In years past, after the Ke family successfully recruited Ji Linyuan, they valued him highly and even arranged for a woman of their direct lineage to get in contact with him.
The courtesy the Ke family extended to Ji Linyuan was such that they did not require him to marry into the family but instead pursue a normal matrimonial relationship.
This level of courtesy could not be called anything but generous; over the years, the Six Great Families had rarely married off women from their direct lineages.
It could be said that if Ji Linyuan's descendants were willing to change their surname, they could even enter the main lineage sequence of the Ke family.
According to Ke Pingluan, his distant niece of many generations had once been deeply infatuated with Ji Linyuan, with their marriage even settled, but before they could wed, chaos erupted and Ji Linyuan vanished without a trace.
