Yang Ruoqian had barely survived the last settlement when the next document landed on his desk. The problem this time was simple: small theaters looked like the safest way to bury the next project. Simple problems were the most dangerous kind inside Xplendi, because employees could always add sincerity, process, and several unnecessary interpretations.
Yang Ruoqian's private calculation was still very professional. The plan around the Small Theaters Are Enough 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.
