I Put on a Diving Suit and Drove Every Angler Online Crazy

Lin Yuan was saddled with a two-million-yuan mortgage and earned just 5,000 yuan a month teaching swimming. His fiancée ran off with a Range Rover-driving fishing fanatic, and even took the goldfish he’d raised when she left.

That day, he was crouched by a reservoir, picking up river snails, when he plunged headfirst into the water. A voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

[Frustration Cash-Out System activated. If the Host makes any target experience the double despair of “a monster fish getting off the hook + a snapped rod,” they will receive a cash reward. The deeper the frustration, the bigger the payout.]

From then on, a man in a shabby diving suit appeared at fishing parks, reservoirs, and wild ponds everywhere. You spend three hundred yuan on a massive groundbaiting session? He scoops it all up from underwater in a woven sack. You brag about your limited-edition carbon-fiber rod worth 120,000 yuan? He grabs your line underwater and hauls on it until you think you’ve hooked a monster on the bottom. “Snap!”

The sound of the rod breaking was sharper than fireworks.

The people on shore wept. The man underwater laughed.

But Lin Yuan never expected that he wouldn’t just disturb one stagnant pool. When the “water ghost” legend began spreading through fishing circles nationwide, when top influencers with millions of followers joined forces to offer a bounty for the “Taihu Lake Monster,” and when the International Sport Fishing Alliance sent a deep-diving team to track his signal…

The hunter and the hunted had always been separated by just a single line.

And he could snap that line whenever he wanted.