Hong Kong Island Legend: Beginning in Kowloon Walled City
港岛传奇：从九龙城寨开始
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- Completed
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- 1.1M Words
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- Urban
- Subgenre
- Business & Workplace
- Updated
- 8mo ago
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Writing about Brigitte Lin is enough to make you give up. I have to ask, does she really fit your aesthetic standards?
I was thinking about the social environment back then. How could people survive without some form of organized crime, especially those at the bottom of society?
The author is really degrading; women all choose celebrities, just for fun. Forget it. The female lead has to be from a wealthy family.
This is heading in the direction of a harem novel, but I'm about to give up. Time-travel novels can be imagined, but they're not mindless!
Do we really have to include romance?! Does sleeping together automatically mean we have to include them? Too many romances will just make the story too padded. Just include a few iconic figures. Why are we even talking about romance in the entertainment industry? It's easy to turn it into a simp story.
Price collapse
The author projected 1980s prices onto 1970s prices, and even those prices were after the stock market crash. Either the author changed the time period, or the author did some proper research. There are also many other instances of applying future concepts to the present.
What I really want to read are straightforward, unpretentious business battles, like the kind where you gift dump trucks to each other and they crash into each other, you hire Brother Ni to buy out your rivals for free, and then you have the rival's top executives get seriously injured in a robbery – that kind of business war novel.
Decisive, unquestionable... There are too many such modal particles.
Did the author do any research? They definitely did some, but they kept getting the dates wrong. The romance scenes—no, the whole thing about women—are a complete mess.
This novel shouldn't have chosen such an old Hong Kong star as the female lead; it's completely unappealing.