Xplendi's office had returned to its ordinary rhythm, but Yang Ruoqian no longer trusted ordinary rhythm. The new update proved his caution correct. It said the word department looked too permanent and too easy for the system to count as expansion. He read the line twice and felt the familiar pressure of a loss preparing to dress itself as achievement.
Yang Ruoqian's private calculation was still very professional. The plan around the Do Not Build A Film Department matter had receipts, workflow, and enough normal business logic to pass the system's eyes. Better yet, the costs were concrete: borrowed desks, script-reading time, casting calls, contact sorting, shared equipment, and temporary coordination that had no clean revenue path. A normal boss would ask how to convert those costs into growth. Yang only cared whether the temporary-team confusion could keep swallowing money without producing a number large enough to punish him.
