In Taipei Taiwan the kidnapping of a Mainlander billionaire throws national media into a tizzynot least because of the famous victims vitriolic antiimmigration politics. Jingnan has known Peggy Lee a bullying frenemy who runs her familys huge corporation since high school. Peggys father has been kidnapped and the ransom the kidnappers are demanding is not money but IP a hightech memory chip that they want to sell in China. Jingnan feels sorry for Peggy until she starts blackmailing him int