Chapter Summaries

Lau Bo-keung and He Wenzhan expanded their investigations and prepared for any interference as Chiang Tin-yeung ordered Kam Tsz Tai to turn over Tsui Yau-choi, his two right-hand men, and Uncle Guixing to the police. Kam mobilized Hung Hing Group security personnel and hurried to deliver them to Lau Bo-keung.

• Lau Bo-keung assigned Yeung Kam Wing's team to watch Chiu Mei-yan and investigate New Horizon Bank, while He Wenzhan ordered the TUI Intelligence Network to prepare for possible interference.
• Chiang Tin-yeung summoned Kam Tsz Tai and instructed him to provide the police with information on Tsui Yau-choi and his two right-hand men, including anyone connected to Hung Hing Group.
• Chiang Tin-yeung also ordered Kam Tsz Tai to bring Uncle Guixing to the Police Force's Tai Kwun and stressed that he had promised Lau Bo-keung the men within an hour.
• Kam Tsz Tai agreed to deliver Uncle Guixing and the three suspects to Lau Bo-keung, then gathered security personnel he had trained and set out to act quickly.

Kam Tsz Tai confronted Usury Shing at Sea Paradise and told him that Tsui Yau-choi, Big Mouth Shing, and Fat Fook had been exposed and were wanted by the Police Force. Usury Shing agreed to cooperate and asked Kam to contact Sir Lau Kit-fai so he could report important information.

• Kam Tsz Tai arrived at Sea Paradise with more than a dozen men, and Usury Shing's bodyguards greeted him as General Manager Kam.
• Kam told Usury Shing that Tsui Yau-choi's activities had been exposed and that Sir Lau Kit-fai wanted Tsui Yau-choi, Big Mouth Shing, and Fat Fook brought to Tai Kwun.
• Kam explained that he had come to ask Usury Shing to take the three men to the Police Force, while making clear he had little time to spare.
• Usury Shing admitted he had expected Tsui Yau-choi to get into trouble but had been unable to intervene.
• Usury Shing asked Kam to contact Sir Lau Kit-fai so he could report important information.

Usury Shing agreed to cooperate with Master Kwan’s trusted officer, Kam Tsz Tai, after realizing that doing so might help protect his disciple Tsui Yau-choi. He summoned Tsui and his two associates to Sea Paradise without revealing that Yeung Ching-fuk was suspected of being the turncoat.

• Usury Shing reflected on how he had survived Hong Kong Island’s changing eras by staying clear of underworld disputes.
• He recognized that Tsui Yau-choi faced danger from both the police and a powerful outsider backing a turncoat in Tsui’s ranks.
• Usury Shing decided to cooperate when Kam Tsz Tai, a trusted officer under Master Kwan, requested to see him and Tsui.
• Kam Tsz Tai said Usury Shing could give information to Sir Lau at Tai Kwun and firmly asked him to bring Tsui and two others along.
• Usury Shing called Tsui and told him to bring Big Mouth Shing and Yeung Ching-fuk to Sea Paradise, keeping his suspicions about Yeung to himself.

Tsui Yau-choi went to Sea Paradise with Ho Tai-shing and Yeung Ching-fuk, where Usury Shing and Kam Tsz Tai had them restrained. The ICAC team noticed Kam escorting the three men out, and Luk Chi-lim rushed to investigate as an unknown party followed his car.

• Lu Xiaoliang reported that Tsui Yau-choi had left the Finance Company with Ho Tai-shing and Yeung Ching-fuk, and Luk Chi-lim ordered the ICAC team to follow them.
• Tsui Yau-choi and his companions arrived at Sea Paradise while the ICAC investigators kept watch outside.
• Kam Tsz Tai ordered his men to restrain the three, and Usury Shing told Tsui Yau-choi he was saving his life.
• Usury Shing and Kam Tsz Tai left Sea Paradise, while their men hauled Tsui Yau-choi, Ho Tai-shing, and Yeung Ching-fuk outside under guard.
• Lu Xiaoliang reported Kam Tsz Tai's involvement to Luk Chi-lim, who ordered him to keep following the group and assigned Mei Lei to investigate Di Weijie.
• As Luk Chi-lim drove to meet Lu Xiaoliang's team, another party began following his car.

