Back in 2016, Lin Ye wakes up buried in a mountain of debt: he'd stolen money from his family, smashed an oyster rack, and offended everyone in the village. To keep the tragedies of his previous life from happening again, he empties his wallet to compensate his neighbors for their losses.
With his money gone, the mysterious Tidal Farm System activates on an abandoned tidal flat. It won't hand him money or do the work for him. It can only tell him how the tide, salinity, currents, and marine life fit together. Want to make money? Get digging in the mud yourself.
The whole village laughs at him for going crazy on a stinking mudflat, but he digs up over forty pounds of giant bamboo clams from the black mud and drags two plump green crabs out of a reef crevice. He earns over 1,600 yuan in half a day, transforming overnight from a wastrel into a shore-foraging treasure hunter.
Brother, it's 2016, are there still families going hungry? Damaging oyster racks only costs a few dozen yuan in compensation. 2016 isn't 1996.
The cover is nice, but the book itself isn't.