As the three Paper Offerings landed, Chen Miao immediately grabbed the wooden carving and leaped off the platform.
The sharper stallholders and customers packed up their things and hurried off the platform as well.
Those who were less perceptive naturally followed when they saw everyone else running.
In moments, only Zhang Shan remained on the platform, standing there in a daze.
Only now did he realize that Chen Miao had not come for the wooden carving.
Suddenly, everything Chen Miao had done earlier fell into place.
His posturing at the neighboring stall had been meant to attract Zhang Shan's attention.
Once Zhang Shan looked over, he had used "What are you looking at?" as an excuse to pick a fight and approach his stall.
At the time, Zhang Shan had assumed the man was deliberately looking for trouble, so he had not considered any other possibility.
With that initial impression already in place, he had thought nothing of it even when Chen Miao kept agreeing to his unreasonable demands.
Even when Chen Miao finally attacked him, he had assumed the man was simply throwing his weight around.
Only now, bound in place and surrounded by Paper Offerings, did he understand.
But he could not understand how Chen Miao had singled him out.
Unless Chen Miao had discovered his identity, there was no reason to target him like this.
So he must have been exposed.
But how, exactly?
Turning his head, Zhang Shan looked toward Chen Miao. Li Zhou and Kong Yue had already reached him.
"How exactly did you discover me?"
At those words, the people in the black market who had still been confused all looked startled.
Chen Miao's reply shattered Zhang Shan's composure completely.
"Because you looked at me."
"..."
After that silence, the rage bottled up inside