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Whatever the case, the first duke was Zotto, a leader of a band of soldiers who descended the coast of Campania. Though at first independent, Zotto was eventually made to submit to the royal authority of the north. His successor was Arechis, his nephew, and the principle of hereditary succession guided the Beneventan duchy to the end. The Lombard duchies, part of the loosely-knit Lombard kingdom, were essentially independent, in spite of their common roots and language, and law and religion similar to that of the north, and in spite of the Beneventan dukes' custom of taking to wife women from the royal family.
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An intense standoff ensues as the three brothers (Lee, Lau and Tan) reunite after many years apart. The story then flashes back to 1985, when the three men are fellow commandos-in-training in the Singapore Army, though hailing from vastly different backgrounds. Lee is the most educated of the trio and aspires to be a lawyer, Lau has a history of confinement in a boy's home due to acts of theft, while Tan is a happy-go- lucky youth obsessed with get-rich-quick schemes. After completing National Service, Lee pursues a career as a lawyer and resorts to ruthless means to cement himself among the elites in the field, in the process exploiting and eventually murdering Tan's love interest Lu Xiuwen (Yvonne Lim), as well as forcefully taking to wife Choo Yu Hang (Wong Li-lin), daughter of top lawyer Steven Choo (Huang Wenyong) and girlfriend of Lau.
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