Shen Wan was impatient and immediately ordered the servant, "Turn around and go back to the Marquis of Pingyang's residence."

"Can Xie Jingyan make Shen Wan turn back?" he sighed. "It's no use knowing."

Even if it's useless, she should know.

Shen Wan looked at Xie Jingyan with an expression that said she absolutely had to know.

Xie Jingyan no longer hid it from Shen Wan. He said, "Your elder brother has someone he likes, but it's not Princess Huai'an."

Shen Wan, “…!!!”

"How is this possible?!" Shen Wan's voice rose in disbelief.

She looked at Xie Jingyan and asked, "So the day you went to the palace and were beaten by the Emperor, was it because you wanted to ask the Emperor to withdraw the imperial decree of marriage?"

Xie Jingyan nodded.

Shen Wan's face turned pale. "My elder brother even went all the way to Huaizhou to see Princess Huai'an. How could he not have fallen for her?!"

Xie Jingyan said, "No one can say for sure about matters of fate."

But!

In his past life, my elder brother fell in love with Princess Huai'an at first sight and insisted on marrying her. In this life, he went to Huaizhou but didn't even notice Princess Huai'an. Is there such a big difference in my elder brother's taste between the two lives?

It would have been fine if she hadn't fallen for Princess Huai'an; after they got married, they could have slowly developed feelings for each other. But her elder brother fell for someone else while he was away from the capital, and Shen Wan almost had a heart attack.

Shen Wan was so angry she couldn't speak, angry at herself and angry at her older brother. Xie Jingyan said, "Your older brother had the opportunity to break off the engagement, but he didn't."

Shen Wan looked at him, "Why?"

Xie Jingyan said, "Your elder brother returned to the capital late. The girl he liked was promised to someone else, and she will be getting married this month."

No wonder her older brother was so lost in thought watching other people's wedding processions on the street.

No wonder her older brother has been getting drunk these days.

Shen Wan became increasingly depressed as she thought about it.

In his previous life, his elder brother couldn't marry the Princess of Huai'an, so he spent his days drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

In this life, the emperor bestowed the Princess of Huai'an upon him, but he became depressed because he could not marry the girl he desired.

The Prince of Yanping loved the same girl in both his previous lives, and even killed the son of the Prince Consort of Huyang for her. He couldn't escape it no matter what. So why did everything change when it came to her elder brother?!