Gu Chen emptied his family's savings to pay a 500,000-yuan betrothal gift and a 2-million-yuan wedding house for his girlfriend Lin Xiao—his mother Cai Shufen even concealed her terminal liver cancer diagnosis and contributed her entire 300,000-yuan pension fund to support the marriage. On the wedding day, urged by her best friend Ye Man and her mother Li Caifa, Lin Xiao demanded a 288,000-yuan 'getting-out-of-the-car' gift—and forced Cai Shufen to kneel before she would step out of the car.
