Chapter Five: Six Hundred Eighty Million Opens the Door

“True,” Lin said. “That is why I brought the real witness.” The door opened. Chen Qishan, the former risk director, walked in. He had vanished before the hearing three years earlier, leaving Lin unable to prove that his signatures were forged. Chen's face was bloodless. “Gu Chenzhou ordered me to alter the risk records. I have the original key.” On a global livestream, he inserted a hardware token. The raw logs unfolded: Gu's approval time, alteration order, and the destination of the missing funds. Torch's stock collapsed. Yet tomorrow's price in Lin's eyes remained forty-nine. “Why did Chen appear now?” Su asked suddenly. Lin saw the trap. In the final second of his Causal Audit, a fine silver thread had run from his own profit to Chen.