author: 水下野鱼
category: Urban
status: Ongoing
Yang Wendong, a 21st-century industrial titan, wakes up in a squalid Hong Kong shantytown in 1958. Feverish, penniless, and surrounded by poverty, disease, and ruthless gangs, his brilliant mind is trapped in a dying 18-year-old's body. His only 'family' are a kind aunt and sister struggling to survive, sharing a single meal a day. The stench of desperation and rats is everywhere. But Yang Wendong isn't just anyone. He carries the accumulated knowledge of a century of innovation. When a simple rat bites their precious dinner, a spark ignites. With nothing but scavenged bamboo and his superior intellect, he crafts a solution so basic, yet so revolutionary for the era, that it promises not just survival, but the very first step of an empire. Can a single, forgotten invention in a forgotten slum be the cornerstone of a global dynasty, or will the brutal realities of 1958 Hong Kong crush his ambition before it even truly begins?