Chapter Summaries

Gu Sheng used the Sumiyoshi-kai’s collapse to expand Hongxing’s control in Tokyo and recruit local allies, while the Sanwa-kai’s leadership changed hands. The chapter ended with Zhang Chun’s men storming the Sumiyoshi Family headquarters and killing its Sixth Generation Head.

• Ishii Takamasa met Hon Ping, learned that Hongxing only intended to do business in Tokyo, and agreed that their smuggling arrangement would continue unchanged.
• Two Sumiyoshi-kai gunmen tried to shoot Gu Sheng at the Imperial Hotel, but Tin Yeung-sang and Tin Yeung-yee disarmed them; Gu Sheng then ordered attacks on Sumiyoshi-kai organizations and Hori Masao’s Spirit Hall.
• Hongxing’s men raided Sumiyoshi-kai organizations in northeastern Tokyo and wrecked Hori Masao’s Spirit Hall, while attacks killed Sanwa-kai chairman and vice chairman Togawa Tarō and wounded Eguchi Toshinari.
• Eguchi Toshinari became Sanwa-kai chairman and agreed to give Gu Sheng local help in exchange for Kabukichō; Gu Sheng assigned Gao Jie and the Tainan Gang to take over territory and assist him.
• Gu Sheng asked John Wick to kill Itō Shūichi, but John Wick refused, so Gu Sheng told him to wait for a more suitable target.
• Zhang Chun’s men attacked the Sumiyoshi Family headquarters with heavy firepower, reached the Sixth Generation Head, and shot him dead before withdrawing.

Gu Sheng’s Hongxing forces exploited the Sumiyoshi-kai’s collapse to attack its territory and seize the Otoha-gumi’s assets, while he planned to take over the vacated territory and build business ties in Tokyo. After learning that police officer Hayashi Irumi had been assigned to investigate him, Gu Sheng met her for dinner and tried to convince her he was a good person.

• Police found more than three hundred bodies at the Sumiyoshi Family headquarters, while Long-haired Hung’s men raided abandoned gang offices and Gu Sheng ordered them to keep driving the Sumiyoshi-kai out of Tokyo.
• Long-haired Hung’s men attacked the Otoha-gumi headquarters, killed its members, and took its IOUs, shares, and land deeds for Gu Sheng.
• Gu Sheng kicked Hayashi Irumi and another officer when they nearly collided with him, but the police released him; her superior then assigned her to get close to Gu Sheng and collect evidence of his crimes.
• Gu Sheng sent Tin Yeung-yee to pick up Hayashi Irumi for dinner, received word that four Sumiyoshi-kai groups wanted to break away, and agreed to meet their representatives the next day.
• Gu Sheng met Hayashi Irumi at a Ginza restaurant, recognized that she had been assigned to investigate him, and tried to persuade her that he was a good person.

Gu Sheng consolidated control over the Sumiyoshi-kai’s former territory in Tokyo, persuading Hayashi Irumi that his violence served public order and absorbing the remaining organizations into his operations. He left Ah Ye in charge of Tokyo and Hongxing Security Company contracts soon covered every business in the territory.

• Gu Sheng argued with Hayashi Irumi that his actions had reduced crime and maintained order, leaving her uncertain how to answer.
• Gu Sheng told Nakamori Akina that the Sumiyoshi-kai had been defeated and arranged bodyguards for her return to work.
• Gu Sheng ordered several Sumiyoshi-kai leaders to leave the organization, work for him, and seize the remaining groups’ territories.
• The Kōhei Family and other groups withdrew from the Sumiyoshi-kai and swept through its abandoned territories, while Gu Sheng’s men confirmed the organization had left Tokyo.
• Gu Sheng assigned Ah Ye to manage Tokyo, sent Long-haired Hung to Thailand, and gave Zat Tau Prince Edward Road.
• Gu Sheng directed Ah Ye to establish Hongxing Security Company in Tokyo, and businesses across the former Sumiyoshi-kai territory signed its security contracts.

Gu Sheng ordered a covert arson and sabotage campaign to force Akai Electric's founder, Akai Hideto, to sell the company's television division. When Akai refused, Ah Ye's people abducted his granddaughter Ryoko, and a severed hand delivered to the family left Akai Hideto collapsed in shock.

• Gu Sheng took Hayashi Irumi around Ameya-Yokocho, defended his security fees to her, and left for Ginza without her.
• Gu Sheng ordered Ah Ye to sabotage Akai Electric's television production line and negotiate to buy its television division at a steep discount.
• After the factory fire, missing components, and technicians' resignations, Ah Ye offered Akai Hideto thirty million dollars for the division, but he refused.
• Akai Hideto told his son Akai Naomasa that Hongxing had pressured him after Akai Naomasa reported that Ryoko was being followed.
• Ah Ye ordered her people to act, and Ryoko disappeared along with her driver and bodyguards.
• A box containing the driver's severed hand arrived at Akai Hideto's home, and he collapsed in shock.

