Reborn: I Mortgaged My Inheritance to Trade Stocks and Became the Godfather of Hong Kong

Reborn + Urban Life + The 1990s + Hong Kong + Urban Farming

In 1993, amid the neon lights and shadows of Temple Street, eighteen-year-old Ma Cheng, a low-ranking member of the Lianhong Society, takes a heavy blow to the head in a street brawl. He should have died, but when he opens his eyes again, the body houses a soul from thirty-two years in the future: Ma Cheng, a film and television investor who knows the city’s future rise and fall inside out.

From the lowest rung of a gang, living by the blade, to the pinnacle of wealth, he needs only two steps. First, he uses the memories of his previous life and his father’s inheritance to make his first foray into capital. Second, drawing on his foresight, he invests in the stock market, film and television, and other industries, steadily building his fortune.

He’ll use stock market leverage to tap into the gold mine of Hong Kong’s bull market, use film to clean up his past and go legitimate, and use his foresight to invest early in the mainland market as it begins to awaken.

These are the worst of times, with the gangs nearing their end. They are also the best of times, with gold lying everywhere, just waiting to be picked up.

Watch a reborn man who moves between the worlds of black, white, and gray as he navigates the twilight of this legendary city, both a player in the game and the one pulling the strings, writing his own epic tale of a kingpin.