He Po of the Wen Clan had grown wise with age. During this time, she had already taken in all of Wen Qingxuan's unusual behavior.
Thinking of Ye Kong, the only person close to her, it was obvious that this junior was probably about to fall for him.
For certain special reasons, she had once hated men. As a result, the women among her descendants had all been influenced by her to some extent and were deeply wary of men from outside. Quite a few descendants simply married descendants from the Clan Patriarch's branch.
The Wen Family of the Northern Region had been a Super Power for over a thousand years. After so many generations of development across its various branches, all kinds of family ties had long become tangled and intertwined.
Sometimes, even she and the Clan Patriarch could not quite figure out which generation belonged to which. But as long as the husband and wife had no close blood relation within three generations, it was fine.
That was why Wen Ziyu, despite sharing the Wen surname, still pursued Wen Qingxuan. That was simply the family custom.
In fact, they were not the only ones. Ancient races as rigid as the Futuo Ancient Clan even directly stipulated that their clansmen could only marry within the clan, or obey family arrangements and marry members of other ancient clans to bear children.
If anyone dared to run off and marry an outsider privately, they would be violating clan rules and tainting the clan bloodline. Not only would the person be dragged back for punishment, even the children they bore would be designated as Criminal Children.
Never mind which old fossil had first established such bizarre rules dripping with superiority, only for the ancient clan elders who worshipped rules to treat them