"Ting-ting, it's me" "I want to see you" "I..." "I told you" "If I could come back" "I would trade my ring for your necklace" "Could you be frank with me?" "How do you see your father?" "Firstly, he has guts" "He is a real man that stands tall" "Secondly, if he had had luck" "He would have made it big" "Thirdly" "He is my father no matter what" "I was reprimanded by my boss today" "I suddenly thought of my papa" "How he used to call the shots" "I suddenly wanted very much to succeed" "I couldn't embarrass him" "Then I realized" "I still have my papa in mind" "How do you want me to see my papa?" "I don't know" "I just know that he is not as flawless as you think" "Chung Cheng Airport, Taiwan" "On business?" "Yes" "How long you intend to stay?" "Leaving this evening" "Thank you" "Mr Fong, where are you from?" "The States" "Come on, another toast to you all!" "Cheers Thank you" "People say that the underground banks of Taiwan are flooded with money" "Ankle deep" "My trip here really is an eye-opener" "How to get the money to Hong Kong" "That's the problem" "Brother Tsai, Mrs Tsai" "Please sit" "Brother Tsai" "Cantonese, they speak Cantonese" "Yes, we can speak Cantonese" "Brother Tsai, we have not had a drink with you for several years" "We have to get drunk this evening" "To thank you for taking care of us back then" "When I first met Brother Tsai" "Thanks to his word" "My life could be saved" "Let us not talk about it" "Let us drink" "Cheers Cheers" "A kindness has to be remembered all the time" "Brother Tsai, those present here" "You have helped all of us in our start out" "You are calling the shots now" "Brother Tsai now just plays mahjong and enjoys life" "He doesn't involve in it any more" "I am now crippled, what else can I do?" "Sister Wah" "What is now missing in the gangland ls people who can command respect Like Brother Tsai" "Now nobodies with some underlings call themselves Big Brothers" "You think anyone can be Big Brother?" "There are not many like Brother Tsai" "He commands respect in Hong Kong" "He commands respect in Taiwan" "Right!" "This is a real Big Brother" "What happened in Hong Kong is history" "Brother Tsai, many in the gangland" "They still put up their thumbs when Brother Tsai is mentioned" "That's status" "This business with To-to" "When he needs help" "We think of you instantly" "Let me tell you" "This is not the first time Brother Tsai helped people out" "It is minor stuff to Brother Tsai" "How would he not help you?" "But I have not done these things for more than a decade" "Right, if you need help" "Let us find some suitable people for you" "Brother Tsai, this time it involves a big sum of money" "We working the Hong Kong and Taiwan route" "It is the name Chow Tsai-sang that we trust" "We may agree to give To-to the loan" "But it is no use" "Without your promise" "There is nothing we can do" "I think we should send the money in two batches" "Two trips and you can earn yourself a villa" "And do him a favour, why not?" "Two trips, Brother Tsai" "It will be no problem with your help" "Brother Tsai really has retired" "Cut it out" "We men are talking here" "Don't cut in" "Brother Tsai, I know it is rash to ask you for help" "But I really need the money" "I will try any chance, however slight" "That Chan Man-yin is insufferable" "But you are working for the bank only" "Why you go all these extra lengths?" "He is my father" "I am sorry, that's all I can say" "All right, I will take this villa" "Cheers..." "Don't be mad, I am sorry" "I talked too much" "But before we went there" "You wanted me to turn them down" "I did what you asked me to" "But I had changed my mind" "You should have shut up" "Yes...it was my fault, I am sorry" "Don't be mad, mind your heart" "I have said sorry" "You made me shut you up in public" "When we men are talking" "We hate women cutting in" "Yes..." "I will remember it" "I was not smart enough, I talked too much" "All these years, I sure have been a great help to you" "We used to run drugs together" "We used to go through hell together" "You used to say I was a great help to you" "When ICAC was set up" "They tried to threaten me or coax me" "To make me turn a tainted witness against you" "If I could choose again" "I would still pick fleeing to Taiwan with you" "All these years" "My father, mother and brother died one after the other in Hong Kong" "I knew I could never go back to pay them respects" "But I never complained" "I have been with you all these years" "I have seen everything" "I am thinking" "We are no longer young" "We don't have to worry about money" "To be honest" "We have done quite a lot of wicked deeds in our lives" "We can live a peaceful life in our twilight years" "What else do we want?" "It is his family feud" "We just stay out of it if we can" "You are the husband, you decide" "Hello" "And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you" "Take