Within the ruin-like Duke Tian Zhou's Residence, Duke Tian Zhou Tian Jiayu looked at the corpse of his son, Marquis Songshan Tian Lan, his face terrifyingly livid!
Someone had actually assassinated his son inside his own residence. The rage drove Tian Jiayu nearly mad.
Duke Tian Zhou had quite a few children, but only two were legitimate bloodline sons born of his principal wife.
One was Marquis Songshan Tian Lan, and the other was Marquis Tian Jiang Tian Jiao.
His title would ultimately be inherited by one of those two sons. Whichever proved more outstanding would inherit the title, for it concerned the rise and fall of an entire great family.
But the fatal thing was that the Tian Family seemed to have been struck by misfortune lately—the bloody kind of misfortune.
More than two months ago, Marquis Tian Jiang Tian Jiao had been charged with storming Princess Changle's Residence. His title had then been stripped, and he had been sent to serve at the front lines. Worse still, the Tian Family's First-Class Duke title had been demoted to a second-class provincial duke.
After that incident, Tian Jiao had completely lost his qualification to inherit the title for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, he still had Marquis Songshan Tian Lan. But now, Marquis Songshan Tian Lan had been killed right beneath his eyes.
Unless he fathered another son, his title could only be passed down to one of his sons born of concubines. Though they were all his sons, if a concubine-born son inherited the title, his natural authority would be lacking, planting the roots of a great calamity for the Tian Family.
Within two short months, one son had died, his title had been demoted by one rank, and another son had been stripped of his title and