Yang Ruoqian opened yesterday's report before breakfast.
This was his first mistake.
Reports at breakfast were dangerous because a man had not yet built resistance to numbers.
The first harmless line mentioned referral tracking.
Harmless lines were the worst kind.
They sat quietly until the system turned them into profit logic.
The specific offender was the untrackable referral.
Yang stared at it until the tea beside him became cold.
The tea at least understood how to lose value.
At nine, the assistant lead entered with a folder thin enough to be insulting.
Yang preferred thick folders.
Thick folders meant coordination failure.
This one looked like it could be understood by lunch.
The cover said untrackable referral.
"Why does this have a cover?" Yang asked.
"Because people were using three different names for the same thing."
"Three names create healthy hesitation."
"They created three tickets."
The assistant lead said tickets the way doctors said fever.
