Chapter Four: The Price of Losing

“Luo's people want me filming an agency announcement tomorrow,” she said. “They promised me a place in Beichen Crown's offseason trade package if I keep running the assigned routes.” Qiao stared at her. “You knew?” “I knew they wanted to sell me. I didn't know they'd trade games for it.” Zhou's eyes reddened, but she did not look away. “I made him repeat it.” The administrator's voice was clear on the recording: The data will take care of her minutes. Yunzhou knows what to defend. Just build your numbers. Yanqiu shut down the locker-room Wi-Fi and copied the file to two offline drives. “It proves inducement, not that Luo gave the order,” she said.