Chapter 201: Confrontation
Shanghai's only mountain-forest retreat in Songjiang's Greater She Mountain: the Purple Garden villa estate.
A mansion shaped much like a bauhinia flower stood among planted woods and artificial lakes. Even among the more than 150 villas of different designs scattered along the southern side of West She Mountain, it stood head and shoulders above the rest.
This seemingly secluded estate occupied more than a thousand mu, of which over three hundred were water. The water averaged around three meters deep and reached eighty meters at its deepest point. Thirteen islands of varying sizes lay within the estate, connected by thirteen steel bridges, and the estate's 150 villas were distributed across those islands.
It was like a paradise removed from the world.
The bauhinia-shaped mansion occupied the largest plot among all these island homes, some twenty mu. Only those in the know were aware that, when it first went on sale, a buyer whose identity and background were both quite mysterious had purchased it at the International Conference Center for the astronomical sum of 130 million yuan. From beginning to end, the mansion exuded an air of supremely mysterious aristocracy.
The villa seemed to have been built on the lake. Reportedly, every striking feature in its original design had been created by first-rate designers from dozens of countries, including the United States, Britain, Australia, and Italy. When it was listed for sale, even many business owners worth hundreds of millions had balked.
An ordinary person walking inside could scarcely imagine what a jeweled palace lay within this villa's green-tiled, red-roofed exterior, with its uniquely designed indoor pool, tennis court, yacht dock, bowling alley, and even a fitness and boxing gym.
Only when some of the second- and third-generation rich children living on the estate drove past a high