Hong Kong variety show: I wanted to be a lawyer, but I became a big shot.

In a newly transferred apartment building in Mong Kok.

Lin Bei accompanied Ai Lian to look at the names on the property certificate. The young girl smiled and put the documents into her bag, then took his arm and went downstairs.

As soon as I got into the car, my cell phone rang.

He answered the phone, and it was Chan Ho-nam's smiling voice on the other end, politely saying that Boss B was hosting a banquet in Causeway Bay tonight and invited him to attend.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Bei fiddled with the mobile phone in his hand, his expression somewhat strange.

"Has the sun risen in the west?"

"That stingy Boss B offered to buy me a drink?"

"This is the first time a young woman has ever been married in a sedan chair."

Ailian rested her head on his shoulder and said with a smile.

"Brother Bei, in my opinion, Boss B and the others probably need your help."

"Otherwise, given his personality, he wouldn't be so proactive."

Lin Bei thought about it carefully and nodded.

"You're right, it's mostly about money."

"Last night I heard Fatty Li say that he placed several million bets and lost it all at once."

"They must be racking their brains now, wondering where to find the money to cover this deficit!"

"However, it's not impossible for me to help him..."

"Then we'll see what kind of bargaining chips he can come up with."

Ailian was slightly taken aback, somewhat puzzled.

"Brother Bei, are you really going to help Boss B?"

"He's always going against you..."

Lin Bei reached out and pinched her cheek, then chuckled.

"When have you ever seen me suffer a loss at the hands of a man?"

"Do you think my money is so easy to take?"

After saying that, he dialed the number again, and the person on the other end only said one sentence after the call was connected.

"You'd better stay home tonight and wait for me to come back and pamper you..."

……

As night falls, the neon lights of Causeway Bay illuminate the streets as if it were daytime.

Big Boss B had long ago instructed his men to clean up the innermost private room of his bar. The table was filled with bottles of Blue Girl beer, fruit platters of various sizes, and several dishes of peanuts and shredded squid.

He stood in the center of the private room with his hands on his hips, looked around, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Hmm, not bad."

"Given this standard, Lin Bei can't really say anything."

Outside the door, Chen Haonan had already led Lin Bei and his group through the corridor.

Lin Bei walked at the front, followed by Huo Baoming, Yaowen, and a few of his underlings.

The moment the door to the private room opened, Lin Bei's gaze swept around the room.

In the center was a low table, neatly stacked with beer bottles and a fruit platter, nothing more.

The lighting was dim, the sofa was old, and the wall-mounted air conditioner in the corner whirred and whirred without any background music playing.

His lips twitched very slightly.

Good grief, are they testing their cadres with this?

You're so stingy, the boss of Causeway Bay.

As soon as Boss B saw him, a smile immediately spread across his face, and he stretched out his hands to greet him from afar.

"Hey, Brother Lin Bei, you've finally arrived!"

"Come on, come on, sit down! It's been so long since we brothers have had a drink together!"

Lin Bei quickly suppressed the twitching at the corner of his mouth and put on a polite smile.

"Brother B, why are you going to such lengths tonight, throwing such a big party for me to drink?"

"If we have something to discuss, why don't we just come to your office for a cup of tea?"

These words sounded polite, but coupled with his slow, deliberate tone, they carried a hint of sarcasm.

Whether Boss B genuinely didn't understand or was pretending not to, he became even more excited and grabbed Lin Bei's shoulder, pulling him towards the sofa.

"Oh, we're all brothers, a few bottles of wine is no trouble at all!"

"Just a little water!"

"Come on, sit down! Tonight, we're not leaving until we're drunk!"

Lin Bei didn't refuse and sat down on the sofa in the main seat. Boss B personally opened two bottles of beer, handed one to him, and held up the other himself.

"Come on, bro, let's have a drink!"

The two bottles clinked together in mid-air, and Lin Bei tilted his head back and gulped down most of the bottle, the icy liquid sliding down his throat.

He put down the bottle, picked up a piece of pineapple with a toothpick, and put it in his mouth, chewing slowly while keeping an eye on Boss B's movements out of the corner of his eye.

Big Brother B also took a swig of wine, wiped the foam from the corner of his mouth, and then started rambling on about this and that, from the weather to horse racing, and from horse racing to the recent opening of several saunas in Causeway Bay, but he never mentioned anything serious.

Lin Bei took two more sips, put the remaining half bottle of wine on the table, and patiently waited until it was all gone.

He looked around the private room; apart from beer and fruit platters, there was nothing else.

No one from the Big Waves group came in to drink with them; in fact, Chen Haonan and his group stood at the door, looking like they were ready to take a knife at any moment.

Lin Bei thought to himself, "Hmm?"

He really thought that Boss B would at least arrange some entertainment, even if he didn't bring in a team of girls to warm up the atmosphere, he would at least add a few bottles of foreign liquor to save face.

Is that all?

Drinking alone?

He slammed the empty bottle onto the table with a light touch, leaned back on the sofa, and looked at Boss B with a half-smile.

"Brother B."

Boss B paused for a moment with a smile, then responded.

"Hey, bro, what's up?"

Lin Bei picked up a toothpick and twirled it between his fingers, speaking in a lazy tone.

"Look, we've drunk the wine and eaten the fruit."

"Shouldn't we at least arrange for a big, wavy-haired guy to give her a hug?"

"Otherwise, with the air conditioning so blasted here, I'm getting goosebumps!"

The air in the private room visibly froze for a moment.

Boss B's smile froze on his face, the corners of his mouth still curved upwards, but a hint of embarrassment flashed in his eyes that he couldn't hide in time.

Chen Haonan, who was standing at the door, twitched his eyelids. Si Yan stopped pushing up his glasses in mid-air, while Da Tian Er turned his head away and his shoulders twitched suspiciously.

Huo Baoming almost burst out laughing behind Lin Bei, but Yaowen elbowed him back.

Lin Bei threw the toothpick into the ashtray, patted the toothpick off his hands, stopped smiling, and fixed his gaze on Boss B's face.

"Alright, alright, I'm not kidding anymore."

"Brother B, you invited me here with such a big entourage, it can't just be for drinking."

"Just tell me what you need."

Big Brother B opened his mouth, but all the pleasantries and groundwork he had prepared were disrupted, and for a moment he didn't know where to start.

Looking into Lin Bei's eyes, which held a faint smile yet were unambiguous, a thought suddenly welled up in his mind that he couldn't suppress.

This kid is definitely not someone who can be easily fooled.

He coughed lightly, picked up his bottle, and took another big gulp, as if to bolster his courage.

As the porcelain bottle left his lips, a barely perceptible sigh escaped his lips.

"Brother, since you're so straightforward, I, as your older brother, won't beat around the bush with you."

"As you know, Causeway Bay has suffered heavy losses in the recent two major clashes!"

"The new store is being renovated recently, and we're a little short on funds."

"I know you own a loan sharking company, so I'd like to borrow some money from you for short-term cash flow..."