Chapter Four: Turning Whispers into Evidence

Those records had come from inside the hospital. Xu traced the download to a corporate portal for Polaris employees' health insurance. It was not enough to accuse Han, but enough to show that someone was weaponizing the most private and vulnerable part of Lu's life. Lu did not answer with outrage. He uploaded the diagnosis, every timestamp from the Blaze trade, and Boundary Tide's model variables to a notarized public archive, redacting only his identity number. “The report says I hear things. That part is true,” his statement read. “Therefore, Boundary Tide follows a stricter rule than an ordinary fund: anything only I can hear, and no one else can audit, may never justify a client's trade.”