Chapter Summaries

Mike Anderson used Isabella de la Cruz to entice Lin Feng into buying another painting, then tried to persuade Isabella to invest her money in his supposedly lucrative project. As Isabella submitted to Mike’s advances, Lin Feng watched from downstairs, aware of the deception and waiting for the play to unfold.

• Mike Anderson praised Isabella de la Cruz’s sales and told her to persuade Lin Feng to buy the largest abstract painting through a private explanation.
• Mike Anderson derided Lin Feng as a gullible outsider and admitted he used art sales and the promise of insider investment opportunities to draw him in.
• Mike Anderson urged Isabella to invest her painting income and family money in his project, promising to cover any losses.
• Isabella de la Cruz acted moved by Mike Anderson’s promises and let him continue his advances.
• Lin Feng watched the scene from the exhibition hall and calmly recognized the transaction’s deception.

Marseille Dinggeli learned that Lin Feng had invested heavily in Mike Anderson’s scheme without sending funds through Dinggeli’s channels. Viewing Lin Feng as a dangerous outsider, Dinggeli ordered Edgar Sloane to have him killed.

• Edgar Sloane reported Lin Feng’s takeover of NLG Logistics and his recent dealings with Mike Anderson to Marseille Dinggeli.
• Edgar explained that Lin Feng’s hundred-million-dollar investment had not flowed into Dinggeli’s money-laundering channels.
• Edgar assessed Lin Feng as a calculating and ruthless threat rather than an easy target.
• Marseille Dinggeli ordered Edgar to get rid of Lin Feng, and Edgar agreed to arrange a covert killing.

Mike Anderson took Lin Feng on a lavish tour of yachts, casinos, and luxury entertainment, but Lin treated the indulgence as a chance to observe Mike’s circle while staying alert to threats. After K reported that women around Mike had suspicious connections, Lin ordered continued surveillance of Mike’s associates and refused to let his guard down.

• Mike invited Lin Feng to relax aboard his yacht, but Lin kept his distance from the women and said he preferred the sea breeze to the noisy company.
• Mike spent two days showing Lin lavish experiences, including a private jet trip to Las Vegas, fine dining, a concert, casino gambling, supercars, and a helicopter ride.
• Lin accepted the entertainment and socialized with Mike’s guests while politely rejecting attempts by women to become intimate with him.
• After a pool party, K reported that Sophia and a woman from the yacht had possible connections to wealthy targets and questionable modeling agencies.
• Lin told K that beautiful women near Mike could be part of a trap and ordered the intelligence team to monitor Mike’s associates, especially those he contacted frequently.

At Pine Eagle Canyon Club, Lin Feng spotted two caddies mocking his golf and making a racist gesture. He crushed the freckled caddie’s hand with a golf club and turned to make the other caddie take his turn.

• Lin Feng repeated his clumsy, forceful swing while the freckled caddie snickered and a stocky caddie made a slant-eyed gesture behind him.
• Lin Feng noticed the caddies’ behavior, confronted them, and ordered the freckled caddie to place a golf ball in his open palm.
• Lin Feng struck the ball in the freckled caddie’s palm, mangling his hand as the caddie screamed and the others watched in horror.
• Lin Feng addressed the stocky caddie, pointed out his racist gesture, and ordered him to take his turn.

Lin Feng threatened the second caddie after crushing the first caddie’s hand, forcing Mike Anderson to accept the violence as a joke. The chapter ended with Mike offering to take the club and participate to keep Lin Feng from turning on him.

• Lin Feng ordered the terrified dark-haired caddie to put his hand out for another golf-ball strike while K and Lü Yi held Mike’s bodyguards at bay.
• Mike pleaded with Lin Feng to stop and offered compensation, but Lin Feng insisted that the violence was a joke between friends.
• Mike recognized Lin Feng’s threat and reluctantly agreed that friends joked around, hoping to avoid becoming a target.
• The dark-haired caddie placed his hand on the turf, and Lin Feng set a golf ball in his palm before raising the club.
• Mike offered to take part in the joke, and Lin Feng handed him the club.

