Chapter Four: Turning Whispers into Evidence

Lu could have made millions by secretly adding exposure. Instead he received the contracted fee. “If you saw it so clearly,” Zhou asked, “why not charge for performance?” “Because your workers' wages aren't my wager.” Zhou shared the answer in a business owners' group. Within three days, Boundary Tide received seventeen inquiries, six from small companies Polaris had rejected. Its cash balance reached 480,000 yuan. Han Che answered on the same day. Boundary Tide's bank froze its receipts for an anti-money-laundering review. The landlord received a legal notice alleging fire-code violations. Worse, an anonymous report circulated among clients, accusing Lu of using psychiatric illness to invent trading signals. It attached his brain scan records.