In 1982, there was a "Pearl Diving Village" in the water country of Jiangnan.
Natural pearl supplies had run dry, and mussels were becoming scarce. The women who made their living diving for pearls faced starvation.
Su Ming was reborn as the village's only man.
He watched the pearl divers, dressed in thin clothes and shivering in the lake, bring up only a few tiny, low-quality pearls. Su Ming shook his head.
"Stop diving. What are natural pearls even worth? I'll teach you how to make mussels grow top-grade pearls themselves!"
In his previous life, Su Ming had been both a jewelry tycoon and an expert in artificial pearl cultivation. He knew the most advanced techniques for inserting nuclei and growing pearls.
He leased an abandoned wild lake and led the village women in starting a pearl farm.
They mixed nutrient solutions, inserted nuclei with precision, and cultivated rare black and pink pearls.
When the first batch of flawless, perfectly round pearls, each as big as a longan, came out of the water, the Hong Kong merchants who'd come to buy them dropped to their knees.
Su Ming did more than help the women raise pearls. He taught them to polish and set them, turning them into high-end jewelry for export.
A few years later, this poor pearl-diving village had become the world's pearl capital!
No wonder no one watches it, the AI flavor is too strong