Yang Ruoqian had learned one rule from repeated defeat: the smaller a matter looked, the more likely his employees were to turn it into a strategic monument. This time, Yang ordered the team not to clarify anything. He decided to treat it with proper suspicion.
He reviewed the logic once more with the caution of a man who had been betrayed by success too many times. If the no-explanation order could still be explained as ordinary process, this could remain an awkward film experiment rather than another Xplendi miracle.
He liked the shape of the spending. Slow post-production, awkward scenes, reworked music, and promotion that refused to behave like promotion sounded like exactly the kind of heavy, slow burden that could drag a project below the settlement line.
