Beachcombing: I Read the Tides to Find Treasure and Let the Sea Carry Me

Lin Chao, a fisheries graduate, is saddled with his company's debt after they pin the blame on him. With his grandmother gravely ill and not a penny to his name, he returns to Lanshan Village. A rich second-generation local drives up in a pickup and mocks him in front of everyone: “College is useless. You still came back to get your hands in the mud.” His ex-girlfriend turns away coldly and gets into someone else's car. Just when things seem hopeless, the century-old conch his grandfather left him unexpectedly awakens. He can pinpoint the location of every kind of seafood just by listening to the tide! He digs up butter crabs from the mudflats with uncanny accuracy, plucks giant abalones from the rocks, and hauls in a netful of large yellow croaker offshore. He can even sense typhoon currents, shipwrecks on the seafloor, and rare schools of fish before they appear. Starting with a battered little boat, he builds a cooperative, sets up cold storage, develops shellfish farming, opens a coastal tourism business, and puts together an ocean-going fleet. From 30,000 yuan in debt to a fortune worth tens of millions, he leads the village's fishermen to turn their lives around by making a living from the sea. As the tides ebb and flow, the vast blue ocean becomes his domain of wealth.