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Taking Charge of Jia Yi: I Built the Golden Age 执掌佳艺：我打造了黄金时代
[Hong Kong entertainment + movies + television + records + entertainment mogul + multiple heroines + business empire + winning the goddesses + pure showbiz + wish fulfillment + star-making] In 1977, Lin Xuan transmigrates to Hong Kong and takes over ATV, which is saddled with 12 million in debt. Facing a shareholder coup, a full-scale TVB blacklist, and sponsors pulling out en masse, he uses his “perfect memory” to turn things around against all odds! No scripts? He builds sets overnight and fil
34.8kReads7.7Score2.2kShelves
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- 2 Ruling Hong Kong as the News Queen 从新闻女王制霸香江 Ah Hui, a courier with a yellow license plate who loves Hong Kong dramas, is delivering an urgent package on a rainy day when a transmigration truck sends him into the world of Hong Kong dramas. He becomes Ke Ruihui, son of the chairman of Yongzhao Group. With his powerful cheat ability and foreknowledge of the plots, he rises step by step, becoming a genius of Hong Kong, a tech magnate, and eventually one of the region's top tycoons. One strong career woman after another, along with gorgeous ma 795Reads—Score123Shelves
- 3 Reborn in Hong Kong: Entertainment Tycoon of 1981 重生香江：1981娱乐大亨 [Rebirth + Hong Kong entertainment industry + business tycoon + no System, hard-core technical know-how + ruthless and decisive] In 2024, Hollywood producer Gu Xiayang woke up in the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong in 1981, reborn as a down-on-his-luck martial arts extra struggling to survive. Only eighty Hong Kong dollars from the start? No problem. He had the next forty years of the global entertainment industry mapped out in his head! While Shaw Brothers still relied on outdated studios and 6.3kReads5.7Score524Shelves
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From Haojiang to Xiangjiang: Building the Zhou Family Dynasty 从濠江到香江打造周氏百年家族
[Realistic + business warfare + multiple women + transmigration and rebirth + Hong Kong entertainment + farming + capitalist's perspective] The life of a low-ranking chef in a wealthy family. Let's see how this chef, born into a life of luxury from the start, can stir up a storm in this turbulent era, surround himself with beautiful women, and become a business legend. Zhou Zhanheng: “My own life is far from satisfactory, yet I just can't bear to see others suffer.” This story is entirely fictio
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Hong Kong Crossover: A Mob Boss, From the Start I Switch Sides to Follow Keung Kwan 港综枭雄，开局跳槽追随靓坤！
[System + beauties + brotherhood + social savvy + ruthless decisiveness] Also known as The Hong Kong Underworld: A Rising Crime Lord Who Defects to Follow Kwun from the Start! Also known as The Patriotic Crime Lord of Hong Kong: Starting Out by Living off a Woman Yet Giving Nothing Away! Also known as Hong Kong’s Street Toughs? No! This Is a Patriotic Crime Lord Hong Kong in 1986 was a chaotic place, teeming with all kinds of people... Here, the fittest survive, and only the adaptable thrive! H
27kReads7.2Score1.3kShelves
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Roy's Cousin: The White Paper Fan of the Gangster World Roy表妹古惑世界做白纸扇
Shen Guannan unexpectedly dies during an exam, but fate gives her a new test. Heaven’s will traps her in a time-loop script set in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, with every scene written in advance: She is expected to look on indifferently as the streets are slaughtered, the Japanese army commits atrocities, civilians are displaced, and resistance fighters struggle on. She struggles and fights back, refusing to bow her head as she tries to overturn the predetermined ending. Deep down, she is certa
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Building Dreams in Hong Kong 香江筑梦
