Tales of Old Hong Kong

Your novel is utterly unsatisfying, lacking any sense of struggle, passion, or grudges. The entire novel is gloomy and lifeless. All the good people to the protagonist have died, so what's the point of his success? Becoming successful without returning home in glory is like wearing fine clothes in the dark. Either you posted it on the wrong platform, or you're just entertaining yourself.

I understand that authors need to develop the protagonist's character arc and use elements like cuckoldry and financial conflicts to help the character grow. However, it's very unsatisfying to read. A major taboo in web novels is mistreating the protagonist.

To be honest, this book might be worth watching as a TV series. If it had been written as a web novel 10 years ago, it might have been quite successful, perhaps even becoming a classic. But writing it now is too late. The biggest flaw in this book is the romance.

This novel is being held back by its category and title. Change the title to something related to Hong Kong. Categorize it as a city/urban story. The rating would probably be more than double.

It's undoubtedly a good book, but even in the urban fiction market, its sales figures probably wouldn't be particularly high. This isn't just my opinion; it's a fact. On Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform), all the popular business war novels are rebirth stories, unless the author is confident the book is good enough to make readers overlook that point—that would be setting a precedent.

The author is definitely a novice, because a veteran wouldn't turn a proper stock market business novel into a brainless romance novel. He painstakingly earned 3 million (in late 1960s Hong Kong), only to gamble it all away for a romantic relationship, go bankrupt, and then fawn over his lover. I'm planning to drop this book.

I've read four chapters, but I still don't know what they're writing about. Getting into the main storyline is too slow and tedious. It was written in a style that was probably 20 years ago. If you hadn't read the synopsis, you wouldn't even know who the main character was. Bro, with this kind of writing, it's no surprise you're going to flop.

Well, how should I put it? I've been reading it the whole time, except for the last few days when I missed some updates. When I got to the part where the protagonist fell for the rich girl, I knew there would be similar plot points. I really didn't like it. I felt the romance was okay for the other female characters, but this rich girl was just unbearable.

Keep it up, author! Well written. I'm actually quite picky. I can't really get through most novels. Yours is excellent. The subject matter is also unique. It portrays a person's growth through the ups and downs of the stock market. At the same time, through the various people around the protagonist, it witnesses the history of an era and the complexity and diversity of human nature. I think that in this era dominated by wish-fulfillment and simplistic novels, this is definitely a good book.

Good heavens, he's practically a jinx; in the early stages, anyone who cared about the protagonist was either seriously injured or dead.