Yang Ruoqian sent "No membership cards" at 6:17 p.m.
At 6:19 p.m., the cinema work group became too quiet.
This was never a good sign. Loud confusion could still be corrected. Silence meant everyone had begun thinking. Thinking employees were the natural enemy of Yang Ruoqian's peaceful bankruptcy.
He waited for a question like: Then should we throw away the old cards?
No one asked.
At 6:26 p.m., Chang Zhiqing replied: "Understood. We will not create paid membership cards."
Yang Ruoqian stared at the word paid.
He had not written paid. He had written no membership cards. These were four ordinary words. How could one extra adjective sneak into the order before it reached the ground?
He immediately called her.
"No cards," he said.
"Yes, Boss Yang. No paid cards."
"Not paid. No cards."
