Sam Leung was producing pills (including some new varieties/formulations - the impetus for him getting into this business is really the fact of him holding Winston's debt, and realizing he can put that chemistry PhD to use) and shipping them to Japan so the rest of Baishe wouldn't find out. He got dinged for it because 1) the HK triad policy is not to do production themselves in the Territories because it's too risky, they outsource it, 2) Harunoyama used the revenue from the new cool drugs + alliance w/ local Chinese mafia to escalate an ongoing turf war with the Miura, the rival gang in Yokohama. Feilong was also building alliances in Tokyo/Kantou in order to confront Asami and didn't want any crossed signals, and 3) in principle, Leung's not supposed to do shit like that without Feilong knowing about it and getting a cut. XD; Since 1) and 2) were fait accompli, Feilong just took the whole operation over and folded it into his own. Then it turned out that Asami actually was involved, supporting the other side, which basically turned Yokohama into a proxy war between Feilong and Asami.

So to comfort Chrissie etc. I have always told her that on the personal level this story is Asami x Takaba but on the political level it is Asami x Feilong XD;; which is the level on which it is most fun to have those two operate anyway.