"Go on, try talking your way out of this! If you can't give me a proper explanation, I'll overturn your stall!"
Yun Shan glared furiously and roared, spraying saliva across the female stallholder's face like a torrential downpour as he moved to overturn her stall!
"I... I... that was an old price tag... I forgot to take it down... a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! This is all a misunderstanding!"
The stallholder stammered, hurriedly wiping the saliva from her face, her expression full of embarrassment.
"Pah! Don't even think about fooling me! All the price tags on your stall are exactly the same, yet you fucking wanted eight hundred thousand lower-grade spirit stones for these two lousy trinkets.
"And you told me you weren't making a profit off me! A blackhearted merchant like you is dragging Ascension City's name through the mud. Come with me to the City Lord's Residence, and let's see how they judge this case!"
Yun Shan bristled like an enraged lion. He seized her collar in an iron grip and began dragging her away.
The surrounding onlookers whispered among themselves and pointed at her, saying that this stallholder specialized in swindling people. Today, she had walked straight into the line of fire and had only herself to blame.
"Handsome young man, it's a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!
"I added it up wrong! I'll give you the Jade Hairpin and the Jade Pin for free as compensation. Please show mercy and let me off this once, won't you?!"
The stallholder instantly lost her composure and frantically begged for mercy, like a terrified rabbit.
She knew perfectly well that if she were hauled to the City Lord's Residence and thrown into prison, she would probably come out pregnant. That place was nothing short of a nightmare for female cultivators.
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