Reborn in 2007: Making a Fortune on Patents for Knockoff Phones

Chen Xing is reborn in 2007 and takes over a bankrupt electronics factory in Huaqiangbei, saddled with tens of millions in debt. It has just 500 yuan in the bank, loan sharks are waiting outside, and the business is on the brink of collapse!

At this critical moment, he awakens a Black Technology Modification System. With no other choice, he has to start by making knockoff phones to survive.

Other knockoff makers just change the casing, but Chen Xing builds hidden advantages into his: he modifies the dual speakers and, while he’s at it, registers a patent for full-screen displays. He develops ultra-fast charging and immediately builds an ironclad moat around the industry!

A year later, Apple releases the iPhone 3G and Samsung launches a smartphone, ready to bask in glory, only to find themselves served with legal notices from Chen Xing.

Jobs is furious: “Our innovations all infringed on the patents of a Chinese knockoff factory?”

Chen Xing just smiles and shrugs. “So what if it’s a knockoff? With core technology, we call the shots. If you want to use the patents, pay up!”

From then on, global tech giants have to answer to this one little factory in Huaqiangbei!