The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family by Adela

The relationship between the prestigious families of Eastcliff was very intricate.

Noble intermarriage was a common practice between these families, similar to the royal intermarriage where members of the ruling dynasties married into other reigning families. 1

After all, every family had both male and female offspring, and when they reached the marriageable age, they were bound to look for suitable spouses.

Since it was impossible for them to choose a spouse from ordinary families, their only options were the descendants among the prestigious families. 1

It could be said that all of these prestigious families were more or less related by marriage between each other. In fact, some families that had many offspring would extend their intermarriage practice to the large network of other prominent families. 1

In Europe, royal intermarriage was very common among monarchies where their kings and queens were related to each other, and this was because the royal families throughout Europe were one huge family formed by a long term intermarriage practice, i

Dylan's mother, Sylvia Koch, was the daughter of the Thomas family and was Doreen's aunt. She had

married Dylan's father, Leonard, thirty-five years ago. 8

over the years, the Thomas family had been going downhill. On the contrary, the Koch family had been rising and progressing upward, so it gradually widened the gap between the two

always doted on Sylvia, particularly because the Thomas family had indeed helped the Koch family a lot when Sylvia married their son back

gave birth to three daughters before Dylan was born,

twenty-seven going on twenty-eight this year, so Sylvia's concern

for a potential candidate from the prestigious families in Eastcliff, but she hadn't found one who

of the other big families in

similar status and wealth as the Koch family, their young missus of marriageable age was either unavailable or did not live up

best for her son, so she hoped that her son would find a girl of a wealthy

as discernible as their strong point. Their only strong point was that they came from rich and

misses were ignoramuses who spent their family's money lavishly. They might have the name of elite schools printed on their portfolios but that was simply because their families bribed their way into

who had allegedly gifted fifteen million dollars to

a bunch of garbage coated in