HKYWA 2015 Fiction 3 to 6 - page 573

Fiction: Group 4
members saw Scarlet they all shouted that Ho Nam has finally bought a girl home, but this one is a Souvenir
from Macau. Ho Nam told them he doesn’t want anything to do with triads anymore and that he wants a
spot in his area for a restaurant, so they prepare a spot for him to make his living in. It was a 2 floor building,
they told him that the 1
st
floor is a restaurant and the 2
nd
floor should be made into a house for Scarlet and
himself. They finished opening up a restaurant in 1 month and then they opened the business with a
celebration from the Kirin group, after that their business went high in the market. They lived together for
1-2 years from the day they first met, every day was a happy day, and until one day Scarlet’s father came to
Hong Kong to visit their restaurant. It was not an ordinary visit, it seems more like he wants to retrieve her
back to Macau. He brought some men here to destroy their business but the business was watched over the
Kirin Group, and a big fight started within the fight a third came and joined the fight, but they came to kill.
In the mixed fight someone random killed Scarlet, enraged Ho Nam grabbed the butcher knife and started
killing the random people.
In the end Scarlet’s father died in the fight too. The shop closed Ho Nam got arrested and it seems
like a game over. 40 years later, Ho Nam was released. The world was not how it looked like before, he
couldn’t remember how Hong Kong was like, and all he could remember was the River where it all started.
He took his remaining money and walked up to the river, he built a small home near the river waiting for
his days to run out, passing his days with all the people who has died. He was tired really tired, so sleepy that
he fell into slumber with the picture of the river in mind.
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