Worn down by the 996 grind, office worker Lin Chen ignores his boss's deadly overtime call and flees back to his fishing village hometown with his belongings.
But on his very first day mudlarking for shells, he unexpectedly bonds with the Nearshore Ecosystem Protection System! It predicts tides down to the minute, identifies species like an encyclopedia, and showers him with rewards for completing ecological tasks. Wearing a suit while combing the shore? A fiasco. Sprinkling salt to lure razor clams, only to grind them into powder? His laugh-out-loud adventures hide the thrill of a comeback and getting rich.
With his solid knowledge of shore gathering, he finds premium seafood and makes a fortune, takes on unscrupulous competitors to protect the local waters, and helps the whole village prosper through eco-tourism.
But the mystery of his grandfather's disappearance, the eerie legends of Ghost Beach, the relentless pressure from a mysterious buyer, and the radio static that occasionally sounds from within the System… All of it points to an old seashell engraved with the character “fish.”
Watch an overworked office drone reinvent himself as a shore-gathering expert. With the System and real skills, he protects the nearshore and brings the fishing village to life!
