(A period novel with no transmigration or rebirth, featuring a wholly native-born protagonist and seven decades of change in southern Fujian)
He was the first in the county to get into college, yet he tore up his admission letter in front of his ancestral home.
Everyone called him a fool.
Over sixty years, he went from a gifted young man to someone rooted in the soil.
He let fishermen buy on credit, wrote letters home for overseas Chinese families, kept Nanyin instruments safe, and donated his ancestral home to build a fishing harbor.
He became the fishing village’s rock.
Some said he had given up a better future.
But when the seventy-seven-year-old man stood on the breakwater, gazing at the brightly lit fishing harbor, he knew the truth:
He had given up the far-off world, but become a beacon for thousands.
[A Minnan epic] [Cotton trees in bloom] [Nanyin drifting on the breeze] [A lifetime over bowls of vermicelli soup]
