Purity was expensive.
Yang Ruoqian had not chosen purity. He had chosen the absence of sponsorship money. The difference was obvious to him and apparently invisible to everyone else.
The old cinema now had a strange financial shape. It refused sponsor money, kept manual ticketing, used cheap water, preserved old chairs, and somehow looked more trustworthy every time Yang tried to prevent it from becoming efficient.
This could not continue.
"If the public thinks we are pure because we refuse sponsors," Yang said, "we need a practical reason."
Lu Shuyuan asked, "For refusing sponsors?"
"For everything."
No one answered, which meant the request was correctly impossible.
Yang pointed at the ticket price sheet. "Start here."
