Xie Jianyu met up with his elder brother the next day at the Palace Registry Office to inquire about all the marriages that Xie family members ever had, dating from a hundred years back.
"Xie and Qing..."
The registry clerk put on her magnifying glasses and scanned through the records one by one in front of the siblings. Xie Jianshen tightened his fingers into fists and released them again and again to drive away his anxiety. Xie Jianyu did some breathing exercises to calm his nerves.
After almost half a shichen, the registry clerk looked up, took off her glasses, and announced, "There was no marriage between any male alpha with Xie surname with any omega with Qing surname in the last one hundred years."
"What about with any beta?" Xie Jianyu followed up with another question.
