“You should have gotten rid of them all back then and cultivated a network of people loyal only to you.” Manny felt that his father should not have spared those people in the first place.

Tony said, “There were too many of them, all relatives and friends with the same goal as us. We couldn’t eliminate them all at once.”

Back then, he had incited everyone to join him in wiping out the entire main family, sparing neither the elderly nor the children.

It was because they were all from the collateral branches, jealous of the main family’s long-standing control, and shared a common goal that his conspiracy succeeded.

He had also spent over a decade waiting for the right opportunity.

Who would have thought that even after wiping out the main family, he still could not obtain the family seal, token, or totem? Without these, he could not become the true head of the family and could only act as a proxy. Many of the connections loyal to the head remained inaccessible.

Moreover, much of the