After all, the successive Champions Marquises had all been heroes with incomparable influence in the military. Yet this generation had produced a good-for-nothing who had never even set foot on a battlefield.
While the old Marquis was still alive, the Duke of Chen had kept up appearances, but the moment the old Marquis died, the Duke had turned ruthless, going so far as to publicly call off the marriage engagement right in the mourning hall.
Qin Hu, however, was deeply in love with Chen Ruoli and stubbornly refused to agree, while Chen Ruoli had long since grown utterly disgusted with this wicked young lord.
Chapter 707