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As soon as Chloe entered the door, she rushed straight to the bedroom to pack her clothes, unable to hide her excitement.
“Honey, our company has arranged a sudden HR training. I have to go on a business trip
tomorrow!”
“Oh? For how many days?”
“Just two days.”
I pretended to ask her: “Baby, did you forget? Tomorrow is Saturday, and we had planned to have dinner with your parents.”
Chloe was busy selecting clothes from a pile and didn’t even look up.
“We can have dinner anytime, but I can’t miss this training opportunity!”
I smirked inwardly, thinking this was the perfect chance I’d been waiting for.
She and that adulterer were quite cunning, going to great lengths for their secret
rendezvous.
The adulterer, fearing his wife might inquire at the company, had actually arranged a real business trip for himself.
But he would leave on Friday and return on Saturday.
As for Chloe, she lied to me about a business trip, but actually planned to spend the entire weekend fooling around with her lover in a hotel.
I found the hotel booking information in her phone’s text messages.
With Greg’s every move now under his wife’s scrutiny, even booking a hotel room had to be done by Chloe herself.
She had bought an extremely sexy lingerie set at some point and secretly stuffed it into
her suitcase.
She had never even worn this lingerie for me.
The next day, Chloe refused to let me drive her to the train station, and I didn’t insist
White her words expressed reluctance to leave me, her heart had already run off, eag meet her lover as soon as possible.
After she left, I didn’t sit idle. I bought a few gifts and first went to visit Chloe’s parent
Their home was less than a two hours‘ drive from the city. Neither of her parents had proper jobs, and they had a son, Chloe’s brother, who was unemployed and spent all day playing video games.
“Uncle, Auntle, Chloe doesn’t know I’m here today. Actually… I’m planning to propose to her”
Her mom and dad exchanged a glance, their smiles not particularly warm: “Lucas, you and Chloe have been dating for over a year, and it is indeed time to talk about marriage. B marriage is no small matter.”
I quickly said: “I understand. Marriage needs to be discussed properly between both families. Don’t worry, Chloe is a wonderful girl, and my family will definitely show enough sincerity in marrying her”
Her father’s eyes scanned the gifts I had brought: “As parents, we don’t ask for much. We just hope our daughter can find an understanding family who values her and treats her well.”
That sounds nice, but what do they mean by “understanding” and “valuing“? Isn’t it just about how much bride price the groom’s family can offer?
Chloe’s parents had asked her more than once how much bride price my family could offer for the wedding.
I had already Inquired about this.
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In Chloe’s area, the usual bride price ranged from 66,000 to 88,000 yuan, which wasn’t
considered excessive.
But if it were just this amount, her parents wouldn’t be beating around the bush with me
now.
I smiled: “Uncle, you’re absolutely right. Please rest assured, the bride price from my family will definitely be more than others. I guarantee Chloe won’t lose out compared to anyone else.”
Hearing my ambiguous response, her father cleared his throat.
Her mother took the cue: “Lucas, my daughter has a bachelor’s degree and is beautiful You probably don’t know, but even though I’ve told people Chloe has a boyfriend, matchmakers keep coming to our house one after another to introduce potential partners for her. Last month, our neighbor’s daughter got married, and her conditions were far inferior to Chloe’s, yet the groom’s family still gave a bride price of 200,000 yuan!”
I slowly said: “Auntie, my family will offer a bride price of 500,000 yuan.”
“H–how much?”
“500,000 yuan.”
“500,000 yuan!”
Her mother was so shocked she almost jumped up.
