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- 1 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 1.9kReads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Hong Kong, 1980: From the Start, I Picked Up a Manga Studio 香江1980：开局捡个漫画社 [Reborn in Hong Kong] [Anime and film] [Miss Hong Kong] [Spin-off technology] [Building Hong Kong through comics] In 1980, Hong Kong had not yet been completely shackled by real estate, and its future was still up for grabs. In 1980, Japanese manga had just entered a period of growth and was beginning to show signs of going global. In 1980, Hong Kong's comics scene was thriving with a hundred schools of thought, and the godfather of comics, Huang Yulang, had yet to unite the industry. In 2025, t 5.8kReads7.1Score379Shelves
- 3 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. 25.8kReads7.5Score1.8kShelves
- 4 Transmigrating to 1990s Hong Kong: The Underworld Heiress Clears Her Name Through Food 穿九零港城：黑道千金靠美食洗白 [Transmigrate to 1990s Hong Kong] [Daughter of a crime boss] [Food and business] [Turning gangsters into honest workers] Transmigrated as the daughter of a Hong Kong crime boss in the 1990s, she's got a gang of underlings who know nothing but fighting. While everyone else is fighting over territory, she picks up a spatula and gets into the food business! She trains street thugs to become food delivery riders and errand couriers. With the help of her cha chaan teng's delicious food, she gradually 1.8kReads—Score215Shelves
- 5 Hong Kong: Just Arrived from the Start 香江：开局刚到岸 In 1980s Hong Kong, a glitzy world of fame and fortune, Wang Zhiyuan came to his senses and realized he had just landed on a beach in Hong Kong. He secretly vowed to conquer it and make sure this era of Hong Kong would remember his name. 1.3kReads6.6Score104Shelves
- 6 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 2.6kReads8.5Score149Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 1977: I'm Yuan Hu of the Seven Little Fortunes! 重生77，我是七小福元虎！ [The rating has just been posted and will rise later!] [Reborn] [No System] [Multiple Heroines] [Hong Kong Entertainment] [Chinese Entertainment] [American Entertainment] [Note: Multiple heroines, multiple heroines!!!] Yang Xiaohu, the king of stunt doubles, had an accident on set and was reborn in 1977 as one of the Seven Little Fortunes! From the start, he had a gambling-addicted father, a little sister, and himself fighting tooth and nail! Starting with Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, he fought 69.2kReads8.4Score6.8kShelves
- 8 Reborn in the Wild Nineties: I Only Have Three Things to Do 重生野性时代，我只做三件事 [Reborn + scheming + ruthless + multiple women, no official pairing + business warfare] Xu Zhengwen, reborn as a Hong Kong tycoon, uses angel investment as bait, capital as a chain, and love as a lock to win their loyalty. Having secretly taken control of other nations' economies with the help of stunning women from around the world, he now has only three things left to do. First, build the world's leading technology and business empire, laying the groundwork for China's rise as a great power 12.6kReads6.9Score996Shelves
- 9 Reborn in the Nineties: The Alluring Beauty Snares the Cold, Abstinent Tycoon 重生九零，钓系美人拿捏禁欲大佬 [Power Couple Showdown] [Extreme Push and Pull] [科技 Strong Nation] [Business Warfare in a Bygone Era] [Alternate Universe] The Untouchable Ice Queen VS the Master Manipulator This is an evenly matched battle of wits, and a legend about the rise of a great power's industrial technology. In 1992, with nowhere left to turn, Jiang Wan set her sights on Shen Yichuan, a technical expert with formidable financial backing. What began as mutual exploitation and wariness evolved amid the surging tides of 122Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Yu Ping’an’s Hong Kong Crime World Life 余平安的港综生活 Liang Xiaorou: “I can’t stand seeing that guy take it easy. I have to stir up some trouble for him, or I’ll never get over the grudge I hold for being dumped!” Yu Ping’an: “Seriously? Weren’t you the one who broke up with me? Women really are unreasonable!” Cao Dahua: “My cousin’s just as outstanding as I am. He even dates policewomen, but unlike me, he can’t live off a woman while still calling the shots. Kind of pathetic.” Yu Ping’an: “I’m pathetic? You’ve got some nerve. If it weren’t for me, 21.9kReads6.5Score1.2kShelves
- 11 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 5.5kReads5.9Score382Shelves
