The commercial registry issued the review hold notification three days after Ru Songyi's contact filed the procedural challenge.
Three days. I had expected a week. Ru Songyi, who had been watching the commercial registry's processing patterns for months in preparation for exactly this moment, explained that the speed was unusual and significant: someone at the registry had prioritized the hold, which meant either that the challenge was being taken very seriously, or that someone had flagged it for accelerated review because they were being watched.
Either way, the hold was in place. The development agreement could not be registered for thirty days.
I spent the first morning of the thirty days doing nothing in particular.
