It was during college. Nguyen Minh Chau, an exchange student from Vietnam, was the one who approached me first.

At first, I just thought she was a pretty foreign student.

However, the scale of her spending every time we went on a date was so different that I just assumed her family had a bit of money.

Right before Minh Chau was set to return to Vietnam after graduation, she proposed to me.

"Let's get married."

I couldn't answer easily.

My family was poor, and I hadn't even found a job yet.

Let alone marriage, even finding a decent place to live in Korea felt overwhelming.

To me, Minh Chau said calmly, as if it were nothing.

"Oppa, if you're worried about money, don't be."

"Why?"

"Because my family can take care of everything."

At that time, I didn't know what those words meant.

I went to Vietnam for the first time in my life, and only then did I realize something was unusual.

At the wedding, a long line of business tycoons and famous figures—people I thought I'd never see in my life—showed up one after another.

We began our newlywed life in a super-luxurious mansion.