A Desperate Attempt to Annul the Engagement: After My Whole Family Abandoned the Project, the New Emperor Panicked

When the new Emperor Shen Shiyan's edict annulling the engagement arrived at the Fu family, my father, the Grand Tutor, was leading the entire family in a cricket-fighting game in the courtyard. "Miss Fu Shiyu of the Fu family is insatiably jealous and unworthy of her position. Effective immediately, her engagement with His Majesty is dissolved!" The eunuch Li Dequan, delivering the edict, shrieked arrogantly, clutching the bright yellow scroll of the edict, glancing at me with utter contempt. This was the ninth time. I clenched my fists so tightly my nails almost dug into my flesh. The previous eight times, I had cried, made a scene, questioned, and even stormed into the palace with a sword, wanting to ask Shen Shiyan, after sixteen years of childhood sweethearts, why my Fu family had exhausted all...