Recaps

At a pleasure boat in Zhannan District, Su Tianyu explained to Su Tiannan why he could not settle for the family business, recalling how privilege had separated him from his doomed friend He Yudong. The brothers returned to the harbor night with their paths still distinct, while Wang Daolin arrived at the Su family courtyard and learned they had gone out drinking.

• Bai Hongbo took Su Tianyu, Su Tiannan, and the others to Treasure Music One, where they drank and socialized with hired companions.
• Su Tiannan praised Su Tianyu for helping the family and urged him to stay and work in the family business.
• Su Tianyu told Su Tiannan about the sinking cruise ship, where orders saved wealthy and powerful passengers while ordinary people, including his friend He Yudong, died.
• Su Tianyu said the invisible wall of privilege had shaped his life and that he needed to pursue opportunities beyond the family business.
• Wang Daolin returned to the Su family courtyard, and Third Sister told him the others had gone out drinking and whoring.

After Second Uncle Su Zhengcai returned home, he praised Su Tianyu’s actions but insisted the family should not back down from the Management Council. By the next day, the Su men were kneeling and making amends to the Council’s leaders, while a young woman recognized one of them as the man who had smashed her car.

• After the party, Su Tianbei and the others went home to see Su Zhengcai, while Bai Hongbo stayed out and missed his father’s release.
• Su Zhengcai reunited with his family, sent everyone else to bed, and spoke privately with Su Tianyu about the family’s losses and next move.
• Su Tianyu argued that the family still had to submit to the Management Council because it controlled their livelihood, but Su Zhengcai refused to accept that.
• The next day, Su Zhengcai, Su Tiannan, Su Tianyu, and Su Tianbei knelt before Yu Jinrong and two other Management Council leaders at Yu Jinrong’s home.
• A young woman upstairs recognized one of the men as Lu Feng and accused him of smashing her car and breaking her Winnie the Pooh figure.

At a banquet, Su Zhengcai used the Su Family’s recent crisis to build a connection with Yu Jinrong, a senior Management Council official. Yu Jinrong offered Su Tianyu a place at his family’s company and promised to help him find a public-sector position the following year.

• Su Zhengcai toasted Yu Jinrong and pledged the support of the Su Family’s eight hundred employees, and Yu Jinrong accepted the toast.
• Su Zhengcai described the younger family members’ role in the Fortune House incident and credited Su Tianyu with bringing the Four Companies together.
• Yu Jinrong asked about Su Tianyu’s West Point education and why he had returned home instead of remaining with his original unit.
• Su Zhengcai asked Yu Jinrong to help Su Tianyu secure a good public-sector assignment after he took the civil service exam the next year.
• Yu Jinrong invited Su Tianyu to work at his family’s company for a year and said his son would help arrange a position, and Su Zhengcai urged Tianyu to thank him.

After dinner at the Yu family's estate, Su Tianyu ran into An Qiqi, whose car he had damaged while fleeing Lu Feng, and agreed to pay her repair costs. Meanwhile, Yu Jinrong learned that another company had approached his eldest son and that they were negotiating.

• Su Tianyu politely declined Yu Jinrong's offer to work for his eldest son's foreign trade company, while Su Zhengcai urged him to accept.
• The Su family left the estate after discussing the sanitation industry, and the housekeeper gave Su Tianyu Yu Jinrong's eldest son's contact information.
• An Qiqi confronted Su Tianyu about the damaged car and broken Winnie the Pooh, and he agreed to pay her 3,500 after she gave him her contact information.
• Su Tianyu realized he should have given An Qiqi Lu Feng's contact information, then left with the Su family.
• Yu Jinrong asked his eldest son whether another company had approached him, and his son said they were in talks.

Su Tianyu weighed Second Uncle Su Zhengcai’s advice and decided to take the opportunity to work for the Yu Family. The next morning, he called Yu Mingyuan and headed to the office, beginning his new life in Dragon City.

• Su Zhengcai urged Su Tianyu to work for Yu Jinrong, arguing that the connections could help him secure a good public-sector job later.
• Su Tianyu admitted he was wary of owing Yu Jinrong a favor and possibly falling under the Yu Family’s influence, but Su Zhengcai persuaded him to seize the opportunity.
• Da Xiong and Bai Hongbo visited Su Tianyu, and Bai Hongbo asked him to review a contract template.
• The next morning, Su Tianyu called Yu Mingyuan, arranged to meet at the office, and left home dressed in a suit.

Su Tianyu joined Yu Mingyuan’s company as assistant to the general manager, but Yu Mingyuan’s unusually generous treatment left him uneasy. After giving him a company SUV, Yu Mingyuan invited him to another party, and Su Tianyu joked with Big Bai about what his boss might really want.