The novel has been partially adapted into a comic drama, now streaming on Hongguo under the title The Port City Comeback: From a Down-and-Out Youth to the King of Watches. Please give it a watch, and thank you for your support! [From Rags to Riches + Industrial Empire + Feuds Between Great Families + Brotherhood and Honor + Beauty Pageants and Film + Based on Real Events] In 1978, a young man from Chaodong crawled ashore in Hong Kong from the jaws of a shark. Later, one of the brothers climbed i
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- 8 The He Family Siheyuan 何家四合院 A new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 15.4kReads7.1Score428Shelves
- 9 Period: Hong Kong Tycoon 年代：香江大亨 That year, the three siblings chose to head south and sneak into Hong Kong, all just to survive... This is just to fill out the synopsis. There’s nothing much to it, heh, hahahahahaha. 24.6kReads7.5Score1.7kShelves
- 10 Hong Kong, 1977: Starting Out as a Gang Boss 港岛1977：从坐馆开始 This is not a feel-good Hong Kong crime drama. The story strongly promotes patriotism, and its main-theme message is essential to its existence. Reborn in a parallel Hong Kong, he takes over his father’s gang and resolves to turn it legitimate, break into international trade, support the development of the mainland, and establish a private security company. He seeks a way to survive in the cutthroat world of business and lays plans for long-term growth. Important things must be said three times: 9.7kReads6.9Score404Shelves
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Hong Kong Crossover: From the Start, I Rule Sai Kung 港综：开局西贡清一色
(Hong Kong crime saga + gang member → gang leader → business tycoon → founding a nation) “Chairman Lin, people have given you many titles, such as film and television mogul, logistics tycoon, oil king, one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Young Persons, and the last godfather of the underworld. Could you share with our magazine’s readers how you went from being a gang member to becoming the ruler of Nanyang?” Lin Bin listened to the question from the Time magazine reporter before him, then slowly
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- 12 Hong Kong Entertainment: Starting with the Band Beyond 港娱：从Beyond乐队开始 [Hong Kong entertainment + Entertainment megastar + Righting old wrongs + Reborn comeback + Multiple heroines + Band formation + Song plagiarism and face-slapping + Feel-good power fantasy] Xu Kun was a top-tier star idol in his previous life. When he woke up, he had become a low-level gangster in Sham Shui Po in 1982. He thought he’d have to make a living through fighting and violence, but then came the grating sound of a guitar from next door. The man who opened the door was none other than an 1.4kReads5.7Score126Shelves
- 13 Uncle Nine: You Were Told to Drive the Corpse, but You Summoned the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven 九叔：让你赶尸，你请神齐天大圣 5.5kReads5.9Score387Shelves
- 14 Hong Kong Crossover: Building a Business Empire 港综：建立商业帝国 Hong Kong crime drama + business + multiple women + gang fights + war Yang Fan lucked into the world of Hong Kong crime dramas. To enjoy a more carefree life, he set out to make money! He started with smuggling, then brought various underlings under his wing and built his own business empire. {The blurb doesn’t do it justice, so give it a try! Thanks to all you guys who are every bit as handsome as Daniel Wu!} 11.7kReads7.3Score544Shelves
- 15 Hong Kong Crossover: I Join Keung from the Start 港综：开局就和靓坤混 A stroke of luck brings him to the Hong Kong crime-drama world. He’d planned to live an ordinary life, but it turns out the big boss is Keung. Underling: The boss is amazing, but he keeps a low profile. Hong Kong police: Mr. Cao is a real saint among the gangsters. Villain: Our money’s been robbed again. It’s definitely that bastard Fan. 56.8kReads8.3Score2.6kShelves
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Reborn in 1978 Hong Kong: A Brilliant Life 重生香江1978：灿烂人生
Lin Xiuyuan had spent years struggling to make his way in the film and television industry. One night, drunk, he accidentally fell into a sewer and lost consciousness amid excruciating pain. He never expected to be reborn in the body of a young man in Hong Kong in 1978. And so began the brilliant life that was his alone!!!
