Marquis Yongan's Mansion, even in this imperial city brimming with nobles and powerful people, was not particularly eye-catching, with many more prestigious than it. The Wang Family was declining with each generation.
The first Marquis Yongan had achieved merit by supporting the former emperor's rise and advanced to nobility from a poor family, enjoying a period of glory. Yet, by the second generation, Marquis Yongan was neither scholarly nor martial, merely holding a sinecure, just managing to maintain the status. The third generation, the current Marquis Yongan, Wang Guangliang, also holds a sinecure.
Wang Guangliang was not good at much else, but he could certainly have children. His household was full of wives and concubines, with two legitimate sons and one legitimate daughter, and there were seven or eight concubine-born sons and daughters, just in the main branch alone.
