Chinese → English transcript

I am thirty this year, but I still haven’t married.

My two hundred thousand yuan bride price has been completely lost.

And what I lost is not just that two hundred thousand.

Three years ago, my boyfriend’s family gave me a two hundred thousand yuan bride price.

I treated that two hundred thousand yuan bride price as more important than anything.

I treated it as the start-up fund for our little family and put it in savings.

But my boyfriend did not see it that way.

He got into Bitcoin.

He saw people making a lot of money with it.

He wanted to turn two hundred thousand into five hundred thousand.

Then turn five hundred thousand into one million to achieve financial freedom.

At first, I absolutely refused to agree.

Because I am a down-to-earth person too.

I just wanted to live an honest, steady life.

But I could not withstand his constant persuasion.

In the end, I wavered too.

So I withdrew the two hundred thousand and took it out to trade coins.

And guess what happened.

In one week, two hundred thousand became almost three hundred thousand.

We totally went crazy at that time.

It felt like financial freedom was right in front of us.

At that time, all our sense of risk

And caution were completely thrown out the window.

So we started scraping money together.

We put all our savings into it.

And added several hundred thousand more.

And we were no longer satisfied with just buying spot.

Idle money was coming in too slowly.

We started buying all kinds of small coins.

Adding leverage.

Playing contracts.

When God wants to destroy someone,

He first makes them go mad.

When we started getting carried away,

That was when the market came to harvest us.

We began getting liquidated again and again.

Adding margin,

Then getting liquidated again,

Then adding more margin.

From several hundred thousand to a one million investment.

I still remember that last night we were liquidated.

My whole body went numb.

My mind was completely blank.

I hid in my room.

I did not dare say a word to anyone.

I did not dare think about the future at all.

In a little over a year,

Not only did we lose my two hundred thousand yuan bride price,

We also lost all of our savings.

My life came to a crossroads.

I want to ask all the girls,

And I also want to ask all the guys,

When a mistake is made out of greed,

Our relationship is still there,

But the money is all gone.

This marriage—

Can we still go through with it?