Dowries?
Oh yes, that was true. Gu Chaoyan's mother Ms. Lin from a family that once was the most wealthy in the whole captail. They were related to the imperial family too. Old Master Lin loved his daughter deeply, so when she got married, he gave away almost half of the properties. Those things were almost as much as those in his own Lord Huai's Mansion!
It was very normal for the Gu Family to get all of them. They must be thinking that Chaoyan would not ruin her own reputation since she was marrying him soon.
Honestly, suing her father for the dowries, was something that never occurred in the noble families.
Some cases like this happened in common families, but girls normally lost their reputation after getting the dowries, and ended up in a terrible position.