Recaps

Song Tianyao’s scheme exposed Tan Jingwei’s role in the ship bombing and left him facing arrest, while a parallel financial attack forced Gu Quan to rush back to protect the Gu family’s interests. Tan Jingwei was left powerless as Song revealed that the aircraft engines were already being shipped out of Hong Kong.

• Marine Police officers led by Zhao Wenye arrested Tan Jingwei on suspicion of colluding with pirates to blow up a Hong Kong vessel.
• Xu Pingsheng accused Tan Jingwei of destroying his ship, and Zhao Wenye announced that Sheng Zhaozhong had been shot dead.
• Song Tianyao confronted Tan Jingwei at the door and revealed that Lu had helped force Gu Linshan to divert Wing On Bank’s funds.
• Gu Quan realized the Gu family was losing ground in the stock market and hurriedly left the Xu Family house.
• Song Tianyao told Tan Jingwei that the aircraft engines were being loaded at Kwai Chung Pier onto a ship due to leave Hong Kong in two hours.

Song Tianyao sent Tan Jingwei toward a trap while arranging for the freighter to sail and preparing to take the blame for their schemes. After Tan fought Huang Liu at Kwai Chung Pier, Song told Xu Pingsheng and Yu Shiting he planned to leave for Malaya with his movable assets transferred to his foreign girlfriend.

• At Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter, Yao Chunxiao, Ah Gen, and Mute Ah Si waited to kill Tan Jingwei if he arrived.
• Tan Jingwei headed for Kwai Chung Pier after secretly sending staff to alert the British, and found Huang Liu blocking his way as the freighter sailed.
• Tan Jingwei and Huang Liu drew their guns and exchanged fire on the road to the pier.
• The Chinese tycoons left the Xu Family conference hall, and Chu Yaozong told Song Tianyao he had arranged a British cola factory business for him.
• Song Tianyao told Xu Pingsheng and Yu Shiting he would shoulder the consequences alone and planned to go to Malaya, having transferred movable assets into his foreign girlfriend's name.

Song Tianyao prepared to leave Hong Kong for Malaya, where he planned to open a private bank, and arranged for the recovering Huang Liu to join him. He then headed with Lam Kong to the Chu Family to borrow money for cigarettes.

• Song Tianyao told Yu Shiting and Xu Pingsheng that Michael Sandberg had agreed to manage a private bank in Malaya.
• Huang Liu defeated Tan Jingwei at Kwai Chung Pier, but his pistol jammed as he tried to kill him with a crowbar.
• Song Tianyao visited the injured Huang Liu at St. Mary's Hospital and confirmed that Huang Liu would go with him to Malaya after recovering.
• Song Tianyao joked with Huang Liu before leaving the hospital, where Gui Zai Fang and other society members were guarding him.
• Lam Kong complained about his old Ford 49, and Song Tianyao told him to drive to the Chu Family so he could borrow money from Chu Xiaoxin.

In 1983, Song Tianyao and Chu Xiaoxin arrived early at Maryknoll Secondary School, where they reflected on how age and responsibility had changed them. Chu Xiaoxin teased Song Tianyao for involving him in another charitable donation, this time a library in Hong Kong.

• Song Tianyao and Chu Xiaoxin arrived at Maryknoll Secondary School in a black Bentley.
• Song Tianyao teased Chu Xiaoxin about no longer making grand entrances.
• Chu Xiaoxin said he had learned how difficult his father and older brother's lives had been and that he had matured after wasting his youth.
• Song Tianyao remarked that rising in life left people with less energy to deal with others.
• Chu Xiaoxin scolded Song Tianyao for donating schools on the mainland and bringing him along to donate a library in Hong Kong.

Song Tianyao reunited with Chu Xiaoxin in Hong Kong, and the two watched Huo Dongjun fight a group of schoolboys. As Huo Dongjun and his friends walked away, Song Tianyao reflected on his age and the regrets that still followed him after returning to Hong Kong.

• Chu Xiaoxin welcomed Song Tianyao and offered him a villa on Tai Ping Shan, while Song Tianyao said they could discuss his return later.
• Huo Dongjun attacked Feng Zhirong and his companions after they provoked him, beating several of them.
• Lin Zhihui and his men arrived, prompting Feng Zhirong and his followers to retreat.
• Huo Dongjun warned one of Feng Zhirong's lackeys to pay for the illicit pictures and sent him away.
• Song Tianyao compared Huo Dongjun's youthful energy to Chu Xiaoxin's younger self, then watched the group leave and reflected on growing old and his lingering regrets.