Moon Mansion's Culture Manual launched with music.
Yang Ruoqian considered this a strong sign.
Useful internal documents did not need music.
If a manual needed an opening video, animated banners, and a countdown page, then perhaps it had already stepped into the expensive swamp.
At nine, he opened the launch page with breakfast untouched beside him.
The page was beautiful.
Too beautiful.
There were soft lights, smiling employees, confident managers, and a slogan in large letters.
Make Every Habit Visible.
Yang almost applauded.
This was exactly the kind of sentence he wanted competitors to say.
Visible habits could be sold.
Sold habits could be mocked.
Mocked habits could make Xplendi's plain little anti-manual look embarrassingly cheap.
Cheap was not always bad.
But Yang had spent months learning that the world liked cheap when Xplendi did it.
He needed the world to like expensive for once.
At ten, Moon Mansion revealed the pricing.
Basic Culture Manual: 199 coins.
