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= kisskh.ca =

Thanks.

What?

You like my lighter that much?

The ouroboros has a bad meaning.

How so?

A lot of people see the ouroboros

as a symbol of Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence".

He believed that human life

is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction

and endless suffering.

So you read philosophy too, To.

But why do you only look at one side of things?

The ouroboros consumes itself,

but it's also a symbol of rebirth.

Everyone lives in cycles,

not just cycles of suffering.

But suffering will always exist.

Well, life is painful.

There's no avoiding it.

I chose the ouroboros

to remind myself

why I chose this life

and what I can gain after getting through it.

You could've just lived as a rich heir

without a care in the world.

So why did you choose to become a CEO

and deal with piles of paperwork every day?

Since when have gangsters become so philosophical?

You just haven't met enough people.

Keep it for now.

Then you won't have to keep borrowing one.

Give it back to me later.

All right.

♪With you, it's like I can breathe again♪

♪I can't live without this breath, this heartbeat♪

♪Forever's too far, but you're right here♪

♪Together we'll take on this jaded world♪

♪With you, I'll cross the dark, outrun the pain, and run away♪

♪Still believing in true love, no matter how naive, calling you♪

♪I'm willing to wait♪

♪I love you like you're a part of me♪

♪I want to share my life with you♪

♪To love this deeply, I'll give a little more♪

♪In this cold and gray city♪

♪Through all the pain, I'll hold you. Is it true?♪

♪Pieces of our memories slowly fade♪

♪Stay with me♪

♪Do you remember the day we crossed paths?♪

♪Stay with me♪

♪Do you remember the forever we promised?♪

♪Who's waiting for you to save them?♪

♪My heart aches, breaks, and struggles on♪

♪How can I hold on to everything in one moment?♪

♪Stop blaming fate and learn to let it be♪

[Ash] [Episode 7]

Come back to me.

I can take care of you too.

Don't go.

We can talk about everything else later, okay?

Don't touch me.

I have nothing to say to you.

Please stay away from me.

Mr. Hui,

what do you want with my fiancé?

I don't care about Eastern Hall.

I just want this cop dead.

Are you out of your mind?

You know he's a cop,

and you're still keeping him around?

How I run Eastern Hall

and who I keep around me are none of your business.

Please take your people and leave.

This isn't over.

Whatever you're thinking right now,

the answer is no.

You mean we should just leave him at Eastern Hall?

You heard Ho Tung Fong just now. She's clearly protecting Mr. Mok.

He'll be fine.

That woman, Ho Tung Fong,

killed her own father

and uncle just to take power.

The longer Mok Fei Foon stays by her side,

the more danger he'll be in.

You don't know why Mr. Mok works for the Ho family.

If you act rashly,

there's no telling what could happen.

That's true.

But Ho Tung Fong is dangerous.

That's a fact.

We've been at odds with Eastern Hall for years.

Things are already tense between us.

If you keep interfering,

Eastern Hall may start suspecting Mr. Mok,

and it could cost him his life.

He can't stay at Eastern Hall.

Do you want him safe,

or do you just want to keep him by your side?

Don't forget.

He's Ho Tung Fong's fiancé now.

So what if they're engaged?

Then what are you planning to do?

Go to Eastern Hall

and take him away.

How are you going to take him away?

Break into his place and kidnap him?

Or wait until he goes out?

He's wanted by the police now.

He definitely won't be going anywhere alone.

Are you going to fight through a whole crowd just to take him?

Where are you going to hide him?

How will you make sure Eastern Hall doesn't find out you took him?

Raid their operations

and force them to agree to my terms.

With whose men?

Sheng Tung.

You've never got along with those uncles in Sheng Tung.

You used to be able to keep them in line with Tin Ping's interests.

But now?

How long has it been since you went back to Tin Ping, To Gor?

Whatever you do,

you could end up putting Mr. Mok in danger.

I'm begging you. Let him go.

Pain and happiness will always coexist.

No matter what,

he can't stay in Eastern Hall.

Even if it's Ho Tung Fong,

she can't keep him there forever.

If you've made up your mind,

figure out how to get the uncles on your side.

Let's continue discussing the financial projections for Bayfront Metropolis.

You finally decided to show up, CEO?

I've rested long enough.

Time to get back to work.

Go on.

Fine.

Let's continue discussing the revised project plan.

Enough.

Rejected. Next.

We already approved this at the last meeting.

Then you made the wrong decision.

Vincent, have you been away so long

that you've completely lost your head?

You're the ones who've lost your heads.

We're not scaling the project down,

and we're not keeping it as it is either.

We're scaling up.

Are you out of your mind?

Given Tin Ping's current situation,

we can barely maintain the current scale.

Why did you want to scale down in the first place?

To save money?

Then what about the next project?

We've spent so long preparing for this

and put so much into it

because we wanted to take the company to the next level

and secure more large-scale development projects.

