Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hao seized Da Yu and used him as a hostage, stabbing him repeatedly to keep the Hongxing gang at bay. After Dongxing reinforcements arrived and Da Yu challenged him to stab his stomach, Jiang Hao did exactly that in front of both gangs.

• Da Yu demanded Jiang Hao surrender an arm, his house, and money, so Jiang Hao rushed him and held a dagger to his throat.
• Jiang Hao stabbed Da Yu's legs several times, silencing the Hongxing thugs and impressing Wang Sen, Situ Haonan, and Silver Phoenix.
• Da Yu threatened Jiang Hao and challenged him to kill him, while Jiang Hao made him choose between death and being released.
• Dongxing reinforcements arrived with weapons, shifting the advantage to Wang Sen's gang.
• Da Yu challenged Jiang Hao to stab him in the stomach, and Jiang Hao plunged the dagger into his abdomen.

Jiang Hao defeated Tang Dayu and secured Garden Street as his turf. After realizing its protection fees would not fund his ambitions, he decided he needed to find a way to make more money.

• Jiang Hao forced Tang Dayu to admit defeat and promise that Hongxing would not pursue their dispute, then let him go for medical treatment.
• Wang Sen praised Jiang Hao, and Eastern Star celebrated while Hongxing carried the injured Tang Dayu away.
• Wang Sen assigned Garden Street to Jiang Hao, and Squirrel and the other bosses accepted the decision.
• Jiang Hao took Ah Wah and Ah Jun as his underlings and learned that Garden Street brought in just over a hundred thousand a month in protection money.
• Jiang Hao compared Garden Street's income with the more lucrative streets nearby and concluded that he needed to make more money to expand.

OCTB discussed Jiang Hao’s rise in Dongxing and planned a raid on the Fuxing Gang’s underground boxing casino. Officer Huang asked Jiang Hao to secretly record evidence inside the casino, and Jiang Hao agreed despite worrying about the security of his undercover file.

• An OCTB inspector recommended placing Jiang Hao under surveillance, but Officer Huang ordered only that a criminal evidence file be started because Tang Dayu had not filed a report.
• Officer Huang told OCTB that confirmed intelligence pointed to a hidden Fuxing Gang boxing casino, and the officers struggled to find a way inside.
• Officer Huang met Jiang Hao at Qingsong Temple and told him to investigate Wang Sen’s Ecstasy factory when he could get close enough.
• Jiang Hao asked how many people knew his identity, and Officer Huang said only Chief Superintendent Guo and he knew, while the sole file was locked in his office safe.
• Officer Huang asked Jiang Hao to enter the boxing casino and record evidence, and Jiang Hao agreed after being promised credit toward a promotion.
• Officer Huang gave Jiang Hao miniature recording equipment and told him to get a pager.

Jiang Hao visited Bird Street with Ah Wah and Ah Jun, bought a pair of thrushes, and rescued three Yellow Immortals from a bird shop. He left with the weasels, while the shop’s customers discussed his reputation as Brother Tyrannosaurus.

• Jiang Hao returned to his apartment, collected protection money from Ah Wah, and told him and Ah Jun not to mistreat the street’s shopkeepers.
• Ah Wah and Ah Jun asked to bring friends who wanted to follow Jiang Hao, and he agreed to meet them the next day.
• Jiang Hao went with Ah Wah and Ah Jun to Bird Street and bought a pair of thrushes.
• Jiang Hao found three Yellow Immortals trapped in a cage and used his Animal Communication Ability to promise he would save them if they stopped stealing birds.
• Jiang Hao paid the shop owner a thousand dollars for the weasels, then had Ah Jun carry their cage away.
• The customers recognized Jiang Hao as Brother Tyrannosaurus and discussed his fearsome reputation and calm manner.

Jiang Hao recruited five men into his gang and prepared to rob the Fuxing Gang's underground casino with Officer Huang. After placing hidden-camera equipment inside the casino, he waited for an opportunity to act.

• Jiang Hao sent three yellow weasels to scout routes into the casino, and two found entrances to the restroom and betting area.
• Jiang Hao arranged with Officer Huang to carry out their operation at eleven the next evening.
• Ah Wah and Ah Jun brought Fly, Big Dong, Ah Sum, So Wai, and Little B to join Jiang Hao's crew, and Jiang Hao assigned them to collect debts.
• Jiang Hao took his new underlings out for a meal, then left to visit the casino.
• Jiang Hao entered the casino after identifying himself as Brother Tyrannosaurus and recovered the hidden-camera equipment from a weasel in the restroom.
• Jiang Hao told the weasel to hide nearby and act when it had a chance.

