Hong Kong Showbiz: I Sneak into the Country from the Start and Build the Mango Dynasty!

On a dark, windy night, marine police intercept a smuggling boat, forcing more than twenty passengers into the sea. Cheng Weil Liang shields three women from the snakehead's baseball bat, then leaps into the shark-infested, freezing water.

When he opens his eyes again, he's Zhou Guodong, a sunflower-seed vendor in the Diamond Hill squatter settlement. His head has been smashed in, leaving him with amnesia; he owes forty thousand in loan-shark debt, and a gang's big sister is blocking his door, demanding to be his girlfriend. In the restaurant next door, the Lianyi Society and 13K are slamming the table over protection money for the neighborhood. But he's thinking about something else: after twenty years of ups and downs in the business world in his previous life, he knows the path to Mango TV's rise by heart.

"Brother Guodong, Biao's going to join the Lianyi Society!"

Cheng Weil Liang shoves aside his sunflower-seed stall, grabs his jacket, and heads out. At the same time, a handwritten notice has just gone up outside a rundown video rental shop on the street corner: "For sale. Inquire in person." Jackie Chan has just become a sensation in Hong Kong with Drunken Master, while Stephen Chow is still hosting a children's show. The golden decade of Hong Kong entertainment hasn't even begun. And on the rooftop of the squatter settlement, he crouches and uses a twig to sketch the founding structure of Mango TV in the dust.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.