Lin Feng forced Mike to injure a caddie, then attacked Mike’s bodyguards and left one dead and another at gunpoint before walking away. Mike was left amid the injured and terrified workers, convinced that Lin Feng now controlled him completely.

• Mike struck the stocky caddie’s hand with the golf club, severely injuring his fingers.
• Lin Feng joked that he had only been scaring the remaining caddies, then attacked the bodyguard reaching for his holster and beat him until he stopped moving.
• K held the second bodyguard at gunpoint while Lin Feng approached him with a new club.
• Mike begged Lin Feng to spare his bodyguard, and Lin Feng dropped the club and left with K and Lü Yi.
• Lin Feng told Mike to handle the aftermath, leaving him alone with the dead and injured and overwhelmed by fear.

On the drive back from the golf course, Lin Feng ordered Golden Sun to infiltrate Mike’s security team and surveil his movements, contacts, and possible escape routes. He explained that his violent display was meant to frighten Mike and warn Dinggeli, then returned to his villa as the surveillance and infiltration plans began.

• Lin Feng told K and Lü Yi that Mike was terrified after the golf course violence and was unlikely to flee yet because he feared Lin Feng and remained tied to the scam and Dinggeli.
• Lin Feng ordered K to plant a trusted recruit in Mike’s security team and, if that failed, launch comprehensive surveillance of Mike and his possible escape routes.
• Lin Feng ordered heightened scrutiny of Isabella and Mike’s business partners for signs that they might seek help from Dinggeli or betray him.
• K reported that Deputy Police Commissioner Jonathan had arranged to classify the golf course incident as an accident and suppress witnesses and evidence.
• Lin Feng explained that he had used violence to shatter Mike’s confidence and warn Dinggeli and other observers that he would not follow their rules.
• K began relaying Lin Feng’s orders to Golden Sun, while Lin Feng returned to his villa and watched the lake as the plans took shape.

At a Seattle charity dinner, Lin Feng saw how the deaths of Daniel Crawford and Richard Cohen had made the wealthy wary of him. K told him that Feng Ya, the daughter of Lin Feng’s former subordinate Old Feng, was in trouble, and Lin Feng decided to investigate before leaving Seattle.

• Lin Feng attended a private charity dinner in Bellevue, where guests kept their distance because of his connections to Daniel Crawford and Richard Cohen’s deaths.
• K told Lin Feng that Feng Ya had run into trouble, and Lin Feng decided they would discuss it after the banquet.
• Lin Feng recalled promising the dying Old Feng that he would look after Feng Ya, who had married and emigrated to the United States.
• Lin Feng left the dinner with K and, once they were in the car, asked what had happened to Feng Ya.

Feng Ya confronted Old Chen over repeatedly stealing ingredients from her restaurant and fired him, but he threatened to expose her for employing an undocumented worker. Three days later, ICE investigated the restaurant and fined her heavily, leaving her facing further trouble as an immigrant entrepreneur.

• Feng Ya accused Old Chen of stealing restaurant supplies and ordered him to leave.
• Old Chen denied stealing, threatened to demand compensation, and refused to leave until Feng Ya agreed to pay his wages.
• Old Chen packed his belongings and left after warning Feng Ya to wait and see.
• Three days later, ICE officers investigated Feng Ya’s restaurant after receiving a report about unauthorized employment.
• ICE fined Feng Ya for knowingly employing an unauthorized worker and failing to keep employment eligibility documents.
• Feng Ya was left alone with the fine as the chapter warned that worse troubles still awaited her.

Feng Ya hired Deshawn and Malik legally, but their repeated rule-breaking led to accusations of racial discrimination and a confrontation that ended with them wrecking her restaurant. The police took a report but made no apparent progress, and Feng Ya reopened to dwindling business as Deshawn and Malik’s intimidation continued.

