Reborn in 1970, I thrived in Hong Kong.

Li Huai-ren and Jin Yong talked for most of the day. After Jin Yong haggled over every penny, they finally reached a formal written agreement that the film and television rights fee for each martial arts novel would be HK$30 over twenty years.

The agreement contained a whole host of Jin Yong's special requirements, such as Yang Guo not being allowed to have a beard, etc.

Among these deals, Li Huai-ren secured the best payment terms: the copyright fees could be paid when the film or television production was in progress.

After acquiring the film and television rights to Jin Yong's novels, Li Huai-ren also acquired the film and television rights to the works of other Hong Kong martial arts novelists, such as Liang Yusheng, the very next day.

Subsequently, he also sent people to acquire the film and television rights to novels by Gu Long, Wolong Sheng, Zhuge Qingyun, and others.

From then on, Li Huai-ren acquired all the film and television rights to well-known martial arts novels from before 1970 in his previous life.

As for those published after 1970, there's no need for Gu Long, Huang Yi, or others to bother. Li Huai-ren was extremely happy to copy works like "A Step into the Past," make some minor modifications, and serialize them in the Phoenix Daily.

April 26, 1970, was the day Phoenix Publishing House released the complete works of "The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword" and "The Moon and the Sword," as well as the complete edition of "Jurassic Park."

Phoenix Publishing House is located at the Phoenix Daily newspaper office, operating under the same management team but with two names. Liu Yizhuang also serves as the president of the publishing house.

Early in the morning, Li Huai-ren arrived at the Phoenix Daily newspaper office.

Seeing that Li Huai-ren hadn't gone to class, Liu Yizhuang assumed he was worried about the sales of his three books and immediately said:

"Boss, don't worry. Our people have done market research. 'The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword' and 'The Moon and the Sword' are more popular in Taiwan and Southeast Asia than Jin Yong's novels."

For this book release, we have deliberately suspended the serialization of these two books and adopted a three-volume bundled sales approach.

Those pirate booksellers in Taiwan and Southeast Asia don't have the second volume. I printed 100,000 copies of each volume, hehehehe.

Li Huai-ren waved his hand and said with a smile:

"Why would I worry about that? You've got it wrong. I took a detour on my way to school to deliver your book."

After saying that, he took out a large stack of manuscripts from the briefcase he was carrying and handed them to Liu Yizhuang.

Liu Yizhuang flipped through them and saw that they were all short stories and novellas, with titles such as "The Godfather," "Star Wars," "First Blood," "Rocky," "E.T.," "Jaws," and "Terminator" on the covers. There were more than thirty of them in total!

He immediately looked up at Li Huai-ren and asked in surprise:

"Boss, are you planning to publish all these books at once? Is there a need to rush? Publishing them gradually will yield higher profits..."

"No, you need to publish all these books as soon as possible. I still have more than thirty books waiting to be published at home," Li Huai-ren said with a smile, waving his hand.

He said this aloud, but in his heart he thought:

"Damn it, if it's not published soon, it'll be too late. The Godfather is going to be filmed in two years. We should try to bring forward the rest as much as possible."

Who cares how much money he can make from publishing books now? Stockpiling copyrights is the real big deal!

Li Huai-ren is the kind of person who either doesn't do anything at all, or if he does something, he does it to the extreme. Since he's going to hoard copyrights, he has to relentlessly exploit Hollywood.

As for European art films, Li Huai-ren would never give them a second glance. He didn't care who they were. Apart from a few films like "Léon: The Professional," he was too lazy to copy the others and wouldn't copy them anyway. He let the Europeans continue to entertain themselves.

Anyway, LGBT and such are their favorite things, and it's fine as long as they like it.

In fact, this applies not only to novels but also to songs. Li Huai-ren has already decided to exploit Americans and Adele, among others, to the fullest extent possible. He wants to register as many copyrights as possible for classic English songs. Since he has already planned to build a large closed-loop Phoenix Media Group, the more copyrights he accumulates, the better!

