“Shocking news!
The Huo family's prince broke into Miss Liu's boudoir at night and was "exploded" on the spot by a mysterious Japanese-Chinese genius boy!
——The main picture on the front page of Sing Tao Daily is a carefully drawn sketch: a young man lights the fuse with a smile, sparks fly from the mouth of a crude iron bucket, and in the background is a cartoon image of Ho Chun-ting retreating in panic.
"The powder keg explodes the feuds between wealthy families!
An explosive conflict unfolded in Repulse Bay last night, marking the first defeat for the Fok family's direct descendant!
——Ming Pao used extremely exaggerated words to describe the "iron barrel firecracker" that shocked everyone.
"The mysterious rich man Xiaolin Tianwang has extraordinary methods!
Peter Ho has been humiliated, and the situation in Hong Kong Island has changed dramatically again!
——"Industrial and Commercial Daily" focuses on the young man who rises like a comet.
"The truth behind Mr. Huo's embarrassing exit: It wasn't that Miss Liu refused to let him in, but he was actually scared back three steps by the sound of firecrackers!"
—A tabloid headline was even more slick with malicious sarcasm.
Next to the steaming dim sum cart in the teahouse, a man in a well-tailored suit spitted, "Oh, Young Master Huo, you really disappoint me this time!
Being toyed around by a teenage kid!"
"You don't know, my cousin's friend lives right across the street from Repulse Bay. He said the noise was like a war, and there was a strong smell of gun smoke!"
Another person added vividly, "The iron barrel exploded with a bang, and Young Master Huo looked like he had seen a ghost!"
"I heard that Mr. Xiao Lin told Mr. Huo that he was sending soybean oil!
Sending soybean oil with firecrackers to blow up barrels?
It's obvious that this is to save the Huo family's reputation!"
“Awesome, awesome!
This Japanese guy is not simple! "
The noise swept across the entire Hong Kong Island during the day like a tide. In the streets and alleys, whether it was the business elite or the peddlers, all they kept chewing were words like "Young Master Huo", "Iron Bucket Firecrackers" and "Xiao Lin Tianwang".
People talked about the unprecedented setback suffered by the eldest son of the Huo family, speculating about the young man's strange methods and the vortex of interests involved in this conflict.
However, amidst this overwhelming torrent of gossip, the Island Evening News, a crudely printed, yellowed newspaper with virtually no readers and a plummeting circulation, lay quietly in the corner of an inconspicuous, shabby newsstand at the entrance of Temple Street.
The old stall owner was dozing off against the wall, not even bothering to shout.
Its front page today is unusually simple and clean.
There were no sensational photos, no sultry headlines, no gossip, and not even any specific news reports.
Beneath the four bold characters of the masthead, "Hong Kong Island Evening News," a notice, cold and brief to the point of being abrupt, was printed in ordinary type, only slightly larger than the main text:
[Notice to Readers] Due to business adjustments, this newspaper will cease publication effective immediately. It will be renamed "Asia Daily" and resume publication soon.
This is to inform you.
Sincerely, Asia Daily Preparatory Committee
The edges of the paper curled slightly in the sunlight.
A barefoot child passed by the newsstand and tried to touch the scrap newspaper with the notice printed on it. The old man waved him away impatiently: "Tsk! There's nothing to see in a scrap newspaper! Go away!"
No one paid any attention to the small block of text with uneven ink and awkward wording.
No one knew that just last night, a storm was shaking Repulse Bay.
Gao Qiaohao was sitting in the office of an old, bankrupt newspaper in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon. Among a pile of discarded lead type and printing presses, he finally wrote the name "Gao Qiaohao" on the signature side of the acquisition document.
Behind him, the place where the old sign of "Hong Kong Evening News" had just been removed was empty, and soon a brand new sign of "Asia Daily" would be hung up.
The notice of cessation of publication of the Hong Kong Evening News, which was discarded in a corner before the ink had dried, was another silent move made by Lin Huowang in the noisy battlefield of public opinion in Hong Kong Island.
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