A Friend Who Loved to Give Him Trouble

Jiang Wang thought for a while, then said, "Huaying Palace Mistress should understand."

Yan Fu smiled wryly. "My engagement to a Liu girl was supposed to have been called off long ago. But the Fufeng Liu Clan still hasn't changed the designated heir. They say Liu Xuanhu has been working hard at his cultivation and will soon break through, and so on... The Yan Family couldn't very well go to their door and press them. And so things dragged on."

Yan Fu was a gentle, easygoing man. He hadn't said certain things outright, but they weren't hard to imagine.

The Liu Clan's head was unwilling to change the designated heir. He kept pushing his younger son, Liu Xuanhu, to one exhausting task after another, while clinging to the engagement with the Yan Family. Perhaps he hoped to use the Yan Family's influence to shore up his own branch.

The engagement probably wouldn't even be brought up for cancellation until the day the Liu Clan finally changed its designated heir.

What happened next was easy enough to understand.

Yan Fu hadn't officially ended the engagement, but anyone with eyes could see it was only a matter of time. If Huaying Palace Mistress hadn't stirred things up this time, many people wouldn't even have known Yan Fu had once been engaged to a Liu girl.

With Yan Fu's prospects, he certainly had no shortage of marriage prospects. Nor was the Yan Family's household above arranging an alliance through marriage. So Old Master Yan found another family for his grandson. That was why Chongxuan Sheng had told Jiang Wang in the Great Void Illusion Realm before the New Year that Yan Fu was about to be married off in a political alliance.

In truth, even Chongxuan Sheng hadn't known Yan Fu had once