Chapter One: The Boss Vanishes on the Spot

On the company website, the finance director was now also acting general manager. In the message archive, every mention of “Mr. Lu” had become “the process.” Each edited sentence made perfect sense, which made it worse. Only the proposal saved on his old laptop still contained Lu Chen’s comment: “Not young enough. No internet instinct. Lin Mo, you write copy like you’re polishing an epitaph.” Lin Mo stared at the familiar cruelty and remembered the post he had made at 11:43 the previous night. Full Stop was an anonymous account with barely two hundred followers, a sewer for thoughts he could not say aloud. Its avatar was a period. Its bio read: Nobody knows me. Keep it that way.