Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

That evening at 8 p.m., Teresa Teng's performance at the Lee Theatre took place as scheduled.

Upon taking the stage, Teresa Teng immediately spotted Li Huai-ren in the left seat of the first row, her eyes crinkling into beautiful crescent shapes as she smiled sweetly.

"With a gong in the left hand and a drum in the right, we sing while holding gongs and drums..." A sweet song, "Fengyang Flower Drum," brought tears to the eyes of many people in the audience who had come from the north to settle in Hong Kong in the early 1950s. They applauded and cheered enthusiastically.

Teresa Teng then sang more than a dozen old songs, including "Jing Jing" and "Picking Red Water Chestnuts." Her voice, pure as dew, gentle as the wind, and penetrating as light, captivated everyone present.

"The last song of today is a new song, which is the most special gift and the most unexpected big gain I received during this trip to Hong Kong. It is 'The Moon Represents My Heart' written by Lord Da Ming. I hope everyone will like it."

After singing the last song, Teresa Teng glanced at Li Huai-ren in the audience, her face slightly flushed, and spoke into the microphone.

As soon as she finished speaking, the prelude to "The Moon Represents My Heart" began to play.

"You ask me how deep my love for you is, my love for you is..."

This song uses the "moon" to symbolize the purity and eternity of love. The lyrics are simple yet profound, without fancy words, but they touch people's hearts directly.

With her gentle and delicate voice, Teresa Teng eloquently conveyed the deep affection in "You ask me how deep my love is, how much I love you," expressing a love that is "pure, good, and beautiful" in traditional Chinese aesthetics.

Her voice perfectly matched the soul of the song; her tone was clear, sweet, and gentle like moonlight. When she sang, her breath was steady, her pronunciation was clear, and her emotions were full but not sentimental, which perfectly interpreted the true meaning of "love needs no embellishment" in the lyrics.

This song was first sung by Chen Fenlan in 1973, and it was Teresa Teng's cover version in 1977 that made it popular throughout the Chinese-speaking world and one of the most widely sung Chinese songs in the world.

Nowadays, thanks to Li Huai-ren, Teresa Teng has become the original singer of "The Moon Represents My Heart".

After the song ended, the entire audience was silent. A few seconds later, everyone seemed to wake up from a dream, and thunderous applause and cheers erupted.

Teresa Teng repeatedly bowed and bent over to take her bow, and the audience was reluctant to leave. In the very end, Teresa Teng sang "The Moon Represents My Heart" six times before the audience finally began to disperse.

As soon as Teresa Teng returned backstage, the female staff member from her Hong Kong partner company handed her a letter:

"Miss Deng, this is something that the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty asked me to give to you."

Upon hearing this, Teresa Teng immediately took the letter, opened it, and saw that it was another song, titled "A Thousand Words." She glanced at the sheet music and immediately began to hum it softly:

I don't know why

Sorrow surrounds me

I pray every day

Quickly drive away the loneliness of love

From that day on, you told me

Love me forever

Thousands of words drifted by like floating clouds.

I don't know why

Sorrow surrounds me

I pray every day

Quickly drive away the loneliness of love

I don't know why

Sorrow surrounds me

I pray every day

Quickly drive away the loneliness of love

From that day on, you told me

Love me forever

Thousands of words drifted by like floating clouds.

I don't know why

Sorrow surrounds me

I pray every day

Quickly drive away the loneliness of love.

She sang with increasing excitement and emotion. She knew it was another classic song, and she felt immense admiration for Li Huai-ren, the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty who composed it.

After finishing the song, Teresa Teng wondered, what exactly does this Ming Dynasty Marquis mean by writing two love songs for her in a row?

Which young girl doesn't dream of love? Thinking that she was about the same age as him, Teresa Teng's face suddenly turned red again.

For the next two days, Li Huai-ren appeared in the first row of the audience at the Lee Theatre every night. Before leaving, he still dedicated a song to Teresa Teng, one was "I Only Care About You" and the other was "The Most Romantic Thing"!

At seventeen, a young girl is at the age when she is most imaginative. When Teresa Teng saw the songs that Li Huai-ren wrote for her, the first one was "The Moon Represents My Heart", the second one was "A Thousand Words", the third one was "I Only Care About You" and the fourth one was "The Most Romantic Thing".

These four songs progress step by step, and the lyrics become increasingly bold. Take a look at the lyrics of the fourth song, "The Most Romantic Thing":

The most romantic thing I can imagine is growing old with you. Even when we're so old we can't go anywhere, you'll still cherish me like a treasure.

The more Teresa Teng thought about it, the more flustered she became, and the less she knew what to do. She didn't know whether she should accept what she perceived as Li Huai-ren's unconventional expression of love.

In a flash, she began to complain about Li Huai-ren again:

"Tch, good heavens! It's not even a proper agreement yet, and you're already thinking about growing old with me?"

"Seriously, can't you take it one step at a time? How can I agree to do it all at once? I'm only seventeen!"

She thought and thought, but didn't know what to do.

Before leaving Hong Kong, Teresa Teng, still unsure of what to do, thought for a moment, wrote down the record company's phone number and her home phone number in Taiwan on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and asked the female staff member of the Hong Kong partner company to help deliver it to Li Huai-ren.

It was several days later when Li Huai-ren received the phone number left by Teresa Teng.

These past few days, he's been rushing to Phoenix Hardware & Plastics Factory as soon as he gets out of school. He's finally obtained global patents for products like omnidirectional wheel suitcases, sticky notes, Transformers, and Rubik's Cubes.

Therefore, Li Huai-ren was busy setting up various product divisions at the Phoenix Hardware and Plastics Factory, first setting up the framework, and then having each division recruit the necessary talent to fill in the positions.

On March 15, Phoenix Daily suddenly began serializing two new comics, "Transformers" and "Dragon Ball," expanding the newspaper from 24 pages to 32 pages.

Almost all comic book fans in Hong Kong have noticed something: the main characters in comics all have something called a "Rubik's Cube" in their hands. Every time the main character is thinking about a problem, they will turn the Rubik's Cube a few times...

The quietly emerging Rubik's Cube has subtly influenced many comic book fans. When the Rubik's Cube appeared in various stationery and toy stores, they immediately took out their money to buy it without hesitation.

At the same time, numerous articles about Rubik's Cubes suddenly appeared in Hong Kong newspapers of all sizes. Without exception, they all claimed that Rubik's Cubes were educational toys and that children who played with them would become smarter, and so on.

Hong Kong is such a small place, it certainly couldn't be the target market for Phoenix Hardware & Plastics Factory. At that time, Europe and America were the world's largest markets.

The marketing departments of various business units of Phoenix Hardware & Plastics Factory had already traveled to Europe and America to implement the long-planned marketing strategy.

At 9:00 AM on March 17, just as Li Huai-ren was departing from Kai Tak Airport with Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, and others for Taipei, twelve beautiful female models were seen walking the runway with their suitcases at the entrance of airport terminals in more than a dozen airports, including Kai Tak Airport, as well as those in Europe and the United States, Tokyo, Singapore, and Seoul.

Beautiful female models are everywhere; it's nothing special.

What amazes passersby is that the bags these models are carrying have handles that can be pulled, and the bottoms of the bags are equipped with wheels that allow them to change direction 360 degrees without any blind spots!

Many people, looking at the heavy suitcases they are carrying, no matter how beautiful or sturdy they are, immediately feel that they are no longer appealing. They are definitely just like old hags, aren't they?

Some people even went so far as to curse:

"Bullshit, why is such a simple design taking so long to appear?"