The marriage alliance between H Corp and other Wings, which began with Jia Baoyu's older sister Jia Yuanchun marrying a high-ranking official of Q Corp, naturally extended to Jia Baoyu himself. While he had no will to love anyone, he also lacked the will to go out of his way to refuse this marriage.

Having expected to marry a child from one of the four great families of the Grand View Garden, the engagement to an outsider—not from the Xue, Wang, or Shi families—felt quite fresh to him, but that was all.

Indeed, the sight of the two sitting stiffly and keeping a wide distance from each other even on their wedding night was rooted in these very reasons.