Air Profit:
The scenario is simple, "Give trouble and you get trouble". Those five characters get no sympathy from me and I think you will find they get very little sympathy from the average Hongkonger.
OP, for someone who sits on shores far away, may you heed some wise words.
One might imagine all of society under communism as a kind of extended stay at the ever-providing home of mom and dad, where all goods and services are provided by someone else besides themselves. Communism means never having to leave the nest.
Ah yet the truth about communism and state planning in general is that it leads not to security and happiness—the blessed memory of life under the care of mom and dad—but to regimentation and abuse, to a world that is grey, stagnate, and lacking any creativity and beauty, to a world that looked like Prague in the old days and not the glorious new ones