In Hong Kong: It Started When I Saw the Player Interface

Reborn in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

Lin Shuocheng had planned to build on his baking experience from his previous life, grow his business, and make a comeback. Instead, he was told he had been loaded into a game called Earth Online.

He was the game's only player.

There were no dialogue boxes, no health bars, and certainly no foolish NPCs handing out quests.

He could see everyone's stat panels and activate unique employee traits.

[Loyalty: I work for my grandpa. Anyone who comes looking for trouble gets taken down.]

[Trait: Strong execution, high loyalty, intelligence reduced by 15%.]

Good in a fight? Go work for a security company.

[Technical Adjustment: Don't be afraid. Just keep buying without thinking.]

[Trait: The company you work for will have an easier time going public, and its stock-market favorability increases by 30%.]

Making ten or twenty thousand a month, and you want to play the stock market like everyone else?

Trying to become a sucker?

Facing a united crackdown by the four great families and deliberate targeting by multinational conglomerates, Lin Shuocheng strolls along with his hands in his pockets, bearing the title [Five-Star Model Citizen], without the faintest idea what having a rival means.

“Damn it, you went fishing without a helmet. Serves you right for getting into trouble!”

“You need money to acquire a company? The Empress Dowager paid for it for me ages ago!”

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Starting with premade egg tart shells, he takes over Hong Kong's telecom market, reshapes the city's industrial structure, and expands across the globe.

Before anyone knows it, a saying has spread across Hong Kong: Hong Kong belongs to Lin Shuocheng, and Shuocheng belongs to the Lin family.

Media, energy, port shipping, even rockets and satellites: they are all just parts of the vast Lin Group.

Bearing the title [Earth's Guns, Blades, and Cannons], Lin Shuocheng studies the world map and murmurs, “Next, should I go after the Eiffel Tower or Oliver Twist's London...?”