Overheard 3

Five Years ago, LAW was jailed for killing a major land owner in a car accident. At that time LAW worked as a chauffeur for the rural tycoon LUK. It was rumored that LUK was behind such land owner’s death, which gave LUK a competitive edge in the native apartment development deal. Before the Hong Kong handover in 1997, every native, male resident in the New Territories was granted the right to build a house. Yet it had caused social unrest over the land right, until recently the government decided to gather all of the remaining land rights from these residents and plan to build taller apartment buildings. LUK wished to swallow the enormous project and this started the fights between LUK, the land owner and other real estate developers. When LAW gets out of prison five years later, the world has changed…