etc. Even my girlfriend fully agrees with her parents’ request, criticizing “the biggest problem with you Shanghainese people is that you care regarding it”, “you don’t look like you are asking for marriage”, and think that “a man marrying a wife is to hurt his muscles and bones Take out most of the family’s wealth”, “Isn’t it better to take out the money in your parents’ hands earlier through the bride price?”
The victim said that following arguing with his girlfriend many times over gift money, he moved back to his parents’ house, and following that, Shanghai was locked down for three months. After unblocking, they broke up in July last year, emphasizing that “they will never get back together in this life.”
Netizens expressed shock at the victim’s experience, “Even if he is the God of Wealth, he can’t stand it” and “Marrying a celebrity is enough.” Some netizens even ridiculed, “100 million doesn’t matter whether you are worthy of it or not. If you can invent a special drug for the new crown, a billion gift is not too much.” Some netizens thought, “It’s so sad. My daughter is being used by her parents as a money-making tool without knowing it. Instead of resisting, she acquiesced to her parents’ values.”
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/China/Women’s family asked for 18.88 million gift money and other total value of hundreds of millions-Shanghai middle-class men denounced-Li Ka-shing was drained-/356808?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
