The marriage arrangement between the Han Family and the Tu family was never called off in the end. After Lord Tu regained consciousness, he had initially punished Tu Yan'er by making her kneel in the ancestral hall.
Yet in Tu Yan'er's eyes, his heartfelt love and care meant he wanted something from her.
How could that not chill his heart?
As it turned out, there was no limit to how cold a heart could grow.
Even while being punished by kneeling in the ancestral hall, Tu Yan'er still refused to behave.
She found an opportunity to sneak out of the Tu residence and ran to the Han Family.
Lord Tu searched for her like a madman, nearly going to the Court of Judicial Review to report her missing.
Only later did he learn that Tu Yan'er had been hiding in Han Zai all along and was already living with Han Yunfan.
After learning this, Lord Tu truly wanted nothing more to do with her.
When Tu Yan'er brought Han Yunfan to the Tu residence to ask him to approve their marriage, Lord Tu agreed without another word.
However, the extravagant dowry Tu Yan'er had expected him to prepare for her did not exist.
Since Tu Yan'er was, after all, the daughter he had doted on for years, Lord Tu still gave her everything he had set aside for her dowry over those years.
As for Madam Tu, her legal mother, she merely made a token contribution, enough to keep up appearances.
Thus, it was only when the dowry was put on display that Tu Yan'er learned the hundred and twenty loads she had eagerly anticipated amounted to just thirty-two.
Upon discovering this, Tu Yan'er once again put on a pitiful expression, hoping to win her father's sympathy.
Unfortunately, she had