Scaling down

completely defeats the purpose.

It shows a lack

of vision and ambition.

Easy for you to say.

Where are you going to find the money to scale up?

Thirty per cent. Give me a 30% stake in the Bayfront Metropolis project.

I believe your father will agree to invest, right?

Only if I have control over the project's direction.

Deal.

Little brat.

Stop all the projects related to scaling down.

Switch to researching a scale-up plan instead.

I'll handle the funding.

Also, terminate the contracts with all the contractors

we signed for the scale-down plan.

Replace them with the ones I chose before.

Terminate them?

Loek To, are you joking?

We can't just terminate contracts because you say so.

How am I supposed to explain this to my people?

Uncle, calm down.

Naturally, I'll have a better offer for everyone.

What? No way.

What's wrong?

It's bad.

Fei Piu and Kwan Gor are both in trouble.

Oh, no.

What's the situation now?

Several shops in Tsim Sha Tsui and our waterfront base have been hit.

The four warehouses in Kwun Tong were set on fire.

The goods are soaked and unusable.

How much did we lose?

We can't estimate yet.

But it seriously affects our shipments.

Contact the factory immediately.

Tell them to send us another batch.

No. We don't have enough time.

No matter what, we have to make it happen.

I can't delay the delivery to Dreamweaver.

The export volume of paper and ink

is under very strict control.

We agreed on the quantity beforehand

so they could supply us on time and in the right amount.

If we place an urgent extra order, it won't work.

Make it work.

I need this batch of goods now.

We can negotiate the price.

Understood.

I'll handle the venues that were hit.

Look into who did it as well.

So many of our venues were hit at the same time.

It had to be planned.

Could it be people from my father and second uncle's side?

Doesn't seem like it.

Have you heard anything recently?

Who might be targeting Eastern Hall?

I think it can only be the people from Sheng Tung.

Remember Hui who came last time?

He kept pestering you to hand someone over.

That's right.

Most of the venues attacked this time

were taken from Sheng Tung.

There's a good chance it was them.

What do you think?

I read their files when I was at the police station.

They were clean.

It doesn't seem like something they'd do.

Why are you defending him?

That's not what I mean.

I'm looking at this from Eastern Hall's perspective.

If we make a decision before we've figured things out,

we might not catch the real culprit,

and we'll end up offending Sheng Tung.

In the end, Eastern Hall will be the one that loses.

We'll know whether they did it or not

once we bring him back and ask him.

All right.

Fan Shu and I will bring him back.

No.

You.

You're bringing him back.

No problem.

Just as you predicted,

the uncles have been unhappy with Eastern Hall for years.

Now that they can openly strike back,

they're happy to finally

vent their anger.

No one is complaining about changing the contractors anymore.

But Eastern Hall has clearly increased security at their bases.

It'll be difficult to strike again in the short term.

So they are getting scared.

Tell the uncles in Sheng Tung to keep attacking their venues.

Force them to hand Fei Foon over.

That's easier said than done.

Who knows what kind of person Ho Tung Fong is?

If you push her too hard

and things get heated,

how long will this drag on?

It doesn't matter.

Even if I can't force Eastern Hall to comply,

I want Fei Foon to know I'm here to save him.

Step up the game tonight.

Hit a few more of their venues.

Understood.

[Ten o'clock. The restaurant. See you there.]

[Rich Tea Flavour]

Enjoy.

Thanks, sir.

Fei Foon.

Mr. Hui,

Ms. Ho wants to see you.

No rush.

Finish your pineapple bun first.

Mr. Hui,

we meet again.

Ms. Ho,

your way of doing things

has certainly opened my eyes.

Several Eastern Hall venues have been attacked recently.

Did your men do it?

So what if it was?

You insisted on protecting that cop.

If you had handed him over earlier,

none of this would've happened.

So all you want

is him?

That's right.

I make sure

anyone who protects him pays the price.

Keep beating him.

Mr. Hui,

I really don't know what grudge you think we have between us

that makes you keep coming after me.

Please stop.

Don't think we won't dare to kill you.

Ms. Ho.

Keep going.

There's no point beating him anymore.

Why don't we just shoot him?

That'll settle everything once and for all.

Are you crazy?

Mr. Lok,

whether I kill one person or two people,

the punishment is still life imprisonment.

There's no difference.

This isn't just about you.

He has an entire gang backing him.

Are you trying to start a full-scale war between us?

This man won't stop coming after us.

How is that any different from a full-scale war?

Ms. Ho.

Since I had him brought here,

I never planned to let him leave.

Shoot.

Ms. Ho...

Shoot.

Once I'm dead,

your world will finally be clean.

He won't bother us anymore.

Take care of this.

I know what to do.

It won't implicate Eastern Hall.

Fei Foon.

Sit up.

I told you not to follow me.

