By noon, the branch repair had already travelled through three internal chats. The matter itself was simple: Yang saw old staff returning as a perfect cost increase. The dangerous part was that everyone at Xplendi had begun discussing it with bright eyes.
Yang Ruoqian's first concern was not whether the salary expansion sounded embarrassing. Embarrassment was acceptable. What mattered was that this still looked like a simple branch repair, the kind of normal business trouble that could swallow money without asking for applause.
The expenses were especially comforting because they looked ordinary: rehiring packages, studio equipment, and salaries paid before any useful revenue appeared. A normal boss would ask whether those costs could be recovered. Yang Ruoqian only cared that the receipts were real.
