A friend of mine who previously ran a gray-industry operation couldn’t keep it going, so he started making up stories about himself. He claimed that he’d been arrested by the authorities and that it had triggered his “disappearance mode.” His excuse to clients was that he had stopped operations for rectification and that the authorities had seized his businesses. Yet the clients were unusually quiet—they kept waiting for the outcome. In the end, his willpower ran out and it just fizzled out with nothing resolved.

Yesterday I saw someone say #Ju boss Liu Yuan was arrested, and that both of the JuBi accounts were emptied. I don’t know whether Liu the boss staged a “Chan-out-of-the-cicada-shell” escape himself. After all, he’s also supposedly someone with high emotional intelligence and high IQ.