it out and put it away from you" "Who are you?" "Because it is better to undergo the loss of one part" "Than for all your body to go into hell" "Who is it?" "Wrong number" "Mentor, have some congee" "I am sorry, I meant to untie you" "But I am worried that you will stab yourself at the thigh again" "Come on, I have to go to work" "Come on, Mentor, congee" "Mentor, is it too hot?" "Let me cool it for you" "Mentor" "Mentor, come on, I have to go to work" "What now?" "Mentor, if you keep on looking like this" "I have to take you to mental hospital" "Then you won't have the chance to see your protege" "You think about it" "Mentor" "Mentor, please" "I saw my papa beaten to death when I was small" "I could take it" "You can take it too, you have to be tough" "Mentor!" "Look, the thing you like" "Stocks" "Stocks, Mentor" "Mentor, you said a storm is coming in the stock market" "Someone will take on Chan Man-yin the scum" "But if you continue to be like this" "It will pass you by" "It can't be done" "You agree?" "Mentor, please" "I still have a lot to ask you" "Come on..." "Mentor, you say something" "Mentor" "I have to leave you here" "I have to go to work" "You stay here" "War clouds are gathering" "In the three rivers" "The water runs high" "Boats chained in a row" "Safe as land" "What?" "I didn't hear you" "You say it again" "I don't get it" "In the three rivers" "The water runs high" "Boats chained in a row" "Safe as land" "Boats chained in a row" "Safe as land" "In the three rivers" "The water runs high" "Boats chained in a row" "Safe as land" "Boats chained in a row, safe as land" "In the three rivers, the water runs high" "50,000" "Yes, all right..." "Thank you, Wah Kai, 20,000, all right..." "What three rivers?" "Three rivers..." "What?" "Three Rivers?" "No such a stock" "It is not about stocks" "You know what the rivers are?" "Hello, Mr Chan, done" "Yes, thank you" "Sure, thank you" "123, 124" "Uncle Ming, what in the three rivers?" "Changjiang River, Pearl River, whatever" "In the three rivers, the water runs high What does it mean?" "Sell" "In the three rivers, the water runs high What does it mean?" "Uncle Ming, you ask your friends, please" "Please, leave me alone" "The water really runs high today" "Chan To-to is taking on Chan Man-yin" "It will be stormy, chap" "The water runs high?" "In the three rivers, the water runs high" "Mentor means today?" "Here?" "Uncle Ming, what does it mean by boats chained in a row?" "What boats?" "Boats chained in a row" "Noah's Ark?" "Boss" "Come on" "Want to read my books?" "Want me to show my hand?" "Let us see what you've got first" "Let me see how you meet your demise today" "Man Kwong International, 1.85, now 1.80" "To-to, 1.80 now, buy?" "1.70 now" "To-to, 1.70, good price" "To-to, half of the sum from underground bank here" "Now down to 1.60" "Buy!" "Yeh!" "Hello, yes, got it!" "Buy!" "003 10,000" "How many?" "10,000" "2 million" "What is going on?" "A big show" "Chan To-to finally declares war" "It is a world war" "Chan To-to wants to buy out Man Kwong" "But I still don't know what does it mean by boats chained in a row" "What to do?" "Forget the boats" "You want to make money?" "Then buy it" "Uncle Ming, what my mentor said means something" "It is very important" "You tell me think about it" "What nonsense" "Uncle Ming, you help me out" "1.60, 300,000 shares 1.65, 60,000 shares" "1.70, 1 million shares" "1.65, 3 million shares 1.70, 2 million" "The latest price, 2 dollars 1.75, 3 million" "1.80,1 million" "Boss, up to last minute" "Chan To-to is holding 3.6 % of Man Kwong's total shares" "Let him buy, let him hold more" "The more he holds, the bigger his fall" "Sister Ping, you are learned in Chinese literature" "What does it mean by boats chained in a row safe as land?" "Boats chained in a row, safe as land 100 hands, yes..." "No time for the Three Kingdoms here" "It is now the warring period here" "The Three Kingdoms?" "About Cao Cao, Zhuke Liang and who else?" "Sister Ping, have you bought Man Kwong?" "I just bought some" "Smart" "Chan To-to has pushed it to 2.30" "If Chan Man-yin fights back" "It may go up to 10 dollars" "What is that old fox up to?" "He has made no moves so far" "Don't worry, he is not that stupid" "We can't lose" "Money in your pocket" "We are now holding 5.28% of Man Kwong's shares" "If the trend continues" "It will close at 2.8 dollars" "And we will hold 7% of the shares" "To-to, it is smoother than the computer prediction" "It was predicted that we couldn't get more than 4% at the most" "BUY" "Chan Man-yin will not take it lying down 2.4, we are holding 6%" "It is now my turn" "Chan To-to, you have paid so much in tuition" "I have to show you something" "Go!" "Yes, yes" "2.3, how many you want?" "1 million" "How many?" "You can have it!" "What is that old fox up to?" "He is not buying, he is selling" "Man Kwong