There's a topic circulating online recently called "30x leverage shorting your bestie."

It's very simple. She herself gets married first, receiving 10,000 yuan in bride price, but tells her bestie she received 300,000 when asked.

Then she even flatters her bestie, implying that if someone as unimpressive as herself can get 300,000, her excellent bestie certainly shouldn't settle for less.

Some women foolishly believe this and make outrageous demands of their boyfriends or fiancés.

The one "shorting her bestie" enjoys her married life while watching her bestie search for a man who can pay a 300,000 yuan bride price.

The rhetoric that "it's best to have children after 40" is part of a coordinated strategy used in conjunction with the "30x leverage" concept.

When that bestie struggles into her thirties, gets anxious, and wants to lower her standards, she (the shorter) sweet-talks her again, saying it's best to have children after 40.

The bestie believes it again upon hearing this, gradually becoming a forty-year-old, overly confident middle-aged woman demanding a 300,000 yuan bride price from everyone.