Song Tianyao put his arm around Angie Perlis, who was walking towards him. Angie Perlis looked at Shek Chi-yik and asked Song Tianyao, "What were you two talking about just now?"
"Director Shi and I are discussing what stories we would tell our lovely daughter if we had one."
"Have you decided what story to tell her?" Angie Perlis rested her head on Song Tianyao's shoulder and asked with a bright smile.
Only when Song Tianyao talked about such lighthearted topics could Angie Perlis remember that this man was going to marry her, and not that he was a cold, intellectually terrifying, and gloomy young China businessman.
"Of course, it would be 'The Wizard of Oz,' something that would be fun for the child. Only a rigid Britain gentleman like him would read a dull and boring 'Wuthering Heights' to his daughter before bed. Oh, and I might also tell her a Harry Potter story, which I heard from a little Britain girl; it's very exciting."
Watching Song Tianyao and Angie Perlis walk away in the sunset, Shek Chi-yik turned his head towards that inconspicuous corner of the military camp and sighed:
"I wonder if Lin Xiaohe regrets not shooting Song Tianyao dead in Macau back then."
If the Lin Family starts fighting amongst themselves, other prominent Chinese business families will gather like sharks smelling blood. Last time, the Chu Family and Cai Families divided up the Zhang Family; this time, even more sharks will swarm in, ready to pounce.
Even if someone in Taiwan wanted to take Lin Xiaohe away, he would be trapped in Hong Kong until the United States completed its investigation into the involvement of Chinese Americans in smuggling embargoed goods. The United States wouldn't care about Taiwan's attitude, Lin Xiaohe could only sit helplessly in prison and watch as the Lin Family's remains were destroyed.
He didn't kill Song Tianyao with a single shot in Macau back then, and Song Tianyao won't be in a hurry to kill him now. After the whole case is investigated for a year or two, the incident will calm down, and no one will pay attention to the Lin Family anymore. Even if Lin Xiaohe is released on bail after signing a guarantee and paying bail money, Pedro Lobo will not let Lin Xiaohe reach Taiwan alive if Song Tianyao doesn't take action.
From now on, the Lin Family will no longer exist in Hong Kong.
Chapter 417 The Lu Family's Hidden Power
"Ah Sin guessed right again. Sigh, he's really getting old. Even a small city like Hong Kong is becoming increasingly incomprehensible to him." Chu Yaozong- Tsung, leaning on a cane, stood in the garden of the Chu Family on Bowen Road, gazing at the distant lights, and said with a sigh.
Chu Xiaozhong, standing beside him, spoke up, "But Song Tianyao didn't use a single penny from Likang Company under Ah Sin's name..."
Chu Yaozong turned around, patted his eldest son's shoulder, and, leaning on his rattan cane, slowly strolled around the garden path. "Sometimes, saying a word when someone is helpless is enough to make them owe you a heavy favor. Besides Ah Sin is really prepared to mortgage the entire Likang assets to raise money for him. Even if Song Tianyao doesn't spend a single penny, he will still repay him. That shrewd young man should know that even if Ah Sin is loyal and doesn't accept his benefits, Ah Sin has not only me, this old codger, but also the Lu Family behind him. Do you think Lu Wenhui arranged for her favored nephew-in-law to work for Song Tianyao during this time without taking a single penny?"
"It seems the Lu Family hasn't done anything. At least the He Family has made a statement in the newspapers, but apart from Ji Wenming running errands... the Lu Family doesn't seem to have done anything else." Chu Xiaozhong followed his father slowly and, hearing his father say that his brother Chu Xiaoxin seemed to have another stroke of luck and was about to get rich, and that it seemed to be related to the Lu Family, he asked curiously.
Having spent years navigating the business world, he had witnessed countless interpersonal relationships and the cutthroat competition between men and women. When Song Tianyao gambled everything on the Lin Family, he shared his father's opinion: the Lin Family had good relations with foreigners, Lin Xiaohe had been a prominent lawyer in London and a high-ranking official in the Kuomintang government, and the Lin Family had amassed immense wealth through three generations in the highly profitable opium trade—far beyond the reach of a newly rich family like the Zhang Family. Therefore, when Chu Xiaoxin told his family that he wanted to help Song Tianyao confront the Lin Family, his father, Chu Yaozong, objected, even saying that Song Tianyao was arrogant, overconfident, and didn't know his own limitations. Chu Xiaoxin agreed with his father and advised Chu Xiaoxin to calm down, suggesting that after Song Tianyao failed against the Lin Family, the Chu Family then help Song Tianyao and bring Song Tianyao back under their wing.
The Chu Family might be a little apprehensive about going up against the Lin Family, but they could still protect Song Tianyao from the Lin Family.
Chu Xiaozhong even fantasized that after stepping in to save the down-on-his-luck Song Tianyao, he might consider having Song Tianyao Chu Xiaozhong for him. After all, he was the Chu Family, and now his younger brother was wearing a Justice of the Justice of the Peace brooch and was the vice president of Oxfam, while he himself didn't even have a decent title. If Song Tianyao failed and fell into disgrace this time, he could take the initiative to befriend him and rely on Song Tianyao's quick wit and calm mind to help him gain some prestige.
Unexpectedly, the fallen Song Tianyao managed to shake the Lin Family. By sheer luck, internal strife broke out in the Lin Family, and now rumors are flying that the second wife of the Lin Family sent the first wife to her death with a packet of arsenic, and then went to the police station to turn herself in, revealing all sorts of secrets about the Lin Family. Countless tabloid reporters have caught wind of this, and by tomorrow morning, this farce of the Lin Family may be known to everyone in Hong Kong.
Chu Yaozong turned to look at the distant lights again. "The Lu Family hasn't done what they should have done. If we're talking about the Chinese whom Governor Grantham most admired and recognized, Lu Wenjin would be second, no other Chinese could be first. Most Chinese are in business, but the Lu Family is involved in politics. If Song Tianyao's third aunt and daughter file for a fight over the inheritance, that's when the Lu Family will unleash their power in court. From the High Court judge and jury members to the barristers representing both sides, and down to the solicitors collecting evidence for Song Tianyao's third aunt, they're all from the Lu Family." Without its pillar of support, how could the Lin Family possibly win this lawsuit? Unless it involves Britain, the Lu Family is the one in charge in court. Besides, even before the trial begins, given the Lin Family's current situation, any lawyers who used to work for them could simply have someone from the Lu Family put in a word and get them off the sinking ship of the Lin Family, saving Song Tianyao a lot of trouble... The Lu Family's political influence means they can't be too conspicuous about their benefits. Ah Sin is Song Tianyao's former boss and good friend; naturally, Ah Sin will act as the Lu Family's representative, receiving sufficient benefits from Song Tianyao."