"You're the daughter of the Left Censor-in-Chief? What's your name again?"

Zuo Miaomiao felt something was strange. She had no connection with this princess and didn't know why she was suddenly interested in her.

However, she still gave her name.

"Wonderful."

"Miaomiao," Princess Wenyi murmured softly, "is a good name."

"Thank you for your kind words, Princess."

Princess Wenyi smiled and walked over to the shopkeeper, as if she had only asked the question on a whim and had no other intention.

Zuo Miaomiao was a little nervous at first, but when she found the display case on the west side of the second floor and saw the dazzling array of cat toys, she immediately forgot about the little incident.

She carefully selected three bell balls and two feather toys before going downstairs.

The waiter eagerly took the basket containing the toys from him.

Just as Zuo Miaomiao was about to pay the bill, the shopkeeper came over, bowed, and apologized: "I'm sorry, these items have already been ordered."

"Someone booked it?"

Zuo Miaomiao looked puzzled.

Why aren't the reserved items packed away?

Did she just happen to choose one that had already been reserved?

This is too much of a coincidence.

"My subordinates have failed in their duties. Please forgive them, young lady. To express our apology, all items purchased by you today will be offered at a 20% discount."

Zuo Miaomiao was a little annoyed, but seeing the shopkeeper's sincere attitude, she forgave him.

"Okay, I'll pick again. Are any of the items listed above still available for pre-order?"

"there is none left."

Zuo Miaomiao walked towards the stairs again.

Halfway there, she suddenly heard the shopkeeper say, "Princess, here is what you requested."

"I want more than just this."

"Uh... Please forgive me, Your Highness, I have already made an exception for you once."

"What's the difference between once and twice? Isn't the silver I contribute to your Treasure Pavilion every year enough for you to break the rules a few more times? How much does that girl spend here in a year? A thousand taels?"

The shopkeeper remained silent.

Zuo Miaomiao suddenly realized.

She said, "How could it be such a coincidence? It turns out that no one had made a reservation at all; someone was just taking advantage of their power."

What did she do to offend Princess Wenyi that she would be bullied like this?

She descended the stairs and approached Princess Wenyi, confronting her directly and demanding, "What does Your Highness mean by this?"

Princess Wenyi was sitting in a grand chair drinking tea when she heard this. She raised her eyelids, glanced at her, and sneered:

"I just want some people to know that there are some things that a mere daughter of an imperial censor is not qualified to covet."

ha?

Zuo Miaomiao was dumbfounded.

It's just a few cat toys; why should one's status and wealth be required to own them?

Is Princess Wenyi alright?

She looked at the shopkeeper: "These toys have different grades? Can't you buy them if you're not of the princess level?"

The shopkeeper turned his face away and didn't say anything.

Zuo Miaomiao laughed in exasperation: "So this is how Zhenbaozhai, a century-old brand, is run. Big customers are the only customers, and everyone else is just dust on the ground, to be trampled on by the big customers, huh? I've learned something new."

She was just worried about not having any good topics to choose from when Treasure House unexpectedly came to her.

It would be a disservice not to give her a front-page headline, given the treatment she received.

Princess Wenyi chuckled: "You have no money or power, yet you still want to bully the shopkeeper. You really have inherited your father's essence. I instructed you to do this, so come at me instead."

"What have I done to offend the princess? Why is she going to such lengths to humiliate me?"

"That depends on who you were with yesterday."

yesterday?

Zuo Miaomiao immediately thought of Fu Weiyun.

Recalling Princess Wenyi's warning earlier, she instantly understood: Princess Wenyi had taken a liking to Fu Weiyun.

Fu Weiyun is indeed a womanizer.

Just as she was about to make a sarcastic remark, she suddenly caught sight of Fu Weiyun riding past Zhenbaozhai and immediately changed her mind.