Ah Ye forced Akai Hideto to sell Akai Electric for twenty million dollars, while Gu Sheng returned to Hong Kong Island and confronted Tsukamoto Eiji over the hundred-million-dollar revenge bounty. The chapter ended with Gu Sheng attacking Tsukamoto after demanding that the bounty be handled through a place he chose.

• Ah Ye pressured Akai Hideto by invoking Ryoko’s safety and the loss of key employees, then pushed the agreed sale price from thirty million to twenty million dollars.
• Ah Ye arranged for the Yokosuka Family to find Akai Ryoko, and she reported the deal’s completion to Gu Sheng before he left Japan.
• Gu Sheng returned to Hong Kong Island and learned that Tsukamoto Eiji’s one-hundred-million-dollar revenge fund had drawn assassins to the city.
• Gu Sheng summoned Tsukamoto Eiji and Lawyer Yamabe, then demanded that the bounty be posted and accepted at a location he designated.
• When Tsukamoto objected, Gu Sheng threatened to dump him and Lawyer Yamabe at sea, then struck Tsukamoto with an ashtray.

Gu Sheng arranged the revenge fund to draw assassins to Hong Kong Island, then revealed that police inspector Chan Chi-wah was the assassin Cherubim. He told John Wick to handle the bounty publicly, while confronting Chan over his identity and asserting that he controlled who would be named as its target.

• Gu Sheng forced Tsukamoto Eiji and his lawyer to accept his demands, and Tsukamoto later hired the assassin Pierre to kill Gu Sheng, but Pierre refused.
• Sophia arranged for three lawyers to assess and publicize the revenge fund through the Continental Hotel, drawing assassins from around the world to Hong Kong Island.
• Gu Sheng targeted two indebted property developers for creditor lawsuits and asset freezes, sought land for a television production base, and met John Wick, who agreed to represent the bounty for ten million dollars.
• The bounty was canceled after assassins arrived, and Wang Jianjun protected Lawyer Yamabe after an intruder was killed at the lawyer's hotel.
• Gu Sheng summoned Senior Inspector Chan Chi-wah and identified him as Cherubim, then declared that on Hong Kong Island he could decide who counted as Cherubim.

Gu Sheng recruited Inspector Chen, who admitted he was Cherubim, and brought Kane into his service after promising safety for Kane’s family. As assassins hunted clues to the Revenge Fund, Gu Sheng presented a staged body as Cherubim and obtained the lawyers’ agreement that the target was dead.

• Inspector Chen admitted he was Cherubim, and Gu Sheng offered to help advance his police career in exchange for working with him; Chen accepted.
• John Wick advised Kane to seek help from Gu Sheng, and Kane asked Gu Sheng to free him and protect his family.
• Gu Sheng tested Kane’s skills and hired him as a bodyguard, promising that Kane’s family could live safely on Hong Kong Island.
• Continental Hotel assassins received information about the Revenge Fund and searched for Uncle Leung, whose home became the site of a gunfight.
• Gu Sheng summoned the three lawyers and presented a body marked with a cherub as proof that Cherubim was dead; all three accepted it as the target.

Gu Sheng stayed out of the British campaign to influence Hong Kong Island, then profited from the market crash by buying assets seized by HSBC. He welcomed his newborn son and launched AIKI televisions across Hong Kong Island.

• Gu Sheng refused Chief Secretary Walker’s request to publicly support British rule, and Director Shi was relieved that he would remain silent while the North negotiated.
• Gu Sheng raised cash and exchanged it for US dollars as Hong Kong Island’s markets faltered, then bought back Hong Kong dollars during the crash and made eight hundred million Hong Kong dollars.
• Gu Sheng purchased companies, shopping malls, shops, and land repossessed by HSBC at steep discounts, while Jardine Matheson’s move to Bermuda further unsettled the market.
• Gu Sheng visited Kong Sang after she gave birth to a boy, brought her roses, and named their son Gu Changhong.
• Gu Sheng inspected AIKI’s first televisions and ordered the company to secure prominent displays in every shopping mall; the brand quickly gained recognition across Hong Kong Island.

Gu Sheng planned a Soviet trade route for Jimmy Boy and pursued Hongkong Electric after learning Hongkong Land wanted to sell it. He asked Li Ma Sing to withdraw from the acquisition, but Li objected that Gu Sheng was being far too overbearing.

• Gu Sheng watched the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and discussed property prices and his real estate plans with Tin Yeung-sang.
• Gu Sheng told Jimmy Boy to hand New Century Video Games to others and take a shipment to the Soviet Union to establish trading and military connections.
• Jimmy Boy appointed Lü Xiangdong as deputy at New Century Video Games before Gu Sheng visited Kong Sang and played with their son, Gu Changhong.
• After learning Hongkong Land wanted to sell Hongkong Electric, Gu Sheng visited Li Ma Sing and asked him to abandon his interest in acquiring it.
• Li Ma Sing objected to Gu Sheng's demand and called him far too overbearing.

