‘Poverty limits my imagination’: ‘Show-off’ groom uses armoured car to deliver RM6.45mil in cash and gold bars as betrothal gift


As well as cash and gold bars, groom lavishes his bride-to-be with luxury watches and expensive jewellery. Social media observers shocked by latest example of extravagant ‘bride price’ phenomenon in China. — SCMP

A viral video of a Chinese man arriving at his engagement ceremony with an armoured vehicle loaded with 9.98mil yuan (RM6.45mil or US$1.4mil) in cash – plus gold bars – as betrothal gifts has astonished mainland social media.

The extravagance did not end there as the bride-to-be was also showered with luxury watches and expensive jewellery.

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