Because Duke Chen had long wanted to call off the engagement.
The Qin and Chen families were in a political marriage to begin with, and both sides wanted to grow more powerful. But the later Qin Hu turned out to be little more than a dissolute wastrel, practically dragging the Marquis of Champion's estate through the mud.
One had to remember that through the generations, every Marquis of Champion had been a heroic figure with peerless influence in the military. Yet this generation had produced a good-for-nothing who had never even set foot on a battlefield.
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