"I don't think so. I'm his sister and since he only has me in his life. I have the responsibility to look after him and give the house to him. I think that is the right thing to do. Besides, I can live with you in the future."
Carla put on a shy smile and lowered her head to appear sweet and innocent. Whereas in actual fact, she was choosing her words carefully to deliberately make Ronnie dislike her.
Then she added, "After we are married, you will buy us a new house, right? Before my mother died, she told me that the bridegroom should pay a handsome bride price to my family.
It won't cost you too much money, and you will just need to offer 199, 999. But if you can't afford that amount of money, then I won't marry you."
Ronnie was so shocked by the amount of money that she was asking for, that he choked on his tea and even spat it out of his mouth.
"What's wrong, Mr. Luo? Are you all right?"
Carla blinked innocently at him and handed him a tissue.
With a straight face, Ronnie took the tissue from Carla and wiped the tea from his face and the table.
"Miss Ji, with all due respect, why do you still ask for a bride price when your parents have passed away?
It will just increase our burden."
Carla made a sad face and retorted, "What do you mean? Do you think that I should just let others walk all over me because I have no parents?"
"No, no, no. I didn't mean that at all. I just think that the bride price is just too much. I'm just an ordinary office worker, so I couldn't afford that much money. Well, if you really want to marry me. I will reduce the bride price to just 50, 000. What do you think?"
Since they were getting down to the nitty-gritty side of things, Ronnie thought it was best to be open and blunt about his feelings and thoughts.
After all, he was looking for a woman to marry, so these problems should be nipped in the bud from the very start.
"Besides, I think it would be a better idea to leave your house to our future son. This would ease the burden on us in the future. Don't you think so as well?"
Carla was amused and lowered her head to appear bashful once again, but she did it more so to hide the smile on her face. She had to bite her lower lip hard to stop herself from laughing out loud. Once she had composed herself she made a serious expression and looked up again.
"No, I don't agree with that at all. I have already decided to give two houses to my brother. As for you and me, we can live together in your house.
Besides, I can go to work as well and when we earn enough money, we can buy a new house for ourselves.
The bride price will show just how sincere you really are. What better way to show that than with money, the most practical and useful commodity in the world. So I really think that you should be very generous with your offer when we get married."
After hearing Carla's thoughts, Ronnie suddenly became restless.
In the beginning, he thought since Carla had no parents, he wouldn't have to pay so much money on the bride price. However, he didn't expect Carla to be so demanding and ask for so much for herself and her brother. What was worse, he couldn't even get one of her two houses. He wasn't happy with her ideas at all.
"Well, Miss Ji, you are quite arrogant and are not in tune with the reality of your situation.
You are just a poor girl from a poor family. You should feel very fortunate to have found a man like me. So why do you still bring up so many requirements, given your situation?"
Ronnie uttered, with a sullen expression on his face. Then he abruptly stood up and said, "I have some other matters to deal with, so I need to leave now. The meal is on me."
"Hey, Mr. Luo, don't leave! We can stay here a bit longer and discuss it further,"
Carla called out to him without bothering to even stand up.
After seeing Ronnie leave so quickly, she relaxed and burst out laughing. Shaking her head with a smile on her face, she picked up the chopsticks and began to eat the food.
Now she had a good appetite and could eat in peace.
While Carla had her head lowered eating her food, she noticed a dark shadow in front of her. When she looked up and saw a man dressed in black standing before her, she was startled and jumped in her seat a little.
"Mr. Noah!"
He took the seat up opposite her. Noah had watched from afar how Carla toyed with her blind date and watched as the man stormed out of the restaurant in a huff.
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