Along with his prodigious assistant, Lin Mo checked one of the private suites to see if its standards could satisfy patrons who were already used to luxury like the King of the Southern Wu Kingdom.
The private suite, labeled 'The Serene Bamboo Retreat', opened with the satisfying whoosh of its sliding door.
As the Shopkeeper, he was granted access to it even without the wristband.
Inside, the air was warm and humid. It carried the scent of fresh bamboo and something like rain-washed stone.
From the view that could be seen from the window on one side of the room, it was a complete, self-contained world.
Further inside, a small, open-air courtyard paved with smooth river stones led to a steaming, rectangular pool carved from a single block of black basalt or something similar to it. Around the pool, a grove of spirit bamboo rustled in an artificial breeze, their leaves seemed to shimmer with a faint emerald light.
