Yang Ruoqian thought the question had finally died.
Then he discovered that its ghost carried receipts.
At nine in the morning, the assistant lead opened the new FAQ entry and pointed at the bottom line.
Source: closed file, lobby-only venue, no stage wiring required.
Yang read the line twice.
"Why does an answer need a source?"
"So owners know it did not come from memory."
"Memory is cheaper."
"Wrong memory is expensive."
That sentence sounded harmless.
It was not harmless.
It was an accounting blade wrapped in common sense.
Yang leaned back.
"If every answer brings its own source, owners will stop asking whether it is reliable."
"That is the goal."
"That is not my goal."
The assistant lead smiled politely, because she had learned not to answer that sentence.
Finance did not smile.
Finance wrote reliable answer, fewer tickets in the margin.
Yang saw it.
"Do not write future profit in public."
"I wrote fewer tickets."
"Same thing."
