This question seemed to stump Xie YanYu.
He understood how he should answer at this moment to win her favor and move her heart.
However, in essence, he was an upright person, unable to utter insincere and deceiving words to women.
Upon hearing this, he thought carefully for a long time before saying, "In the first two years, the Xie family experienced great turmoil, and I had no mind to consider marriage. When the Li family came to annul the engagement, I felt a significant sense of relief. The reason I hadn't married since was indeed entirely because of you."
After her marriage, in the first two years, his younger sister had an incident, and the family was shrouded in grief. He personally went to the Northern Dayang Lake for several months, but to no avail.
After mourning for half a year, he was then ordered to go to Bianzhou, where he found his younger sister living under a false name.
