The Mobius Strip [Turning Back]

*Author's statement: All plotlines are fictional and have no connection to any country, region, or individual in the real world.

The Latin motto of the Fanshaw family is "MANET ET MANEBIT"; "It remains and will remain"...

By the time of James Fanshaw, the family's ducal title had changed hands 14 times, making it one of the oldest noble houses. The two Industrial Revolutions transformed the old landed aristocracy. They went from collecting rent to founding an international business empire spanning finance, media, transportation, and even defense. Even so, the rise of the new elite left the Fanshaw family struggling to retain control of the companies they had founded. During the high-pressure Cold War era after World War II, the family's businesses underwent a massive restructuring and then surged once again with the spread of the internet. Yet in reality, everything is a Möbius strip: it has no absolute front, but every part is linked, and no one can escape this law, not even the mighty Fanshaw family. Sermont Fanshaw is the family's eldest legitimate grandson. Thanks to his father and uncle stepping up, and his grandfather's forceful nature, he, Hilda, and Diana were able to enjoy relatively stable childhoods. A new century, new ideas, and new social classes were rising. Even the Gen Z youths sitting beneath the fruit tree, whose trunk was as thick as their torsos, noticed that its once-lush branches were beginning to shed their leaves. Some limbs were even swaying dangerously, liable to come crashing down beside them at any moment, or, worse still, right on their heads.