is falling, now to 2.00" "To-to, should we hold it?" "Buy!" "He sells, we buy" "We can't let me see through us" "Boats chained in a row, safe as land" "What does it mean?" "What?" "Down to 2.2?" "Yes" "2.4 2.4 now..." "It must be very important" "Sister, which chapter is it in the Three Kingdoms?" "What is it about?" "Boats chained in a row, safe as land" "Tell me please" "I am very busy Please" "Boss says 2 dollars" "2 dollars" "To-to, Chan Man-yin doesn't seem to be bluffing" "By buying like this" "We are losing money" "More than 20 million shares are bought above 2 dollars 5 million at 2.60" "Tell them to hold" "Back in position" "Check out the movements of Chan Man-yin's companies within the day" "Come on" "Sister Ping, please tell me" "What does it mean by boats chained in a row Safe as land?" "Sister Ping, please" "I have to use the toilet" "You tell me first" "I wait for you here" "Boats chained in a row" "Shit!" "What took you so long?" "What does it mean by boats chained in a row" "You are a pest" "It is about the battle between Zhou Yu and Cao Cao" "Cao Cao's army is not good fighting in water" "So he has his boats chained together in a row" "They become a floating piece of land on water, get it?" "One tied to the other" "One boat linked to another" "They are the boats linked together" "Interlinked holdings" "What is interlinked holdings?" "Chan Man-yin interlinks the companies under his control into one" "By interchanging holding stocks of each company" "That means every company is the holding company of the others" "If we want to buy one out" "We have to buy out the rest" "Uncle Ming, sell two hands of Man Kwong for me" "What?" "Sell two hands of Man Kwong" "What?" "Sell Man Kwong?" "Yes" "You have no shares" "You dare to sell short?" "It has gone down so much, it will rebound" "You can't buy them back" "It won't rebound" "Chan Man-yin will push it to 1.70" "You crazy?" "Chan Man-yin that old fox" "You don't know what he will do" "You don't have to care" "You just sell two hands for me" "Please, sell two hands for me" "Come on, please" "Hold the price" "Don't let it fall to 1.70" "Buy as many as he sells" "Sell as many as he wants" "Till he can't take them any more" "Push it down to 1.70 1.80, 400,000 shares, take it or not?" "To-to, cut the loss" "We can't take it any more" "We have already lost 50% of our capital" "To-to, let go" "Go back to school to study two years more" "Who are you to take on me?" "How presumptuous" "Have you booked the table?" "Yes" "Yes, and preordered chicken stew with abalone and shark's fin" "Good" "I have no time to entertain you" "I will dump 5 million shares more" "And it will go down to 1.70" "It is game over for him" "Let us go" "Chin-pok, you rascal" "You guessed it" "Let me tell you" "You have won some pocket money" "But Chan to-to has lost a fortune" "He has bought so many" "He is doomed" "Bye for now Bye" "You have worked hard together" "Let us go for dinner, what about seafood?" "You enjoy, I am not going" "Actually we should have listened to our superior and stopped" "What are you talking about?" "It was not total loss" "Could you say something constructive?" "Paul, we still have the stocks" "That means the game is not over yet" "Today is Friday" "There are two days till market reopens" "Let us take a break" "Let us have seafood, all right?" "Ting-ting, you know Hong Kong better" "You pick the restaurant" "What about fast food?" "Good, Ting-ting, get me a hamburger" "Pizza for me Same here" "Me too, I have a small appetite" "Ting-ting, spaghetti for me" "Mr Chan, what about you?" "You decide" "Fried vermicelli?" "Mentor, you are awesome" "You guessed everything" "Chan Man-yin really used the boats chained in a row strategy" "Chin-pok, you tell me what those on the floor are" "Money, money you won from the stock market" "Mentor, let me help you put them into the bank" "It is dangerous to keep them in the house" "They may get stolen" "You are lying" "These are not money notes" "They are junk" "It is newspaper, junk" "I have been lying to myself all these years" "I took this as the stock exchange" "It is just a rundown shack" "I thought I had won back what I lost in 1973" "But I had been mad" "Bravo!" "Mentor your mind is cleared" "You have regained your sanity!" "Bravo..." "There is a temporary clearing of mind before death" "It is just a flash in the pan" "I know I will lose my sanity again" "And it will be worse than before" "I will never regain it" "I will be locked up in the mental hospital" "I know, I can feel it" "Mentor, please don't scare yourself" "I will become totally mad" "It may well be tomorrow" "Today or the next minute" "My illness is like a time bomb" "It will get off any moment" "Mentor" "Let me take you to the doctor, Mentor" "Don't waste ti me" "I have no time to waste" "Before I go totally mad" "I have to pass what I know to