I’m Just Here to Make Money in Hong Kong Cinema

These people use the guise of making money to do nothing but gangster work. You'll run into trouble with gangsters everywhere you go, either because they cause trouble themselves or because their stupid underlings do, and then the boss has to step in. Then it's back to the gangsters again and again—a classic case of deception. A typical example is that book I wrote years ago about how I haven't been a boss for a long time.

This is really toxic. It feels like the author is some clueless Gen Z, a gambler who doesn't even bother to do basic research, the kind of dreamer who gets carried away with writing a book to make a fortune in 1980s Hong Kong. Their first pot of gold came from renovations, no problem, but then they think playing with counterfeit goods is a dead end...

Chapter Twenty-Six: The protagonist made 2.3 Million yuan using counterfeit goods, but then complained that the market would be flooded with counterfeit goods and he wouldn't be able to make money anymore. He's now focused on making movies. Where's his brain? If he wants to make movies and seduce female celebrities, he should at least come up with a better reason!

Why do people always think that movies were incredibly profitable back then? I wonder, if movies weren't linked to money laundering, could they have been so developed? Even Hollywood wasn't that powerful. I'm thinking, if there hadn't been so much illicit money back then, so much of it needing to be laundered, how could there have been such a thriving entertainment industry? After all, there were still many people in Hong Kong who went hungry back then.

What can you expect him to do with 7 chapters in 12 days?

Still no improvement. You don't even bother to understand Hong Kong during that era? Whether it's writing about the police or not, you haven't improved at all. In that era, you were either involved in triads or completely legitimate. Trying to build your fortune from scratch? If you had even a peanut, you wouldn't be so drunk. You want to make money, and so do others.

Given the numerous reader feedback regarding the excessive use of Cantonese, I will try my best to reduce it in future installments 😰. If any Cantonese is too difficult, I will translate it in the comments when I have time 😡. The main concern is avoiding 404 errors; my previous book underwent major revisions, and I'm wary of such revisions 😥.

It's so frustrating. Why do people who are reborn in Hong Kong have to make movies? They could do other things, but nine out of ten of them are making movies.

Please stop scolding me, everyone. It was wrong of me to be lazy all the time. 😭 I'll be updating regularly and consistently now that I'm on the recommendation list. 😭

Honestly, Hong Kong films have to be re-dubbed before they can be shown in mainland China, but then a mainland novel is written with a bunch of Cantonese lyrics. It's really amazing. Occasionally using a few well-known terms like "handsome but down-on-his-luck guy" to add some flavor is fine, but writing so much... Will it really gain more readers?