Worse meant cheaper to love.
Yang Ruoqian disliked the sentence so much that he considered banning all four words separately.
Worse was supposed to be a shield.
Cheaper was supposed to be a trap for the system, not for him.
Love was not supposed to appear in any document involving plywood, damp ceilings, or old projection cabinets.
He called the finance assistant into his office.
"Who wrote this?"
She stood very straight. "Director Chen said the operational meaning. I converted it into cost language."
"This is cost language?"
"I wrote: lower acquisition cost, lower conversion expectation, lower community pressure."
Yang looked down.
That sentence was indeed on page two.
Worse meant cheaper to love had appeared only in Chang Zhiqing's handwritten side note, which made it worse. Handwritten notes spread through Xplendi like folk sayings. Once an employee found a phrase that sounded like Boss Yang's hidden logic, it became immortal.
"Destroy the side note," he said.