Most importantly, he agrees with some of the things written in the book "Reborn in 1955, I Intercepted in Hong Kong", namely, that before Jewish capital withdraws its energy from Israel, it is necessary to develop as quickly as possible, especially the media that was almost completely controlled by Jewish capital in his previous life!

He had a dream: that Phoenix Media would replace Murdoch's News Corporation in this life. He refused to believe that he couldn't beat Murdoch with the advantage of being reborn.

He's making money like crazy now, one of his goals being to follow Murdoch's path of acquisition after acquisition ahead of time, leaving Murdoch with nowhere to go in this life, and ideally, forcing him to stay in Australia for the rest of his life and practice boxing with kangaroos.

In just three days, the first printing of 100,000 copies of "The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword" and "The Moon and the Sword" sold out, while "Jurassic Park" was lukewarm, selling only a little over 3,000 copies in three days.

Subsequently, booksellers from Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries flocked to Phoenix Publishing House to discuss matters related to the local publication of the two books, "The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword" and "The Moon and the Sword".

Of course, the happiest people were the pirates in Taiwan and other places. Most of them were local thugs, commonly known as gangsters. Before the official version was released in their local area, they ran the printing presses until they were smoking!

Before we knew it, it was May 1st.

On this day, Teresa Teng's songs suddenly filled the streets and alleys throughout Taiwan:

"If I hadn't met you, where would I be, how would I be living..."

"...So sweet, I'm smiling so sweetly..."

"...The most romantic thing I can imagine is growing old with you..."

Teresa Teng was already somewhat famous in Taiwan. More than half of the songs on her new album were so good that they were captivating. She quickly became incredibly popular in Taiwan, and her performance fees skyrocketed.

Soon, some observant fans noticed something: all the good songs on Teresa Teng's new album were written by a man named Lord Da Ming.

Who is the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty? Is the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty the same author as the pirated novels "The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword" and "The Moon and the Sword" that are currently selling like hotcakes in Taiwan?

If it was the same person, then why would the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty write so many tender love songs for Teresa Teng?

Hmm, is there some unspeakable secret between the two of them? Is it just like in the opera—a talented man falls in love with a beautiful woman, and the two have already secretly pledged their lives to each other?

Taiwanese people let their imaginations run wild, with many activating their curious left and right hemispheres to conjure up all sorts of scenarios of talented men and beautiful women coming together.

It's no wonder they gossip. With Bald Qiang still around and Taiwan still under strict control, what else can they do or dare to do besides gossip?

With nothing better to do than gossip, this is actually one of the few pleasures that Taiwanese people have these days.

It was at this time that Teresa Teng's record company received an exorbitant performance invitation from Lim Chin Fa, chairman of Kuala Lumpur East Asia Paper Co., Ltd.

Teresa Teng's mother and the record company were immediately interested. After discussing it privately, they decided to accept the performance, which would cost one million NT dollars just for the appearance fee, without Teresa Teng's knowledge.

However, just as Deng's mother and the record company were preparing to go to Malaysia to discuss performance matters with Lin Zhenfa, chairman of Kuala Lumpur Da Dong Asia Paper Co., Ltd., they discovered that Teresa Teng, who had been working like a workaholic promoting and performing all over Taiwan, had disappeared!

At the same time, at the newly renovated two-story Chen's Chinese Medicine Clinic at the foot of Beacon Hill in Hong Kong, Dr. Chen's expression grew increasingly grave as he took Teresa Teng's pulse.

After more than ten minutes, he finally let go of her hand and said to Li Huai-ren, who was sitting next to Teresa Teng:

"She has a sore throat and can't speak, but it's a minor ailment and easy to treat. I'll prescribe three doses of medicine, and she'll be fine after she finishes them."

The problem is that she is already showing signs of asthma. Oh, asthma is a type of asthma.

She needs to rest properly for a while and take it easy to recover.