Hong Kong's Newspaper Tycoon in the 1970s

Wen Danming transmigrates to Hong Kong in the 1970s.

Her whole family is crammed into an old tenement building in Jordan, scraping by on the newspaper they run.

But the paper's circulation keeps falling, and it looks like it will soon go under.

Wen Danming immediately spots the problem. Hong Kong's entertainment industry is thriving, and other papers are packed with juicy celebrity gossip, while hers insists on taking a serious approach.

Unfortunately, her father is adamant about preserving a literati's integrity. He would rather starve than become a paparazzo.

To keep her family from going hungry, Wen Danming, a topic-making machine who wrote countless viral articles with over 100,000 views in her previous life, picks up her pen again.

She writes highly discussable articles with her left hand and serialized novels with her right.

Before long, the paper that nobody would even accept for free transforms into a hot commodity that Hong Kong residents scramble to buy.

And for her, this is only the beginning.

P.S.

1. Before transmigrating, Danming was a self-media content creator and web novelist.

2. Transmigrates into a book, in an alternate setting.

3. The story focuses on her career. The heroine is 16 at the beginning, and the romance starts after she becomes an adult.

Check out my upcoming novel, The Antique Restorer of 1970s Hong Kong

Hong Kong in the 1970s was a golden age of economic growth and the rise of Cantonese pop culture.

It was also a time when the wealth gap grew wider. The rich lived in drunken splendor, while the poor crowded into subdivided flats and cage homes.

Jiang Muzhi and her whole family are crammed into a tiny tenement in Kowloon. Eleven people share thirty square meters, and she doesn't even have a bed of her own. At night, she has to share the dining table with her cousin.

They're so cramped they can barely breathe, but splitting up the family isn't an option: nobody can afford Hong Kong's sky-high rents.

Still, the family does have a framing shop. Years ago, Grandma used her exceptional framing skills to provide for the children.

But now Grandma is old and can no longer work, while the next generation's skills are all mediocre. They can't restore paintings and calligraphy, or even manage the most basic framing.

So the elders urge Grandma to close the shop. It's small, but at least they could fit a few beds inside, couldn't they?

Grandma clutches Jiang Muzhi's hand and cries that the Jiang family's framing shop sign is going to be ruined in her hands.

Just then, a series of System messages rings out in Jiang Muzhi's mind:

[ Ding! Want to learn the art of antique restoration? Welcome to the Huaxia Antique Restoration System! ]

[ Want to learn the Jing School technique of seamlessly repairing worm-eaten paintings and calligraphy,