Chapter 794: PAID

The founding head of the Baekhwa Trading Company is a direct descendant of the Gu Clan.

Hearing those words from Elder Il left me frozen.

I stood there, stiff as a board, unable to form any immediate reaction.

How was I supposed to respond to something so absurd?

After a long moment of struggling to find words, I finally managed to speak.

“…What kind of nonsense is that?”

“What’s so nonsensical about it?”

“…Do you even hear yourself right now?”

Did he really not understand why this didn’t make any sense?

‘How the hell is that even possible?’

If the founding head was truly a direct descendant of the Gu Clan… wouldn’t that make the relationship with Lady Mi even more complicated?

‘Lady Mi was born into the Mi Clan.’

But if her father, the founding head, was from the Gu Clan, then they would have had different surnames.

Well—

‘Unless he married into the Mi Clan.’

It was possible that he took his wife’s surname.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Especially considering how strained their father-daughter relationship seemed to be, it wouldn’t be surprising if Lady Mi took her mother’s name.

That part I could let slide.

Surnames weren’t the issue.

The bigger problem was—

‘What about my father’s marriage?’

If the founding head was a direct descendant, then he and my father had to be related.

Not as siblings, obviously, but as cousins at the very least.

Which meant—

‘Wouldn’t that make them family?’

Close family, even.

And if my father married Lady Mi and had children with her…

‘Is that even okay?’

By my standards, it didn’t sound right.

‘…Now that I think about it.’