• Su Tianyu met Yu Mingyuan, who hired him as assistant to the general manager and promised to help him with civil service connections after he passed the exam.
• Yu Mingyuan gave Su Tianyu a high salary, little work, and invitations to social gatherings with government and business figures.
• After half a month, Su Tianyu asked Yu Mingyuan why he was treating him so well, but Yu Mingyuan invited him to a party instead of answering.
• Yu Mingyuan handed Su Tianyu the keys to a company SUV because he was tired of commuting by bus.
• Su Tianyu asked Big Bai what a man might want from treating another man without limits, and joked that he would make Yu Mingyuan reveal his intentions first.

Su Tianyu forced Yu Mingyuan to reveal why he had given him special treatment: Yu Mingyuan wanted the Su Family’s help distributing tobacco and alcohol in Dragon City. Yu Mingyuan took Su Tianyu to meet someone in Zhannan District, and a familiar figure arrived.

• Su Tianyu deliberately skipped work for five days until Yu Mingyuan summoned him to the office.
• Su Tianyu confronted Yu Mingyuan and threatened to resign, pressing him to explain his intentions.
• Yu Mingyuan showed Su Tianyu Dajiu cigarettes and explained the opportunity in supplying familiar Chinese tobacco and alcohol to Dragon City.
• Yu Mingyuan proposed using his sourcing channels and the Su Family’s workers in Zhannan District to distribute the goods.
• Yu Mingyuan took Su Tianyu to a teahouse in Zhannan District, where a familiar figure soon entered.

Su Tianyu learned that Yu Mingyuan was organizing a sanitation supply business with the Kong Family and sought his Su Family’s involvement. After Su Zhengcai agreed to test the waters by bringing in Bai Hongbo’s family, the Bai Family joined, and Yu Mingyuan began preparing for the venture.

• Yu Mingyuan explained the supply business and its distribution networks to Su Tianyu, Kong Zhenghui, and Tang Baiqing, and asked Su Tianyu to consult his family.
• Su Tianyu told Su Zhengcai and his eldest brother about the proposal, and Su Zhengcai said someone should test the waters first.
• Su Tianyu proposed that Bai Hongbo join, and Bai Hongbo went home to ask his father.
• Old Man Bai agreed to join after learning that the Su Family and Kong Family were involved.
• Yu Mingyuan told someone on the phone to start getting ready because the deal was nearly settled.

Su Tianyu and Yu Mingyuan formed an initial team for their goods business, with Bai Hongbo joining through Su Tianyu’s recommendation. Afterward, Bai lent Su Tianyu money to repair An Qiqi’s car, and Su called her to arrange it.

• Su Tianyu told Yu Mingyuan that his second uncle was interested in joining the business, and they agreed to keep the operation legal and begin with trial shipments.
• Su Tianyu persuaded Yu Mingyuan to include Bai Hongbo, whose family’s chamber of commerce could help with distribution, and Yu agreed to meet him.
• Bai Hongbo met Yu Mingyuan, and the families’ roles in procurement, local connections, storage, deliveries, and sales were arranged.
• Yu Mingyuan told Linda to buy equipment, while Su Tianyu and Bai Hongbo left the company and discussed Su’s favor in bringing him into the business.
• Bai Hongbo agreed to lend Su Tianyu a little over three thousand to repair An Qiqi’s car, and Su called An Qiqi to arrange it.

Su Tianyu helped An Qiqi arrange repairs for her car and paid to add a protective wrap, while Bai Hongbo flirted with An Qiqi’s friends. Later, Su Tianyu joined Linda to prepare for Yu Mingyuan’s cargo operation, and the first shipment arrived a week later.

• Su Tianyu negotiated the repair work on An Qiqi’s car and arranged to have a pink protective wrap added, with Bai Hongbo paying the bill.
• An Qiqi thanked Su Tianyu and joked that she would treat him to dinner, while Doll received Bai Hongbo’s message marking the precise moment they had met.
• Linda showed Su Tianyu the rented speedboats and storage space and told him Yu Mingyuan had put him in charge of moving cargo.
• A week later, the first shipment arrived, and the group gathered at the Su Family Garbage Dump to begin work that night.

Su Tianyu’s group completed its first covert shipment pickup at sea and brought the cargo back to shore. Before they could leave, Wei Xiangzuo and the Zhannan Wharf Gang confronted them and stopped the ensuing fight at gunpoint.

