From her vantage point at the edge of the high-tier VIP mezzanine, Chen Ying looked down at Director Vance as his voice resonated smoothly through the auditorium's acoustics.
To the hundreds of elite investors and municipal officials listening to his presentation on debt restructuring and port equity, Vance was the epitome of the modern corporate titan—polished, untouchable, and radiating the absolute authority of Royal Holdings.
But Chen Ying didn't see a modern executive. She looked past the bespoke Italian wool suit and the expensive platinum watch, her mind cutting through the illusion of the twenty-first century to see him for what he truly was in Xie Changheng's grand strategy: a 'Grand Minister'.
