The Public Slight
At the jade auction hall, Lin Yichen is publicly positioned as disposable and formally moved toward expulsion by Madam Xie Wanyu, Xie Wenhao, and Auntie Shen. He stays controlled and quiet while reading the room’s paperwork better than they expect. When the auction hall manager arrives with a registration mismatch, the family’s clean social expulsion turns into a public financial problem: the table is tied to Yichen’s name on the payment ledger. Yichen then slips a document to auditor Qiao Luming, who goes pale after spotting a hidden clause in the company’s emergency line of credit, setting up a deeper legal trap for the board.