A top sea-fishing champion accidentally falls into the water and is reborn in 1983 in the body of a boy in a fishing village in Bayuquan who shares his name. The boy’s family is destitute: his mother has suffered terribly, his younger sister is seriously ill and they can’t afford treatment, and relatives have seized their land. Using the fishing expertise he honed in his previous life, the protagonist heads out to sea to catch crab-eating fish, sells them to buy medicine, and forcefully takes back the family’s land. He makes crab traps and plans coastal foraging trips to boost their income. Defying the customs of the era and the neighbors’ harassment, he gradually holds his broken family together and builds a prosperous life through fishing in the early days of reform and opening up.
