Chapter 1

On Valentine's Day, my flower shop was bustling with business. One customer sent me a picture through DoorDash, asking if I could make the popular cash bouquet that was trending online at the time.

I quickly counted, and the bouquet required 52 one-hundred-dollar bills to be stacked.

However, he had only paid me 50 dollars.

"I want it exactly like the picture, or I'll leave you a bad review!"

I patiently explained that the cash needed to be paid for separately, but all my messages remained unread.

As the scheduled time drew nearer, and not wanting to damage my shop's reputation, I reluctantly decided to use training banknotes as a substitute.

The next day, to my surprise, the customer showed up with people to smash my shop.

"You fucking bitch! I've been so nice to support your business, and you try to fool me with training banknotes? Now my crush won't even talk to me!

"I'm telling you, if you don't pay me 50,000 dollars for emotional distress, I'll make sure you regret this!"

Robert Morales stepped on the fresh flowers and gestured with his hands.

"Pay up! If you don't, I'll destroy your flower shop!"

Many customers around stopped picking flowers and looked over.

I felt heartbroken seeing the blue hyacinths crushed under his feet. This variety had just arrived at the shop. I loved them and had planned to keep a few for myself.

A regular customer, Clara Jones, spoke up for me, "There must be some misunderstanding. We've been regulars here for a long time. She's not the kind of person to do this."

Robert immediately pointed a finger at Clara and cursed, "You fucking bitch! None of your damn business!"

Then Robert turned to me, his face full of anger. "If it hadn't been for her using training banknotes in the custom-made cash bouquet for my crush, my crush would have been touched by my sincerity and would have agreed to be with me already!"

As soon as he said that, people around started to think I had taken money for nothing, and began to criticize me.

An older man's face darkened, and he cursed at me, "As a business owner, how could you do something so unethical?

"You took the money but didn't deliver, and now you've ruined their relationship! How could you, a young girl, be so greedy for money?

"Aren't you going to return the money and compensate him?"

Other customers didn't directly shout at me, but they were all gossiping about me.

I glared at Robert's smug face and remembered why I had used training banknotes for the bouquet.

It turned out that the night before, he had only paid 50 dollars and asked me to make a cash bouquet that needed 52 one-hundred-dollar bills stacked inside.

I sent him many messages explaining that I was just running a small business. I asked him to bring cash to my shop or transfer the money to me.

But he didn't reply to a single message.

According to DoorDash's rules, if the order wasn't delivered on time, the shop's reputation score would drop.

I had worked hard for years to maintain an excellent reputation score with no negative reviews.

As the deadline approached, I had no choice but to use training banknotes to make the cash bouquet and deliver it.

That evening, I received a negative review and a refund request.

The reason was that the product didn't match the picture.

My DMs were flooded with angry texts.

[You fucking bitch! Who allowed you to use training banknotes?]

[How dare you try to fool me with these training banknotes? I guess you're thinking of closing your shop, huh?]

[My crush won't even talk to me. According to DoorDash's rules, you must compensate me ten times the amount, that's 52,000 dollars. If you don't, you'll regret it.]

He requested a refund only.

Looking at those messages, my head was spinning.

I immediately appealed on DoorDash, and his refund-only request was rejected.

He was hopping mad and left some threatening messages in the chat.

[You'll regret this!]

But I didn't expect that he would show up at my shop this morning to pick a fight.

I pulled out my phone and showed everyone the entire chat history.

"I didn't take money for nothing. The chat history can prove it.

"He wanted a cash bouquet made from 52 one-hundred-dollar bills, but only paid me 50 dollars. How can this even be possible? I'm just running a small business. I can't afford to deal with this kind of hassle.

"And I also told him I couldn't do it. I called him multiple times, but he never answered."