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After Gao Yanpeng left, Xiao Ruo helped Jhiang Jiaxue sit down and asked, "Sister Jhiang, why did the Tang family call off the engagement? What exactly happened?"
In Xilin Country, it's usually the man who initiates breaking off an engagement, because once the engagement is broken, the woman's reputation is ruined. It becomes very difficult to find a good match again, and some might even end up as second wives, or worse, as concubines.
Even if Tang Shengqian is the Governor of Yincheng, there's no way he and his wife would treat their daughter's marriage as a joke, right?
"It's a long story." Jhiang Jiaxue's expression was hard to read, a mix of exhaustion and anger: "If there's anyone to blame, it's myself for accepting a student with bad intentions!"