Jiang Hao filmed evidence at an illegal casino before the police raided it and arrested the gamblers. After his identity as Tyrannosaurus was discovered, Superintendent Liu ordered him brought back for interrogation.

• Jiang Hao placed bets at the casino while secretly filming the venue and its patrons.
• The police broke into the underground casino, arrested those inside, and seized gambling records, cash, and checks.
• Jiang Hao handed Superintendent Liu the hidden camera footage, then gave a statement and waited in the holding room for Ah Kun to bail him out.
• A CID Inspector learned that the detained Jiang Hao was the famous Tyrannosaurus and brought his file to Superintendent Liu.
• Superintendent Liu ordered officers to take Jiang Hao to the interrogation room.

Jiang Hao was tortured during an illegal interrogation by Superintendent Liu, who tried to force him to become an informant. Officer Huang rescued him, and Jiang Hao left the police station with Ah Kun, asking to go drink.

• Superintendent Liu accused Jiang Hao of violent assaults and ordered officers to suffocate him with a plastic bag until he confessed.
• Superintendent Liu removed the bag and offered to spare Jiang Hao prison if he became an informant, then had the officers suffocate him again.
• Ah Kun arrived at the police department to bail Jiang Hao out, but officers discovered Jiang Hao was missing from the holding area.
• Officer Huang found Liu torturing Jiang Hao, removed the bag, and threatened to report Liu to his superiors and the Disciplinary Investigation Division.
• Jiang Hao told Officer Huang he had nearly died at the hands of the police and asked to leave, then met Ah Kun and asked him to find somewhere to drink.

Jiang Hao questioned what made people good or bad while drinking with Zhou Kun, then confronted three students who used Tyrannosaurus’s name to extort a roadside stall. He had them beaten and warned them to stop causing trouble, then left for To Kwa Wan, where three other boys were waiting for him.

• Jiang Hao asked Zhou Kun whether gangsters and police officers could be judged as good or bad, and Zhou Kun argued that people were good or bad depending on how they treated them.
• Mountain Cat and two other punks tried to collect protection money from a stall owner, claiming they worked for Tyrannosaurus.
• Zhou Kun revealed that Jiang Hao was Tyrannosaurus and that the street was his turf, leaving the three punks frightened.
• Jiang Hao learned that the punks were students from Chongmen Middle School, ordered Dou Shaba to beat them, and warned them to study and stop causing trouble.
• Jiang Hao declined Zhou Kun’s invitation to a sauna, drove to To Kwa Wan, and headed to meet three boys waiting there.

Jiang Hao’s weasels recovered 540,000 Hong Kong Dollars from a sewer, and he tracked Superintendent Liu and two officers to an illegal dog meat restaurant. After Jiang Hao freed the caged dogs, they attacked the three men as they left, leaving Superintendent Liu badly mauled.

• Jiang Hao collected 540,000 Hong Kong Dollars that three weasels had found in a sewer, then took them home and rewarded them with roast chicken.
• Superintendent Liu complained that Officer Huang Xingcheng might report him and assured his two subordinates that they could deny beating a street thug.
• Superintendent Liu and his subordinates went to an illegal dog meat restaurant in a suburban woodworking factory, where they ate a hotpot made from dog meat.
• Jiang Hao followed them to the factory, used his animal communication ability to approach the caged dogs, and released them before leaving.
• Seven or eight dogs attacked Superintendent Liu and his subordinates as they left the factory, and a large black dog tore flesh from Superintendent Liu’s face and bit his throat.

Jiang Hao’s plan left Superintendent Liu, two officers, and Old Lame dead in a dog attack, while the police concealed the truth by claiming the officers died on duty. The next morning, Jiang Hao reviewed the protection money his underlings had collected on Garden Street and told them their share was far less than they thought.

• Old Lame and the three officers were mauled to death by the dogs, and Jiang Hao drove away after hearing the gunshots.
• Responding police found the bodies and killed the dogs, then identified the victims as Superintendent Liu, two officers, and Old Lame.
• Superintendent Feng briefed Chief Superintendent Guo Haohui and Officer Huang on the investigation, and the senior officers agreed to hide the truth and present the deaths as an ambush during an investigation.
• Jiang Hao recalled using trained thrushes to track Superintendent Liu and saw the dog attack as the opportunity he had planned for.
• The next morning, Jiang Hao told his underlings that they had collected 180,000 in protection money on Garden Street and explained that Brother Sen would take forty percent.

