'This gave him quite a scare. They say what you think about by day, you dream of by night, but I've never dared to even consider something like that. What's going on?'
'The only explanation must be that I spent too much time thinking about the Xinyue Group yesterday. Since the Xinyue Group is one of the Zong Family's assets, my mind must have linked them together. It's a bit of a stretch, but I guess it's a plausible enough excuse.'
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「Early in the morning. The top floor of a skyscraper on a man-made island in the Chinese Southern Sea.」
This was the global command center of the Zong Group. The island itself was a bustling metropolis with a population of several hundred thousand, all of them employees of the Zong Group and their families.
The Zong Group held controlling or minority stakes in numerous companies, spanning dozens of key sectors including commercial real estate, shipping, luxury hotels, and semiconductor manufacturing, to name a few.
