Recaps

Song Tianyao stockpiled hair and maneuvered against Tang Boqi and the ten factories as the Hong Kong wig trade expanded. He then traveled to Macau, where He Xian addressed Green Island’s problems and revealed that he had survived an assassination plot.

• Song Tianyao arranged to buy Xia Zuoji’s braids and offered to guarantee a large HSBC loan, while Scribe Hui recruited Mei Dirang to bring Indian hair into the trade.
• Tang Boqi won American orders worth $350,000 for ten factories, prompting Song Tianyao to confront the factory owners and begin preparing a hair shortage.
• Song Tianyao and Lou Fengyun planned for Mei Dirang to keep shipping Indian braids, while Song promised to accompany her to Johor State to seek her father’s grave.
• Song Tianyao had Customs detain a ship carrying the Xia family’s braids, and Lei Yingdong bought two hundred thousand Thai braids for Song’s plan.
• Zhao Wenye shot Chen Tai’s right-hand man, while Tang Boqi sent 2,600 wigs to San Francisco and traveled to the United States to collect payment and arrange orders.
• Song Tianyao and Lei Yingdong arrived in Macau and met He Xian on Green Island, where He ordered water pipes and promised help with sanitation and a charity fundraiser.
• He Xian gathered Song Tianyao, Lei Yingdong, and their companions at the Cao Family mansion and revealed that his men had stopped Taiwanese spies who planned to attack him.
• Song Tianyao and Lei Yingdong presented He Xian with gifts, including a Liu Huisheng set that completed his collection, before He left for the Macau Bankers’ Union.

After surviving an assassination attempt in Macau, Song Tianyao returned to Hong Kong and used the smuggled-hair scandal to attack Tang Boqi’s wig business. Tang Boqi left for the United States with Gu Linshan, while Song positioned himself to take over the market and quietly bought property shares.

• Song Tianyao survived surgery after being shot in Macau, rejected Huang Liu’s offer to join him, then agreed to let him come to Hong Kong after Huang Liu revealed he had sent for Song’s girlfriends.
• While Song was away, Tang Wenbao and the other factory owners formed the Hong Kong Wig Manufacturing Industry Association, and Song returned to find Tang Wenbao named chairman.
• Tang Boqi returned with substantial sales payments and American orders, while Lou Fengyun arranged to buy Xia Harry’s Indian braids for Song.
• Customs and health officials seized Xia Harry’s shipment as supposedly infected, and Xia Harry was arrested on suspicion of smuggling mainland hair under forged Thai-origin documents.
• Song warned Tang Boqi that the smuggling scandal would destroy Kimei’s American business, while Tang refused to retreat and Gu Linshan confronted Song on Tang’s behalf.
• Gu Linshan arranged for Tang Jingyuan to take over Kimei International Trading Company and urged the ten factories to suspend production, while Tang Boqi planned to fight back against Song.
• Gu Linshan told Tang Boqi to return to the United States to prepare his defense, and he finally left Hong Kong with her after asking her to wait for him.
• Song wished Tang Boqi a safe trip at the airport, while Gu Linshan revealed that Song appeared to be buying Xizhen Properties shares through brokers and cover stocks.

Song Tianyao took control of the wig factories’ American orders, pursued new ventures in newspapers and securities, and navigated changing relationships with Angie Pellis and Qi Weiwen. The arc ended with his estranged eldest uncle, Song Chunzhong, returning to Hong Kong and meeting him.

• Song Tianyao secured legitimate supplies and American orders for the wig factories through Angie Pellis, in exchange for eight months of their profits.
• Song Tianyao helped Chu Xiaoxin consider expanding the Pharmaceutical Factory into Chinese medicines and offered Hong Lai-sau a place running China Hong Kong Business Weekly.
• Song Tianyao put Luo Zhuankun in charge of Wealth-Through Securities and planned to publish a stock index while acquiring Xizhen Properties shares.
• Lam Kong established rules requiring jianghu members to provide information or money, while Song Tianyao attended a matchmaking dinner and offered Kong Wing-yan work managing his wig-industry companies.
• Song Tianyao agreed to meet Angie Pellis’s parents and said he planned to marry her within a year, then learned that Song Chunzhong had returned and upset Song Chengqi.
• Song Tianyao defended Song Chunzhong to Song Chengqi, but his father rejected the idea of relying on either of his eldest sons.
• Song Tianyao offered Qi Weiwen a way out of the Walled City or a place as one of his women, but she chose to live independently.
• Song Tianyao confirmed that the battered man at his factory was his eldest uncle, Song Chunzhong, who said he had returned after learning Song Tianyao’s identity through reports about Zhang Yujie.

Song Tianyao pursued Xizhen Properties while the Lin Family struggled to understand and counter his plans. After Lin Xiaokang drove Feng Yunzhi to slash her own throat, Song threatened the Lin Family and demanded an accounting of what Lin Yujing and Yunzhi owed.

• Song Chunzhong confessed to Song Tianyao that he had betrayed his fellow swindlers, stolen their money, and staged his gunshot wound, while Lu Rongfang began considering an alliance with Song over Xizhen Properties.
• Song Tianyao’s newspaper and securities brokers promoted Xizhen Properties to investors as he prepared to acquire the company, and Tang Boqi warned the Lin Family that the buying could be part of a larger plan.
• Lin Xiao qia visited Lin Yujing and learned from Song Tianyao how Lin Xiaokang had taken her savings and cut her allowance, then confronted Lin Xiaokang at the Lin Family meeting.
• Lin Xiao qia and the Lin brothers discussed Song’s intended takeover, while Song agreed to abandon Xizhen Properties and seek land elsewhere to avoid putting Lin Yujing in a difficult position.
• Lin Xiaokang confronted Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi, and after he threatened to marry Yunzhi off, she slashed her throat with a fruit knife.
• Song Tianyao rushed to the hospital, learned that Feng Yunzhi had survived surgery, and threatened Lin Xiaokang and the Lin Family unless they accounted for the injury and settled Lin Yujing and Yunzhi’s debts.
• Song Tianyao arranged guards and visitors for Lin Yujing and Feng Yunzhi, promised to stand up for Yunzhi, and then set out with Huang Liu to see the Foreign Girl.