Luk Chi-lim followed Hung Hing’s delivery of Usury Choi and the others to Police Force Headquarters, while Lau Bo-keung met Kam Tsz Tai and Usury Shing in the National Security Department. Their conversation revealed that Lau Bo-keung had once borrowed money from Usury Shing while struggling with a gambling habit, before Zhou Quan helped him turn his life around.

• Luk Chi-lim sent Lu Xiaoliang and his men to assist Mei Lei, then drove into Police Force Headquarters after deciding Hung Hing’s cooperation cleared his suspicions about senior officers.
• Lau Bo-keung welcomed Kam Tsz Tai and Usury Shing in the National Security Department’s reception room, while Tsui Yau-choi and two others remained handcuffed in detention.
• Lau Bo-keung recalled his old ties to Usury Shing, who had lent him money when he began gambling and had charged him fair interest.
• Lau Bo-keung told Usury Shing that he had retired from the underworld and addressed him as Uncle Hing out of respect for their families’ connection.
• Usury Shing praised his own health, then lamented that the younger generation had caused trouble for Lau Bo-keung and the Police Force.

Usury Shing offered Lau Bo-keung intelligence about a ruthless Big Money Man and persuaded Tsui Yau-choi to cooperate in exchange for the possibility of becoming a State Witness. Tsui Yau-choi confessed, while Lau Bo-keung began questioning the more complicated case of Yeung Ching-fuk.

• Usury Shing told Lau Bo-keung that a Big Money Man had returned from the Netherlands and that Yeung Ching-fuk was preparing to betray Tsui Yau-choi.
• Lau Bo-keung connected Usury Shing's tip to the mysterious Black Off-road Vehicle that had helped Chiu Mei-yan escape across the border.
• Lau Bo-keung gave Usury Shing three minutes to persuade Tsui Yau-choi to confess under police supervision.
• Tsui Yau-choi and Ho Tai-shing readily confessed during interrogation after Usury Shing's persuasion and news of Yeung Ching-fuk's betrayal.
• Lau Bo-keung questioned Yeung Ching-fuk after telling him that Tsui Yau-choi had already confessed.

Yeung Ching-fuk confessed to Lau Bo-keung about Wong Hoi-wo’s plans and a scheme to frame an ICAC officer. Lau identified the officer as Luk Chi-lim and asked Yeung to help further with the investigation.

• Yeung Ching-fuk asked Lau Bo-keung to make him a State Witness and place him in the Witness Protection Programme in exchange for information.
• Yeung told Lau that Wong Hoi-wo planned to take over Tsui Yau-choi’s business and Hong Kong Island’s money-laundering market, backed by a powerful international organization.
• Yeung revealed that Di Weijie had joined Wong, who had also arranged to frame an ICAC officer by transferring twelve million into the officer’s account.
• Yeung admitted that he had found the delinquent girl Wong used in the framing scheme, but said he did not know the officer’s identity.
• Lau concluded that the targeted officer was Luk Chi-lim and asked Yeung to assist further against Wong Hoi-wo.

Yeung Ching-fuk agreed to help Lau Bo-keung bring down Wong Hoi-wo, and Lau promised to protect him and use him to plant police officers near Wong. Lau planned to exploit Wong’s gambling-ship voyage to entrap him and his associates, but an ICAC investigator and a developing situation outside Tai Kwun demanded his attention.

