Chapter 5: Even an Iron Tree Can Bloom
Just days before the start of the first lunar month. "Greetings, Patriarch!" The heavy silence of the chamber was suddenly broken by a figure materialized out of thin air, dropping into a deep, respectful bow before the leader of the Seo Family. It was a man clad in a dark, tight-cuffed martial robe, emblazoned with faint qilin patterns. "The Young Master trains with absolute diligence, and his rate of improvement is truly astonishing, my lord." The Patriarch wasn't nearly as shocked as he had been the first time Seo Gun-Woo, the commander of the Seo Family army, delivered this news. Every daily report was somehow better than the last. It was getting to the point where the Patriarch half-wondered if this disciplined boy was even his real son. He simply couldn't fathom such a radical transformation. Yet, despite his disbelief, he and his wife had never felt a more profound joy. Although it went against the main family's traditions to actively pr...