Gu Sheng intimidated Li Ma Sing into withdrawing from the contest for Hongkong Electric, then pressured Hongkong Land into selling it to him for 2.2 billion. After signing the acquisition agreement, Gu Sheng told reporters that the electricity company belonged in Hong Kong hands.

• Gu Sheng insulted Li Ma Sing over dinner, then had Leung Siu-tong crash his Rolls-Royce through the Li Family mansion gates before leaving without consequences.
• Li Ma Sing tightened security around himself and Li Yan-kwok, while Gu Sheng ordered surveillance and declared that Hongkong Electric was his.
• After Hutchison Whampoa employees were injured in a car crash on their way to negotiate, Li Ma Sing asked He Xin to mediate and withdrew from the competition for Hongkong Electric.
• Gu Sheng demanded that Hongkong Land sell Hongkong Electric for 1.8 billion, and the company later agreed to a price of 2.2 billion.
• Gu Sheng signed the acquisition agreement and told reporters that Hongkong Electric should belong to Hong Kong people, while mocking Li Ma Sing's interest in buying it.

Gu Sheng used Hongji Group, Hong Kong International Bank, Japanese investments, and World Cup betting to amass enormous wealth while tightening his grip on Hong Kong Island. The chapter ended with him publicly humiliating Li Ma Sing’s sons at the tycoon’s funeral and claiming the right to buy their businesses.

• Gu Sheng secured Hongji Group the 0001 stock ticker, acquired Wing On Bank and renamed it Hong Kong International Bank, then raised billions through share issues.
• Gu Sheng gathered nearly 100 billion by mortgaging assets and investing in Japan, while Hongxing members gave him another 1.5 billion to invest.
• After the Plaza Accord sent the yen soaring, Gu Sheng’s Japanese property and stock investments grew to HK$210 billion, and his World Cup betting operations earned US$1.3 billion.
• Gu Sheng took He Xin’s chosen Miss Asia winner as his kept woman, sparking a scandal and a month-long cold war with He Qing.
• Hong Kong International Bank acquired Far East Bank, and Li Ma Sing died when his yacht sank in the English Channel.
• At Li Ma Sing’s funeral, Gu Sheng offered incense with mocking remarks and told Li Ma Sing’s sons that they would need his approval to sell Cheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa.

Gu Sheng withdrew from Japan before a massive real estate fraud came to light, then expanded his industrial and financial holdings across Asia, the Soviet Union, and America. After escalating gang wars in New York reshaped the High Table, Gu Sheng became its first rotating chairman, and the chapter ended with the chairmanship replaced by four-year elections.

• Gu Sheng withdrew from Japan's stock and real estate markets, and investigators later uncovered a fraud involving more than 65 banks and over 89 billion US dollars.
• Gu Sheng relocated Japanese companies to Hong Kong Island, Malaysia, and Shenzhen, built a Daihatsu automobile factory, and acquired heavy industrial businesses in the Soviet Union while investing in America.
• Gu Sheng beat up Donald after a reception, and Donald later decided that fighting could lead to friendship.
• Gu Sheng's conflict with the New York Five Families escalated into a High Table duel, renewed fighting with Hell's Angels, and the assassination of the Grand Elder.
• Gu Sheng retaliated against Hell's Angels, and the Russian Mafia drove the group out of Toronto and took its place on the High Table.
• After another Grand Elder died, the High Table created a rotating chairmanship and made Gu Sheng its first chairman; two years later, it replaced the system with four-year elections.

In January 1997, Gu Sheng assured Shi Xue that Hong Kong Island’s return to G would be peaceful and gave him a life-saving vial for an ailing gentleman. As the handover approached, Gu Sheng’s warning deterred British-backed troublemakers, and Hong Kong Island entered a new era without unrest.

• Shi Xue met Gu Sheng at his mansion and warned that the Brits might cause trouble before Hong Kong Island returned to G.
• Gu Sheng assured Shi Xue there would be no unrest and gave him a vial from his laboratory to keep the ailing gentleman alive for three days if needed.
• Two months later, the gentleman sent Gu Sheng a message of thanks, and Gu Sheng dismissed it in his usual blunt manner.
• In June, Gu Sheng warned the Brits’ planted agents to leave before they could stir up trouble.
• On the day of the return to G, British warships crossed the boundary and caused a standoff, but no other unrest occurred and Hong Kong Island entered a new era.

In 2068, Gu Sheng mourned He Qing, shared an old photograph of their wedding with his billion followers, and reflected on the history that had made him a legend. Feeling the world was too small for him, he launched into space and entered cryogenic sleep on a journey beyond the solar system.

• He Qing stopped breathing in her bedroom, and Gu Sheng arranged her funeral before revisiting photographs of his former girlfriends and past exploits.
• Gu Sheng posted a photograph of himself, He Qing, the Hongxing Bosses, and thousands of Maids, prompting people around the world to discuss their identities and his history.
• Gu Sheng told his people to proceed with his plan to leave the world, saying it was too small and unworthy of him.
• A year later, Gu Sheng boarded a crewed rocket, entered a cryogenic life-support pod, and began a journey out of the solar system.