It's perfectly normal for these big shots to marry within their circles.
It's like saying, civil servants basically don't end up in the matchmaking market, because they handle it internally, how could they even flow into the market?
As for the men, if a handsome guy is also excellent in other ways, once he becomes famous or gets noticed, it's easy for a big shot to take interest in him. This happens a lot in reality.
There are even more examples of this in history. Xu Lin read history books and never saw a handsome man who didn't do well unless he was an idiot.
Many might not know, in ancient times, the top scholar could be ugly.
But the second and third place scholars were likely handsome, so there was a saying "Second and third place have many handsome talents," so the Prime Minister or other high officials would pick sons-in-law from these two rankings.
Just like Yu Xinyan, Xu Lin also has high marriage prospects that he can leverage.
