Starting Sign-In from a Billionaire God Chapter 1448 - 1447:

Morgan Smith collapsed to the ground, dumbfounded.

He couldn’t believe what had just happened. Although he had just saved his own life, he had also lost 550 million Euros—this was almost all the liquid cash he could scrape together. With this money gone, even keeping the Company running would be a problem.

If this money could have actually bought Li Zixia’s technology and brought returns in the short term, Morgan Smith would have gritted his teeth and paid. At least then it would’ve been worth it.

But now the money was gone and he got jack shit in return—basically just gave it away for free!

He simply couldn’t believe it, like he’d just had a nightmare. But Rick and his men, all collapsed beside him, reminded him this wasn’t a dream. He really had been taken for 550 million Euros by Lin Fan!

Originally, he’d planned to kidnap Li Zixia and get her technology for free. In the end, he didn’t get the tech, and instead he lost 550 million Euros. This is what you call "trying to steal a chicken and losing the rice," no—he lost billions worth of rice.

The scariest part was, he couldn’t get this money back through legal channels. First, the 200 million Euros was a deposit, with a contract that clearly said it was non‑refundable—perfectly reasonable. Second, the 350 million Euros was the "life money" he himself had offered, pure underworld black‑on‑black!

Besides, he was the one who kidnapped Li Zixia first. Even if he dragged Lin Fan to court, he wouldn’t just lose the case; he’d expose his own crimes.

If he wanted that money back, he’d also have to go through the underground world, black‑on‑black, survival of the fittest—unless he could catch Lin Fan and shove a gun in his face to force him to spit the money back out!

The problem was, even then he didn’t have a sure win. If he failed to catch Lin Fan, the money still wouldn’t come back, and he’d end up offending Lin Fan and provoking his revenge. By then, where would he go to cry?

For a moment, Morgan Smith’s heart ached like hell. If he’d known it would end like this, he never would’ve gone to kidnap Li Zixia. Not in his worst dreams did he expect things to end up this way.

Morgan Smith certainly wasn’t going to swallow this loss. He was determined to claw that money back; he had to settle the score with that brat Lin Fan!

Don’t forget, Morgan Smith’s background was anything but simple. Behind him stood one of London’s most powerful noble families—the Smith Clan.

In London, who dared offend the Smith Clan!

That brat Lin Fan, daring to stir up trouble in London—he could just wait to get his ass handed to him!

By this time, Lin Fan had already wrapped things up, driven away from the docks, and headed back to Chinatown.

Morgan Smith had paid the price he deserved. He’d tried to save money by kidnapping Li Zixia; Lin Fan simply made him spit out every cent he wanted to save.

Lin Fan knew Morgan Smith wouldn’t let this go. Next, what he’d have to face was the Smith Clan.

Fortunately, Lin Fan had already crossed paths with the Smith Clan once. If he could teach Morgan Smith how to behave, he could teach the rest of the Smith Clan how to behave too.

Very soon, people from the Smith Clan would come looking for Lin Fan. Even without this Morgan Smith incident, they’d still come for him—and soon.

Because the Smith Clan still needed to get the "target person’s" identity from him.

Right now, Lin Fan was the only one who could tell the Smith Clan who that target person was.

On the flight from Hong Kong to London, Lin Fan had run into a plane hijacking. Later, he found out the reason the terrorists wanted to blow up the plane was to kill a certain "target person."

They couldn’t allow this "target person" to arrive in London alive.

To find this target person, the mastermind behind the scenes—Third Young Master Smith of the Smith Clan, Tony Smith—had even ordered people to kidnap the daughter of Interpol officer Chen Long, forcing Chen Long to identify the target person on the plane within six hours.

If Chen Long succeeded, the plane would land safely; if he failed, everyone on board would die with him.

In the end, Chen Long failed.

Lin Fan was on that plane, and he had no intention of being a sitting duck.

Lin Fan stopped the terrorists and also ferreted out who the target person was.

This target person was named Chen Kai, and he held the key to the life of the Third Young Master Smith’s only son.

Chen Kai, a Huaxia People, was an ordinary nobody—a small fry office worker. He’d just come to Hong Kong for a job. Because he loved photography, one day he went to an old village in Hong Kong to shoot.

There, he accidentally witnessed a murder with his own eyes.

A local Hong Kong tycoon was brutally killed by a white man.

This tycoon was somewhat well‑known in Hong Kong. News of his disappearance quickly made it into the media, and his mysterious vanishing act became a hot topic.

Chen Kai saw the newspapers and realized the missing tycoon was the very victim he had seen murdered with his own eyes!

The police were working hard to track down the tycoon’s whereabouts, but the case went nowhere. They couldn’t even determine if the tycoon was still alive—no body, no witness. It had become a baffling case.

Chen Kai knew where the tycoon was and remembered exactly what the killer looked like. He had even captured the killer’s car in his camera that day.

But Chen Kai kept hesitating over whether to come forward. He was afraid of getting dragged in and losing his own little life.

Through investigating the tycoon’s network of connections, the police finally narrowed down a suspect. The tycoon’s disappearance was very likely tied to one man: Brooklyn Smith, the Third Young Master of the Smith Clan and the only son of Tony Smith.

Interpol arrested Brooklyn Smith in London. This noble young master had already been on Interpol’s radar for involvement in illegal activities, but they never had enough evidence to condemn Brooklyn to death.

Until this Hong Kong tycoon disappearance case surfaced, and Interpol secretly went to Hong Kong to investigate.

By this time, Chen Kai had also figured things out. He tried to make an anonymous call to the police, claiming he knew the tycoon’s whereabouts.

That call was intercepted by Interpol officers who had come to Hong Kong to investigate.

Interpol secretly contacted Chen Kai. From him, they learned the tycoon was already dead, and they then requested that Chen Kai go to the United Kingdom as a witness to testify against Brooklyn Smith.

If the testimony succeeded, Brooklyn Smith would face the death penalty!

Desperate to save his son, Tony Smith tried every possible way to get the boy out.

He learned that a key witness would be flying from Hong Kong to London; he absolutely could not allow this witness to arrive in London alive.

In the end, because of Lin Fan, this key witness—Chen Kai—still made it safely to London.

Counting the days, the day after tomorrow would be the trial date for Brooklyn Smith. By then, Chen Kai would take the stand and testify!

Time was running out for Tony Smith. He had to find Chen Kai and kill him before the court date if he wanted to save his son Brooklyn Smith.

And the only one who knew Chen Kai’s identity was Lin Fan. Tony Smith would definitely come looking for Lin Fan.

Previously, Tony Smith had already sent his men to go after Lin Fan in every possible way, but they had all failed. A cornered dog will jump over the wall; with his son’s trial date getting closer and closer, there was no telling what Tony Smith might do.

After all, this guy was a ruthless one. To get rid of Chen Kai, he’d even gone so far as to orchestrate an "accident" and have an entire plane of people buried with him.