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Chapter 101 - The Opening Move of Spring
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2026-07-31 11:11:59
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Jiang was still standing in front of Adam's desk, waiting for an answer that both of them already knew was coming.Adam looked at him for a few seconds before finally shaking his head with a faint smile. There was little point in continuing the argument. Jiang had already made his position clear, and after everything they had discussed, Adam knew that trying to force him into a safer path would only lead to another argument tomorrow."Fine," Adam said. "You win."Jiang's expression immediately brightened."I knew you would eventually see reason.""Don't push your luck.""I wouldn't dream of it."Adam gave him a look, but Jiang had already picked up his jacket from the back of the chair."I'll start tomorrow. I want to go through the current maintenance reports before I start making recommendations. If I'm going to be responsible for technical oversight, I need to understand how things are currently being handled.""Talk to Melissa first. She'll give you access to the operational recor
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Adam turned away again, walking slowly toward the glass wall that overlooked the central bullpen. The floor was almost dark now, save for the blue ambient glow of idling monitors and the soft perimeter lights reflecting off the polished concrete.He thought back to the beginning of the year—to the claustrophobic boardroom meetings, the late-night strategy sessions where every voice around him had been calculating their own exposure, their own exit routes, their own severance packages if Julian managed to engineer a hostile takeover. In a corporate structure, loyalty was a fluid metric, bound by stock options, career trajectories, and risk mitigation.Except for the man standing behind him.Jiang didn't care about the corporate ladder. He didn't care about executive titles or equity packages. He cared about the fact that they had bled together to keep this company afloat, and he refused to let Adam fight a war of attrition with one hand tied behind his back."If I say yes," Adam said f
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"No," Jiang said, and for the first time there was an edge in it, not anger, just weight. "That's what you do for people you're managing. You put the ones you're managing on the safe side of the line and you keep the danger for yourself because it makes you feel like you're protecting them. But you don't manage me. We didn't grow up calling each other brothers for no reason."Adam went still, his hand hovering over the capped marker he’d just set down on the whiteboard tray. The metal frame of the board gave a microscopic squeak under the sudden stillness of the room. Outside, the low hum of the evening traffic on the avenue six floors below bled through the double-paned glass, but inside, the air had gone tight and thin."You call me your brother," Jiang said, taking a step forward. The heel of his boot struck the hardwood with a deliberate, heavy sound. "Not your friend. Not your guy. But a brother. You've said it in front of Melissa, in front of Olivia too. You've also said it in f
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