Chapter Five: Four Million Controls Four Hundred Million

“You have twenty minutes to persuade Qiyao's banking syndicate to support my restructuring. Otherwise, the three days you bought disappear today.” For the first time, Weiyue did not look at her like a child expelled from the family. Nineteen minutes later, the lead bank issued a conditional extension. Through its ten-million claim and voting proxies from Luo, two suppliers, and employee creditors, Xuanheng secured fifty-one percent of Kunze's voting rights. It had not paid four hundred million. It had paid four million and supplied a truth everyone else feared. Yanqiu's first act was to release the twelve Hengchuan engineers from their noncompete clauses.