You never listen.

Good thing I had the lighter.

It blocked the bullet.

Does it hurt?

You got hurt because of me last time.

Consider us even now.

I don't have much time.

Once you get out, don't do anything reckless again.

Don't come looking for me again. Got it?

That's too hard.

I can't do it.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said those things about you.

I shouldn't have hurt you. I'm sorry.

♪We met at the wrong time, and the wind blows us apart♪

♪Our love runs this deep, yet we met at the wrong time♪

♪I know these feelings are hard to hide♪

♪I know there's a line that's hard to cross♪

♪But I just had to meet you♪

♪We met at the wrong time, and fate pulls us apart♪

♪Our love runs this deep, yet we met at the wrong time♪

♪All I can do is pretend I don't care♪

♪All I can do is keep my distance in the crowd♪

What was your original plan?

To take me back and lock me away?

Something like that.

Did it never occur to you that Ho Tung Fong might come after you?

You said exactly the same thing as Tam Fung.

Because if you had thought about it, you'd know it would never work.

I really don't know what goes on in your head.

You.

You're all I think about.

What happened?

What went wrong with the counterfeit money shipment?

The factory doesn't have enough raw materials.

This time,

I'm afraid we won't make the delivery deadline.

Then we'll deliver whatever we have.

We'll settle

the remaining amount with interest.

At the end of the day, business is about money.

If it were that simple,

we wouldn't be so worried.

Do you know why we work with Dreamweaver?

A gang next door

once failed to deliver on time.

They were only a month late,

and Dreamweaver wiped out the entire gang.

I brought Dreamweaver in to deal with my second uncle and my father

because I didn't want to become the leader

only to be controlled by others at every turn.

If that's the case,

I'd rather go to war with them directly.

Ms. Ho,

we know nothing about who is behind Dreamweaver.

This would be too risky.

Foon,

what do you think?

Going to war isn't a problem.

But if we're really going to fight,

we need to take out their leader directly.

Getting Pedro to meet us won't be easy.

Every time there's a handover, he only sends his men.

The only time we met him in person was when we bought the printing plate.

Then that's perfect.

We'll tell him

we want to buy another printing plate.

If he's willing to do the deal,

we'll continue working together peacefully.

But if he refuses,

we'll deal with him on the spot.

Ms. Ho,

think this through.

We'll do it Foon's way.

Lok,

gather our men and get ready.

I'll contact Pedro now.

Fan Shu.

Yes.

You handled the Hui Loek To situation well.

Unfortunately, his men still managed to rescue him in the end.

Right now, Pedro is what matters most.

Please take a look.

Good. Let's go with this.

You finally decided to show up?

The venue I picked isn't bad, right?

I've almost finished making all the wedding arrangements.

I'm happy enough just seeing you

back at company meetings.

The venue is very well chosen.

But we won't be needing it.

What do you have in mind?

Do you want a different venue?

I want to call off the engagement.

This isn't funny, you know.

Your sense of humour needs work.

You're serious?

Yes.

Our partnership deal remains unchanged.

And I'll transfer an additional five per cent of Tin Ping's shares to you

as compensation.

What do you mean?

Do you think you can settle this with money?

Hui Loek To, you were the one who suggested this fake marriage.

And now you're suddenly backing out?

Have you thought about what people will think?

Everyone knows about our engagement now.

How am I supposed to explain this

to my father or anyone else?

And what will the tabloids write about me?

Don't worry.

I've already had the PR department

bring in a top PR team to handle the fallout.

Okay.

Give me a reason.

Is it because the So family's investment

isn't enough for you anymore?

Or are you planning something else and sacrificing me for it?

I just can't do it.

You can't do it?

You knew from the very beginning

that this was only ever a business arrangement.

What part of that can't you do?

All we had to do was have a wedding

and put on a good show for everyone.

After that, we'd live our own lives.

We'd both get what we wanted.

What's so hard about that?

I promised him

that I wouldn't make him unhappy again.

Who is he?

He's not from our circle.

Someone who could make Hui Loek To put Tin Ping Group second...

You must really love him.

He made me realise

that there are things

more important than work that are worth fighting for.

Okay.

Since you've made up your mind,

there's nothing I can say to change it.

As for why the engagement is off,

you'll have to explain it to my father yourself.

Okay.

So, if people ask why the engagement is off,

can I give them any reason I want?

Sure.

Then I'll tell them

you have bad breath, smelly feet,

and a messy private life.

That you like wearing T-backs,

you're impotent, and you have an STD.

Could you leave out the impotence and STD?

Okay.

Then I'll just say you have bad breath and smelly feet,

wear T-backs, and have a messy private life.

Fine.

Hey.

Be happy, okay?

Don't worry.

I will be.

What's the situation?

Is Pedro going to show?

