My Four Miraculous Treasures novel Chapter 325

She searched up and down the entire mall, but she just couldn’t find a coat with that same pattern of blue and golden stripes across black fabric.

Just as she was about to give up the search, she caught sight of a coat which seemed to match the image in her memory, on a mannequin inside the display window of a luxury fashion boutique.

She went into the shop and inquired with the salesgirl within, “Excuse me, how much for that coat over there?”

“It’s thirty thousand, miss,” the young lady answered with a polite smile.

“Thirty thousand?!” Willow gasped. “Can’t you go any lower than that?”

Why did it have to cost so much?! If she was the sort of person who had thirty thousand dollars to throw around so casually, then her penalty with Hughes Corporation would hardly pose a problem! She’d leave straight away and seek greener pastures elsewhere, so that she wouldn’t have to contend with a dangerous character like Jasper Hughes every day!

“I beg your pardon, miss, but these are brand-name items, and ours is a boutique chain. I’m afraid all prices are non-negotiable.” The salesgirl remained polite, her smile never wavering.

Willow gave her a sheepish little smile of embarrassment. “Sorry for the trouble.”

Xavier Hughes wore a coat worth thirty thousand dollars?! So this was what people meant by ‘money to burn.’ It was beyond the imagination of a penniless village girl like herself.

Defeated and humiliated, she was turning away to leave, when she caught sight of a storefront touting custom-tailored clothes.

Perhaps she could commission an imitation to be made? She only needed an item to return to Xavier—she didn’t need it to be genuine quality. One way or another, it wouldn’t be the actual coat he’d lent her, anyway.

Willow went in and spoke with the tailor, who declared that he certainly could produce a convincing imitation of that coat she was indicating. However, it would take a week, because he already had a bunch of orders queued up.

In truth, a coat was a fairly simple item to make. With a sincere effort, it should only take a couple of hours, give or take.

Willow couldn’t wait a week for this.

“How about this?” she proposed, “Find me a matching textile cloth, and lend me the use of one of your sewing machines. I’ll make it myself from scratch, and then pay you for the fabric as well as the use of your equipment.”