Liu Changxu learned from his younger brother, Liu Changyan, that he had already taken twelve concubines and fathered more than thirty children. This left Liu Changxu utterly astonished!
Whenever he spoke of his thirty-odd children, Liu Changyan grew tremendously excited, telling his older brother again and again how wonderful they were.
Liu Changxu found this rather amusing. It seemed his younger brother had quite a few schemes up his sleeve!
They had only just grown a little closer as brothers, yet he was already recommending his children to Liu Changxu, plainly hoping their eldest uncle would look after them.
"Changyan, why haven't you taken a principal wife?"
Liu Changxu could not help asking:
"This was Mother's arrangement. She said my principal wife should at least be a woman of the direct line of a Golden Core Lineage, but there haven't been any suitable marriage partners among the lineages around us! That's why it's been delayed until now."
Liu Changyan told his older brother quietly:
Upon hearing his younger brother's answer, Liu Changxu immediately understood what his mother had in mind.
Liu Changxu saw nothing wrong with it. As the younger brother of a Golden Core cultivator, it was perfectly normal and reasonable for Liu Changyan to choose a Direct Line Daughter of a Golden Core Lineage as his principal wife.
However, few great lineages chose to marry their Direct Line Daughters into other lineages.
These great lineages were all very eager to marry Direct Line Daughters from other lineages, while having their own Direct Line Daughters take husbands who married into the family.
Unless it was truly necessary, the great lineages would not marry their Direct Line Daughters out.
Leaving others aside, even Liu Changxu himself was unwilling to have his daughters marry into other lineages. His daughter Liu Fujiao