The dissolution records did not arrive in the expected window.
This was itself information. Ru Songyi's registry contact had estimated five to seven days for a standard processing turnaround. We were on day twelve when Ru Songyi sent word that the request had been received but the processing was being held pending a review by a senior archivist whose appointment to that review role, Ru Songyi noted, had been made the same week our request was filed.
Meng Wei had access to the registry office after all.
