Despite not being as cutthroat as an ancient imperial palace with its shadowy blade and dagger politics.
Where people would sharpen their knives against their own brothers for a throne.
The lives of those in the wealthy elite indeed hardly resemble that of a regular family.
Children born into affluence, having enjoyed the glory and richness brought by their family, are naturally expected to be prepared to pay a price for the clan's advancement.
Even in ordinary families, when marrying off a daughter, they would ask if the other party owns a car or a house and what job their family does.
Not to mention these affluent households, where interests come first and the implications for the whole family are significant, their marriages are even more a form of the most beneficial "collaboration."
The old Huang Tianming never engaged in proper business, seeking trouble wherever he went, but then how many wealthy youths don't act arrogantly in their youth?