Yang Ruoqian had seen the system panel use many cruel phrases.
Profit deviation.
Reputation accumulation.
Community trust.
Operational replication.
He had hated all of them, but at least they sounded like business disease. Cultural anchor was different. Cultural anchor sounded like a public-service award pretending to be a balance-sheet item.
The phrase sat in the analytics report like a nail.
Observed anomaly may function as cultural anchor under continued restraint.
Yang read it once.
Then twice.
Then he closed the file, opened it again, and found the sentence still there.
"Delete cultural anchor," he said.
Lu Shuyuan stood beside the desk with the expression of a man carrying a fragile bomb. "The system generated it from multiple indicators."
"Delete the indicators."
"Then we lose the warning."
"The warning is the problem."
Chang Zhiqing read the line quietly. "If we remove the phrase, the underlying trend remains."
"The underlying trend can remain silently."
