We waited in the Island Lord's Mansion for news that the various families had quelled the unrest.
But what we received was anything but good news.
First, Liu Fang came rushing over and told us that something had happened to the Liu Family.
The Liu Family patriarch had been killed by two elders working together. Those two elders even intended to install a young man as the Liu Family's new patriarch. That young man was called Liu Rui, a representative figure of the Liu Family's radical faction.
Liu Lan trembled with rage. She had never imagined that something like this could happen within the Liu Family.
In her view, even if problems arose within the other Three Great Families, the Liu Family should have remained united as one.
After all, she was the island lord of the Liu Family, and before this, the Liu Family patriarch and elders had always obeyed her every word. There had never been a single dissenting voice.
Yet this time, such a drastic change had occurred within the Liu Family.
Then someone from the Zhong Family came to report that the Zhong Family patriarch had resigned from his position and directly handed it over to an elder. That elder was not even forty years old, and he was likewise a leading figure in the Zhong Family's radical faction.
The Yu Family had descended into internal turmoil. Old Patriarch Yu's eldest son, Yu Bo, had stayed out of it, while his younger son, Yu Hua, backed by an elder of the Yu Family, was fighting the Yu Family's designated heir for the position of patriarch.
Naturally, that designated heir also had a group of supporters around him, and the two sides had already gone to war.
The ridiculous part was that Old Patriarch Yu's funeral was