This little palace mistress was kind-hearted, so I didn't find her nagging bothersome. I said, "Little palace mistress, there's no need to worry. Everyone here is a legitimate merchant. If I finished a deal here only to be ambushed the moment I stepped outside, who would come to the Luomu Valley market to trade in the future? Didn't you come here to trade because you also thought this place was safe?"
Hearing that, the fat man immediately rubbed his hands and chimed in, "Of course! We base everything on honesty. We're all proper merchants and would never bully others or monopolize the market."
"Oh, please! We already ran into a case where someone was ambushed the moment they went outside. If we hadn't stopped it in time—and if the goods being traded hadn't been worth killing over—you people probably wouldn't have let that person go! And you even targeted me because of it. If not for that, why would I have been so furious as to expose your scheme?!" The little palace mistress was completely unconvinced. She angrily explained why she had targeted the merchants here, then continued, "I'm not here to trade, either! I'm here to teach them a lesson! Until the day they admit that the bandits outside are their people, I'll keep fighting them here!"
The little palace mistress's words immediately sent a vicious glint through the fat man's eyes, while the other merchants naturally launched into a flurry of excuses. But the little palace mistress remained unmoved. She dared to act this way because her bodyguards were formidable, and besides, no one could do anything to her within the market.
I smiled and thought to myself that, apart from being a little tsundere, this little palace mistress was actually quite straightforward. Since the Luomu Valley market