Hearing this, Old Yao looked down his nose and into his heart, pretending he had heard nothing.
Although he had only come to his side long after Emperor Longchang ascended the throne, he had heard hints from old palace hands and vaguely knew that the Ding Duke's ancestors had some grudges with Emperor Longchang.
This was also one of the reasons behind the gradual decline of the Ding Duke's Mansion over thousands of years.
In the past, His Majesty never mentioned this matter, but thinking about it now, it was mostly because the Ding Duke's Mansion had backed the wrong team when His Majesty was competing for the position of the Emperor's son... Over thousands of years of wear and tear, the Ding Duke's Mansion had fallen from the prestigious Second Class to the Third Grade.
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At the same time.
The GuiLong Shangguan Clan is one of the eight Grade Four Aristocratic Families in Return to Dragon City.