Yang Ruoqian decided the only answer was speed.
If bad venues were learning, Xplendi had to move faster than their learning curve.
This sounded like strategy.
He hated that.
The actual private logic was simple:
Choose a venue before it improved.
Pay before the landlord clarified.
Let the hidden problems bloom after the money left.
It was not elegant.
It was not visionary.
It was a sprint toward inconvenience.
At nine, Yang told live event operations, "Do not wait for corrections."
The operations manager looked surprised.
"Boss Yang, if we do not wait, we may choose a venue with unresolved terms."
"Exactly."
"For the stress test?"
Yang paused.
The trap had returned wearing exercise clothes.
"Not a stress test."
"Then for speed evaluation?"
"Not evaluation."
"Then why?"
"Because waiting makes bad venues less bad."
The operations manager's eyes sharpened in the worst way.
"So we need to capture the pre-correction state."
Yang slowly turned to Lu Shuyuan.
