Ava is in Shanghai for the launch of the PO clothing line.
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As she digs into the breadth and depth of the family\'s wealth and corruption, she gets caught up in a huge tangled web, extending all the way to the U.
Ava sets out to help Xu deter the Tsai family.
If he goes along with them, he thinks that inevitably the police and military will hunt him down.
If he opposes them, they will crush him.
Xu believes this move would lead to his eventual destruction and feels he has nowhere to turn.
Xu is already paying millions of dollars a year to various Tsai businesses, but the family wants more and thinks the new venture can deliver it.
He confides that the Tsai family, headed by Tsai Lian, the governor of Jiangsu Province and a ``princeling`` -- he is the son of a general who was on the Long March with Mao and a member of China\'s power elite -- is trying to force him and his Triad organization back into the drug business.
She has invited Xu, and over the course of the glitzy event and a late-night dinner, she detects a certain hesitancy in him.
Ava is in Shanghai for the launch of the PO clothing line