Chapter Summaries

Gu Sheng consolidated alliances with wealthy businessmen, launched a police welfare fund, and paid the men supporting his campaign. As rival triad bosses planned an attack on Causeway Bay that night, Gu Sheng’s enemies prepared to strike back directly.

• Gu Sheng ordered tighter security around Kong Sang and himself while Ah Man searched for rival bosses and their trusted men after the night’s gang battles.
• Gu Sheng met wealthy businessmen at a golf course, arranged business deals, and persuaded them to help establish a police welfare fund.
• Gu Sheng told Officer Wei about the fund and a planned vehicle donation, then hinted that his men were investigating incoming weapons.
• Gu Sheng sent money to Tin Yeung-seon, who distributed twelve thousand dollars apiece to seventy-six men led by Ah Wah and Zhang Chun.
• Rival triad bosses agreed to attack Causeway Bay that night and arranged gunmen to kill Gu Sheng if he appeared.

Wo Shing Wo and other triads planned to attack Causeway Bay and kill Gu Sheng, while Gu Sheng arranged to eliminate several rival leaders before their forces could assemble. As an enormous coalition gathered outside Hongxing’s territory, its members demanded that Gu Sheng come out and talk.

• Chuen-bao told Big D and Ah Lok that whoever earned the most credit attacking Causeway Bay would become Boss, and Ah Lok ordered Plane and Tung Kwan Jai to prepare an assault.
• Gu Sheng learned that several leaders were preparing to attack him, arranged for Ah Wah’s teams to target them, and had Shen Xue and Fung Yu-Sau capture Tung Kwan Jai and his armed companions at the bar.
• Gu Sheng’s men shot Pig-nose Hung, Tong Chun, Ah Lok, three Wo Shing Wo branch heads, and one Chung Hing Red Pole, throwing their groups into chaos.
• Sha Wing sent Chung Hing’s men toward Causeway Bay, while Gu Sheng ordered his own forces into position and waited as more than twenty thousand attackers gathered.
• The rival crowd advanced toward Hongxing’s side and shouted for Gu Sheng to come out and talk.

Gu Sheng’s Hongxing forces crushed the triad coalition at the Hung Hom Tunnel junction with trucks and a counterattack, then captured vehicles and ordered the cleanup. Ah Ye killed two captured leaders, while Wo Shing Wo’s elders learned that Big D was missing and Sha Rong was dead.

• Gu Sheng taunted Sha Rong and the other leaders at the junction, then stepped aside as trucks plowed through their packed ranks.
• Leung Siu-tong, Fung Yu-Sau, Shen Xue, and Hongxing’s men routed the coalition, while Big D was killed after driving his car into the fight.
• Gu Sheng ordered the bodies removed and the road washed, told Shark Yan to seize the abandoned vehicles, and had Sha Rong taken for treatment so he could be questioned.
• Ah Ye reported capturing Lucky and Pong Hak at the tunnel exit; Gu Sheng ordered both killed, and Ah Ye stabbed Pong Hak after he tried to leave.
• Wo Shing Wo’s elders heard that Big D was missing and Sha Rong was dead, and Chuen-bao said the coalition had been beaten back by Gu Sheng.

After crippling several rival Triads, Gu Sheng paid Hongxing’s men and ordered new attacks while Sai Fei and Sun Kee’s Boss considered hiring killers to stop him. Wo Shing Wo’s elders were assassinated, and Gu Sheng demanded two million from five small branch heads in exchange for protection.

• Sai Fei and Sun Kee’s Boss concluded that they needed to hide and hire killers or mercenaries to kill Handsome Sheng.
• Gu Sheng gathered a hundred million in cash at the bar, heard reports of Hongxing’s casualties, paid out death benefits and medical expenses, and assigned attacks on Hop To, Hunggai, and Jordan.
• Ah Man told Gu Sheng that Wo Shing Wo’s elders were meeting, and masked gunmen killed Chuen-bao, Lo Gwai Jim, and the other elders before the Police arrived.
• After news of the elders’ deaths spread, Wo Shing Wo’s remaining Bosses went into hiding, while five small branch heads came to Gu Sheng seeking protection.
• Gu Sheng rebuked the branch heads for arriving empty-handed and demanded two million from each in exchange for protecting them.

Gu Sheng extorted smaller Triad bosses while Hongxing drove Hop To and Hunggai from the streets. When Yip Kwok-fun kidnapped He Yi to lure him into a trap, Gu Sheng shot her himself before leading his men in a gunfight that killed Yip and his men, leaving He Yi wounded but alive.

