1. The Doubled Bride Price and My Vicious Mother-in-Law
My name is Bai Jianwei. I'm twenty-five and work as a construction supervisor in the city, earning six thousand yuan a month. I've been dating a woman named Chen Xiao for three years. She's my high school classmate: gentle, sensible, and hardworking. She's the woman I've decided to marry. We've been together for three years, from school uniforms to the workplace. We made it through a long-distance relationship and endured the hard times, and at last we were ready to get engaged. My parents emptied their retirement savings so I could marry Chen Xiao, then borrowed money from every relative they could, scraping together a bride price of 188,800 yuan. In our small county town,
