The Jordan Family treated both girls and boys fairly and didn't practice the tradition where only males could inherit the family's assets. In fact, there had been numerous female family heads in the past. The Jordan Family even hoped that they had more illegitimate children like Giry because in that case, outstanding female members of the family like Teresa would remain unmarried, and no weird men could take the opportunity to get married into the family for their own interest. Children with the family's noble bloodline would never be abandoned, and neither would they have another surname besides Jordan.

Therefore, many of the successful women in the Jordan Family would...