Throughout history, every Champion Marquess had been a legendary hero wielding incomparable influence within the military. Yet this generation had produced a worthless good-for-nothing who had never even set foot on a battlefield.
While the old Marquess was still alive, Duke Chen had kept up appearances. But the moment the old Marquess died, Duke Chen discarded all pretense of mercy, staging a brutal cancellation of the engagement right there in the mourning hall.
However, Qin Hu was deeply in love with Chen Ruoli and stubbornly refused to call it off, whereas Chen Ruoli had long since grown utterly disgusted with him as a notorious scoundrel.
Chapter 1038