Lin Yi actually did not go back to the room directly.
As soon as he entered the elevator, he asked the two people next to him: "Do you want to go downstairs for a walk? I just drank some wine and wanted to go outside to enjoy some fresh air."
Liu Jianni was a very discerning person, so she declined directly: "You go ahead."
Li Moyan didn't comment, but she didn't click on her floor, so she acquiesced.
When the elevator stopped on the first floor, Lin Yi and his senior sister were the only two people who came out. The former exhaled a breath that smelled of alcohol.
They walked out of the hotel door and looked at the streets that were unfamiliar to both of them without any particular goal.
"Go that way."
It's to the east, in the direction of Causeway Bay. It's easy to find late-night snacks when you're tired of walking.
Lin Yi and his senior sister were walking on the streets of Hong Kong City. Even if they were close to the core area of the CBD, the roads here were still narrow, which was very different from the big cities in the mainland.
Only the rows of high-rise buildings on both sides still reminded them that they were in a bustling modern metropolis.
They walked for a while without anyone speaking, until Lin Yi suddenly laughed out loud.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Nothing, I was thinking that the night view of the harbor city is indeed pretty good."
"What, you regret it?"
After Lin Yi reacted for a moment, he realized that because of what happened upstairs just now, the word "night scene" seemed to have another meaning for a short time.
"of course not."
"When you told us a long time ago that we were preparing to go public, you set your target on the port city from the beginning. You should be more recognized here, right?"
"That's not the case. The reason why I chose Hong Kong City as the listing location was because I had no choice but to do so because the United States was an unacceptable option. I don't have any special preference for Hong Kong City, or quite the opposite."
I don't know if it was the effect of alcohol or the fact that we finally talked about a non-work topic, but Lin Yi was very talkative.
They listened somewhere on the street, and then Lin Yi pointed in one direction and asked, "Do you know what the three buildings over there are?"
This is not the first time for senior sister to come to Hong Kong City, but she has never paid attention to several super high-rise office buildings, not to mention it is night time when the view is relatively limited.
She also didn't ask why Lin Yi, who was coming to Hong Kong City for the first time, knew him, and just let him reveal the mystery on his own.
"Those three buildings are all famous. From lowest to highest, they are the HSBC Head Office, the Cheung Kong Group Center, and the Bank of China Tower."
"It is very appropriate to use these three buildings to represent the port city. It not only clearly explains the ownership of this city, but also encompasses its past, present and future."
"Of all the stories related to them, the most well-known is actually a Feng Shui bureau."
"The location of HSBC is known as the financial position on Hong Kong Island. It has played an irreplaceable and important role in this city for many years."
"In the 1980s, the Bank of China Building was built. It looked like a three-sided sharp knife, which was very evil. It is said that it ruined the feng shui of HSBC Bank and caused business setbacks."
"So HSBC also found a master, and finally set up two cannons on the rooftop of the building, with the muzzles pointing directly at the Bank of China Tower as a counterweight."
"In the end, when Boss Li, who was sandwiched between them, built the Yangtze River Group Center, he built the building as square as a shield, with a strict door."
"This is simply a fable. How do you feel after listening to it?"
The senior sister said succinctly: "Absurd!"
"right?"
This was the first time that Lin Yi exchanged his views on this matter with others.
"I think so too."
"Three towering skyscrapers like this, such a modern city that is one of the best in Asia and even the world, are so careless, but so serious, and they are playing a feng shui tactic in a decent way."
“People who come to this city for the first time are often amazed by its grandeur, but the more times they come, the more they discover the unforgettable traditions beneath its magnificent appearance.”
"What I call tradition is not the old, outdated, out-of-date conservatism we usually refer to."
"It is a kind of unconcealable decay and corpse odor that spans two hundred years of time and space, and is reincarnated from the dirty soil in the coffin that has long been buried deep in the ground."
"This is Hong Kong City."
The senior sister really didn't expect that Lin Yi's evaluation of this city was like this.
"I don't deny that this city has its charm, especially the interlacing light and shadow in old Hong Kong movies, which is the childhood filter given to it by our generation."
"But the prosperity of this city, its bustling traffic, its feasting and revelry, have nothing to do with the nostalgic fireworks and human touch."
“Do you see that overpass over there?”
"Under that overpass, there will be people lying down every weekend, which surprises tourists who are not familiar with this place. Why are there so many homeless people sleeping on the streets in such a prosperous city?"
"Those are Filipino maids."
"In Hong Kong City's self-proclaimed civilized standards, Filipino maids are in another class."
"They are not protected by the local minimum wage and are often bullied or beaten by their employers. They are like the kind of truly lowly servants who can only swallow their anger in order to avoid being fired."
"Houses in Hong Kong City are very small. Most families cannot prepare a separate bedroom for a Filipino domestic helper, so they can only lay a floor in the living room or even the toilet."
"On weekends, the usually busy homeowner may want to rest at home or hang out with friends, so he will kick the Filipino maid out of the house."
"Of course those poor homeless people who traveled across the ocean to earn some remittances were not willing to spend money on accommodation, so they lived under the overpass."
"The scars in this city are so obvious, but they don't find it irritating."
"What's even more ironic is that they always talk about being superior to others in the so-called civilization, and wantonly exude their sense of superiority that they have nowhere to put in front of their own compatriots."
"In universities in Hong Kong, the best students come from the mainland, or from South Korea, which is also turned into a meat grinder. Local students are usually the least worth mentioning academically."
"So they are keen on various student organizations and social activities, join groups to keep each other warm, and vent their inner dissatisfaction through geographical attacks."
"When they discovered the city's tight fortresses, they never asked the real upper class people who lived on the top of the mountain overlooking Victoria Harbor and lived in ten-figure mansions in Repulse Bay and Deep Water Bay."
"Their frustrations were all vented on people who had nothing to do with them."
"In this world, the discrimination suffered simply because of speaking Mandarin is definitely the most serious in Hong Kong City, bar none."
"This time, as the chairman and actual controller of Wanli Travel, I came to attend the listing ceremony. The people I met were all polite, at least that's how it seemed."
"But as long as you walk around this city a few times and reveal your true accent, you can get a lot of looks."
"The snares of this city are everywhere, and they are completely unaware of their alienation."
"It's as if they don't think it's weird that a house with a mere 100 square meters is called a thousand-foot mansion. The sense of space is a completely different concept here."
"Even the five-star hotel we stayed in couldn't escape the depressing crampedness and narrowness."
The senior sister's impression of this city can be seen from the fact that she did not locate Muse's overseas office here, but chose Singapore, which is further away.
But she was still surprised by Lin Yi's words.
"You seem to have some other reasons."
Lin Yi does, because at this point in 2018, only he can see the turbulent waves in the dark depths of the city at night.
"It's hard for me to describe that feeling, but you will understand sooner or later. If I had to define this city, I would probably say..."
"The ugliest example of advanced capitalist society."