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- 17 Hong Kong Entertainment, 1979: I Was Rescued by Hung Koo After Sneaking In! 港娱1979：偷渡被红姑救了！ The rating just came out. It'll go up later! [Reborn] [No System] [Multiple Heroines] [Hong Kong Entertainment Industry] In 1979, Chen Wenqi stows away to Hong Kong from the start and is rescued by 19-year-old Zhong Chuhong. With no money to his name, he can only start out as an extra on film sets. This is the story of how a stowaway takes down the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry. (The blurb doesn't do it justice. Read the story!) [Selfish and self-serving personality] [Decisive and ruth 6.5kReads6.5Score405Shelves
- 18 Reborn with the Enemy's Treasure Vault 带着敌人宝库重生 Zhao Haibin, an anti-drug police officer, was unfortunately killed by a drug lord while carrying out an overseas mission. Miraculously, he was reborn with the treasure trove of his enemy. From then on, he embarked on a magnificent and eventful life of legend. 53.8kReads8.3Score5.7kShelves
- 19 Reborn in 1992: I Just Want to Be a Slacker in the Major Crimes Unit 重生92，我在重案组只想当咸鱼 Reborn in Hong Kong in 1992, I join the West Kowloon Major Crimes Unit as a police constable. In my previous life, I worked myself to the point of throwing up blood on the criminal investigation team. This time, all I want is to be a lazy bum who gets by without doing much. But why does this case seem familiar? Hey, the way you're handling this, you'll never catch the culprit. Fine, just let me take over! 24.9kReads7.5Score1.6kShelves
- 20 From the Start, I Snatched Li Chaoren's Opportunity and Took Over Hutchison Whampoa 开局截胡李超人，从接手和记开始 Lin Yi is reborn on Hong Kong Island in 1978! His father is the world's shipping tycoon! He could do absolutely nothing this life and still inherit hundreds of billions just by lying around?! You've got to be kidding! With memories of his past life in hand, how could he not take off?! He'll sweep Hong Kong Island's business world in the 1980s, dominate Southeast Asia in the 1990s, and build the most powerful financial dynasty of the twenty-first century! ??? You mean women? Zhao Yazhi retires to 16.9kReads6.7Score1.4kShelves
- 21 Reborn in Hong Kong: From 83 Cents to a Trillion-Dollar Empire 重生港岛，从八块三到千亿帝国 [One heroine + entrepreneurship + everyday life + gradual pacing] In Hong Kong in 1971, cargo ships crossed Victoria Harbour day and night. Cage homes in Sham Shui Po were packed with people who had arrived from the mainland illegally, while the neon lights of Temple Street illuminated a chaotic mix of every kind of character. In Central’s office towers, English and Cantonese filled the air. It was Hong Kong’s most turbulent era, and the eve of a gold rush. Chen Zhenbang opened his eyes on the h 13kReads6.3Score917Shelves
- 22 From the Start as a Sent-Down Youth, I Choose to Flee to Hong Kong 开局知青下乡，我选择偷渡香港 [Educated Youth] [Period Piece] [Hong Kong Entrepreneurship] [No System] In 1969, the movement to send educated youth to the countryside swept across the country. Zhou Bingwen, from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the body of a young man from Chaozhou who is waiting to be assigned to the countryside. If he goes, he'll likely lose eight years of his life, with the college entrance exams nowhere in sight. If he stays, he won't get into university or find a job. At seventeen, he has re 71kReads8.5Score5.5kShelves
- 23 Reborn: I Looted the Soviet Union, Japan, and America, and Foreign Beauties Beg Me to Take Them Along 重生搬空苏日美，洋妞求我带着飞 [Reborn] + [Period] + [Winning Women's Hearts] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Profiting from Foreigners] + [Entrepreneurship] After a drunken night, Li Chuan found himself reborn in a midnight screening at a video parlor at the end of 1989. Relations between China and the Bear had warmed, and the window of opportunity for international traders to head north with snakeskin bags in search of gold had arrived. Fluent in Russian, with a pocket dimension at his disposal, 100,000 in foreign exchange certifi 79.2kReads7.5Score10.5kShelves
- 24 Spiritual Qi Revival: Becoming a Hong Kong Entertainment Legend ：灵气复苏：我在港岛文娱封神 In 1970, spiritual qi revival swept across Hong Kong. Then came Mi Xue, Zhao Yazhi, Zhou Huimin, Guan Zhilin, Li Jiaxin, the great Tang poet, Mimi and Xixi. Come on, everyone, let's cultivate immortality together… 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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