This matter was like a spring thunder and a tsunami, shaking the entire upper echelon of the Chengtian Kingdom! Setting aside the two identities of Old Lord Brooks and General Brooks, the The Brooks Family is still one of the six most powerful noble families in the world today! And Old Lord BrooksCharles Brooks is the current head of this enormous family! The The Brooks Family, whether in terms of wealth, power, or manpower, has reached a level that inspires awe!

For a time, the crowd offering congratulations at the The Brooks Family’s gate formed a long line, bustling and unending. Not only the The Thompson Family from the same kingdom, but even the other four families from two distant continents sent people across thousands of miles to offer their congratulations. As for the current emperor of the Chengtian Kingdom, he personally visited to offer his congratulations before Young Master Brooks was even a month old...

In the Chengtian Kingdom, almost everyone knows that Old Lord Charles Brooks and the late emperor were sworn brothers, having knelt and bowed together in a formal eight-oath ceremony—brothers in life and death! Of all the lands now ruled by the Chengtian Kingdom, at least half were conquered by Old Lord Brooks. His contributions to the kingdom are unmatched by anyone!

And James BrooksGeneral Brooks is the foremost pillar of the kingdom’s military! His might shakes the four seas! A third of the nation’s troops are under General Brooks’s command, and his authority is so great that even Charles Thompson, the head of the The Thompson Family, one of the six great families and the current prime minister, is slightly inferior!

Beyond all this, General Brooks is as close as a brother to the current emperor, having grown up together since childhood; and General Brooks’s only sister is none other than Lady Brooks, whose status in the royal palace is second only to the empress!

With such a family, who would dare to ignore them?

William Brooks was not yet a month old, and the two storerooms the The Brooks Family had built in advance to store congratulatory gifts were already packed to the brim... During this period, the The Brooks Family’s halls were always full of guests, and the wine cups never empty! The hearty laughter of Old Lord Brooks rang out everywhere at all times, and General Brooks, who had always worried about having no heir, had all his gloom swept away! The always charitable Old Mrs. Brooks made an even grander gesture, donating ten million taels of silver to aid disaster victims. For a time, almost every poor household set up a longevity tablet for Old Mrs. Brooks...

After learning all this, William Brooks was not happy at all; instead, a deep sense of worry welled up in his heart! When water is full, it overflows; when the moon is full, it begins to wane—everything, when it reaches its extreme, will reverse. At present, the The Brooks Family’s power has risen to a dangerously high level! It directly threatens the royal authority of the kingdom! This is definitely not a good thing.

For such a colossal family, it is absolutely impossible not to arouse the royal family’s suspicion! For now, perhaps, the family is too deeply rooted in the kingdom to be easily moved; and the kingdom itself is still newly established, beset by internal and external troubles, and still needs the The Brooks Family to hold the fort. Therefore, the The Brooks Family’s power will remain at its peak for a short time; but once the royal authority is secure, internal troubles are resolved, and external threats eliminated, that will likely be the end of the The Brooks Family!

No unified nation can tolerate the existence of a behemoth like the The Brooks Family! “When the birds are gone, the bow is put away; when the rabbits die, the hounds are cooked”—this has always been the trend of history. All bonds of friendship pale in comparison to royal power and become meaningless. This is politics.

William Brooks felt that he must take precautions and do something. Otherwise, his grandfather Charles Brooks was already approaching old age, and his father James Brooks was a die-hard loyalist to the kingdom, bound tightly by the emperor’s friendship; if things continued like this, the downfall of the The Brooks Family would be inevitable!

Now that the The Brooks Family had a legitimate male heir—himself—it would only arouse even more suspicion from the kingdom! After all, with the The Brooks Family’s power, rebellion would be all too easy.

Having understood his family’s situation, William Brooks suddenly realized that he was born right into the eye of the storm! Almost at the very moment of his birth, he was placed at the mouth of a volcano! Inevitably, he became the focus of attention for all the major powers! Faced with this, William Brooks could only smile bitterly in his heart.

William Brooks understood that as he grew older, as long as he showed even a little bit of talent, the crisis facing the The Brooks Family would deepen! Realizing this, William Brooks felt like crying but had no tears: Could it be that after pretending all his previous life, he would have to keep pretending in this one too?

The only thing William Brooks felt somewhat pleased about was that, after a day and night of discussion among the family think tank, his father, and his grandfather, his name was finally decided. To William Brooks’s great surprise, his name was the same as in his previous life—also William Brooks!

Damn, not only did I cross over with my memories, but even my name crossed over with me... William Brooks couldn’t help but fantasize in his heart.

While feeling a trace of joy, William Brooks was even more eager to curse! To curse his somewhat scatterbrained grandfather, and his always silly-looking father!

They’re simply two super political idiots! Not a shred of political awareness! In the words of my previous life, they’re total noobs!