Few could have predicted Du Chengrong’s scheme.

Who would have thought that the ruthless Du Sheng, while isolating himself to pursue immortality cultivation, would also play the role of a good Samaritan by reuniting a father and son?

Ordinary people wouldn’t have such magnanimity – knowing about being cuckolded and still staying calm, discovering the child wasn’t his own yet resisting the urge to harm it… This was why he succeeded where other thugs failed. While most gangsters could be ruthless, they lacked Du Chengrong’s patience.

Du Chengrong wasn’t playing saint – his move was both cunning and venomous. Wang Jianhua was a proper civil servant in Beijing with a married wife, yet he had fathered a child with his ex-girlfriend. With such irrefutable evidence of misconduct hanging over Wang Jianhua’s head, how could his future possibly remain bright?

Du Chengrong wasn’t sending Wang Jianhua a son – he was sending him a time bomb. This child, connected to Wang Jianhua by blood, would shatter his life to pieces!

Without Du Chengrong lifting a finger, he would bloodlessly deal with the man who had cuckolded him.

Why not just eliminate Wang Jianhua?

He wasn’t insane enough to go to the mainland to eliminate a young college-educated cadre.

In the smuggling case, the mainland authorities had already sentenced Du Zhaoqi and wouldn’t mind arresting more people. Everyone knew Du Chengrong was the mastermind behind it all – why would he needlessly test the mainland government’s tolerance?

If this were in 1997, after Hong Kong’s return, he probably wouldn’t have escaped.

Fortunately, it was 1988, still nine years before Hong Kong’s return. By then, who knew if he’d even be alive—

Du Chengrong wasn’t just ruthless – he was calculating.

That’s why while others in the underworld ended up under six feet of grass, he managed to go legitimate and become a chairman.

For someone like him, dealing with Wang Jianhua would be like a cat playing with a mouse – caught but not immediately devoured, trapped under a paw for slow torment.

Well, Du Chengrong needed to find some entertainment for his retirement.

Du Chengrong didn’t particularly hide these actions. As soon as Xia Junbao left with the child, Du Zhaohui knew about it.

When he heard about sending Xia Ziyu’s brother and a newborn infant to the mainland, Du Zhaohui immediately guessed the infant’s identity.

Unexpectedly, the old man had allowed Xia Ziyu to give birth to the child.

The child naturally couldn’t carry the Du surname – if it did, it wouldn’t be sent back to the mainland. The old man wasn’t that miserly; with just a bit of money, he could have sent the child abroad to be raised.

For favored children, being sent abroad meant further education.

For unfavored children, being sent abroad meant exile.

Just like Liu Keying’s children – when Liu Keying fell from favor, it didn’t affect her children who were sent abroad for education. But after Liu Keying regained favor while pregnant, and then conspired with Du Zhaoqi… her children were implicated. They weren’t even allowed to return for Liu Keying’s funeral.

Not being sent abroad but rather to the mainland – this alone made Du Zhaohui certain that Xia Ziyu’s child was Wang Jianhua’s.

How poisonous of the old man – planning to send the child to Wang Jianhua?

Du Zhaohui didn’t want to tell Xia Xiaolan about Xia Ziyu’s affairs in the Kowloon Walled City, but he thought this particular scheme of the old man was worth gossiping about.

Especially since he had seen the old man’s obituary in the morning paper that day: “Du Family’s Fifth Concubine Xia Minwei Dies in Childbirth Abroad!”

The Fifth Concubine had died, and the child hadn’t survived either.

Du Sheng was deeply affected and declined all interviews. The funeral would be kept simple.

Well, Xia Ziyu’s fate had been neatly arranged – from now on, there would neither be a mainland fugitive named Xia Ziyu nor would there be the Du family’s Fifth Concubine Xia Minwei.

The Hong Kong media couldn’t help but sigh at the “beauty’s tragic fate.” When the Fifth Concubine was in favor, many envied her rise to prominence.

Who knew the flower that bloomed so brilliantly would wither so quickly?

Although she had been previously mocked throughout Hong Kong as the “30 Million Debt Lady,” she had been fortunate enough to stay until Du Sheng awoke.

Yet her luck was too thin – just as Du Sheng awakened, the Fifth Concubine died in childbirth!

Du Zhaohui wanted to share this gossip with Xia Xiaolan, shamelessly finding an excuse to contact her. Although he repeated “married couples can divorce, married women can become widows” three times daily, he still needed to maintain regular contact – otherwise, feelings might fade!

But when Du Zhaohui called Coconut City, Xia Xiaolan wasn’t there. With a belly full of gossip and nowhere to share it, he nearly rushed straight to Hainan Island!

—No, he couldn’t go to that place, it was Zhou Heilian’s territory, not conducive to exercising his charm.

The Second Concubine remained persistent – unable to save Du Zhaoqi, she tried to salvage his business. She had been on the mainland these days, causing Du Zhaohui to sneer.

Business?

While Xia Xiaolan had a pot of water already bubbling and ready for rice, the Second Concubine was voluntarily trying to jump in.

What could Du Zhaohui do, to stop the Second Concubine from jumping in?

The more he tried to stop her, the more eager she might be to jump – the Asia Shopping Mall shares were still being contested.

However, the Second Concubine’s actions gave him a better excuse.

So should he go to Hainan Island or not?

…

Du Zhaohui’s minor dilemma was nothing compared to the pressure Zhu Suizhou was facing right now.

Zhu Suizhou had misappropriated 1 million yuan from his company and rushed to Hainan Island, hoping to catch the speculation train before the news of Hainan becoming a province was announced!

He didn’t have Xia Xiaolan’s foresight to know that land prices in Hainan would skyrocket from tens of thousands per mu to a terrifying several million.

But Zhu Suizhou had his judgment.

Land in Coconut City was cheap, even cheaper in remote areas, possibly only thirty to forty thousand per mu.

He figured that once Hainan became a province, Coconut City would become the provincial capital, and land prices would double at a minimum.

If prices doubled, whatever his initial investment was, he could earn an equal amount in returns.

If Sheng Xuan could help him secure a 10 million yuan loan to buy land, he could earn 10 million in just a few days.

With 20 million, he could earn another 20 million.

Sheng Xuan had done it before.

Once the bank loan was repaid and he had earned 20 million, why worry about managing the Asia Shopping Mall?

Money breeds money.

Doubling was Zhu Suizhou’s conservative estimate based on Commercial City’s land prices. With patience, land worth thirty to forty thousand per mu might rise to 100,000 per mu.

No other business could yield profits this quickly.

This made Zhu Suizhou lose his composure. Learning that the Coconut City government had tightened restrictions on land approval, he wanted to use every connection he had.

Catching this Hainan province establishment opportunity, how many years of hard work could he skip?

With the earned money, how big a business could he build?

He wouldn’t accept the Song family’s refusal to help at this crucial moment!

When Second Madam Song received her cousin’s call asking about any connections in Hainan, she was quite confused.

“Why such urgency? Did your Suizhou get into trouble there, needing mediation?”

“Sister, I can’t explain in detail over the phone, but we need influential connections… please, you must help Suizhou this time!”