The system waited until Yang Ruoqian had begun to distrust the word free.
Then it opened.
At nine, the panel displayed:
Free-boundary trust assessment initiated.
Yang stared at it.
"No assessment."
The system continued:
Waiting fee: 0.
Priority fee: 0.
Queue package: 0.
Guidance fee: 0.
Receipt requirement: 0.
Owner-side correction: increasing.
Competitor monetization contrast: strong.
Yang looked at the zeros.
There were too many now.
Zeros used to be empty rooms.
Now they were rooms full of witnesses.
"Free means no money."
The system displayed:
No money can clarify intention.
Yang pointed at intention.
"Intention cannot be counted."
The panel replied:
External behavior indicates intention understood.
He disliked understood.
Understood was received with better posture.
At ten, finance arrived with a report that used gentler words and the same knife.
"Boss Yang, we still cannot record any direct revenue."
"Good."
