Chapter 115: Introduction
In Anxin Finance's exclusive VIP lounge at Pudong Airport's terminal, Zhan Hua was taking a call amid the distinctive decor. "We're practically brothers. There's no need for that between us. I spoke with Mr. Gao yesterday, and I think he was satisfied with this trip. What do you mean, you didn't look after him properly? Manager Chen, I've never worried about how you handle things. All right, I'll contact you once I've picked him up."
After hanging up, Zhan Hua happened to look through the lounge's glass windows and see the VA Airlines Boeing arriving from London emerge from the setting sun.
The person who had received such solicitous attention from the international investment-banking heavyweight who had just called him-a man whose influence was hardly less than Zhan Hua's-was aboard that homebound flight, landing at the terminal before him.
Everything about Gao Heng's arrival was understated. This man in his early thirties possessed a rare distinction that had earned extremely high praise from many important figures. Zhan Hua felt someone like him should have traveled by private jet. Even if there were no security convoys lining the airport, at the very least an access route should have been closed off to serve as his express passage.
Yet Gao Heng was merely an entirely ordinary first-class passenger on this flight. Among the socialites, celebrities, and public figures gathered in first class, he might have seemed so ordinary that scarcely anyone would notice him. But Zhan Hua knew that those who felt they had never encountered him simply had yet to reach his level.
Apart from two Toyota police SUVs that had been waiting at the airport for some time, there was practically no scene of attendants surrounding Gao Heng.
Yet this important figure, whose arrival had stirred no