Jiang Hao planned to fund his gang by selling counterfeit sports shoes and recruited a struggling factory owner to make them. He left the evening promising Deng Yao that their partnership could eventually grow into a legitimate shoe brand.

• Jiang Hao explained that the gang needed new sources of income and proposed making knockoff sports shoes.
• He sent Ah Jun to scout for a large storefront, then took Ah Wah, Fly, and Big Dong to buy Nike and Adi shoes as samples.
• After several factories turned them away, Jiang Hao found Deng Yao, whose shoe factory was struggling with debt and competition from cheaper factories in Shenzhen.
• Jiang Hao persuaded Deng Yao to manufacture unbranded shoes, with the gang handling the labels elsewhere, and Deng Yao agreed to cooperate.
• Deng Yao said the shoes could closely match the originals, and Jiang Hao outlined a future plan to build factories inland and establish their own brand.

Jiang Hao invested in a large counterfeit sneaker operation, ordered stock from Deng Yao, and leased three Garden Street storefronts. He borrowed two million yuan from Wang Sen with Zhou Kun as guarantor, promising Zhou Kun a share of the profits.

• Jiang Hao paid Deng Yao a 500,000-yuan deposit to produce more than a hundred sneaker styles and asked for help setting up a labeling factory.
• Jiang Hao told Ah Jun to negotiate five-year leases for three Garden Street storefronts and urged his younger brothers to study.
• Jiang Hao asked Zhou Kun for two million yuan to fund his sneaker business, and Zhou Kun brought him to Wang Sen's finance company.
• Wang Sen agreed to lend Jiang Hao two million yuan, to be repaid as three million within a year, and Zhou Kun guaranteed the loan.
• Jiang Hao promised Zhou Kun twenty percent of the business's profits and said he would one day open a film company for him.

Jiang Hao established a sneaker business, building a private-label shoe operation and preparing three stores to sell major brands alongside his own Tyrannosaurus line. With renovations finished, he organized staff, stock, and flyers ahead of the stores’ opening.

• Jiang Hao rented three storefronts and a secluded building, then arranged renovations and set up a private-label factory with Deng Yao’s help.
• Jiang Hao branded the shoes as Tyrannosaurus and planned to present the label as a famous British sports brand.
• Jiang Hao ordered his men to recruit staff and built his organization to more than a hundred people, then required the sales staff to complete professional training.
• Jiang Hao inspected the completed stores and had workers install the sign reading “Designer Sneaker Brand Discount Store.”
• Jiang Hao sent Ah Wah to stock the three stores and Ah Jun to distribute flyers advertising a one-hundred-dollar coupon for each pair of shoes during the first seven days.

Jiang Hao opened three discount sneaker stores with Zhou Kun and drew a crowd by offering cheap shoes. When a customer disputed how a voucher and discount should be applied, Jiang Hao refunded customers and won their goodwill, while still making a profit; the stores stayed busy until closing as they prepared to count the day’s earnings.

• Jiang Hao explained to Zhou Kun why he had opened three nearby stores selling different sneaker brands, and the stores opened to a rush of customers.
• Customers questioned the low prices, and attendants explained the shoes were discounted because their styles and sizes were incomplete.
• A customer argued that a voucher should be subtracted after the percentage discount, making his shoes cheaper than the cashier had charged.
• Jiang Hao admitted the store shared responsibility for the unclear offer and promised to honor whichever calculation cost customers less, including refunds for earlier purchases.
• Zhou Kun worried the stacked discounts would lose money, but Jiang Hao knew each pair still earned over a hundred dollars in profit.
• After the stores remained packed until around eleven at night, Jiang Hao told everyone to close and count the money.

Jiang Hao’s shoe stores became highly profitable, and he rewarded Zhou Kun with a share of the business while completing his Celestial Master Seal and making talismans. At Wang Sen’s gathering to settle the month’s accounts, Jiang Hao revealed that his shops earned around 100,000 yuan a day, leaving the others shocked and envious.

• Jiang Hao told Zhou Kun that he would receive twenty percent of the shoe-store profits, and Zhou Kun eagerly planned to buy a Mercedes.
• The shoe stores’ sales rose over the following days, while Jiang Hao retrieved and consecrated his Celestial Master Seal at Qingsong Temple.
• Jiang Hao used the seal to complete a Body Protection Talisman and spent several days making more talismans as the stores and Deng Yao’s factory kept busy.
• Ah Kun invited Jiang Hao to Wang Sen’s gathering, and Jiang Hao brought 80,000 yuan to pay his share of the month’s accounts.
• After Squirrel and Ah Bao asked about his shoe-store earnings, Jiang Hao said he was making around 100,000 yuan a day, stunning the group.

