Hong Kong Island in the 1980s: gangs abound, and street thugs run rampant.
Lu Jinglin transmigrates into the world of Hong Kong crime films and becomes a mole working for Huang Zhicheng, spending three years undercover in Hung Hing under Kwun.
When his three-year assignment ends, Huang Zhicheng tells him one thing:
“Go undercover for another three years.”
Kwun pats him on the shoulder and makes a tempting promise, too.
“Fei-lin, help me take out Chan Ho-nam, and I’ll get you promoted.”
Lu Jinglin looks at the cop who wants to use him as a disposable pawn and the gang boss who wants to use him as a weapon, and laughs.
“What’s the most important thing when you’re in the game?”
“Loyalty?”
“Wrong.”
“It’s taxes, licenses, cash flow, and making the residents, cops, foreigners, councilors, and reporters all depend on you.”
After binding to the Legitimate Business Godfather System, Lu Jinglin earns rewards by turning gray-market operations into legitimate businesses, thugs into employees, and gang territory into a legal commercial empire.
And so, Hong Kong Island begins to change.
While Chan Ho-nam is still talking about brotherhood, Lu Jinglin is already paying his men base salaries, bonuses, and accident insurance.
While Big B is still making empty promises, Lu Jinglin is already taking his men to buy buildings, open factories, and build brands.
While Jiang Tiansheng is still playing the balancing game as gang boss, Lu Jinglin has already become a candidate for Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons.
When Kwun tries to get into the drug trade, Lu Jinglin turns Kwun Chien Cinema into Hong Kong Island’s top film and television group instead.
When Tung Hing tries to muscle in, he donates police cars, and the anti-triad squad raids Tung Hing that very night.
At the Hung Hing assembly, Jiang Tiansheng finally asks in fury:
“Lu Jinglin, what exactly are you trying to do?”
Lu Jinglin slaps a stack of tax receipts onto the table.
“I want to tell you all one thing.”
“What kind of age are we living in? Who still runs an old-fashioned gang?”
Different arena, different Hong Kong TV series,
It's good to portray the real characters in the Young and Dangerous movies from another perspective, with flesh and blood.
It's not a cool story, it's a story about a young and Dangerous boy from Hong Kong TV series using rules and regulations to climb up the ladder step by step. Feel good little by little
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As long as it doesn't suck