Soul Returns to Hong Kong: From Tailor Shop to Female Tycoon

Eighties era · Strong female lead · Top student · Business war · Hong Kong

In her past life, she had a photographic memory, but her heart could stop at any moment. When it stopped, she thought: in the next life, I won't be human anymore.

When she opened her eyes again, her name was Lin Ying. Nine years old, after nine years of feigned stupidity, her soul had returned.

A fortune-teller had calculated it three times: “She won't leave again. You were always you, just put in the wrong place.”

She became Lin Ying, a little girl who had been stupid for nine years, in a tailor shop in Sai Wan, Hong Kong, in the 1980s.

Her father was a carpenter from Guangdong who had sneaked into Hong Kong and married into the family, and her mother worked the sewing machine with him to support the four of them.

At nine years old, her soul returned to Hong Kong. In her past life, she had abundant learning with nowhere to use it; in this life, she had a body that could run and jump.

“Grandpa, I want to study.”

“Good! However long you want to study, Grandpa will support you for as long as it takes!”

Government schools do not allow skipping grades, private schools are ruinously expensive. A nine-year-old girl who has never attended a single day of school, a brain that has held eighteen years of knowledge, a heart that finally will never stop again, and a whole family willing to risk everything to lift her up.

From a tailor shop to an office building on Hong Kong Island, from an old tong lau in Sai Wan to a luxury mansion in Mid-Levels: this girl who was placed in the wrong spot by heaven is going to build a commercial empire with her own hands in this city where gold is everywhere.

What she lacked in her past life was a healthy body; in this life, she will repay her with a prosperous Hong Kong.

This is a big female-lead novel. The narrative core from beginning to end is the female lead; what this book examines is whether the female lead can control her own life and career, not how many male supporting characters there are in the story! The author will not remove all male characters just to cater to extreme viewpoints! All supporting characters exist to drive the plot!