On his twenty-fifth birthday, Zhou Wenyu was driven by his narcissistic, abusive parents to step into oncoming traffic. When he opened his eyes again, he had become a twenty-two-year-old wastrel from the countryside: living in a bare house, drinking and gambling, owing 300,000 yuan, and weighing down his elderly parents and his sister, who was struggling to care for her gravely ill son. In his despair, the [All Things Shore-Gathering System] suddenly activated.
From then on, the tides became his treasury, and the reefs hid rare, precious sea snails. On the first day, he found a yellow-lip fish worth its weight in gold; on the second, he dug up a century-old pearl oyster. With five fiercely loyal followers at his side, he turned barren mudflats into the starting point of a fortune. After paying off a mountain of debt and founding Wang Hai Fisheries, Zhou Yu rebuilt his life in the briny sea breeze. Then he met Lin Wan, the cool and perceptive CEO of Cloudcrest Dining. The jade pendant around her neck concealed a faint glow with the same origin as his System. When the two exchanged smiles at the bow of a boat beneath the setting sun, the marks on their wrists quietly faded. They understood each other without a word: transmigration had not been a curse, but the sea’s most powerful salvation for two broken souls.
