...to explain the timeline.

"Well, yeah. I wouldn't have agreed to helping getting that road established without it. That said, If I had known back then just how much business this would bring in and how much money we'd make from just a simple road, I probably would've agreed even without your literal seal of approval."

"Huh..."

In a private chamber on the Goldshire estate, Patriarch Zhen Shi was meeting with Alexander Goldshire in regards to the new road that was built, connecting Emerald Eye City to Stone Claw City.

While the existence of this road wasn't a bad thing, especially since it made both trade and visitation between the two significantly easier, there was precisely one thing that was bothersome. Namely, the fact that it somehow got associated with the Zhen Clan despite them not knowing anything about it in the first place.