• Yeung Ching-fuk agreed to cooperate with Lau Bo-keung because he feared Wong Hoi-wo would kill him for informing on him.
• Lau Bo-keung promised to replace Yeung’s men with police officers, monitor Wong’s movements, and seek a reduced sentence and a livelihood for Yeung after prison.
• Lau planned to use Wong’s gambling-ship voyage to draw Chiu Mei-yan and a powerful Yuezhou figure into an operation against the money-laundering network.
• Lau intended to arrange a traffic accident for Tsui Yau-choi and help Wong and Chiu complete their deal as part of his entrapment plan.
• An officer told Lau that ICAC Sergeant Lok Chi-lim was waiting for him and that a special situation outside Tai Kwun needed his decision.

Luk Chi-lim visited Lau Bo-keung at Police Force Headquarters while ICAC L Group officers arrived to investigate him over Wong Hoi-wo’s frame-up. Lau arranged to receive them and set preparations in motion to protect witnesses and pursue the case, leaving his team to carry out the operation.

• Luk Chi-lim entered Police Force Headquarters to see Lau Bo-keung, while Lu Xiaoliang took his investigation team elsewhere.
• Lau Bo-keung learned that the people following Luk Chi-lim were ICAC L Group members and ordered officers to invite them inside to meet their superior.
• Lau Bo-keung instructed Su Kin-chiu to replace the officers guarding Yeung Ching-fuk, send the case leads to Wei, and arrange to hide Tsui Yau-choi after staging a traffic accident.
• Su Kin-chiu accepted the orders and assured Lau Bo-keung that the preparations would go smoothly.
• Lau Bo-keung’s thoughts described the Police Force’s Zhou Faction as its central power structure, surrounded by smaller blocs such as the Lee, Little Zhou, and Luo factions.

Luk Chi-lim visited Lau Bo-keung to ask why the Hung Hing Group had delivered Tsui Yau-choi to the National Security Department. Lau explained that a deeper investigation required Tsui and Di Weijie to remain untouched for now, and the chapter ended with Lau warning Luk that people might oppose his expected promotion.

• Luk Chi-lim waited for Lau Bo-keung in the National Security Department's reception room and explained that his men had followed Kam Tsz Tai after he took a target from the Lo Wu Port case to Police Force Headquarters.
• Lau Bo-keung told Luk that Tsui Yau-choi's finance company was tied to a larger confidential case, but he had conclusive evidence against the Lo Wu Port personnel and offered to make the arrests jointly with ICAC.
• Luk Chi-lim agreed to hold off ICAC's operations against Tsui and Di Weijie and prioritize cooperation with the National Security Department.
• Lau Bo-keung warned Luk to consider his own position because some people might oppose his expected promotion, and Luk pressed him to explain what he had heard.

Lau Bo-keung warned Luk Chi-lim that the ICAC’s L Group was investigating him, then arranged for the investigators to face him at Police Force Headquarters. Luk decided to wait for Cheng sir’s explanation so he could protect the joint Lo Wu Port case, while Lau prepared to continue his operation.

• Lau Bo-keung told Luk Chi-lim to wait and said he would introduce him to old friends.
• An officer brought L Group investigators Mark and Derek into the reception room, and Luk recognized them.
• Luk confronted Mark and Derek about following him, and they said Cheng sir was on his way.
• Luk chose to wait at Police Force Headquarters rather than risk suspension and disrupt the Lo Wu Port investigation.
• Luk told Lau Bo-keung to treat him to a meal after the operation, and Lau invited the investigators to sit while they waited.

ICAC investigator Ching Tak-ming went to Police Force Headquarters after two of his men were brought inside while surveilling the building, and Lau Bo-keung calmly explained that they had not been detained. The dispute ended with Ching apologizing, but Luk Chi-lim confronted him over having Mark and Derek follow him.

• Ching Tak-ming arrived at Police Force Headquarters, where security stopped the other ICAC members from entering the National Security Department's offices.
• Lau Bo-keung allowed Ching Tak-ming upstairs alone to meet him and Luk Chi-lim.
• Ching questioned Lau about the two ICAC investigators who had been brought inside, and Lau said they had merely been invited for tea.
• Ching's subordinates confirmed that their movements had not been restricted, and Ching apologized to Lau for the trouble.
• Luk Chi-lim asked Ching why he had sent Mark and Derek to follow him.

