At work, Lu Duoyu is the office workhorse. At home, he’s his wife’s punching bag. His life is utterly uneventful.
One day, watching someone land a huge fish by the river, he felt a fire ignite inside him.
Without his wife knowing, he poured all his secret savings into bait and teamed up with his fishing buddy Lao Zhang. Every day, they made up excuses and went to wild ponds, living out a hilarious last-stand adventure.
To protect this little pleasure of his, he became sworn pals with another fishing buddy, Lao Zhou. He and his wife waged a battle of wits, staging one ridiculous undercover operation after another.
He worked tirelessly to master adjusting his float and mixing bait. He didn’t mind getting sunburned, and landing a fish finally cured his short temper.
He went from being mocked as a beginner to secretly taking lessons and dominating the wild rivers.
As his skills improved and his earnings grew, the man who used to obsess over every little thing and fly into a temper was healed by the waters. He became easygoing and clear-headed. Not only did he grow more patient, he could now chat calmly with his parents, and even laugh off his wife’s fits of anger.
Then, while doing a deep clean, Wang Xiulian found the outrageously expensive fishing rod and the bank card with a million in savings that he’d hidden in an old cotton-padded jacket. Lu Duoyu gave up and braced himself for a scolding.
But when his wife saw the note their son had written pleading for him, her heart softened and she didn’t blow up.
She sighed, put away the passbook, and simply told him to be careful.
The most unbelievable part was that he used a secret bait recipe he’d just learned to land one big catch after another. He posted videos online, accidentally went viral, and started making more on the side than he earned at his job.
He no longer had to sneak around. Zhao Tiezhu could carry his fish basket home in broad daylight.
His wife didn’t scold him. She even urged him to hurry out and post a new video on the weekend, and his standing at home shot straight up.
With a rod and line, he fished away all the household chaos and brought home real money and warm companionship. He transformed his once dull, dreary, routine life into something full of surprises...