you" "Mentor" "Shut up" "We are racing against time here" "You have to pick up everything I know about stocks" "You have to bear it in your mind" "You tell me, what are stocks" "Investment" "Wrong!" "Speculation" "Wrong!" "Gambling" "Wrong!" "It is a game about money" "It is a game about men" "Stocks are objects" "They won't fight you" "They won't gamble with you" "In the stock market" "Your opponents are men" "Because it is about men" "Though it changes all the time" "You can still find the clue" "You tell me" "Who are the crocs in the stock market?" "Chan Man-yin, Lam Ying-man the Croc" "Raider Ho Yin-hung" "Magician Tsang Cheung" "Madman Wong Koon-fai" "These are Lam the Croc's stocks" "Here are 20 million as your capital" "You are facing Lam the Croc" "How can you get the money from me?" "Lam the Croc controls Kai Ming Enterprises" "It is now selling at 7.6" "Wai Yik Electronics at 6.9" "Lei Tung Enterprises 15 dollars" "I will go after Lei Tug" "These are Lei Tung stocks" "Selling 15.00, buying 14.50" "15.20, 100,000 shares 16.00" "18.00 19.00" "20.00 21.00" "22.00 23.00" "24.00" "Yours" "To-to, I have checked every bank" "None of them is the backer of Chan Man-yin" "We still don't know where his money came from" "You have checked everyone?" "With the backing of a bank" "He couldn't have the cash" "There is one you have not checked" "Which one?" "Our own bank 25.00, 800,000 shares" "20 million dollars" "Fool, you have forgotten" "I am the banker" "23.50" "22.00. 21.50 20.00, 18.00, 16.00" "15.00, 10.00" "I can push it down to 5 dollars" "But you have lost a fortune too" "What kind of man is Lam the Croc?" "Cutting off his nose to spite his face" "Hurting others just for the sake of it" "You tell me, how much you have left" "5 dollars per share. 800,000 shares 4 million dollars" "You have lost 16 million in a few hours" "Again!" "It really is our bank, it betrayed us!" "Shit!" "Damn them!" "To-to" "Chan Man-yin's 6 companies are interlinked in holding" "Check it out from the computer" "How much we need to get control" "Mentor..." "We are running out of time" "Now the most cunning old fox" "Chan Man-yin" "Excuse me" "I just don't believe Chan Man-yin has total control of the 6 companies" "With his worth" "At least one of them is in name only" "If we can find this one out" "Boats chained in a row, safe as land" "To defeat Cao Cao, use fire" "Mentor, set the chained boats on fire" "Light one and it will spread to all" "Which one to light?" "You tell me which one to set fire to" "Which one is nominal?" "Don't be impatient" "We have one sixth of a chance to win" "You have five sixth of a chance to lose" "Mentor, take a break" "We have no time to lose" "Don't waste my time" "You have one sixth of a chance" "Now bet" "Yes" "May Lee Do" "No, not May Lee Do" "One sixth of a chance" "You can't gamble on luck" "Use your head, think" "We have checked out all the data in the computer" "We still don't know which one" "If the money from Taiwan is not here tomorrow" "We all have to throw ourselves down the building" "What are you doing here?" "You just keep throwing cold water at us" "You are so scared?" "We are doomed?" "Gangsters keep their words" "The money from Taiwan will be here tomorrow" "I am just worried that we can't find which one is Chan Man-yin's Achilles' heel" "Indeed, what' s there to worry?" "Taiwan" "Please come in Over there" "Please sit" "Sister Wah" "The second batch of money is going to Hong Kong this evening" "Is it ready?" "Sister Wah, don't worry, taken care of" "You are still a beginner" "But you did very well" "Not at all, I was so scared" "I almost got the lyrics wrong at one time" "I have a dinner party this evening Pekingese cuisine" "You join us" "No, thanks" "I have Japanese class this evening" "Oh no, I have flower arrangement class later" "If it gets off late I may miss the computer class" "No big deal" "The instructor is quite horny" "But he never took advantage of me" "Probably because I look fierce" "Don't push yourself too hard" "Give yourself some time to wind down To ponder things out" "Don't let it build up" "It will only get worse in the end" "I have nothing in my mind" "What you want most" "You should know about it" "You were born into a broken family" "You can find yourself a happy family" "Regrets can be undone" "I have no boyfriends" "Who will marry me?" "Moreover, I am happy" "I am glad to hear it" "I want some water, you want some?" "No, thanks" "Whatever" "Just don't push yourself too hard" "Sister Wah, you don't have to worry" "I am doing fine" "You are not a stupid girl" "If there are things you want to do" "You think it is right, just go ahead" "We are not born with everything at our command" "I know" "Oh yes, Sister Wah" "If you are unhappy, what will you do?" "Sister Wah" "Have you seen Sister Wah?" "No, we were outside all the time" "Sister Wah's earring" "Oh no..."