Because Duke Chen had long wanted to break off the engagement with him.
The marriage between the Qin and Chen families was fundamentally a political alliance, with both sides looking to grow stronger and more influential. But the later Qin Hu, apart from being a dissolute spendthrift, was practically useless—he had practically brought complete disgrace upon the Champion Marquis's Mansion.
One must bear in mind that throughout successive generations, the Champions Marquises had all been heroic figures with incomparable influence in the military. Yet in this generation, it had produced a good-for-nothing who had never even set foot on a battlefield.
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