When important people went out, there were plenty of benefits to making a grand display.
As long as they displayed their identity and standing, anyone could quickly gauge the gap between them.
If someone's status was high and they could not afford to offend them, they would not.
If someone's status was low and they could afford to offend them, they would.
Whether visiting a brothel or having a meal at a restaurant, the same principle applied.
For instance, if Lin Ke had entered the Breathing Soil Pavilion this time under the name "Young Master Lin Ke," even the pavilion master would probably have been alerted and come to receive him personally.
Once outsiders heard who had arrived, they would naturally weigh whether they could afford to offend Lin Ke.
As long as they could not, something like this would naturally never happen.
And among those Lin Ke could not afford to offend, there were naturally very few who were so arrogant and overbearing, Wang Lin excepted.
So this was the downside of going out incognito!
Although he attracted less attention, every stray cat and dog would leap out to try to trample him.
Lin Ke felt helpless too.
After so many busy days, I finally get out, only to run into this bullshit. What a waste of time!
He really was impossibly busy these days, and at the Breathing Soil Pavilion, only Elder Huang knew his true identity.
As far as anyone else knew, he was probably just the son of a wealthy merchant surnamed Lin from outside the Capital City, looking to buy a residence.
Being a wealthy merchant from outside the Capital City was simply not enough to intimidate certain official households and prominent merchants.
"What happened?!"
"What a commotion!"
"Why is the Breathing Soil Pavilion so