Rob cringed when he heard about his removal from the line of succession.

However, he hung his head as he accepted reality, since he knew he had grounds to argue.

And after a brief silence, Glen continued.

"Still, I still need a successor."

This time, he glanced at Frank, his tone changing sharply, "As a son-in-law of this family, Frank has already saved us from several crises, not to mention he saved all our lives today. If not for him, Rob would've killed us all." Pausing, Glen looked at all the members of the Turnbull branch families and asked loudly, "As such, I propose to have Frank Lawrence become my successor. What do you think?!" "Huh?!"

"What?!"

Everyone in the ballroom was left dumbstruck.

Letting an outsider become the next head of the Turnbull family?! Was Glen kidding?!

They owed the man a lot, but this was still ridiculous!

"Hoho, I'm just kidding."

waved them off, chuckling amid the stunned silence. "I'm actually nominating my niece Vicky to

sighed in relief from their earlier

always been a man., but it's a woman now?" one

Glen simply glanced at Frank with a quiet

proper heiress in Vicky as a buffer, the members of the Turnbull branch families all nodded in agreement after some thought. After all, they sorely lacked firepower if they were to fight against martial elites of the

right now, Frank had proven himself to be

meant if they could bring Frank over to their side, the Lionhearts would not go down the

the end of the Turnbulls if not

only would they be reduced to vassals of the Lionhearts, but they probably would not remain

why the members of

family present did not hesitate

Vicky to be the

Turnbull family.

had earned the respect of the members

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