• Feng Ya hired Deshawn and Malik as kitchen helpers after checking their work permits and explaining the restaurant rules.
• Deshawn and Malik repeatedly smoked, brought friends to the restaurant, and took or wasted food, then accused Feng Ya of racial discrimination when she confronted them.
• After Feng Ya found nearly two hundred dollars missing from the register, Malik threatened her and Deshawn and Malik smashed the restaurant before leaving.
• Feng Ya called 911, but the officers questioned her account, took a report, and left without resolving the incident.
• Feng Ya paid to clean and repair the restaurant, but business fell, while Deshawn and Malik continued to threaten trouble.

Feng Ya endured escalating harassment from Deshawn and Malik until Chen Hao rushed in with a gun and drove them away. Shaken by the assault and the practical barriers to leaving, Feng Ya and Chen Hao decided to close the restaurant and move, but their leases, debts, and Chen Hao’s work visa left their escape uncertain.

• Feng Ya faced ongoing threatening calls, vandalism, and harassment at the Fortune-Filled Building while police responses proved ineffective.
• Deshawn and Malik and their companions repeatedly returned to the restaurant, and they tried to grope Feng Ya when Chen Hao was away.
• Chen Hao burst in with his handgun and forced the men to flee, after which police confiscated the gun and took detailed statements.
• Feng Ya’s fear and distress worsened, so Chen Hao proposed closing the restaurant and moving away, and Feng Ya agreed.
• Feng Ya and Chen Hao weighed the lease penalties, debts, housing costs, possible legal claims, and Chen Hao’s H-1B visa constraints, leaving their plans unresolved.

Feng Ya, seeking a new apartment to escape Deshawn and his gang, was surrounded on a San Mateo street by black SUVs and men in suits. She recognized their leader, Lin Feng, as her late father’s old friend and went with him, leaving her future uncertain.

• Feng Ya walked through San Mateo to view apartments while she and Chen Hao tried to leave their troubled neighborhood.
• Several black SUVs surrounded Feng Ya, and three suited men asked if she was Feng Ya and said their boss wanted to see her.
• Lin Feng stepped out of the central SUV and called Feng Ya his niece.
• Feng Ya remembered Lin Feng from her father’s funeral and her wedding, then agreed to go with him.
• Lin Feng let Feng Ya enter his SUV, and the convoy drove away.

Lin Feng offered to protect Feng Ya from the gang that had targeted her restaurant, asking her to accept his help and become his friend in return. Feng Ya chose to learn what his help meant, and Lin Feng promised to handle the gang himself.

• Lin Feng welcomed Feng Ya to his townhouse and revealed that he had kept watch over her since her father asked him to look after her.
• Lin Feng questioned whether Feng Ya would keep enduring the harassment or accept help, and explained that Deshawn and Malik belonged to a Haight District gang targeting her.
• Lin Feng told Feng Ya that accepting his help would bind them as friends, with the understanding that she would stand by him when he needed her.
• Feng Ya asked what Lin Feng meant by help, and he promised to make an offer the gang could not refuse and ensure no one bothered her again.

Chen Fugui bragged about living on handouts after reporting Feng Ya to ICE, but armed men took him from his homeless camp to meet Mr. Lin. His fate was left uncertain as he was led away in terror.

• Chen Fugui livestreamed himself celebrating a free meal and claimed that life on the streets was better than working.
• Chen Fugui recalled reporting Feng Ya because he resented her success and the way she had treated him, despite her kindness.
• Armed men surrounded Chen Fugui's tent, and one of Lü Yi's subordinates demanded that he come see Mr. Lin.
• Chen Fugui put on his pants and was escorted from the camp by two men in black.

Lin Feng confronted Chen Fugui over reporting Feng Ya to ICE and used a brutal display of violence to intimidate him. Chen Fugui drank tea mixed with his own blood before passing out, while Lin Feng remained calm.

