Yang Ruoqian's final plan was silence.
Not minimal reply.
Not received.
Not blank bracket.
Real silence.
The kind that did not send, did not record, did not separate, did not comfort, and did not become a sentence in finance.
He wrote the instruction himself:
No response to venue files for forty-eight hours.
Then he deleted it.
Writing silence down was already a violation.
The deleted sentence still lived in his head.
That was the first bad sign.
At nine, he gave the order verbally.
"For two days, do not answer new venue files."
The assistant lead looked cautious.
"No answer at all?"
"Correct."
"No received?"
"No."
"No unsuitable?"
"No."
"No internal status?"
Yang hesitated.
Internal status was dangerous.
External silence with internal status would become a queue.
Queues became management.
"No internal status."
The assistant lead nodded slowly.
"Then how do we know which files are waiting?"
"We do not."
