Three months later. Lin Zhi was sole lead on due diligence for a medical-aesthetics supply-chain company.
2 a.m., office empty, screen filled with dense financial models.
She discovered a 60 million RMB "consulting fee" wired to Shen Yijun's WhaleFall Culture.
Date: exactly three weeks after their breakup.
In that instant she heard a cell in the Excel sheet crack—glass shattering in vacuum.
Blood seeped from the monitor, dripped along the keyboard onto the back of her hand.
Warm.
She stared at the drop and suddenly remembered what Shen Yijun had whispered six years ago:
"Zhi-zhi, I'll never let you lose out."
She laughed. Tears mixed with blood slid down her cheeks.
Then she zipped the entire model, emailed it to Fu Juanzhou, subject line only:
[Shen Yijun – Related-Party Transaction – Recommendation: Short]