“Lin Yao, please stop beating me! I’ll go dive for oysters in the sea and pay off your gambling debt...”
Winter, 1996. The wind cut to the bone.
Lin Yao, a future tycoon who would dominate the global deep-sea fishing industry, suddenly opened his eyes and found himself back at the most wasted point in his life: age twenty-two.
Before him stood his desperate wife, six months pregnant and dressed in a threadbare shirt, ready to brave the icy sea to pay off his debt. Outside, a loan shark was waving an IOU and demanding to drag away the family’s only battered fishing boat.
In his previous life, he lost his family on this very day. Thirty years of loneliness and unimaginable wealth had brought him nothing but endless regret.
This time, he offered the boat as payment, then took the fifty yuan in change and leased the “worthless mudflat” that everyone in the village despised.
The villagers laughed that gambling had driven him mad.
But Lin Yao alone knew that in half a month, a super typhoon unlike any in decades, along with a devastating red tide, would sweep across the entire coast.
While the villagers returned from the sea empty-handed and the shoreline filled with cries of despair, deep-sea currents would sweep priceless wild large yellow croaker and premium swimming crabs into the mudflat where he had already laid a net from which nothing could escape!
From hauling in a massive catch at the mudflat to raising shrimp in greenhouses decades ahead of their time;
from a live-seafood cold chain that left the competition in the dust to a deep-sea fleet of tens of thousands of tons that crushed international capital.
“Wife, I promised you wouldn’t have to suffer ever again in this life.”
“This sea is my gift to you.”
It is true and objective and has a certain technical content. Well written!