At noon the day after tomorrow,

at the Eastern Hall mansion,

Pedro will be there,

and so will all of Eastern Hall's core members.

We've been preparing for this moment all along.

Stay sharp.

Nothing can go wrong.

Here's the recorder.

Record every word they say.

Every word could be crucial evidence in court.

Okay.

Ho Tung Fong plans to seize the printing plate

if the talks break down.

I'll try to keep things from escalating too quickly.

How many officers will be outside as backup?

The Criminal Intelligence Bureau will be monitoring the mansion from outside.

CIB officers?

Then who's making the arrests?

I've discussed it with my superiors.

We won't be making any arrests for now

because we can't be sure the man who shows up

is really Pedro.

But whether he's Pedro or not,

we're going to follow him

and try to locate Dreamweaver's base and its members

so we can take them all down at once.

Then when are you planning to make the arrests?

Don't worry.

Once we've got Pedro under surveillance,

I'll have other officers take over.

Hang in there a little longer. It'll all be over soon.

For both you and me,

everything comes down to this operation.

Thank you, sir.

Looking good?

Good luck.

Hello?

Hey, it's me.

Why are you calling me?

No reason.

I just wanted to hear your voice.

How bored are you?

What are you doing now?

I just met with Officer Chan.

I should be able to leave Eastern Hall soon.

There's progress on the investigation?

In a few days, I'll meet Dreamweaver's boss.

Once we can tail him,

this undercover operation will be over.

What did you say?

You're meeting Dreamweaver's boss?

Where?

Who else will be there?

Is it dangerous?

Hey, if I tell you,

are you going to cause another mess?

You don't need to worry.

I can handle it myself.

Okay.

Whatever happens, be careful.

Safety first.

Don't take any risks.

I know.

Where will you live after you leave Eastern Hall?

I'll go back to my old place

or find somewhere new.

Either way, I'm not moving in with you.

Do you have to say no that quickly?

Is my place that embarrassing to you now?

Because your place is too far from my usual restaurant.

Just because of that restaurant?

Since you like it so much,

when your assignment is over,

let's go there together, okay?

After all this hard work,

all I get is a meal at that place?

Well, you like it there.

Okay, enough joking around.

I need to go. Bye-bye.

All right.

I'll be waiting for good news.

It's been a while,

Mr. Pedro.

Ms. Ho,

good to see you again.

This is my fiancé, Foon.

Hello.

Hello.

Let's sit down and talk.

Here's the printing plate you wanted.

I can sell you the printing plate,

but by the end of this month, Eastern Hall

must deliver 500 million USD worth of goods to me.

Starting next month, you'll deliver twice that amount.

Of course, you'll be paid in full.

Well?

Any objections?

I have a proposal

for our future cooperation.

I want you to sell Eastern Hall two printing plates outright

so that the counterfeit money business in Hong Kong, China

will be entirely ours to handle from now on.

What's in it for me?

We'll give Dreamweaver a cut.

You won't have to do anything

except collect the money.

How is that any different from now?

We know this business inside out now.

Leave it to us,

and the operation will only keep growing.

Do you really think I don't know

there was a problem with your last shipment?

You couldn't even handle something that simple,

and you think you can expand the operation?

I hope you'll seriously consider it.

I believe this is the best decision for all of us.

I'm not interested.

Anyone who works with me

plays by my rules.

So you asked me here for a face-to-face handover

because you wanted to force my hand.

If you want this to end peacefully,

leave the printing plate.

I put a lot of effort into helping you become the leader.

I thought we could work together for a long time.

Make your choice.

Save the talk.

If you want to work with me,

you have to keep your promises.

I'm sure you've heard

what happens to people who fail to meet my demands.

Ms. Ho,

it's been a pleasure knowing you.

Shawn.

Eastern Hall has considerable influence.

I'm sure there are still ways we can help Dreamweaver.

Spare Ms. Ho,

and we'll help Dreamweaver grow even bigger.

You make a good point, Foon Gor.

I can spare your lives,

but I have one condition.

You

have to come with me.

Okay.

No problem.

It's okay.

Foon Gor,

bear with this for a bit.

Boss.

This morning,

a fatal shooting occurred at a detached house in the New Territories.

Regional Crime Unit officers rushed to the scene.

So far,

five people have been confirmed dead

and several others injured.

All the injured have been taken to hospital for emergency treatment.

Sources say

all the injured are members of Eastern Hall.

Police have not ruled out

a dispute between gangs as the cause.

We'll continue to bring you updates as the investigation develops.

In a few days, I'll meet Dreamweaver's boss.

Once we can tail him,

this undercover operation will be over.

Hi, I can't take your call right now.

Leave me a message after the beep.

Welcome.

Sorry.

I put you through a lot.

Where am I?

My place.

Foon Gor,

now you can finally stay by my side.

Stay by your side?

[Episode 7]

[This story is fictional. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental.]