Lu Zhixing is the heir to the Lu Group in Hong Kong. The suit was straight and watertight, making it a perfect piece of work - except for the twenty minutes when I went to the beach in Sai Wan alone late at night on Friday night.
Shen Yuan is a mergers and acquisitions lawyer who has returned to Hong Kong for three years. Gentle, polite, sharp and restrained, he turned "No, thank you" into a survival philosophy - no one knew that there was an expired ticket back to London locked in his drawer.
A multi-billion-dollar cross-border merger puts them at the same conference table.
Everyone felt that this was just another standard cooperation between Party A and Party B.
It wasn't until the balcony of the reception that Shen Yu'an bumped into Lu Zhixing swearing a Cantonese curse on his cell phone - and then regained his perfect smile in less than a second and walked back to the crowd.
Only he saw the crack.
The way Lu Zhixing approached him was to give - with resources, status, and the only language of love he knew.
What Shen Yu'an heard was charity.
What they were arguing about was not the same thing, and the pain was not in the same place.
And when the old accounts from 1997 finally came to light——
He discovered that the lights on both sides of Victoria Harbor were never just separated by a sea.
——
"Dignity is for outsiders to see. Don't be shameless in front of your own people."
Purpose: Discussion\
