Sky-High Bride PriceChapter 1
After my boyfriend and I got engaged, he reported me to the police. He accused me of demanding an exorbitant bride price. When the police approached me, I returned the 18,800 dollars bride price without hesitation.
In my previous life, because of my obsession with my boyfriend, I endlessly argued with the police about the bride price when they came to inquire. In front of everyone, I insisted that my boyfriend wouldn't report me over such a small amount of money and claimed the police made a mistake.
My mother, who had a heart condition, chose to believe me and fought for me with reason. In the end, when my boyfriend showed up, he pointed at me and yelled, "Gold-digger! Raising the price at will!"
The bystanders assumed we had taken an exorbitant amount of bride price and accused my mother of 'selling her daughter.' My mother, infuriated, suffered a heart attack and passed away.
Even though I had returned the bride price, Mrs. Royce still berated me relentlessly as a gold-digging scammer at my mother's funeral.
In the end, during the funeral, amid everyone's condemnation, I was pushed and hit my head on my mother's tombstone, bleeding profusely. I died confused, right in front of my mother's grave.
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In this life, my boyfriend successfully reclaimed the bride price, as he wished and my mother, calmed by my persuasion, didn't suffer a heart attack.
However, not long after, he knelt and begged me to accept 188,800 dollars in bride price along with all his assets. The surrounding murmurs and the buzzing voices startled me awake.
The suffocating pain of losing my loved one and the piercing agony of my fractured skull felt vivid as ever. I clutched my chest, trying to calm myself.
"Miss Reed? Miss Reed?" Looking at the familiar-faced police officer in front of me, I realized I had been reborn. Reborn on the very day Thomas Royce reported me for demanding an exorbitant bride price.
I remembered that before long, the noise from the quarrel would wake my mother, who was resting. And then, to defend me, she would join this absurd farce.
To prevent my mother from being disturbed, I swiftly opened WhatsApp and transferred 18,800 dollars to Thomas in front of the police. I thought that would be the end of it.