Upon hearing this, Old Yao looked at his nose, and his nose looked at his heart, pretending he hadn't heard anything.
Although he joined the Emperor Longchang later in life, he had heard from the palace elders that the ancestors of Duke Dingguo's Mansion had some conflicts with the Emperor Longchang.
This was one of the reasons why Duke Dingguo's Mansion gradually declined over the millennia.
The Emperor had never mentioned this before, but now it seems that it was probably during the time when the Emperor vied for the title of Emperor's Son, that Duke Dingguo's Mansion had sided with the wrong faction... Over thousands of years of erosion, Duke Dingguo's Mansion had fallen from a grand Second Grade to a Third Grade.
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During the same time.
The Gui Long Shangguan Family was one of the eight Fourth-Grade Noble Families in Gui Long City.
