Sparkle's newest update looked obedient at first glance. The core line said welfare had made the team efficient again. Yang Ruoqian stared at it for several seconds, trying to decide whether this was finally the kind of ordinary mistake that could stay ordinary.
On paper, nothing about the welfare efficiency looked like an achievement. That was why Yang Ruoqian liked it. A dull, legal, operationally reasonable problem was far more beautiful to him than any public praise.
In the file, every cost had a respectable name: argument, uncertainty, delayed conversion, and staff time spent on something that should have stayed cold. Respectable costs were the best kind, because they could lose money without looking like deliberate sabotage.
Still, the company had betrayed him before. A useless expense could become a department asset here, and an awkward project could become a brand story. Yang Ruoqian pushed that memory away before the welfare efficiency ruined the rare peace in his chest.
