Chapter Four: What Five Million Cannot Buy

At 7:58 the next morning, Su Qinghe entered Blaze's temporary office carrying a battered laptop and no assistant. "Mr. Gu looks poorer than he does on the news." She glanced at the leaking ceiling and secondhand furniture. "And Ms. Su needs money more urgently than her pitch deck admits." Chenzhou placed two documents before her. Touchline Data owed 1.8 million yuan in cloud fees and would be disconnected at four that afternoon. The second document was a draft shareholder resolution: cofounder Gao Qi intended to sell their core algorithm and sixty percent of the company to Hanhai Entertainment for five million. Qinghe did not touch either page. "You investigated me?"