A week before the wedding, I heard my boyfriend in the bathroom asking DeepSeek: “My girlfriend of ten years wants 88,000 yuan in bride price. Isn’t that too much?” “Why give her any bride price? Stand your ground! Don’t give her a single cent!” his older sister replied. I froze, then laughed until I cried. I was bringing a Beijing household registration, a courtyard house, and a Porsche as my dowry, and I’d even get him a job after we married. Fine! I wanted to see whether any woman besides me would marry this penniless “three-nothing man,” with a monthly salary of just 5,000 yuan and no house, car, or savings, for a bride price of only 88,000 yuan!
