The city map dot changed customer behavior by exactly the wrong amount.
Not enough to create chaos.
Not enough to justify a shutdown.
Just enough to become useful.
Retirees sent the location to friends. Students used it as a meeting point before old films. Parents stopped calling the counter to ask which side street had the entrance. Delivery drivers stopped entering through the wrong door at Storage Site Three.
Yang Ruoqian looked at the operational effect and found no clean wound to press.
"Direction accuracy improved," Lu Shuyuan said.
"Do not say improved."
"Direction error reduced."
"Do not say reduced."
"Direction-related calls changed."
"Use that."
The report became uglier.
The outside world did not.
The outside world became practical.
Practical was harder to mock than romantic.