• Gu Sheng gave the smaller Triad bosses three days to pay him and warned them not to lie.
• Hongxing fought Hop To and Hunggai as other Triads stayed on their own turf and their bosses went into hiding.
• Yip Kwok-fun kidnapped He Yi outside the Sai Kung film set and forced her to call Gu Sheng, demanding that he come alone to Wong Shek Beach.
• Gu Sheng brought armed men to the warehouse, shot He Yi, and took cover as Yip Kwok-fun's gunmen opened fire.
• Gu Sheng's men stormed the warehouse, killed Yip Kwok-fun's men, and wounded Yip; Gu Sheng finished him and ordered He Yi and a wounded man taken to hospital.
• Gu Sheng told He Xin that He Yi would survive and that he had killed the Big Circle Gang members responsible.

Gu Sheng expanded Hongxing’s influence, negotiated with Lui Wai, and secured police support for a new welfare and education fund. After gunmen attacked him in the Hung Hom Tunnel, he confronted police and his own gangsters, while Chung Yee Shun and Lui Wai began fighting and Zuo Tai moved against Wo Shing Wo.

• Gu Sheng told Zuo Tai to drive Wo Shing Wo out of Jordan and agreed to let Lui Wai join Hongxing if he held off Chung Yee Shun for two days.
• Gu Sheng arranged a donation to the Public Relations Branch and agreed with Robinson and Evans to announce the Police Force Welfare and Education Fund at a joint press conference.
• Gunmen attacked Gu Sheng in the Hung Hom Tunnel, but he and Tin Yeung-sang killed one attacker and subdued the other.
• Gu Sheng met Inspector Lee, scolded young Hongxing members brought in for fighting, and told Leung Siu-tong to remember a mocking officer for later trouble.
• Hongxing men held Aberdeen and Prince Edward Road while Chung Yee Shun’s forces clashed with Lui Wai’s men in Tsim Sha Tsui, and Zuo Tai led his men into Jordan.

Gu Sheng escaped a car bomb, put a bounty on the Hunggai Prince and Sai Fei, and had Prince captured and tortured for information. Meanwhile, Lui Wai’s fight with Lian Ho-lung and attacks by Zuo Tai, Hon Ping, and Gong Zijun drove Wo Shing Wo out of Jordan.

• Gu Sheng found a bomb under his car, ordered the police to handle it, and offered rewards for information leading to Sai Fei and the Hunggai Prince.
• In Paris, Chau Tai recognized Li Xinxin and spoke with her over coffee before quietly leaving.
• Big Mouth Ring and several underlings betrayed Prince and captured him, then Gu Sheng paid them and ordered Prince questioned about Hunggai’s money, goods, and the bomb.
• Gu Sheng ordered Leung Siu-tong to bring Big Mouth Ring to him and learned that his long-awaited bulletproof car had arrived.
• Lui Wai’s men fought Lian Ho-lung’s forces in Tsim Sha Tsui while Zuo Tai, Hon Ping, and Gong Zijun attacked Jordan, driving Wo Shing Wo out of the area within two days.

Gu Sheng recovered Hunggai’s hidden money, brought Lui Wai and his men into Hongxing, and arranged for Gong Zijun to be killed during a clash with Chung Yee Shun. Lian Ho-lung promised Gu Sheng an explanation within three days, and Gu Sheng headed to a police press conference as chairman of a new welfare and education fund.

• Ah Tung told Gu Sheng that Hunggai had hidden a shipment and over eighteen million in cash, and Gu Sheng ordered him to collect them while learning that Big Mouth Ring had arranged the earlier hit on him.
• Gu Sheng welcomed Lui Wai into Hongxing as Aberdeen’s Boss and ordered Zuo Tai to support him against Chung Yee Shun.
• Gu Sheng instructed Wang Jianjun to arrange Gong Zijun’s assassination during the planned clash and sent additional men to Macau Island and Thailand.
• Luo Tin-hung led Chung Yee Shun against Lui Wai’s forces, but Hongxing’s men surrounded them, and concealed gunmen killed Gong Zijun before the ensuing fight routed Chung Yee Shun.
• Lian Ho-lung denied ordering the shooting and agreed to identify the culprit within three days after Gu Sheng threatened consequences.
• Gu Sheng went with Kong Sang to the police headquarters press conference as chairman of the Hong Kong Island Police Force Welfare and Education Fund, where he encountered Officer Wei.

