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Chapter 116: Master Minds Chapter 116: Master Minds But it seemed each passing day was determined to prove that there were always new depths to human deception.

The crowd stirred, whispers spreading like wildfire.

Some looked doubtful, others curious, and a few outright hostile.

Nnenna, standing a bit farther away, listened carefully to the entire exchange, her mind racing.

What?

She raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

‘This entire mess… was because of me?’ She had picked this spot randomly, assuming that since it was a market, it didn’t belong to any particular person but was government owned, free for vendors to set up their stalls, even if just temporarily.

She never imagined it was private property.

A strange warmth filled her chest as she realized something else.

Despite all this, the old man hadn’t mentioned her at all.

He was shielding her, protecting a girl he barely knew.

Her hands clenched slightly at her sides.

She wanted to step in, but she knew better.

Even if she spoke up, who would listen to a fifteen year old girl in a servant’s uniform, hidden behind a shawl and sunglasses?

No one.

She decided to keep watching.

The woman, still standing tall with her arms crossed, scoffed.

“An apology?

Oh, no.

That won’t cut it.

after you’ve been making profits on our land for two

one fair way to settle this.” She paused for effect before delivering

every single money

All of it.

woman demanded the old man hand over all the

through the gathering, a mix of

it?” one man whispered, his

made?” “That’s too much,”

she ask for all of

people exchanged

man shook his head, voice low, “No way that’s

to rob him blind.” But others, more sympathetic to the woman’s

see her point,” an older man said, scratching his

my land, he would

only right.” “But asking for all of it?” a woman near the

chimed in, “She’s got no

work hard for their money!” The murmurs grew louder, with some members of the crowd visibly agitated while others seemed to consider the woman’s

was clear

rooted on the same

This was extortion.

that

fact, several people frowned

made money because of the

it provided a space, but that wasn’t what drew

mouthwatering aromas

man in the crowd couldn’t take

unreasonable!” The voice belonged to one of the construction workers from the

crossed, his face set in a deep

you demand all of his profits?” he

a

hear yourself?” Murmurs of agreement rippled through

himself to the bone yesterday, with his granddaughter helping

Granddaughter?

his children!” the

everything they earned just because they set up

it works, then why don’t you just charge a reasonable rent instead of