Chapter Four: Three Million Buys a Road

data. “Cash pays bills,” he told Su. “Equity and rules keep the road ours.” The ability revealed its cost that afternoon. After tracking the movements and spending routes of a hundred customers, Lu lost all sense of color during a live lesson. Blood dripped from his nose onto a white ball. Golden lines tangled into a burning net. He finished the class, reached the office, and slept unconscious for six hours. When he woke, Su placed a list beside him. Qiyun had dismissed twenty-seven caddies and lower-tour players for “disciplinary issues” in three years. Nine had undergone integrity reviews by the same contractor. White Oak Security—the company that maintained the camera on the seventeenth hole.