My Elder Sister Disliked Him for Being Materialistic, but I Thought He Was Perfect for Me, so I Married Him

Xie Heng was the wealthiest merchant in the capital, and he had been pursuing my elder sister for three years. Three years! What does that even mean? Enough time for me to examine every corpse in the mass grave three times over. He spent money like water, giving her a jade hairpin one day, a gold hairpin the next, and limited-edition rouge the day after, all just to make her smile. I don't know if my elder sister smiled or not, but I certainly did—I laughed at his foolishness. Until the day of the plum blossom viewing banquet, he presented her with a priceless warm jade hairpin, and all the noble ladies present stared wide-eyed, practically begging to gouge their eyeballs out and stick them on. Standing under the eaves, true to my gossipy nature, I whispered to her, "Elder sister, is it really not..."