With the direct bloodline of the Xiao Family reduced to just Old Master Xiao and his grandson Xiao Jianjun, and with Xiao Jianjun sharing his father's lifelong love for military life, he had enlisted early in one of Huaxia's special forces units.
With the sole heir of the Xiao Family away in the military and the matriarch busy caring for the old master, the family's assets and businesses could only be entrusted to trusted collateral relatives and elders.
Around that time, Lin Anbang had just founded Lin's Trading and was beginning to make a name for himself, achieving impressive results. Several collateral elders of the Xiao Family, recognizing Lin Anbang's business acumen, betrothed Xiao Muxue, the legitimate daughter of a collateral branch at the time, to him.
Chapter 57