• Da Xiong persuaded Su Tianyu to let him join the dangerous cargo pickup so he could earn money to buy a house and get married.
• After Tang Baiqing confirmed the arrangements, Su Tianyu led the group out to a freighter and loaded crates worth a little over four hundred thousand onto three speedboats.
• The group returned to shore, transferred the cargo into trucks, and began preparing to leave while Da Xiong stayed behind to help clean up.
• Two SUVs arrived, and their men demanded that the group surrender the cargo and summon their boss.
• The buzz-cut Wei Xiangzuo knocked Bai Hongbo and two Bai Family members down, while his companion held a pistol to Su Tianbei’s head and identified Wei as the Zhannan Wharf Gang’s hall boss.

Su Tianyu’s crew was stopped by Wei Xiangzuo’s Dock Gang while collecting a shipment, but Tang Baiqing negotiated their release. After Yu Mingyuan paid out the crew’s share, Su Tianyu wondered how the Dock Gang had learned about their hidden pickup so quickly.

• Su Tianyu told his crew to stand down and call Yu Mingyuan after Wei Xiangzuo’s men intercepted the shipment and ordered them to squat.
• Tang Baiqing arrived, explained the shipment was for his friend, and privately settled the dispute with Wei Xiangzuo.
• Wei Xiangzuo and his men left, and Tang Baiqing told Su Tianyu the crew could continue as usual.
• Yu Mingyuan paid Tang Baiqing to smooth things over, then gave Su Tianyu eighty-five thousand to divide among the crew.
• Su Tianyu told Kong Zhenghui that the Dock Gang had arrived suspiciously quickly and wondered how they had discovered the pickup site.

After the first smuggling run, Su Tianyu and his companions shared breakfast and discussed their hopes for the future. Big Bear moved into the seaside building, leaving his family home to take a night watchman’s job.

• Kong Zhenghui dismissed Su Tianyu’s suspicions about the dock gangs, and the families divided the night’s earnings among themselves.
• Big Bear treated Su Tianyu, Su Tianbei, Bai Hongbo, and Zhang Hao to dim sum, then asked to live in the rented seaside building.
• The five young men discussed their plans and toasted a better tomorrow with bowls of congee.
• Big Bear took the building’s key home, gave Father Wu most of his earnings, and left with his belongings after explaining he had found a night watchman’s job.
• Big Bear cleaned and furnished a bedroom in the seaside building, placing a carving of Third Sister and his worn Superman toy beside the bed.

Su Tianyu prepared the Dirty Gang for another smuggling run as Big Xiong went to the Third Floor during a storm. There, Tang Baiqing struck his pregnant lover during an argument, and Big Xiong walked in as she lay convulsing and bleeding.

• Su Tianyu confirmed with Yu Mingyuan that another shipment was arriving the following night and told Big Xiong to prepare the equipment at the Third Floor.
• Big Xiong arrived at the Third Floor and found Tang Baiqing and several others playing cards, then left to buy them food and drinks.
• A young woman confronted Tang Baiqing and told him she was pregnant, demanding that he explain what he would do.
• Tang Baiqing refused to marry her and told her to get an abortion, then struck her with an object during their struggle.
• The woman fell, convulsing and bleeding, as Big Xiong returned carrying bags of food.

Tang Baiqing accidentally killed Xiao Ying and his father and a police officer arranged to keep the incident quiet, but police later arrested Tang Baiqing and Big Bear. Before the Police Bureau opened, Yu Mingyuan alerted Su Tianyu to move the boats and other things from the third floor.

• Tang Baiqing struck Xiao Ying with a specialized hammer, and she died while he and Big Bear tried to carry her outside.
• Tang Baiqing called his father, who arrived with an elderly police officer; they decided to handle the death privately and warned Tang Baiqing to keep Big Bear quiet.
• Police arrived around eleven that night and escorted Tang Baiqing and Big Bear away while taking Xiao Ying's body.
• Yu Mingyuan called Su Tianyu before dawn and ordered him to rearrange the boats and move everything from the third floor before the Police Bureau opened.

Su Tianyu and his companions cleared the Third Floor warehouse while Uncle Yang considered how to protect Tang Baiqing from the murder case. The chapter ended with Su Tianyu, Bai Hongbo, and Zhang Hao arriving at the Zhannan Police Division as Wei Xiangzuo heard about Tang Baiqing’s arrest.

• Su Tianyu called Yu Mingyuan, who told him to wait for the police to leave before removing the speedboats and equipment from the backyard.
• Su Tianyu realized Big Bear might be involved in the investigation, and Uncle Yang reviewed Big Bear’s statement and questioned him about his family.
• Uncle Yang told Tang Baiqing’s father that Big Bear’s intellectual impairment complicated the case, then quietly proposed steering it in another direction.
• Wei Xiangzuo heard that Tang Baiqing was involved in a death at the warehouse and that the Gang Leader had wanted to see him.
• After clearing the warehouse, Su Tianyu drove with Bai Hongbo and Zhang Hao to the entrance of the Zhannan Police Division.

