Yang Ruoqian had barely survived the last settlement when the next document landed on his desk. The problem this time was simple: someone tried to call expansion by a smaller, safer name. 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 Limited Expansion Is Not Expansion matter had receipts, workflow, and enough normal business logic to pass the system's eyes. Better yet, the costs were concrete: regional coordination, contract review, local schedule work, soundtrack support, and a tiny event that should not scale. A normal boss would ask how to convert those costs into growth. Yang only cared whether the controlled release drag could keep swallowing money without producing a number large enough to punish him.
