My boyfriend and I conspired to cheat our families. He inflated the bride price, and I inflated the dowry, all to enrich our secret stash. However, just before the Lunar New Year this year, our parents bumped into each other on the street and started talking about it. They checked the accounts and discovered the discrepancies. We're both in our twenties, one working and the other about to graduate with a master's degree—adults—and we were both beaten by our own parents.