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She walked in wearing a high-collar charcoal blazer, her glass-hair bun catching the auditorium light, Sunjun one step behind her left shoulder like a shadow that had chosen its allegiance. The room recalibrated itself around her presence the way rooms do when someone enters who actually owns them. Which, as it happened, she did. The moderator — briefed in advance, professionally composed — stepped to the podium and introduced the founder and CEO of Sun-Leah Systems, the acquiring parent company