Gu Sheng used a joint police-foundation press conference to strengthen Hongxing’s ties with the police, then reorganized his expanding territory and confronted Sha Rong for Chung Hing’s money. The chapter ended with Gu Sheng threatening Sha Rong’s family to make him talk.

• Gu Sheng announced the Police Force Welfare and Education Foundation alongside Evans, while tycoons pledged donations that brought its funds close to thirty million.
• Officer Wei, Hon Ping, Thirteen Sisters, and other triad leaders watched the press conference and reacted to Gu Sheng’s growing influence.
• Gu Sheng warned Hongxing’s bosses to stay alert, assigned Lui Wai to Aberdeen and Shark Yan to Mong Kok, and ordered the bosses to report their losses.
• Gu Sheng visited the former Soda Factory site, where he questioned the wounded Sha Rong about Chung Hing’s money.
• When Sha Rong refused to answer, Gu Sheng threatened his wife and son.

Gu Sheng pressured Sha Rong into revealing where Chung Hing’s money was, while the news of his alliance with the Police Force unsettled Wah Sang and Hong Kong’s Triads. After Ding Yao secured Lei Fuhong’s location and asked Gu Sheng to act, gunmen and a sniper ambushed Gu Sheng and Lok Wai-ching outside a restaurant, leaving Gu Sheng armed and waiting for the police.

• Gu Sheng threatened Sha Rong’s family until Sha Rong disclosed that Chung Hing’s money was in a safe at Pak Bun Centre, then ordered his men to retrieve it and take Jimmy to the port.
• Wah Sang argued with his contact that Gu Sheng’s new Police Force Foundation would make arresting him increasingly difficult, while Shan Haisheng read the news and Hongxing leaders ordered their men to keep a low profile.
• Ding Yao forced Master Gold to give her Lei Fuhong’s location and recorded his statement, then learned that Gu Sheng had established a Foundation for the Police Force.
• Gu Sheng agreed to Ding Yao’s request to act against Lei Fuhong after she sent him the details, and he accepted Lok Wai-ching’s request for an exclusive interview.
• Gu Sheng sensed danger and pulled Lok Wai-ching back inside as gunmen attacked the restaurant; he warned his men about a sniper and led them upstairs behind cover.
• A sniper observed Gu Sheng through his scope and praised his alertness and movements.

Gu Sheng survived an attack by gunmen and a sniper, then had the captured hitman O interrogated for information about who hired him. After learning Sai Fei and Uncle Yan might be linked to the sniper rifle, Gu Sheng ordered his men to investigate them and eliminate the arms dealer Uncle Hai.

• Gu Sheng used a drone to locate the sniper, then helped Tin Yeung-sang kill the gunmen who entered the restaurant.
• Gu Sheng warned his men about the sniper’s position, and gangsters from Causeway Bay surrounded O as he tried to escape, capturing him.
• The sniper shot an officer outside the police station, but Gu Sheng escaped unharmed and later had O brought to his warehouse.
• Gu Sheng beat O and questioned him, but Ah Tung learned that O had no direct contact or knowledge of the middleman behind the twenty-million-dollar contract.
• Ah Tung told Gu Sheng that the sniper rifle probably came from Uncle Hai through Sai Kung, and Gu Sheng ordered his men to deal with Uncle Hai.

Sai Fei’s attempt to kill Gu Sheng failed, and Gu Sheng’s men hunted for him while raiding Chung Hing’s finance company for its assets. After hearing Gu Sheng’s implausible account of his success in an interview, Lok Wai-ching left, and Gu Sheng prepared to strengthen Hongxing as the search for Sai Fei and Uncle Yan continued.

• Sai Fei learned that the mercenaries and assassin had failed and called Uncle Yan to discuss their predicament.
• Zhang Chun’s masked men searched for Sai Fei, shot a fleeing youth, and killed him after he named Fighting Cock Keung as someone who might know Sai Fei’s whereabouts.
• Tin Yeung-sang led a masked team into Chung Hing’s finance company, killed its guards, and escaped with cash, bankbooks, property deeds, and share certificates despite a gunfight with arriving gangsters.
• Lok Wai-ching interviewed Gu Sheng, who denied being a triad member and claimed he had built his fortune through hard work and property rentals.
• Tin Yeung-sang gave Gu Sheng the stolen assets, and Gu Sheng ordered Ah Wah to keep searching for Sai Fei and Uncle Yan.
• Gu Sheng held a ceremony for Lui Wai’s transfer and assured Uncle Hing that Hongxing would continue growing stronger.

