You Have to Pay to Sit on a Folding Stool? I'll Set Up a Stall Next Door Instead

Lin Xuan took his five-year-old daughter to the night market for barbecue, only to get hit with a "barbecue bill shock" when it was time to pay.

They ate twenty yuan's worth of meat, but were charged ten yuan for "tissues," ten yuan for "bamboo skewers," and even ten yuan for sitting on a plastic stool!

The owner, Zhao Dalong, had run his shop for twenty years and sneered at him: "If you can't afford it, don't come. A pauper like you has no business at the night market. My old-established shop won't miss one poor customer!"

Furious, Lin Xuan laughed instead. He awakened the [Street Food God System], then rented the biggest stall, right across from Old Zhao's shop!

You sell lab-grown meat and spring hidden fees on people? I'll sell premium whole cuts, offer free side dishes, keep prices transparent, and serve divine flavors!

At first, Zhao Dalong scoffed. But before long, he panicked. All his big-spending customers left. Food streamers with millions of followers checked in across the street every day, and the old neighborhood regulars would rather wait two hours in line than enter his empty shop.

To win back business, Zhao Dalong slashed prices, used rotten, low-quality meat, and hired online trolls to smear his rival. In the end, sanitation violations came to light and his shop was shut down for good.

Watching the bustling crowds across the street, Zhao Dalong was left bankrupt and desperate. What destroyed his twenty-year-old brand had never been that ten-yuan stool. It was the conscience he'd thrown away!