My Sister and I Got Married on the Same Day,No One Came to Bless Me

In our town, Willow Creek, marrying off a daughter comes with a custom we call the wedding-blessing toast.

The night before the wedding, the closest family gathers around one table, and each of them adds a treasure to the bride's dowry chest.

My cousin and I were being married off on the same day.

The night before, my uncle's house next door blazed with light, three full tables packed with relatives.

My mother took the jade bracelet she'd saved her whole life and set it into my cousin's dowry chest, her eyes red as she said, "Our girl is going to leave this house in style."