Tang Baiqing's Father offered Wu Shixiong's parents money to have their son take the blame for the death, and Father Wu accepted the proposal enough to ask him directly. Su Tianyu and Bai Hongbo were kept from seeing Wu Shixiong, leaving the truth of the arrangement hidden from them.

• Uncle Yang led Father Wu and Mother Wu outside and introduced them to Tang Baiqing's Father, who drove them away from the police station to talk privately.
• Tang Baiqing's Father described how Wu Shixiong could receive a reduced sentence and offered Father Wu a hundred thousand for every year their son served in place of his own son.
• Father Wu and Mother Wu returned to the investigations building with troubled expressions while Uncle Yang watched them.
• An officer refused to let Su Tianyu and Bai Hongbo see Wu Shixiong, so they went back outside to wait.
• Uncle Yang brought Wu Shixiong's parents into the interview room after an officer shut off the surveillance cameras.
• Father Wu asked Wu Shixiong to take the blame for the case, and Wu Shixiong was stunned to hear his father call him son.

Big Bear agreed to take responsibility for Qu Ying’s death after his parents pressured him, and the Tang Family arranged a deal to protect Tang Baiqing. As Big Bear was sent to prison and the case was closed, Su Tianyu learned the sea shipment was ready, while a man on an island asked about Su Dake.

• Father Wu and his wife persuaded Big Bear to accept a prison sentence in exchange for money to help his brothers, then signed an agreement with Tang Baiqing’s father.
• Su Tianyu learned from Yu Mingyuan that Big Bear was taking the fall for Tang Baiqing and visited him before his transfer, but Big Bear said he could not refuse his parents.
• Uncle Yang coached Big Bear to describe Qu Ying’s attack and his own injuries, while Tang Baiqing gave a statement supporting that account.
• At the Police Bureau Hospital, officers photographed Big Bear’s many old scars and recorded him as Wu Shixiong, age nineteen, suspected of homicide.
• A week later, Tang Baiqing returned to work, Yu Mingyuan told Su Tianyu the case was over and the shipment was ready, and a man on an island asked another about Su Dake.

Su Tianyu’s cargo pickup turned into an ambush at sea, and he rushed to the hijacking site after Zhang Hao’s distress call. He found the boats and cargo gone, with the workers left struggling in the water.

• Su Tianyu visited Big Bear in detention and deposited money and supplies for him.
• Su Tianyu organized the night’s cargo pickup from a rented courtyard near Haiyan Pit and sent Zhang Hao out with twenty men in seven speedboats.
• Masked men in five or six speedboats surrounded Zhang Hao’s boats and ordered the crews to stop.
• When Zhang Hao tried to radio Su Tianyu, a masked leader shot him in the leg with a speargun and forced the crews to surrender.
• Su Tianyu reached the hijacking site and found more than a dozen workers in the water, while the boats, cargo, Zhang Hao, and the others had disappeared.

After the cargo and five men were seized at sea, Tang Baiqing advised Yu Mingyuan that he should give the Dock Gang a share of the freight business, potentially removing the Su, Bai, and Kong Three Families. The chapter ended with Zhang Hao and the others beaten and imprisoned in submerged dog cages as Zhang Hao began to reveal that he recognized their captors.

• Yu Mingyuan took Su Tianyu to meet Tang Baiqing after learning that masked men had hijacked their cargo and abducted the crew.
• Tang Baiqing said the Dock Gang denied involvement and suggested the hijackers might be criminals seeking ransom.
• Tang Baiqing told Yu Mingyuan that the Dock Gang wanted at least twenty percent of the sea freight business and advised him to use them for hauling instead of the Su, Bai, and Kong Three Families.
• Yu Mingyuan refused to discuss changing the business arrangement before finding the cargo and the abducted men, and Tang Baiqing agreed to press the Dock Gang for information.
• Zhang Hao and the other four men were beaten, locked in dog cages, and thrown into a saltwater pond, where Zhang Hao said he knew who their captors were.

After the cargo and crew disappeared, Su Tianyu and Yu Mingyuan investigated whether the Dock Gang or Lu Feng’s Changqing Company was responsible. Lu Feng denied involvement, and Su Tianyu began to suspect someone wanted to force a change in the business shares; the chapter ended with Tang Baiqing reporting that armed outsiders had taken the shipment and the Dock Gang refusing to mediate without a reason.