- 12 After Breaking Off My Engagement to Hong Kong’s Richest Man, I Became His Eldest Sister-in-Law 和香江首富退婚后，我成了他长嫂 A feel-good elite romance, 1v1, both leads are pure, strong leads. Everyone knows being the original wife in a wealthy family is a high-risk job. The moment a man makes it big, he dumps the wife who stood by him through thick and thin! Gu Mingzhen returned from the apocalypse only to transmigrate into the original wife of an 1980s Hong Kong tycoon, the sort of character who wouldn’t survive past three episodes. Looking at the delicate, pitiful heroine standing beside her fiancé, Gu Mingzhen wave 4.5kReads9.0Score492Shelves
- 13 The Long Dark Road of Hong Kong Noir 港综黑色长路 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 5.5kReads6.5Score156Shelves
- 14 Hong Kong Crossover: Wang Jiu's Junior Disciple Makes 300 Million from the Start 港综王九小师弟开局赚三亿 I'm Wang Jiu's junior apprentice brother, and from the start I made three hundred million. Feng Shiba is a transmigrator, but the time and place he transmigrates to couldn't be much worse! He arrives in the 1960s, an era of shortages and hunger. On a stormy night, a woman who may or may not be his mother leaves him at the gate of Shaolin Temple, and he begins his life as a monk. But when he is eight, an accident takes place at Shaolin Temple. His Ninth Senior Brother, who often sneaks him out fo 4.9kReads6.4Score237Shelves
- 15 A New World in Hong Kong Cinema 港综新的世界 A little weed nobody wants? A good-for-nothing nobody cares about? No. I have brothers, more than just one. And I have uncles and aunts who love me. It's just that my life has reached its end... Hong Kong crossovers have no fixed timeline. The characters' appearances and positions vary greatly, so please don't get hung up on the timeline. Thank you! 461Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Multiverse Missions Starting from Hong Kong Cinema 从港综开始的诸天任务 Qin Feng was an unlucky guy... ahem... lucky fellow, chosen by the System because he was so absorbed while watching a certain country's art film. He was sent to a world made up of countless Hong Kong movies. Fortunately, the Wolverine physique he got from the System, even in a weakened form, kept him alive. To complete his System missions, he volunteered to become Ma Jun's informant. Ma Jun is the protagonist of SPL: Kill Zone. Relying on the fragments of plot he could still remember, Qin Feng o 7.2kReads6.9Score300Shelves
- 17 Hong Kong Movies: From the Start, I Borrow Five Million from Ba Bi 港片，开局找巴闭借五百万 [Feel-good power fantasy] [Multiple heroines] [If anyone picks a fight, hit back] [Hot-blooded] Gu Fei transmigrated into a Hong Kong crime-film universe and became a low-level underling of “Firefighting Role Model” Keung. When trouble came, the boss stepped in. When there was a pretty girl, he went after her himself. With the help of a sign-in System and the five million he swindled from Ba Bi, he rode the tide of the times and rose to power. From “Handsome Fei,” a nobody in the underworld, to 63.8kReads8.2Score4.2kShelves
- 18 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
- 19 Hong Kong Crossover: The Prophet Is the True God 港综：先知才是真神 All written by hand, no AI. [Growth] [Comedy] [Everyday life] [Doing his part for Hong Kong's return to China] Liu Huaqiang: “If you’d told me you had so many ideas, why would I have bothered making it on my own?” Liang Kun: “Don’t even think about shaking me off, boss.” Lei Yaoyang: “We’re brothers, right?” A Xing, Uncle Tat, and Gu Hualong: “You bastard, you’ve tricked me again.” Hongxing, Dongxing, Wo Hop To, and San Kee: “Mr. Wang, got any business or information for us lately?” Qiu Ti, 1.6kReads5.4Score102Shelves
- 20 Hong Kong: Inheriting a Factory with Ten Thousand Workers from the Start 香江之开局继承万人工厂 [Hong Kong + business wars + finance + technology + industry + entertainment + Miss Hong Kong] In 2024, countless fresh-faced retail investors piled into the A-shares market, blindly buying at the peak with all their money. As a thousand stocks hit the daily limit down on the ninth, one investor who had trusted a financial livestream host perished in a blaze alongside a certain blue-tick financial streamer. In 1985, British capital was retreating from Hong Kong as Chinese-owned businesses rose, 20.8kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves
- 21 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 14.1kReads6.1Score485Shelves
- 22 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!} 11.7kReads7.3Score534Shelves
