When he wakes, his 42-year-old soul has returned to 1982, to a dilapidated fishing village home with bare walls.
Waiting for him are a wife whose heart has turned to ash, a three-year-old daughter who trembles at the sight of him, and a father-in-law who wishes he could beat him to death.
In his previous life, he drank and gambled, becoming a good-for-nothing despised by everyone. In the end, his wife and child left him, and he spent half his life destitute.
In this life, Li Yang has just one goal: to make amends!
From the start, he has nothing but a basket for gathering seafood, and every bit of his wealth comes from the waves.
It begins with staying up all night to patch the leaking roof;
with carrying his feverish daughter through the rain to the local clinic;
with placing his first hard-earned wages into his wife's trembling hands...
His life quietly turns around!
Gathering seafood? He's the master! The finest large yellow croaker beneath the reefs, rare razor clams in the tidal flats: while others come home empty-handed, his boat is packed with the catch every time!
Aquaculture? He's a pioneer! He turns wasteland tidal flats into golden fishing grounds, raising fish, shrimp, crabs, and shellfish together in a thriving ecosystem and stunning the entire seafood industry!
Business? He builds an empire! His Wanghai brand dried fish sweeps the nation, his fishing village resorts thrive everywhere, and he leads the entire village into the era of ten-thousand-yuan households!
His once-scornful father-in-law, eyes red, hands him the family's inherited fishing-ground manual.
His once-despairing wife becomes his most capable partner in business, smiling like a flower.
And the little fishing village becomes a prosperous model known throughout the province because of him...
Only then do those waiting to laugh at him realize in terror:
This former hooligan hasn't merely changed his ways. He's about to stir up the whole era!
