Chapter 46 Struck the Motherlode

Nancy froze when she heard this.

Yoana, knowing that her words had struck a chord, continued triumphantly, "He was imprisoned for four years abroad. Why else do you think I called off the engagement?"

Yoana had never even met Yaacob before this. Her parents were the ones who had set her up with him.

In this day and age, the rich no longer needed to marry their children off for wealth anymore, but more so for connections. It was precisely because of this that they had to pay more attention to the men they were marrying their daughters off to.

Yaacob was not from Athenapolis, but rumors had it that his mother, who hailed from somewhere down south, was the heiress to a substantial family fortune.

Since the Yack family had been considering expanding their business down south, they had set up this marriage with Yaacob's grandmother.

The only reason that Yaacob and Yoana had never met was because the Getson family claimed he was serving in the military overseas and would only ret