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CHAPTER 30

Author: GOLDEN TREE
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THE SWORD AND THE BLOODLINE

The morning sun never rose. It hovered behind gray clouds like a secret withheld from the world.

Inside the estate, the air vibrated with tension. All twelve heirs had stayed, choosing to side with Chaewon—against blood oaths, against legacy, against centuries of silent control.

But one seat remained empty. It was Ezra’s and it wasn’t just absence. It was a warning.

“Where is he now?” Jian asked Han, who stood at the tactical console with a vein ticking in his neck.

Han swiped through the screens. “All facial recognition systems are jammed. Flight logs, hacked. Surveillance teams are finding identical anomalies in Shanghai, Busan, Kyoto—he’s ghosting us.”

“Or baiting us,” Chaewon muttered. “Ezra doesn’t run. He draws lines. And we just stepped over his.”

Jian turned to her. “Then we strike first.”

“No,” Chaewon said, lifting her chin. “We finish this the way we should’ve from the beginning. On our ground. On our terms.”

She looked out the window, where Haon
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