Making It in 1980

After reading over 100 chapters, I realized the protagonist is 18 years old 👍, a Beijing native. The author published a novel that sparked the "Chen Fan phenomenon"—he got into Peking University, found a wife, got engaged, and lived with her. His wife also has two sworn sisters, both extremely attractive and with whom he has no boundaries.

How many bosses would actually offer shares? And how many employees would actually want them? It's only recently opened up; everyone's feeling their way, not knowing if the policies will change. Offering shares like that? Would employees even want them? Don't they even bother to do some research?

I thought it was a harem novel, but it turns out both characters are adopted by blood relatives. Are they deliberately trying to disgust the readers?! I'm dropping it.

Chapter 182: Forced IQ Reduction. Investing $26 million in a television company to bind Gu Haiyang is equivalent to giving Gu 45% of the shares for free. In 1982, let alone 1%, even giving away just 0.1% Of the shares would be equivalent to $26,000. Who could refuse that in those days?

This is outrageous! These last few chapters are just disgusting to the readers. The author is completely indulging in self-indulgence; the main plot hasn't changed at all, and the protagonist is constantly arguing with all sorts of middle-aged women and other people.

Honestly, there's no point in watching anymore once you see the part about marrying Zhao Yuanyuan. He forces himself on two wives, gets them both drunk, and then when they wake up and don't want to, he still forces himself on them? With so much money, there are plenty of beautiful women in Hong Kong back then; does he really need to sleep with all three sisters to make it fun? Zhao Yuanyuan's personality is inherently unreasonable and capricious; could you really tolerate marrying her?

There are so many bizarre things they've done, it's almost toxic. And, in the 80s, they wrote The Matrix, and it actually sold like hotcakes—people didn't even know what a computer was!

The quality of this book has been really poor since it was released; only the first few chapters are somewhat interesting.

I read a dozen chapters, and they even started dating, so I gave up. Do men still want to read about romance in male-oriented novels? With male empowerment these days, people no longer trust women. They only believe in power (money, authority), and women are just playthings, at best, mere entertainment.

Writing The Matrix in 1981 was quite an achievement... Nobody knew anything about computers, let alone in China, and even in the US, very few people knew anything about computers, yet they were making this thing.