The top floor of the Fok Group Building in Central, Hong Kong Island.
Behind the heavy rosewood desk, Ho Ying-teng faced the dazzling view of Victoria Harbour outside the floor-to-ceiling window, but his whole body seemed to be shrouded in a thick and unbreakable low pressure.
The image of his frustrated face with suppressed anger, magnified by the newspaper at the door of Villa No. 3 in Repulse Bay, was imprinted in his mind like a branding iron.
Kobayashi Tenmo's calm and hateful smile, which seemed to be looking down at him, made him feel suffocated in his chest.
This is the greatest humiliation that Young Master Huo has ever experienced in Hong Kong Island!
Unfortunately, the other party's methods were fair and he had the halo of a Chinese overseas in Japan. Even though he was full of resentment, he couldn't think of a quick, decent and family-ruled way to retaliate.
I can only sulk.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
There was a light but urgent knock on the door.
Huo Zhen responded irritably, "Come in!"
The personal assistant Arong almost "bumped" in, holding several newspapers in his hands, but his face was filled with an excitement that was suppressed but still overflowing.
"Mr. Huo! Good news! Great news!"
Huo Zhenting frowned and turned around unhappily: "What's the matter? You're so flustered."
What he hates most now is hearing the word "sky". He gets angry when he thinks of Xiaolin Tianwang's face.
Ah Rong ignored the rules and walked over quickly. He spread out several newspapers on the huge desk and pointed at the headlines of the society and entertainment sections. His voice was a little distorted with excitement:
"It's Kobayashi Tenwang! His lifeblood, Dragon Jump magazine, has a serious problem, Mr. Huo! Look!"
Huo Zhenting's eyes swept across the newspaper.
"…shoddy pirated copies of Dragon Jump are flooding the market, causing widespread public outrage!"
"…The Consumers Association received over a thousand complaints a day, denouncing pirated copies as being of such poor quality they were like waste paper!"
“…The Publication Administration may crack down hard, and publications suspected of violating the law will face censorship!”
"...Dragon Jump's second official printing press suffered an unexplained malfunction, and the release date has been postponed indefinitely. The future looks bleak!"
Line after line of shocking headlines, accompanied by angry complaints from readers, photos of discarded pirated comic book pages, and a photo of a printing factory that should be bustling with activity but is now completely silent...
The haze in Huo Zhenting's eyes seemed to be blown open by the strong sea breeze, and then quickly expanded, like the rising sun piercing through the dark clouds!
His handsome face, which had been tense for a long time, slowly relaxed bit by bit, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, finally turning into a low but hearty laugh.
"Hahahaha! Great! What a saying that those who do evil will eventually perish!"
The depression in my heart was swept away, replaced by the ecstasy of having unexpectedly found a treasure.
He hadn't figured out how to do it, and hadn't even started to use family resources to squeeze him, but Xiao Lin Linwang, this ignorant dragon crossing the river, actually destroyed his own pillar!
And it was smashed so thoroughly! So unbearable!
Peter Ho stood up, walked to the window, overlooking the Oriental Pearl Tower Hong Kong Island below, and felt that his breathing became much smoother.
"Can't you print the genuine edition? Only tens of thousands of junk copies have been printed? The market has been ruined by low-quality pirated copies? Great! Very good!"
There was a cool, amused glint in his eyes.
"This cross-river dragon relies on this magazine to gain a foothold in Hong Kong Island!
Now that Dragon Jump is completely ruined and the studio is bankrupt, how can he survive in Hong Kong? How can he even face people here?
Kobayashi Tenwang's calm and confident look that night now seemed extremely ridiculous in Ho Sin-ting's mind.
He could almost see Kobayashi Tenmo's miserable appearance, his reputation ruined, and his embarrassment of being unable to move forward in Hong Kong Island.
Most of the anger that was stuck in my chest was released effortlessly in this way!
Just then, the intercom on the desk rang crisply.
Huo Zhenting was in a good mood. He walked over and answered the phone leisurely: "Go ahead."
The respectful voice of the front desk secretary came from the other end of the line: "Mr. Huo, there are two gentlemen downstairs who want to see you. They claim to be Mr. Shangguan Xiaobao and Mr. Huang Yulang, both of whom are from the Hong Kong comics industry. They say they have something important to report to you, Mr. Huo."
Shangguan Xiaobao? Wong Yuk-lang?
These two figures flashed through Ho Sin-ting's mind.
One of them was the editor-in-chief of "Xi Bao" and later became famous for his kung fu comics; the other was the president of "Yulang Comics" and his "Chinese Hero" was popular among many young people.
They are all cultural businessmen with great influence in the market.
They? Report to me? What to report?
A thought flashed through my mind in a flash.
In the comics world...it just happened that Dragon Jump was having problems and Kobayashi Tenou was in the most embarrassing situation...the enemy of my enemy?!
A sense of enlightenment and deeper joy emerged in Huo Zhenting's heart.
This is like someone giving you a pillow when you are sleepy!
"Please have them come up! Now!"
Huo Zhenting gave the order decisively, with an excitement in his voice that he himself didn't even notice.
He had even quickly thought of the other party's possible intentions and how he should take advantage of this opportunity.
"Please come in, gentlemen, and prepare some tea!"
After he instructed Ah Rong to prepare tea, he quickly thought:
Shangguan Xiaobao and Huang Yulang are local bosses with deep roots in local comics.
Now that Kobayashi Tenno has lost "Dragon Jump", a huge vacuum has appeared in the comics market in Hong Kong that he opened up.
This is the perfect opportunity for the Huo Group to "strike him while he's ill"!
What he wants to do is to invest and operate business in an upright manner.
By injecting funds, integrating resources, and utilizing the local advantages and existing channels of Shangguan Xiaobao and Huang Yulang, they were able to quickly launch high-quality comic weeklies and single volumes that met the aesthetic tastes of Hong Kong people.
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