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Friend: You should get married someday. You seem like the type.
Me: Why?
Friend: So you can give us red pockets. 🧧Married people are supposed to give them out.
Just now:
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hmm hopefully your friend was only joking.
She was hehehe
ah hehe.
You could be asking the same of her then.
Can confirm, have received these at Chinese(ish) weddings.
The time I was Best Man at such a wedding, I probably broke even - which is saying something as I spent a fair bit on that wedding (good friends).
[Chinese(ish) because not all the couples were actually Chinese. The Best Man one was Malaysian; another wedding was Singaporean]