By the time the morning meeting began, Yang Ruoqian had already opened the same file six times. Each time, the conclusion remained offensive: Yang realized the project might become cheap enough to survive if he was not careful. If a project could no longer fail cleanly after losing money, what dignity did a loser have left?
Yang Ruoqian's private calculation was still very professional. The plan around the No Star Is The Best Star matter had receipts, workflow, and enough normal business logic to pass the system's eyes. Better yet, the costs were concrete: borrowed desks, script-reading time, casting calls, contact sorting, shared equipment, and temporary coordination that had no clean revenue path. A normal boss would ask how to convert those costs into growth. Yang only cared whether the temporary-team confusion could keep swallowing money without producing a number large enough to punish him.
