Chapter 637: Strategy (1)
As soon as I heard the condition—“Get married and produce heirs”—I couldn’t help but lose my composure for a moment, but thinking it over, it was a condition that the chairman grandfather could reasonably bring up.
“What Baron Yandel has achieved over these years is something no hero could match. That, no one can deny. But—”
The chairman grandfather paused and snapped his fingers.
“That could vanish at any moment.”
The Yandel family still has no heir.
Simply put, the moment I die, our baronial house will fall into ruin.
It wasn’t wrong even to my ears.
After all, I have no children, nor any close relatives.
“If something happens to the baron now, the Yandel house will disappear that very day. Most of the baron’s possessions will be confiscated back to the royal treasury.”
For the chairman grandfather who was planning to push me seriously, this was naturally the greatest worry.
At least some risk management, one might say.
If I faltered, all plans would definitely go awry, but if the Yandel house alone could survive, Melves—with its many affiliated houses—could minimize losses...