Sparkle's newest update looked obedient at first glance. The core line said Yang reduced conventional advertising. 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 no-marketing order 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: slow post-production, awkward scenes, reworked music, and promotion that refused to behave like promotion. 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 no-marketing order ruined the rare peace in his chest.