Gu Sheng accepted the Chaozhou Gang's surrender in exchange for thirty million and withdrawal from North Point, while Chung Yee Shun killed Uncle Yan to settle its dispute with him. Sai Fei planned an attack on Gu Sheng's woman as Gu Sheng continued consolidating his position.

• Gu Sheng told Uncle Hing that the Chaozhou Gang had to withdraw from North Point and pay thirty million for peace, and its backers agreed.
• Lok Wai-ching secured front-page approval for her interview after Editor Lam rejected it, and the editor-in-chief fired Editor Lam.
• Sai Fei proposed bombing Gu Sheng's woman, while Uncle Yan secretly prepared to flee abroad.
• Luo Tin-hung tracked down and killed Uncle Yan, falsely blamed him for Gong Zijun's murder, and delivered photographs that Gu Sheng accepted as Chung Yee Shun's peace offering.
• Zheng Bin served tea in apology and handed over thirty million, and Gu Sheng declared the Chaozhou Gang's dispute settled.
• Ah Tung reported that the arcade games had reached the warehouse, while Ah Wah and Zhang Chun continued rounding up people on their list.

Che Baoshan returned from Thailand with seven men to avenge Chan Yiu and reclaim what Chiang Tin-yeung had left behind, while Ah Bing secretly alerted Ah Tung. After Gu Sheng learned of the threat and put Ah Bing under protection, Che Baoshan targeted Kong Sang with a car bomb, but her guards discovered it before she could leave.

• Che Baoshan arrived on Hong Kong Island and told Ah Bing he planned to kill Gu Sheng and take back what he believed was his.
• Ah Bing reported Che Baoshan's arrival and armed men to Ah Tung, but Che Baoshan and his men had already left their hideout by the time Ah Tung arrived.
• Ah Tung brought Ah Bing to Gu Sheng, who identified Che Baoshan as a former associate of Chan Yiu and arranged for men to watch over Ah Bing.
• Che Baoshan blamed Ah Bing for betraying him and decided to target Kong Sang before seeking a chance to kill Gu Sheng and Ah Bing.
• Che Baoshan's men planted a bomb beneath Kong Sang's car in a Causeway Bay parking garage.
• Kong Sang's security team inspected the car and found the bomb before she could use it.

After discovering a bomb beneath Kong Sang’s car, Gu Sheng mobilized his men, shot at the suspected bombers as they fled, and launched attacks on Tiu Sei and Wo Shing Wo. The attackers escaped toward Aberdeen, while Wo Shing Wo’s bosses debated making peace and Sai Fei’s remaining subordinates considered fleeing Hong Kong Island.

• Kong Sang found out that someone had planted a bomb beneath her car, and Gu Sheng told her to keep everyone at the office while his men searched the surrounding streets.
• Gu Sheng ordered attacks on Tiu Sei and Wo Shing Wo, then shot at Che Baoshan’s car as it sped away; Basong was wounded, and Ah Man later lost track of the fleeing men near Aberdeen.
• Kong Sang reunited with Gu Sheng, and he told her to call the police and consider leaving Hong Kong until the danger passed.
• Hongxing attacked Tiu Sei and Wo Shing Wo establishments, prompting Wo Shing Wo’s bosses to discuss whether Tall Gao’s death could help them make peace with Gu Sheng.
• In Sai Kung, OK Chai told Big Nose that Hongxing had moved into Kwun Tong, and he planned to retrieve his savings and escape to Taiwan.

OK Chai and Big Nose were captured and forced to reveal Sai Fei’s escape plan, allowing Hongxing to ambush him at Sai Kung pier. Gu Sheng ordered Sai Fei’s wounds treated so he could be kept alive, then had his kneecaps smashed.

• OK Chai returned to Kwun Tong for his money, where Hongxing men captured him and forced him to disclose Big Nose’s hiding place and Sai Fei’s pager contact.
• Hongxing captured Big Nose, and OK Chai used Sai Fei’s pager call to learn that Sai Fei planned to flee from Sai Kung pier that night.
• Gu Sheng ordered his men to watch the pier, while he learned that Tall Gao had been killed and dumped in Tsim Sha Tsui.
• Zhang Chun and Ah Wah’s men surrounded Sai Kung pier and shot Sai Fei as he arrived to meet OK Chai and Big Nose.
• Gu Sheng visited the wounded Sai Fei at the warehouse, took his bankbooks, and ordered Leung Siu-tong to find a doctor and then smash Sai Fei’s kneecaps.

