Chapter Three: The Zero Auction

Zhou Lin ignored them and studied his brother. The auction was not about selling the park. If the subway news was real, Jiming would not surrender four hundred million in gains. If false, he needed a victim. The page about Su Wanqing existed only to make Zhou Lin surrender the ledger. What Jiming truly wanted was the original list of forty-seven victims. The list represented joint property rights across the old district. Haiyue might fall, but Mingchuan could continue its acquisitions with those names. “I request verification of title,” Zhou Lin said. “The winner may inspect it after the auction,” Jiming replied. “Then we may be bidding on something that doesn't exist.”