Under the previous laws, this little princess born to the Empress had been First in Line to the Throne! But now, under the amended law, it depended on how many illegitimate children Emperor Tantai Hongyuan had fathered over the past thirty years!
Because they had the same inheritance rights as marital children! And they were ranked solely by age; only if the children ahead of them voluntarily relinquished their inheritance rights would it pass to the next one.
However, this Constitutional Amendment clearly favored male descendants.
Because it specifically stated that if any illegitimate daughters within the Retroactive Thirty Years period had married, they would be deemed to have automatically forfeited their inheritance rights.
Not even divorce could change that.
Men, meanwhile, would not lose their inheritance rights whether they were married or not.
This ensured that the Throne would continue passing within the Tantai Clan bloodline.
Ordinary citizens did not care about the order of succession to the Throne.
But this Constitutional Amendment also included the inheritance rights of ordinary citizens.
Once it was enacted, the lives of countless ordinary citizens were greatly affected as well.
In particular, the interests of innocent spouses and marital children were severely weakened.
After the news was released through social media, confirmed by the Royal Television Station, and pushed and verified by the official accounts of the Cabinet and Ministry of Justice, it rapidly fermented across the entire Empire.
The workload of the Empire's courts skyrocketed overnight.
They were all cases filed by certain people's illegitimate children, demanding a new division of their biological father's or biological mother's assets.
Yes, it was not only men who had illegitimate children. Women did too.
These illegitimate children, products of affairs outside marriage, stepped onto the stage of history and demanded their lawful interests from the