In the latest installment in the "Zhong Fong" series, the city's 18 million residents are hurtling toward modernization, and hits home when Fong rooms at the Shanghai Theatre are being condo-ized, and he can buy them at a special price-four years worth of his salary. The night watchman summons Fong to the theatre, where finds his old rival Geoffrey Highland swinging from a rope at centre stage.