Luk Chi-lim challenged the ICAC investigation into him, while Lau Bo-keung revealed that criminals had framed him to obstruct an upcoming National Security operation. Ching Tak-ming agreed to report the matter to the ICAC Commissioner, leaving Luk temporarily protected from the investigation.

• Luk Chi-lim refused to discuss the L Group investigation in private and insisted he had nothing to hide.
• Lau Bo-keung told Ching Tak-ming that criminals had planted twelve million Hong Kong dollars in Luk Chi-lim's account and used a delinquent girl to accuse him.
• Lau Bo-keung explained that the evidence was tied to an upcoming National Security operation and could not yet be handed to the ICAC.
• Lau Bo-keung asked Ching Tak-ming to put the bigger picture first and wait until the joint operation with Luk Chi-lim was over.
• Ching Tak-ming agreed to return to ICAC Headquarters and report the situation to the Commissioner.

Hong Kong Island Police Force and Mainland officials monitored an operation to capture Yuezhou official Zhang Peng after he entered Hong Kong Island waters. As the teams tracked Zhang Peng aboard a gambling ship, Lau Bo-keung explained the targets and revealed that You Zixin had killed Lam Hei-sing, a complication he had tolerated to protect the operation.

• Hong Liang told the Hong Kong Island Police Force senior superintendents that Zhang Peng had entered Hong Kong Island waters by boat.
• Chan Kwok-wah, Lau Bo-keung, and Wong Fuk-wing reassured Hong Liang that the National Security Department had deployed its senior commanders and elite officers.
• He Wenzhan's Paparazzi teams transmitted footage from the gambling ship, where they were disguised as Yeung Ching-fuk's underlings.
• Lau Bo-keung identified Wong Hoi-wo as Zhang Peng's intended contact, Chiu Mei-yan as Zhang Peng's mistress and intermediary, and You Zixin as Wong Hoi-wo's money-laundering partner.
• Lau Bo-keung explained that You Zixin had killed Lam Hei-sing at New Horizon Bank, but he had avoided arresting You Zixin to keep the operation safe.

Zhang Peng arrived in Hong Kong Island and boarded Wong Hoi-wo's gambling ship to arrange the laundering of ten billion renminbi. Lau Bo-keung's officers secretly monitored the meeting and recorded evidence as Wong and You Zixin explained their methods.

• Lau Bo-keung's team tracked Zhang Peng's journey from the ferry pier to the gambling ship in international waters.
• Wong Hoi-wo, Chiu Mei-yan, You Zixin, and Yeung Ching-fuk welcomed Zhang Peng aboard the Eastern Divine Dragon.
• Yeung Ching-fuk secretly transmitted clear recordings of the private-room meeting to the National Security Department's Operations Command Centre.
• Zhang Peng asked how Wong Hoi-wo would launder his ten billion renminbi.
• Wong Hoi-wo presented a five-hundred-million-renminbi cheque and explained that they could claim Zhang Peng had won it gambling.

The Police Force's National Security Department reviewed evidence of Zhang Peng, Wong Hoi-wo, You Zixin, and their associates’ crimes, including Zhang Peng’s embezzlement of ten billion yuan and You Zixin’s bribery of an ICAC investigator. Hong Liang left to seek arrest paperwork, while Lau Bo-keung offered to coordinate the arrest from Hong Kong Island and hand the suspects over afterward.

