The Age of Awakening: The Mightiest Pen

Lu Yunqi, the PR king of his previous life, was reborn in Beiping in 1930 as a failed junior editor at a third-rate newspaper.

Faced with a paper languishing at the bottom of the sales charts, he sneered. “The propaganda war of this era is far too weak!”

He launched one knockout blow after another with sensational headlines and manufactured buzz. “The Mystery of the Cat Meowing in a Bedroom After Dark” sold out on the day it was published, breaking through the industry’s attempts to suppress the paper. “Japanese Goods Turned into Bullets” stoked patriotic fervor, and one article even brought down a pro-Japanese chief minister.

Just as he was quietly taking no credit for his work, a comrade from the underground organization came to see him, eyes blazing. “Who taught you propaganda?”