Gu Sheng rewarded Ah Wah and Zhang Chun, sent their men to Macau Island, and put Lü Xiangdong to work repairing machines. At a meeting, he announced the triad conflicts were over and ordered Hongxing’s leaders to bring their men into the Hongxing Security Company, leaving them wondering how that differed from their old roles.

• Gu Sheng learned that the Chaozhou Gang had seized territory left vacant by dead rivals and decided to tolerate it for now.
• Gu Sheng gave Ah Wah and Zhang Chun three million to divide among their men, then arranged for them to lie low in Macau Island and let ten reliable men visit home with their shares.
• Lü Xiangdong asked to work for Gu Sheng, who sent him to Jimmy to learn machine repair.
• At the Main Hall meeting, Gu Sheng said Tall Gao and Uncle Yan were dead and claimed Sai Fei had drowned while swimming toward Taiwan.
• Gu Sheng said the fighting was finished, invited Hong Kong Island’s triad figures to his birthday gathering, and assigned the leaders regional manager roles in Hongxing Security Company.
• Zuo Tai asked Gu Sheng how the security company assignments differed from what they had done before.

Gu Sheng announced that Hongxing would reorganize into a tax-paying company, with branch businesses, salaried employees, and expanded security contracts. As his birthday banquet drew near, rival triads considered his invitation a chance for a ceasefire, while Gu Sheng ordered a former enemy released and planned retaliation against a businessman who had snubbed him.

• Gu Sheng explained Hongxing’s corporate restructuring, and the bosses agreed after Ah Ye asked how branch companies would manage businesses across different territories.
• Gu Sheng instructed the bosses to prepare voluntary security agreements, told Ah Tung to look for factories to buy, and invited the triad leaders to his upcoming birthday banquet.
• Gu Sheng spent two days handling the restructuring, while Officer Wei learned of Hongxing’s planned transformation and the rival triads interpreted the banquet invitation as a possible ceasefire.
• Gu Sheng ordered Leung Siu-tong to release Ye Rongtian and to have the restaurants of the businessman surnamed Chen smashed the next day.
• Kong Sang questioned Gu Sheng about holding a birthday banquet two months before his birthday, and Gu Sheng joked that he was giving people extra chances to bring him presents.

Ye Rongtian was released after a month in captivity and discovered that Sky King Construction had gone bankrupt and the Lee Family’s First Branch had fallen. Meanwhile, Che Baoshan attacked Gu Sheng’s banquet venue but escaped, prompting Wang Jianjun to watch for him near Ah Bing.

• Ye Rongtian was released from an iron cage with his driver and learned from Ma Chi-keung that Sky King Construction had gone bankrupt and the Lee Family’s First Branch had been destroyed.
• Gu Sheng put Wang Jianjun in charge of security at Zhenghong Restaurant and ordered him to kill Che Baoshan if he appeared.
• Che Baoshan sent two men to scout Zhenghong Restaurant, but Wang Jianguo and the guards killed one and captured the other.
• Che Baoshan and his men stormed the restaurant with guns, but the veteran guards killed his men, and Che Baoshan fled after being wounded.
• Wang Jianjun pursued Che Baoshan, but Che Baoshan injured two of his men and escaped into traffic.
• Gu Sheng warned Wang Jianjun that Che Baoshan might target Ah Bing, and Wang Jianjun called to locate him.

Che Baoshan blamed Ah Bing for his failed attempt to kill Handsome Sheng and headed to Mong Kok to hunt him down. At Gu Sheng’s birthday banquet, Gu Sheng declared past conflicts forgiven and offered cooperation, while the gathered gang leaders accepted his dominance.

• Che Baoshan left the clinic after striking a nurse and decided to kill Ah Bing because he blamed him for the ambush.
• Lian Ho-lung, Hong Sheng, and other gang leaders arrived at Gu Sheng’s birthday banquet, where Gu Sheng welcomed them alongside Kong Sang.
• The remaining Wo Shing Wo Bosses attended, and Gu Sheng reassured them that their past clashes with Hongxing were forgiven.
• Officer Wei arrived with detectives to watch Gu Sheng, and Lui Wai brought a two-million cash gift.
• Gu Sheng declared that past disputes were settled and invited the gangs to cooperate, prompting Zheng Bin and the Wo Shing Wo Bosses to toast him.
• Gu Sheng joked that Sai Fei was swimming from Sai Kung to Taiwan, confirming the other gang leaders’ suspicions that Sai Fei had been eliminated.