After meeting with Xue Tong, Yin Tianchou, and Shi Jianhao, Sun Hao faced a crucial choice: whom to cooperate with and whom to avoid. With Hong Xin and Ye Jiakang making their moves, if Sun Hao had tried to claim he wanted everything, the pressure on him wouldn't just come from the 14K, Hung Hing, and the Big Circle Gang opposing the factions of Xue Tong, Yin Tianchou, and Shi Jianhao that he supported. He would also have to face Hong Xin and Ye Jiakang's allies—his old rivals, the Bamboo Union and the Heavenly Way Alliance. Furthermore, the Triad had previously issued warnings to the other three major syndicates, and both the Hong Kong police and political circles would pin the primary blame for this chaos squarely on Sun Hao himself. Yet even that wouldn't have been insurmountable; at worst, he could just retreat to Taiwan and stay put. The real nightmare was that offending Jun Chen meant certain death.
Sun Hao didn't find it hard to guess that the leaders of the three major syndicates being hauled away by the People's Liberation Army Garrison in Hong Kong was 100 percent Jun Chen's doing. No one else in Hong Kong possessed such authority. With the syndicates descending into chaos at this moment, the resulting harm to society and the common people would easily be shifted onto Jun Chen's head—after all, if he hadn't rounded up Hong Hanwen, Chan Ho-nam, and Ye Tiancheng, this storm would never have erupted. But once Jun Chen grew angry, the consequences would be terrifying; …
Chapter 405