Riding the Tides in the 1970s: Lobsters Overflow My Basket from the Start, Driving the Whole Village Wild with Envy

[Period Drama + Beachcombing + No System + Knowledge as an Overwhelming Advantage + Fiercely Protective + Hard-Core Wish Fulfillment]

Gu Chaoshen, a top-level marine biology PhD in his previous life, is reborn by chance in 1972 in a poor, backward coastal village.

Hell mode from the start: his father dies in a shipwreck, his stepmother runs off with the only twenty-three yuan they have left, even stripping the padded jacket off his eight-year-old sister before she goes.

Watching his twelve-year-old brother get beaten to death in the mud over half a moldy, rotten flatbread, and hearing his starving little sister weakly whisper, “Big brother, I'm hungry,” Gu Chaoshen's gaze turns cold.

Borrow food? Everyone in the village shuts their doors, waiting to laugh at the three siblings.

Gu Chaoshen sneers. “Starve to death? There's enough food in this sea to feed us for a lifetime!”

Using his advanced knowledge of tides and mastery of marine ecology, he leads the way into the treacherous reef zone that the entire village considers forbidden ground.

While everyone else is still struggling to dig clams out of the sand, Gu Chaoshen pries loose one premium wild abalone after another, and fills two huge bamboo baskets with swimming crabs bigger than his face!

Word gets out, and the jealous village bully brings people to steal his patch of shore?

Gu Chaoshen hits him with such an overwhelming display of knowledge that the man ends up with a mouthful of mud on the barren beach, becoming a laughingstock throughout the village.

His greedy stepmother hears he's made money and comes back to leech off him?

He plants a fish-cleaning knife firmly in the chopping board, its blade inches from her fingers. “Get out!”

The tide of the times rolls in, and gold lies everywhere. Watch Gu Chaoshen use his own strength to go from beachcombing for bargains to building ships and factories, taking down the worst sorts and battling merchants, until he creates a fishing empire worth hundreds of billions that dominates the seas in the springtime of the seventies!