The day he died in the hospital room, his daughter told him, “If you hadn't done it all for that woman back then, Mom wouldn't have died.”
When he opened his eyes again, Ye Chen was back on the morning his one-year-old daughter yawned. There were perilla leaves in the fish soup, his wife was coughing by the stove, and three hundred yuan was hidden beneath a can of malted milk powder. In his previous life, he had taken that money to Yangcheng to fawn over a woman, ending up with his wife's death and his daughter's hatred.
In this life, the coastal foraging System activated. No appraisals, no fancy gear: everything depended on a points lottery. Every jin of clams he dug up earned a jin's worth of points. Once he had a hundred, he could spin the wheel once. The prizes were absurdly random: fever medicine, rubber boots, a seafood-purchasing phone number, even a lead to an entire fishing ground.
The tide had gone out. It was time to hit the shore.
The phone in the village store rang. It was a long-distance call from Yangcheng, and a woman was asking for him.
Ye Chen hung up and turned around.
Su Tang was standing in the doorway, holding their daughter. She asked softly, “How many days will you be gone? Will you come back?”
Ye Chen looked at her hair, tousled by the sea breeze, and said the words he had owed her for decades in his previous life:
“I'm not going. I won't go anywhere in this life.”
It took only two days to sell the hotel. Which hotel would be shocked by a yellow fin fish and a stone fish in 1996???
Yes, this book is ok. It's fun to read. Don't use a system that's too awesome, otherwise you'll get lost in the sequel. You've always made a lot of money. If you like this kind of dull pursuit of the sea and slowly accumulate capital, don't rely on the system to become a nouveau riche from the beginning.