Xia Chujian said, "Aunt, Master Su Buyan is your nephew, right?"
"I'm fairly familiar with him too. Have you seen him recently?"
At the mention of her elder brother's two children, Su Shuangluo's attention was diverted once again.
This time, it was unlikely to turn back to her husband again. Xia Chujian and Zong Ruoning both breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Shuangluo began talking about Su Buyan. "I haven't seen him recently. Not just me—even my brother and sister-in-law rarely see him."
"Once he buries himself in the laboratory, he forgets everything. He doesn't even go home for years at a time."
"You know my brother only has one son. If he doesn't inherit the High Priest's position, then his younger sister, Su Buyu, will have to inherit it."
Xia Chujian said, "Wouldn't that be good? I remember Noble Lady Su Buyu has always studied all kinds of rituals under the High Priest. She should want to inherit the position, right?"
One thing the Beichen Empire did better than the other three nations was that both men and women had inheritance rights.
The Beichen Empire's history books recorded that this was because Tantai Lin, the Founding Emperor of the Beichen Empire, had lived far too long and did not die until he was over a thousand years old.
By the time he died, among his direct Descendants, only one female descendant remained, though no one knew how many generations removed she was.
And because Founding Emperor Tantai Lin particularly wanted his and the Empress's direct Descendants to inherit the Throne, he passed the position to that female descendant and left behind a law declaring that both men and women had the Right of Succession, provided they were Marital Children.
This law had once been discussed at great length in