Dinner time, at the Three Seasons Hotel rooftop garden.
Harvey York had already prepared a lavish Hong Kong – style afternoon tea to welcome Toby Clarke, who was showing an extremely gloomy face at that moment. “Governor Clarke, a capable man can yield when needed, but your actions have shocked everyone here. There might be an uproar in Hong Kong soon enough.”
Obviously , Harvey already knew about everything that transpired in the Leo family’s villa.
Harvey had figured that something like this would happen.
Jason Leo would never return to his country out of respect for Toby. As for Jason’s three conditions, Harvey did not deem those demands were too outrageous.
Those were clearly Jason’s reasons for coming back this time. If he could accomplish his goals without a drop of blood spilled, he would hold back regardless of his murderous intent.
“Don’t you know that outsiders keep calling us the Slave Family?”
After getting a change of clothes, Toby showed a faint smile.
“Before I returned, I was The Empire’s servants. I served in Country H’s royal court after that. “People like me follow what’s best for myself.
“I’ll bow to whoever, whenever I need to. This is nothing to me.
“Since I currently belong to the royal court, if I have a chance to fight for the country’s peace, so what if I have to kneel and get slapped in the face?
“I did my best. I don’t have any regrets.
“It’s a shame that I overestimated my reputation. Not only did I not entirely resolve the situation, I even made these people a lot more cocky in the process.”
Toby then poured himself a cup of Black Tea before taking a sip with a calm look on his face, as if he was not the one who had given in to The Empire’s people earlier.
Harvey squinted at Toby. He knew that other than trying to regain peace, the man in front of him wanted to show the higher-ups what he was capable of by kneeling. No matter what happened next, there was no way that Country H’s royal court would even consider replacing him.
If they took Toby off his position, the Clarke family would be destroyed in the chaos…
Harvey had already seen through Toby’s intent.
“Even though I can endure so much humiliation, there’s just no point!”
Toby continued to speak.
Harvey just chuckled without giving a reply. “Jason is a true God of War, after all.
“His fists speak for themselves.
“You can only defeat a man like that if you want him to go your way.
There’s no other choice.
“As for his three conditions, I’m fine with the first two…
“But the third one will definitely destroy Hong Kong without a doubt!
“They want Hong Kong to be returned to The Empire! “Simply put, Hong Kong only has one choice at this point. To fight them to the bitter end.
“It’s complicated. We’re going up against The Empire here. The four top families of Hong Kong might’ve already given up.”
“If Jason didn’t demand the people involved with this incident to end their own lives, those people might’ve been throwing money at his doorstep while forcing my family’s hand by now!
“Vince probably didn’t think he’d hurt himself with his own plan too!
“Jason is just too ambitious. Not only is he trying to take out both Vince York and me, but he’s also trying to destroy the Yorks of Hong Kong! We’ll all just die together at this point!”