The Public Slight
At Shen Group’s family finance breakfast, Liu Chen is publicly stripped of access and seating before a bid hearing, showing that his marriage leverage and signature authority can be erased by procedure. Rather than explode, he tracks a misrouted packet into the records corridor, photographs a real transfer document, and realizes the family has already been moving money through the hearing package. The chapter ends with a stronger shock: while he secures the first usable proof, the family initiates a joint-account review and moves to freeze his wife’s voting authority, confirming the attack is coordinated and immediate.