[Adaptation Potential] [Fishing the Tides] [Old Man] [Making a Fortune] [Reborn] [Rural Life] [Multiple Female Leads] Chen Mancai, an old fisherman who died in a typhoon, opens his eyes to find himself back in a fishing village in 2000. He has become Chen Haisheng, a sixty-year-old man who had just barely survived a trip to the tidal flats.
From the start, it's hell mode: he suffers from high blood pressure, rheumatism, failing eyesight, and poor hearing. His unfilial adopted son shows up demanding bride price money, trying to squeeze every last bit of his savings and his two dilapidated tile-roofed houses out of him. He's already halfway in the grave.
Luckily, he binds to the Tide-Foraging Life System and turns his desperate situation around!
- Raise the favorability of five beautiful women to redeem tide-foraging rewards: the beginner level locates hidden treasures on the tidal flats, the intermediate level locks onto schools of deep-sea fish, and the advanced level unlocks treasures on the ocean floor.
- Every cent earned from tide-foraging is automatically converted into points. The System's shop has everything: treatments for high blood pressure, restored eyesight and hearing, and even a way to turn back the years and gradually regain his prime!
From then on, a figure growing stronger with age appears on the tidal flats whenever the tide goes out.
He digs for razor clams, catches swimming crabs, traps schools of Spanish mackerel, and salvages antiques from shipwrecks. While others forage for enough to eat, he trades his catches for health, youth, and an incredible fortune!
His unfilial son refuses to show respect? He cuts ties on the spot. One day, the boy will regret it on his knees.
The bonds of village life bring him a kind-hearted widow, a fiery fisherwoman, a gentle village doctor, a shrewd merchant, and a bold boat captain. Each of the five women has her own charm, and they stay by his side.
The tides of the new millennium roll in wave after wave. Given a second life, this sixty-year-old man strides across the mudflats and gazes toward the deep sea. With the ocean at his side, he blooms again and becomes the most carefree tide-foraging legend in the whole fishing village.