A young student married a 79-year-old woman: everyone was shocked until they learned the real reason behind this strange wedding 

When the 22-year-old student appeared at the registry office arm in arm with the 79-year-old woman, a dead silence fell over the room. The bride’s white dress was neatly ironed, she wore a veil on her head, and on her lips was a restrained, slightly guilty smile. The groom, dressed in a dark suit, looked tense but determined.

Whispers were already heard behind them. Relatives, friends, and passersby who had come for their own ceremonies couldn’t hold back their giggles.

— “Is this a joke?”
— “Is he marrying for the apartment?”
— “He’s probably mentally ill…”

The groom’s mother tried at the last moment to persuade her son to change his mind:

— “Son, think again. She’s almost 80! This isn’t normal!”

But the young man was unwavering. He looked at the bride with a strange, almost painful respect.

The wedding took place. Without music. Without a special ceremony. Only the dry words of the registrar, applause from a few random witnesses, and flashes from journalists’ cameras who had already caught wind of this “shocking love.”

A day passed, two, a week. The bride no longer appeared in public. The groom neither. No one knew where they lived. But then something very frightening was revealed, and it became clear why the young man married the old lady… 

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A month later, a short note appeared in the local newspaper: “Anna K. died, recently married to a young student.” The cause of death was listed as “heart attack in sleep.” The student did not attend the funeral.

But then something happened that terrified everyone.

One of the professors at the law faculty where the young groom studied accidentally dropped this in conversation:

— “He was writing a paper on ‘How to bypass a will and inherit property without being a relative.’ He was interested in all ways of obtaining inheritance, even rare legal loopholes…”

Journalists started digging. It turned out Anna K. was the sole owner of a huge plot of land in the city center — land many developers had tried to buy for years. But she always refused to sell.

After her death, all rights to the plot suddenly passed to the young widower — according to a carefully drafted marriage contract.

A month later, the plot was sold for 47 million. The widower disappeared.