Quick Transmigration Hoarding: My Selfishness Leads to a Killing Frenzy

Chapter 397 The Phoenix Man's Scheme 1

"Baby, how much dowry is your family planning to give you?"

Qingmo glanced at the man driving. He seemed to have brought up the topic casually, but upon closer inspection, her fingers gripping the steering wheel tightened slightly, indicating that he cared a lot about her answer.

Qingmo lowered her eyelashes, the neon lights outside the car window were flashing, and she took out her phone to take a look.

It's 10 p.m., and her phone's screensaver is still a photo of her and the man in front of her.

"Dowry?" she repeated softly, her index and middle fingers curling into an arc, unconsciously rubbing against her thumb.

"So...how much dowry are you planning to give?"

Upon hearing this, the man's face showed a hint of unease, and he said evasively, "It's just a token amount for my family, maybe twenty or thirty thousand."

"Oh! Is that so? Then tell your parents that they work hard to earn money, so I won't ask for the bride price. Let them keep it."

A hint of surprise flashed in the man's eyes, followed by a slightly embarrassed expression. "Baby, you're so kind. As for the dowry..."

Qingmo's lips curled into a barely perceptible smile as she interrupted him, saying, "Since you don't want the bride price, there's naturally no dowry either."

The man's expression changed instantly, and he said anxiously, "If you don't bring a dowry, how will we live in the future? I'll be under so much pressure all by myself."

“Didn’t you say your family would give you a dowry of 28.8 yuan plus a car? I’ve thought about it. The car doesn’t need to be too expensive. A Land Rover will do. It’ll make me look good when I pick you up from get off work every day.”

zZz, that's very well said.

Love is not up to you, unless you drive a Land Rover. He'll fulfill his dreams, and marrying a rich woman will save you from suffering.

So, he wants to get married without spending a penny, and even more so, he wants to help his whole family rise above their social class, while she's the one who's here to help the poor.

Qingmo chuckled lightly, her eyes full of mockery.

"Heh, I think your Wuling Hongguang is fine, there's no need to change cars. Isn't it great that we're having a simple wedding without any special amenities?"

"No way." In a fit of anger, he slammed on the brakes and pulled over to the side of the road, wanting to have a serious talk with her.

The man, enraged, retorted: "How could you do this? You didn't want the bride price, so how can you not give a dowry? Our family never said we didn't want a dowry."

"Mu Qiuqiu, don't be unreasonable. You must give me a dowry, otherwise my parents will not agree to let you into the family."

"Tsk tsk tsk, your family is really good at calculating. You want to exchange tens of thousands of yuan in betrothal gifts for hundreds of thousands of yuan in dowry and a luxury car? Do you think I'm the one who's sick or you are?"

The man's face flushed red, clearly his thoughts had been exposed, yet he still stubbornly tried to deny it:

"How could you think like that? I'm just thinking about our future. Besides, dowry is a tradition. You're your parents' only daughter, shouldn't they be planning more for you?"

“Tradition?” Qingmo sneered, her eyes turning completely cold. “Brother, don’t try to use your sister’s class distinctions. I’ve always looked down on poor people like you.”

Qingmo opened the car door and got out without looking back. She hailed a taxi on the roadside and quickly got in.

"Where?"

"Keep driving forward."

In that short time, Qingmo simply closed her eyes and absorbed the plot.

The original owner, Mu Qiuqiu, was an only child from a wealthy family in the city. She wasn't exactly rich, but her family owned three houses, and her parents had several hundred thousand yuan in savings.

She was her parents' only daughter, so she was naturally pampered and spoiled as she grew up. Everything in the family would be left to her in the future.

I met Sun Mingyang, a young man from the countryside, when I was in college.

He is down-to-earth, honest, diligent and eager to learn, and is a good student in the eyes of his teachers, excelling in both character and academics.

The family is poor and they need to rely on scholarships to live, and they also need to work part-time during holidays.

For the first two years of his university life, Sun Mingyang devoted almost all his time to studying and working.

