As soon as I spoke, it immediately garnered support from several merchants with whom I usually got along well. "Exactly. This woman is causing trouble and being unreasonable. She’s always here to make trouble. What does she want?"

"Yeah, looks like she’s still not satisfied and tried to swagger around. I wonder where someone like that came from?"

"I don't know who gave her the confidence to provoke other people every day!"

"This market hasn’t been peaceful ever since this woman came here. She causes trouble every few days. Now, she's turning the tables and accusing other people of competing with her. What kind of person is she?"

The discussions of the crowd drowned out each other. I looked at Andrea with an unrelenting gaze.

The burly men did not step back. They stood before me with their necks stretched out, threatening to advance again. They played with the wooden and iron rods in their hands, and looked sinisterly at Tris and me.

However, I knew deep down that these uncouth i