• Yu Mingyuan told Su Tianyu to investigate both the Dock Gang and Lu Feng’s Changqing Company while everyone waited at the dump for news of the missing crew and cargo.
• Su Tiannan located Lu Feng at Qiu Mountain Temple, and Su Tianyu sent Bai Hongbo and Li Tao to question him while he waited below with Kong Zhenghui.
• Lu Feng denied taking the shipment, said Changqing Company did not target business beyond its own turf, and suggested that people who made their living at sea could know more about the raid.
• Su Tianyu reasoned that the kidnappers might be targeting the business shares and asked Kong Zhenghui about his contacts at the docks.
• Tang Baiqing told Yu Mingyuan that armed criminals from outside Dragon City had taken the cargo for a large payout, but Xu Hu questioned why the Dock Gang should help arrange talks.

Yu Mingyuan weighed the Dock Gang’s pressure against his existing alliance, while Su Tianyu urged him to prioritize recovering the detained men and hinted he would retaliate if they were not returned. The chapter ended with Kong Zhenghui hiring a man to locate seven speedboats.

• Tang Baiqing urged Yu Mingyuan to replace the Su, Bai, and Kong Three Families with the Dock Gang, promising the gang could protect his shipping operation and help recover the cargo.
• Yu Mingyuan suspected the Dock Gang had orchestrated the hijacking and struggled to choose between accepting its terms and risking his cargo, men, and shipping routes.
• Su Tianyu showed Yu Mingyuan estimates for expanding their sales channels and warned that the Dock Gang was not one of their own.
• Su Tianyu gave Tang Baiqing two days to find the detained men before he took matters into his own hands, and Yu Mingyuan left the company after him.
• Near the docks, Kong Zhenghui paid a shifty-eyed man to locate seven speedboats within one night.

Yu Mingyuan decided to negotiate with the Dock Gang over his seized shipment, while Kong Zhenghui and Su Tianyu found no leads on the missing speedboats and considered a direct approach. The chapter ended with Su Tianyu calling someone.

• At breakfast, Yu Mingyuan told Yu Jinrong that the company’s shipment had been hijacked and workers taken hostage, but said he could handle it without help.
• Yu Mingyuan called Tang Baiqing and agreed to meet him and then the Dock Gang that evening.
• Xu Hu invited Wei Xiangzuo to the meeting with Yu Mingyuan, but Wei declined and advised Xu Hu to help release the workers if Yu Mingyuan paid his dues.
• A dockworker told Kong Zhenghui he could find no information about seven speedboats, even after asking contacts outside the district.
• Su Tianyu said the lack of information was itself significant, then called someone to pursue a more direct approach.

Su Tianyu prepared to recover his people and cargo from the Dock Gang while Yu Mingyuan negotiated with them. Kong Zhenghui identified two crew bosses under Xu Hu, and Su Tianyu faced a decision about carrying out the plan.

• Su Tianyu asked Kong Zhenghui to investigate the Dock Gang, then explained the danger to Su Zhengcai and outlined a plan to recover the people and cargo.
• Su Zhengcai agreed to seek help from Wang Daolin, who questioned why he should get involved but considered Su Zhengcai's offer of support.
• Su Tianyu gathered Kong Zhenghui, Su Tianbei, Bai Hongbo, and family members at the warehouse yard, where Bai Hongbo hesitated to join the operation.
• Yu Mingyuan met Tang Baiqing before heading to a restaurant in Zhannan District.
• Kong Zhenghui learned that Guo Lin and Feng Hai were Xu Hu's crew bosses and asked Su Tianyu whether he would go through with the plan.

Yu Mingyuan met Xu Hu to negotiate the return of his men and cargo, but Xu Hu demanded a stake in the maritime business and threatened the Su, Bai, and Kong families. Xu Hu had Zhang Hao’s finger cut off and sent to the Su Family, prompting Su Zhengcai to set out himself.

• Yu Mingyuan offered Xu Hu a fee to recover his people and cargo, but Xu Hu insisted on taking a share of the business.
• Xu Hu ordered Xu Er to have Old Lei cut off a finger from the leader of the Su Family crew and send it to the Su Family.
• Xu Er cut off Zhang Hao’s little finger while Zhang Hao was being held in a warehouse.
• Kong Zhenghui arrived at Tianhong Civil Harbor in a van and said he was expecting a call from his friend.
• Su Zhengcai and Su Tiannan found Zhang Hao’s finger and a warning demanding that the Su Family give up its shares.
• Su Zhengcai blamed Yu Mingyuan for failing to protect them and said he would go himself.