Chapter Three: Buying a Factory Made of Debt

If the company liquidates, you may still owe supplementary capital. Sign the trust agreement and the settlement caps your liability. Refuse, and Lanshi can pursue you for eight hundred thousand.” Ten seconds of silence. “Send me the document.” At 7:03 p.m., her electronic signature arrived. [Actual-control progress: 100%.] [Mandatory Transaction Complete. Capital committed: ¥876,800.] [Profit retained.] Before anyone could celebrate, every light in the factory flickered. Gu had arranged the early power cut. The production line had only begun heating. A sudden stop would deform the seals and destroy the single batch of trial samples. “Backup power?” Shen asked. “Fifteen minutes for controls. It cannot drive the compressors.”