First: The Sikong Family's rule is to assist the variable, to save the people from distress and aid the world. The clansmen are well aware and must not violate this, but... if the variable is unable to shoulder significant responsibilities, they will form a matrimonial tie to better support the other party, thus safeguarding their security and smoothly executing the great duties, without delaying either.
Second: Though the Sikong Family has secluded itself for a long time, their ancestors were a prominent family of compound surnames. If the other party were a single surname noble, it might still be reluctantly bearable, but to hand over all resources to a foundationless commoner, isn't that a colossal joke?
By then, generations of scheming and effort would go to waste, branding them as traitors to the Sikong Family. Hence, they refuse to follow the arrangements of a mere girl and cannot defy their ancestral teachings. It is best to make her a figurehead with no real power.
