Because Duke Chen had long wanted to break off the engagement.
The marriage between the Qin and Chen families was a political alliance from the start, with both sides seeking to expand their power and influence. Yet the later Qin Hu had turned out to be little more than a dissolute wastrel, practically useless in every way—a disgrace to the Marquis of Champions' estate.
One had to remember that through the generations, every Marquis of Champions had been a heroic figure wielding incomparable influence within the military. But this generation had produced a good-for-nothing who had never even set foot on a battlefield.
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