At six o'clock in the morning, while his other roommates were still fast asleep, he had already quietly gotten up and gone to the library to reserve a seat.

At 10 p.m., while those stinky boys were playing games and chatting in the dorm, he had just returned from the convenience store, still holding half a loaf of bread for dinner.

It was precisely this kind of person who attracted the original owner of the body, Mu Qiuqiu.

She felt that he was different from those flashy men, so she took the initiative to pursue him.

After they got together, Sun Mingyang was always meticulous and considerate towards her, always attentive to her needs. Except for the fact that she was short of money, he would grant her almost any request.

He can do anything that doesn't require money, but he can't solve anything that does require money.

His romantic gesture was that he would give the original owner gifts that he made himself.

For example: sew a bag from his old, torn jeans!

He sewed a heart-shaped face mask onto his undershirt!

He made butterfly hair clips out of his socks!!!

At once…

Sisters, where are you laughing? I'm laughing in Hunan.

I've never seen someone so impoverished yet so refreshingly unique, but the original owner was absolutely smitten with him.

After they got together, Sun Mingyang, on the grounds that he was afraid she would spend money recklessly, asked her to give him 3,000 yuan of living expenses to keep, while he kept 500 yuan. The two of them ate coarse food every day.

They call it saving money so I can support you in the future.

The original owner was like she'd been manipulated; she believed everything he said.

Since they got together, she has been wearing clothes that cost no more than fifty yuan each, and every time she wants to drink an extra cup of milk tea, he will scold her with his eyes.

Then her devoted boyfriend bought a case of milk tea powder from a group-buying website to make it for her, and she drank it without making a sound.

Although Sun Mingyang strictly required the original owner not to spend money recklessly, he was happier than anyone else to receive the gifts that the original owner bought for him, which cost hundreds or thousands of yuan.

The original owner's parents were unaware of these matters until after he graduated from university, when the original owner introduced him to them.

Mu's parents naturally disagreed, but the original owner was determined to be with him.

Even though her parents clearly told her that she shouldn't marry a man from a poor background, a woman in love won't listen to anything.

After working for two years, the two quickly reached the point of discussing marriage. They initially agreed on a dowry of 188,000 yuan, with the Sun family making a down payment on a house and the renovations going to the woman.

The bride's dowry was 28.8 yuan, and she also brought a car to her home.

The Mu family parents didn't care about any of this; they only asked that Sun Mingyang treat the original owner well.

Sun Mingyang also made numerous promises to them, saying that he would definitely treat the original owner well.

However, before the wedding, the original owner became pregnant, but she didn't know that Sun Mingyang had deliberately punctured the baby's diaper and was happily fantasizing about it.

As a result, the Sun family's expression changed immediately upon learning of her pregnancy.

The bride price suddenly dropped from 188,000 to 28,000.

The reason is that they bought a house and have no money left. They still need to borrow money from relatives for the bride price, but they really can't borrow any more now.

Although the original owner was angry, she endured it all when she thought about her relationship with Sun Mingyang and the child in her womb.

Despite her parents' objections, she married him.

However, married life was not as happy as she had imagined.

Sun's parents came to the city from the countryside and lived with them. The original owner, who was pregnant, not only had to take care of the family of three, but also had to go to work every day.

Sun Mingyang gave all his monthly salary to his mother, and the original owner was responsible for all the mortgage payments and living expenses.

In short, you're rich, aren't you? You have 28.8.

After the child was born and the money was spent, they encouraged the original owner to go back to her parents' home to ask for more.

When the child grows up, he'll want a house in a good school district, so they're urging the original owner to go back and ask for one.

Step by step, they squeezed all the value out of the original owner—money, house, car—everything became the Sun family's, because they married a gold nugget.

When he reached middle age, Sun Mingyang got a promotion and a raise, and with some money in hand, he dumped the original owner and married a new love.

And what was the original owner?

She was always just a tool for him to climb the social ladder.

This allowed him, a young man from the countryside, to gradually settle down in the city and build his own home.