"Oh, a surname is a name passed down from parent to child. My Father had the surname Xie, so I have the surname Xie." Cultural differences really were interesting!

"All those relations must all make the politics of your Heavenly Court... a bit exciting." Xie Lian didn't even want to imagine it.

"Ah, though there have been some blood relations among heavenly officials, that I know of. Pei Ming had two different descendants ascend, though of course they were from family he had before godhood." Better to not say too much about their fates afterward... "Oh, and a pair of brothers."