Jiang Hao used his sneaker shop’s success to offer Wang Sen and several gangsters shares in the business. After they invested and signed contracts, the group celebrated their new partnership.

• Jiang Hao estimated that the sneaker shop could earn around twenty million a year and told the others that Ah Kun owned a twenty percent stake.
• Wang Sen asked to convert his loan into shares, and Jiang Hao offered him twenty percent for the original three million plus another million.
• Squirrel, Maltose, Blacky, and Ah Bao each agreed to invest one million for five percent of the shop.
• Wang Sen brought everyone to his finance company, where a lawyer drafted contracts and the investors handed Jiang Hao their money.
• Squirrel and the others promised Jiang Hao they would help him whenever he needed them.

Jiang Hao secured Wang Sen’s support for expanding his shoe shops on Garden Street and strengthened his influence among Wang Sen’s men. After depositing their money, he and Zhou Kun bought mobile phones, with Zhou Kun showing his off to impress a woman.

• Wang Sen offered to invest Jiang Hao’s money in his finance company, but Jiang Hao said he planned to open more shoe shops and turn Garden Street into Sneaker Street.
• Jiang Hao promised Wang Sen first chance to invest in future shops and reassured the other men that they would have opportunities too, earning their respect and eager loyalty.
• Wang Sen told his men to prepare gifts for Brother Camel’s birthday next month.
• After they deposited the money, Zhou Kun offered to buy Jiang Hao a mobile phone as thanks for his free stake, and Jiang Hao accepted.
• Jiang Hao and Zhou Kun each bought a mobile phone, and Zhou Kun pretended to make a big-money call when he spotted a beautiful woman.

Jiang Hao reinvested his profits by partnering with Deng Yao to build a shoe factory in Shenzhen, then returned to Hong Kong and ordered his underlings to attend classes. The chapter left Ah Jun responsible for supervising their studies while facing the same exams and punishments as everyone else.

• Ah Kun accepted Jiang Hao’s Body Protection Talisman, and Jiang Hao ordered Ah Wah and Ah Jun to prepare two more shoe stores.
• Jiang Hao gave Deng Yao one million and proposed partnering to build a factory in mainland China using the Tyrannosaurus Sports brand.
• Jiang Hao and Deng Yao chose a site in Shenzhen’s Futian Industrial Zone and founded a factory, with Jiang Hao investing four million Hong Kong Dollars for 80 percent and Deng Yao investing one million for 20 percent.
• Jiang Hao left Deng Yao, Ah Wah, and Big Dong to oversee the factory construction and returned to Hong Kong.
• Jiang Hao ordered his underlings to study Chinese, history, law, English, and physical education, and made Ah Jun responsible for supervising them.
• Jiang Hao told Ah Jun he would also have to study and would be punished if any underling failed an exam.

Jiang Hao turned a rented building into a school and training ground for his underlings, using threats and demonstrations to make them study and train seriously. After a grueling first day, he ordered them to alternate between work and classes and adopt a more respectable appearance.

• Jiang Hao hired teachers and opened classes, but his underlings disrupted Teacher Tang’s Chinese lesson.
• Jiang Hao had Ah Jun and So Wai stage Little B’s apparent beating, frightening the class into silence.
• Jiang Hao warned the underlings not to quit or misbehave and ordered them to study for exams.
• Jiang Hao fought the entire group in the gym, then began teaching them practical fighting techniques.
• Jiang Hao told the underlings to alternate work and classes and to wear proper haircuts, shirts, and suits.

Jiang Hao practiced shooting in secret before attending Eastern Star boss Camel’s birthday banquet with Wang Sen and his underlings. At the banquet, Camel praised Jiang Hao, Smiling Tiger tried to stir up a rivalry between him and Situ Haonan, and Silver Phoenix called Jiang Hao over to talk.

• Jiang Hao practiced firing his two Black Stars in a remote valley, then hid the guns in a cave after Ah Kun reminded him about Camel’s birthday banquet.
• Jiang Hao met Wang Sen and the others at Da Fu Hao Restaurant, where he brought Camel an 88,800-yuan gold Rolex.
• Wang Sen introduced Jiang Hao to Camel, who praised his fighting ability and urged Eastern Star to recruit more talented people.
• Jiang Hao greeted Situ Haonan, Brother Kele, and Smiling Tiger, who suggested arranging a fight between Jiang Hao and Situ Haonan.
• Silver Phoenix rebuked Smiling Tiger and called Jiang Hao over because she wanted to talk to him.