- 23 Hong Kong Dramas! I Have No Choice 港综！我没得选 Is Liang Kun my second uncle? Am I an illegitimate child of the Ni family? I want to make my own way. Someone gives me a chance? Do I even have the right to choose? When I try to turn back, I find no one behind me... 3.1kReads6.4Score104Shelves
- 24 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. 56.5kReads8.3Score2.5kShelves
- 25 You Can Raid My Home, but Let Me Go Make a Fortune in Hong Kong 你们抄我家，我去香江捡钱可以吧 [Transmigration, historical era, sweet romance, one-on-one, devoted couple, pocket dimension, entrepreneurship and wealth] Su Manman transmigrated into the body of a pampered young lady from the Su family, someone with the same name but a very different fate. From the start, she was told that someone had reported her family for hiding gold and silver treasures. Looking at the boxes upon boxes of antique paintings and calligraphy, antique ornaments, antique jewelry, and more, Su Manman thought… 28.8kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
- 26 Reborn in 1960: Bankrupting Hong Kong Island's Tycoons 重生1960：把港岛富豪搞破产 Reborn in 1960, Lin Chaozong starts by reselling discarded canned goods. Before long, he’s building an empire and making it bigger and stronger. He crushes Li Chaoren, abolishes shared-area housing fees, acquires British-owned companies, and builds a business dynasty. Years later, Lin Chaozong gives an interview and says, “I’m just an honest businessman. I don’t know how I ended up becoming the richest man in the world. I guess it must be luck!” 11.9kReads9.0Score701Shelves
- 27 Hong Kong Crossover: I’m the Big Winner 港综：我是大赢家 Ding! You have a new mission. Become famous throughout the city? Too easy. You know Wu Song, right? Watch me spill blood at Mandarin Duck Tower. Ding! You have a new mission. Become a billionaire, a legend of the underworld, and a powerbroker who rules over all? Yikes... Should I study the life of Lai Hao or Al Capone? Never mind. New place, new game plan. I’d better get some startup capital first... 95kReads9.2Score7.2kShelves
- 28 Nineties Hong Kong: I Woke Up as a Kidnapped Heiress's Sister-in-Law 九零香江：睁眼穿成被绑豪门大嫂 Chen Rou first met Nie Zhao during a counterterrorism case involving a wealthy Hong Kong family. He had been Hong Kong’s undisputed richest man for years and was a powerful figure renowned across the region. Even with both legs crippled and confined to a wheelchair, even in his fifties with deep wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, he still radiated sharpness and intelligence. Three generations of Chen Rou’s family had served in the police. Her father died in the war on drugs, and she had once b 24.5kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 29 Hong Kong Crossover: Starting Out as a White Fan 港综：从白纸扇开始 Li Xin: Nicknames: Blade King Xin, Terror of Ghosts, Immortal Xin He is Immortal Xin of Hong Kong Island, the ultimate godfather of the criminal underworld, the uncrowned king of the underground worlds of Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, and Southeast Asia's underworld philanthropist. At the European and American roundtable, everyone shouts, “Father!” Li Xin smiles faintly. “Rise, my sons.” 51.3kReads9.4Score2.6kShelves
- 30 Reborn in the Hong Kong Entertainment Industry of the 1980s 重生八十年代在港娱乐圈 Yin Xiao was reborn in Hong Kong in the 1980s. To find a job, she entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the crown, launching her career in show business. She attended training classes, took bit parts, and played cannon fodder, steadily rising to become the leading lady. In the end, she became famous across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, earning her place as an undisputed superstar. Even when Yin Xiao became the most influential film and television mogul of her era, people still call 11.9kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
- 31 Reborn in Hong Kong, With a Huge Family Business 重生港岛，家大业大 [Blood-Soaked Conglomerate | Global Hunt | Six Industrial Empires] In 1980, Shao Weiding opened his eyes and found himself the most rebellious of the six young masters of the Shao Group. Everyone laughed at him for turning his back on a fortune worth tens of billions and risking his life in Southeast Asia instead Then, three years later, they watched him smash open a Swiss bank vault with his bloodstained Rolex and propel the Swatch Group to the very top! When Watsons swept across Asia's retail 31kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves
