Not wanting her to marry Lim Tian, he’s determined to find a way around the marriage. To complicate things, Tian Bai fancies Li, too. They claim that marrying Lim Tian is the only way to save the family and save his soul from eternal torment. Li wishes she could marry him instead, but the family forbids it. Handsome and kind, he is now the heir to the Lim estate. In the meantime, Li meets Lim Tian’s cousin, Tian Bai. Terrified, Li doesn’t know how to make him go away. He tells her that he is the only man for her and that she is nothing without him. Each night, he sneaks into her dreams and talks to her. She doesn’t want to live as a widow forever. His parents think that if he marries Li, he will be happier and will leave the family alone. Lim Tian haunts his family, refusing to rest in peace. Ghost brides are living women who marry dead men to appease their tormented spirits. The Lims want Li to become a ghost bride. They want her to marry their son, Lim Tian Ching. Finally, however, one family, the Lims, sees through her poverty.

Though she is pretty, she can’t bring any money to a potential marriage. Li’s only hope for a better future is to marry a wealthy man, but most men don’t want her because she doesn’t have a good dowry.

With only a little left of the family fortune, it’s only a matter of time before they fall into poverty. Unfortunately, her father, a once-successful businessman, is now a hardened drug addict. As a girl, Li isn’t expected to have her own career and she is entirely dependent on her family’s wealth. The Ghost Bride takes place in the British colonial port town of Malacca, Malaysia, in the late 1800s. The Ghost Bride is her first and most popular novel. A Chinese novelist who writes for both teenagers and adults, Choo graduated from Harvard University and worked as a management consultant. The Ghost Bride was nominated for numerous awards, including the 2014 Carnegie Medal and the 2014 Myopic Fantasy Award. The Ghost Bride (2013), a young adult paranormal fantasy by Yangsze Choo, centers on a young girl married to a ghost, who must save her dead husband’s soul before it is destroyed by other malevolent entities.

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