The first thing Yang Ruoqian did after reading the file was check whether it contained a direct profit figure. It did not. That should have comforted him. Unfortunately, the file explained that beautiful editing would make the footage look like deliberate promotion, which was the kind of sentence that looked harmless until the system started counting it.
Yang Ruoqian's private calculation was still very professional. The plan around the Do Not Edit It Beautifully matter had receipts, workflow, and enough normal business logic to pass the system's eyes. Better yet, the costs were concrete: archiving, editing time, staff aftercare, rejected publicity, and rival noise that should have diluted attention. A normal boss would ask how to convert those costs into growth. Yang only cared whether the post-release cooling could keep swallowing money without producing a number large enough to punish him.
