At 3:17 a.m., the lights went out in the headquarters of Huanyu Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in Xinghe City. Only the surveillance room on the top floor still glowed with a deathly white light. On the screens, footage of Lu Jin tearing up a contract played over and over. He wore the “drama queen black suit” he’d been mocked for over the past three years, his tie crooked, his eyes like those of a ghost fresh from hell. The thin sheet of paper crumbled between his fingers into snowflakes, drifting one by one before the livestream camera.
