"Just buy a jade bracelet that costs a few hundred to a thousand bucks."
Xu Lin actually thought there was no need to bother with gifts, but if he had to, a cheap one would suffice. According to Rong Xiyi's way of thinking, she might go for gifts worth tens of thousands, or even more, like a whole package of jewelry, cosmetics, the lot.
But that really wasn't necessary, because giving something too expensive would make it awkward for mom to reciprocate.
As the saying goes, courtesy demands reciprocity. If someone gives your kid a red envelope with a thousand bucks, you also have to give them back a similar amount—you can't just fob them off with a red envelope worth dozens of bucks. So Xu Lin thought it was better to go with something cheap to make it easier.
Although he felt gifts were entirely unnecessary, now both women insisted on exchanging gifts.
"Only a few hundred bucks, that cheap?"
