Tidepooling: Four Babies from the Start, and I've Got a Pocket Dimension

Shen Haibo, an aquaculture worker at a large modern aquarium, accidentally transmigrates to a barren island in the late 1970s. Before he even has time to get used to the salty sea breeze, he inherits the mess left behind by the previous owner of his body: both parents are dead, and four starving quadruplet siblings are left in his care. The original owner had planned to give away the youngest sister in exchange for food, but slipped and cracked his head, leaving the body to Shen Haibo, who had transmigrated into it. Looking at the four little tykes clinging to his legs and pleading for food, Shen Haibo sighs, grabs a tattered fishing net, and heads for the sea. Fortunately, he has a one-cubic-meter “living-water freshness space” bound to him. He can’t grow crops in it or store nonliving things, but any live seafood he puts inside stays perfectly fresh, and can even slowly regain its vitality. In an era with no ice plants and no way to transport seafood over long distances, this is practically a god-tier support ability! At low tide, he feels around in the crevices between rocks for premium green crabs and pries loose giant wild abalone. Out at sea, he stores precious groupers and big lobsters in the space to keep them fresh, then sells them for a fortune at restaurants in the big cities. He repairs fishing boats, leases sea areas, and builds an aquaculture base. With his skills at harvesting the sea, Shen Haibo manages to fatten up all four little tykes and become the island’s richest ten-thousand-yuan household!