Chapter Four: The Credit of Twenty-Seven People

The lease was registered to an obscure entity, Lantern Property Operations Ltd., whose sole asset was the restaurant's twenty-year operating tenancy. He wrote its legal name. PUBLIC BOOK EQUITY: $320,000. TRUE EQUITY VALUE: $6,120,000. CONDITION OF VALUE: GOING CONCERN; STAFF AND BRAND BOTH REQUIRED. HIDDEN RISK: CHANGE OF CONTROL TRIGGERS LEASE REVIEW. A curved 2 appeared below. The gold edges of the first three bills joined to form 612. The lease could not simply be carried away. Without the original staff maintaining operations and the Lanterns brand in continuous use, the landlord could reclaim it. Gu had hidden that clause from the bank. Shen's offer had deliberately ignored it.