• The senior officers reviewed the criminal communications and learned that Zhang Peng had stolen ten billion yuan through embezzlement and bribery.
• Zhang Peng asked Wong Hoi-wo about the ICAC investigation of Chiu Mei-yan, and You Zixin claimed he had paid twelve million to get Luk Chi-lim suspended.
• Lau Bo-keung condemned You Zixin and reflected on his failure to prevent You from murdering Lam Hei-sing at New Horizon Bank.
• Hong Liang announced that he would return to Pengcheng to seek an arrest warrant and initiate the shuanggui procedure against Zhang Peng.
• Lau Bo-keung told Hong Liang to apply for the paperwork from Hong Kong Island and said the National Security Department would arrest the suspects and hand them over.

Lau Bo-keung launched an operation to arrest Zhang Peng and the other criminals, coordinating with mainland authorities and Hong Kong police units. He headed to the waters near Po Toi Island to oversee the operation, with marine police and the Flying Tigers’ Small Boat Team arranged to support it.

• Lau Bo-keung agreed that Hong Liang could seek formal authorization to arrest Zhang Peng, and Hong Liang immediately contacted his superiors.
• Lau Bo-keung ordered the command center to prepare arrests and have the Marine Police Harbour Police District intercept the criminals’ vessels.
• He Wenzhan offered support from the Flying Tigers’ Maritime Counter-Terrorism Small Boat Team, and Lau Bo-keung accepted it.
• Lau Bo-keung traveled toward Po Toi Island with Yeung Kam Wing, Guan Zu, and T Group officers to oversee the operation.

The Hong Kong Island Police Force intercepted Zhang Peng’s speedboat near Po Toi Island after tracking it through AIS signals. As Zhang Peng tried to flee and his armed security men drew their pistols, Paparazzi officers concealed aboard the boat shot them, leaving the confrontation underway.

• Yeung Chi-lung reported that Zhang Peng’s speedboat was less than five nautical miles from Po Toi Island.
• Lau Bo-keung ordered the Marine Police and Maritime Counter-Terrorism Small Boat Team to intercept Zhang Peng.
• Marine Police ordered the speedboat to stop, but Zhang Peng told its operators to turn around and flee.
• Zhang Peng’s trusted security personnel drew pistols when the operators refused to obey him.
• Paparazzi officers disguised among Wong Hoi-wo’s underlings shot Zhang Peng’s armed men in the arms.

Lee Family Ka-chun led the arrest of Zhang Peng aboard a speedboat during an undercover operation. Zhang Peng realized the Hong Kong Island Police Force’s National Security Department had taken him into custody.

• The National Security Department officers seized control of the speedboat and restrained Zhang Peng’s security personnel and crew.
• Lee Family Ka-chun pointed his gun at Zhang Peng and announced his arrest.
• Zhang Peng challenged Lee Family Ka-chun’s authority and threatened him with his political influence.
• Lee Family Ka-chun identified himself as an officer of the National Security Department and informed Zhang Peng of his right to remain silent.
• Zhang Peng recognized the authority of the national security system and nearly collapsed.

Lau Bo-keung arrested Zhang Peng at sea and escorted him toward Lo Wu Port after Hong Liang secured the Mainland arrest documents. With Zhang Peng’s capture kept secret, the Police Force also arrested Wong Hoi-wo, You Zixin, Chiu Mei-yan, and the other suspects aboard the Eastern Divine Dragon cruise ship.

• Lau Bo-keung presented Zhang Peng with an arrest warrant, then ordered Yeung Kam Wing and Guan Zu to take him aboard the command launch by force.
• Lee Family Ka-chun and the other officers detained the speedboat’s remaining occupants while Lau Bo-keung left Yeung Kam Wing in charge near Po Toi Island.
• Hong Liang met Lau Bo-keung at Police Force Headquarters with official arrest documents from the Mainland authorities, and the convoy headed north for Lo Wu Port with Zhang Peng in custody.
• The Eastern Divine Dragon cruise ship returned to Hong Kong Island waters unaware of Zhang Peng’s arrest, and the Police Force arrested Wong Hoi-wo, You Zixin, Chiu Mei-yan, and the other principal suspects.