• Lin Feng had Chen Fugui brought to his study, where Chen sat bound and guarded by men in black.
• Lin Feng revealed that he was Feng Ya's uncle, and Chen panicked and tried to explain his actions.
• When Chen interrupted him, Lin Feng had a man stab Chen's hand to the tea table with a dagger.
• Lin Feng ordered Chen to drink the bloodied tea, and Chen obeyed while saying he disliked extreme sports.
• Lin Feng had the dagger pulled free, and Chen passed out as Lin Feng returned to his tea.

Lin Feng confronted Chen Fugui over betraying Feng Ya and offered him a chance to live by surviving ten rolls down a hillside inside a nailed-shut wooden box. Chen Fugui was sealed inside and carried away as Lin Feng ordered his men to find a steep slope.

• Lin Feng reminded Chen Fugui of the harm his report had caused Feng Ya, and Chen Fugui begged for mercy.
• Lin Feng offered Chen Fugui a chance to live if he survived ten times being rolled downhill in a wooden box.
• Chen Fugui accepted the proposal, but the men in black forced him into the box and nailed it shut.
• Lin Feng ordered his men to find a steeper hillside and make sure the ordeal did not end too quickly.

A crew of armed men in black confronted Deshawn and Malik in Bayview District over their harassment of Feng Ya. After the crew shot Deshawn in the wrist and killed his five accomplices, they took Deshawn and Malik to meet their boss.

• Deshawn dismissed Malik’s concerns about the Fuqing Gang and boasted that his Glock would protect him.
• Eight men in black arrived at the basketball court and demanded to know which men were Deshawn and Malik.
• Deshawn drew his Glock, and the crew-cut leader shot him in the wrist before seven men killed his five accomplices with MP5Ks.
• The crew-cut man told Deshawn and Malik that his boss wanted to see them, and they submitted and were taken away in a Suburban.

K interrogated Deshawn and Malik about the South District Black Snakes and their families, then released Malik to warn the gang that Lin Feng was coming. K killed Deshawn for attacking Feng Ya and prepared to move against the Snake Den bar that night.

• K questioned Deshawn about the gang’s name, base, members, business, and ties to Chinese gangs, and Deshawn answered.
• K asked about the men’s families, and Deshawn and Malik gave the black-clad men their family addresses and information.
• K freed Malik and told him to warn Big Snake that Mr. Lin was unhappy with the gang and would visit.
• K refused to release Deshawn because he had attacked Feng Ya, Lin Feng’s niece, and ordered his men to kill him.
• K called Lin Feng, who instructed him to move against the Snake Den bar that night.

K and five men in black attacked the Snake Den bar to deliver a message from their boss, Lin, to Big Snake. They killed the South District Black Snakes members with explosives and sniper fire, then took the wounded Big Snake away for Lin to question.

• K and five men in black entered the Snake Den bar and ordered uninvolved customers to leave.
• Big Snake refused to comply with K’s demand and reached for his gun, so the men in black planted directional charges around the bar.
• A sniper killed gang members as they scrambled for cover, while K mimed shooting them with his fingers.
• Big Snake was shot in the thigh and surrendered after the rest of his gang had been killed.
• K called his boss Lin to report that the bar was clear, then ordered two men to take Big Snake away.

Lü Yi posed as a FedEx courier to kill Viper and three men packing cocaine into whiskey at a Pacifica villa. He burned the villa and drove away toward Eagle Creek Ranch.

• Viper and three underlings packaged cocaine inside whiskey cases in the villa basement for a shipment to Los Angeles.
• Lü Yi arrived disguised as a FedEx courier and killed Viper at the front door with a hidden knife.
• The three underlings fired at Lü Yi in the basement, but he shot all of them.
• Lü Yi changed into a trench coat, doused the villa with gasoline, and set it on fire.
• Lü Yi drove away in the FedEx van toward Eagle Creek Ranch as fire engines approached.