Recaps

Song Tianyao investigated the American wig market, bought machinery for a Hong Kong factory, and began recruiting workers and suppliers. Meanwhile, Nine-Tattooed Dragon’s fight with Handkerchief Qing sparked a dangerous police standoff, and Song uncovered a fraudulent scheme involving three young women.

• Song Tianyao toured San Francisco’s wig shops and Marcus’s factory with Tang Boqi, then bought four stored wig-making machine sets from Galen Nelson in Cleveland.
• Song Tianyao gave Shek Chi-yik a notebook arguing that Hong Kong could compete in manufacturing, while he arranged to source women’s braids and asked Lou Fengyun to prepare a wig factory.
• Nine-Tattooed Dragon challenged Handkerchief Qing’s men at Sai Kung Pier, defeated Tie Tou Su, and was beaten until Scribe Hui and Yan Hung intervened.
• Yan Hung and Lui Lok drew guns on each other at the pier, but Chen Tai and others prevented a shootout as Qi Weiwen claimed Nine-Tattooed Dragon as her sworn younger brother.
• Song Tianyao arrived and told Scribe Hui to enlist British soldiers, then let Nine-Tattooed Dragon decide who could leave and pursue compensation from Handkerchief Qing’s group.
• Lou Fengyun rented a closed preserved-duck factory in North Point, while Song Tianyao searched for a craftsman who could make real-hair wigs.
• Song Tianyao and A Wai investigated a house where three girls were memorizing false identities, and Lam Kong arrested the old wig master as Yan Hung’s officers entered.
• Song Tianyao discovered the girls’ prize-offering scam and questioned Song Sidi and Han Yifang, who admitted the old master had devised it and offered the police nine thousand dollars to let him leave Hong Kong.

Song Tianyao rescued three girls, built Long Light Wig Factory, and secured a two-year supply deal with major department stores. Angie Pellis returned to help him as Tang Boqi began investigating his factory and Song completed HSBC loan formalities.

• Song Tianyao exposed Ning Zikun’s lottery scam, tore up the girls’ sale contracts, and offered Fu Xinniang, Shu Yan, and Shi Yin work and lodging.
• Song Tianyao protected Song Wenwen from Zhao Houji’s family’s marriage proposal, then established Long Light Wig Factory and Manifest Glory Trading Company.
• Song Tianyao trained workers with Ning Zikun and arranged a publicity campaign for Lam Kong, while Kong Wing-yan consulted him about Oxfam’s medicine donation.
• Song Tianyao secured Chu Xiaoxin’s guarantee for a US$200,000 HSBC loan and asked Shek Chi-yik to help promote his wigs to major department stores.
• Tang Boqi arrived in Hong Kong and told Tang Jingyuan that Song Tianyao had misled him about American distributors, while suspecting Song was preparing to dominate the wig business.
• Angie Pellis returned from London to join Song Tianyao, and he brought her to the factory to meet buyers from Lane Crawford, Marks & Spencer, and Debenhams.
• Song Tianyao negotiated a two-year exclusive supply agreement with the three department stores, while Tang Boqi decided to study his factory and Tang Jingyuan planned to start making wigs.
• Song Tianyao, Angie Pellis, Chu Yaozong, Chu Shuheng, and their lawyers completed HSBC loan formalities with Michael Sandberg.

Song Tianyao turned the Liwan Welfare Institute’s abuses into a crisis for the British Red Cross and an opportunity to expand Oxfam and the wig trade, while arranging the aftermath of the killings. The arc ended with Nine-Tattooed Dragon and Huang Liu intervening when 14K men confronted Song Tianyao and Qi Weiwen.

• Song Tianyao outlined a plan for Angie Pellis to import wig-making machines, establish a machinery company with Galen Nelson, and return its profits to Hong Kong.
• Song Chengqi, Qi Weiwen, and Nine-Tattooed Dragon investigated a welfare home, where Song Chengqi found imprisoned residents, learned Bo Ming had disappeared, and helped free the captives.
• Lam Kong arranged the killing of the British Red Cross doctor and staged it as a kidnapping and shootout, while Song Tianyao secured witnesses and prepared to expose the welfare home’s abuses.
• At dinner, Chu Yaozong warned Song Tianyao about his rivals, then advised him to resolve the local trouble and meet Lai Man-yau, and Song Tianyao also proposed an Oxfam blood-supply organization to Lu Wenhui.
• Yan Hung and Lai Man-yau settled the police complications, while Lam Kong agreed to keep the mastermind’s identity secret.
• Song Tianyao offered Lai Man-yau priority access to wig-making equipment, then told Song Chengqi that the doctor was dead and offered to fund the Elderly Home and Longjin Charity School.
• Song Chengqi refused to leave and considered using money recovered from the doctor’s safe to start a business with the elderly residents, and Qi Weiwen proposed a restaurant, which Song Tianyao approved.
• Ge Zhixiong and Scribe Tan confronted Qi Weiwen, but Nine-Tattooed Dragon beat their men and Huang Liu drove off Heizai Jie before Song Tianyao invited Huang Liu to talk.

Song Tianyao managed the fallout from Huang Liu’s killings, helped build the new blood service, and expanded his business ties while the Tang family entered the wig trade. The stretch ended with Song and Lou Fengyun meeting prospective wig makers at Li Bazhong’s gathering, where Luo Jiabao questioned them about production.

• Tang Jingyuan expanded the factory and, with Tang Boqi, planned to produce wigs in Hong Kong for the American market.
• Huang Liu admitted killing Heizai Jie and Scribe Tan, explained his other actions, and left for Macau after redirecting Song Tianyao’s office phone.
• Scribe Hui pursued military uniform contracts, and Song Tianyao arranged a loan so he could partner with Meng Chengzhi to establish a garment factory.
• After a newspaper scandal over blood sales, Mrs. Bess helped establish a centralized blood service managed by Oxfam, and Chu Xiaoxin donated five hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars.
• Song Tianyao prevented Chu Xiaoxin from retaliating against the newspaper and negotiated with Tang Jingyuan over training workers for the expanding wig trade.
• The Tang family recruited workers from Song Tianyao’s factory, but Tang Boqi warned that their machinery supply depended on Song and later received Song’s assurance that the machines would arrive on time.
• Song Tianyao discussed a free weekly business-listings paper with Hong Lai-sau and planned to fund it through advertising.
• At Li Bazhong’s wig-industry gathering, Song Tianyao introduced Long Light Wig Factory manager Lou Fengyun to Luo Jiabao, who questioned them about raw materials and production waste.