Suddenly in the Mood for Sea Foraging Stories. Any Good Recommendations, Everyone? 突然想看赶海文了，家人们有没有好看的文推荐一下

1. 1 重 Reborn in 1980: My Golden Finger Helps Me Gather Seafood 重生1980：我有金手指赶海 Little Wish小小的愿Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Reborn: Everyday Sea Foraging, and I Have a Golden Finger. Before he was reborn, Chen Fei was a spendthrift and a gambler. I've been reborn, and this time I've gained an unusual ability: I can see the fish in the sea. The ocean is mine to harvest... I'm going to make a fortune! Countless seafood and mountains of shellfish... I'll take it all! Chen Fei vows to turn over a new leaf and give his wife a happy home. 9.6kReads8.7Score545Shelves

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   I'm still following the first one 😳, but the next two are finished. They're both easy to read from beginning to end, and they're both straightforward stories with few major flaws. I can recommend them ✧(≖◡≖✿)

2. 2 我 I Have a Beachcombing System: A Fisherman’s Road to Fortune 我有赶海系统：渔民发家日常 Earn 8 Bucks赚8块Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Everyday life, beachcombing, fishing, family affairs, and making a fortune. After being reborn and gaining the Beachcombing System, penniless Jiang Yue raked in money by the bucketload. System level: 100 Favorability: 1,000 Envy: 1,000 “Ding!” “1,000 Luck Points consumed.” King razor clams, butter crabs, mud crabs, flower lobsters, green lobsters, all kinds of shrimp, crabs, fish, and shellfish... Large yellow croaker, big red grouper, mouse grouper, leopard coral grouper... 18.8kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
3. 3 父 My Father Was Injured, So I Went Home to Fish 父亲受伤，回家钓鱼 Young Master of the Lin Family林家小子呀Urban784k WordsCompleted [One female lead] [Sea fishing] [Daily life] [A golden finger is needed; the System is optional] Lin Yan, who works far from home, returns to his hometown after his father is injured. He originally plans to go back to work once he has taken care of his father. But then he unexpectedly obtains a fish-finding radar System. And so, Lin Yan sets out on the path of fishing... 5.1kReads8.7Score276Shelves
4. 4 重 Back to 1982: It All Begins in a Little Fishing Village 重回1982，从小渔村开始 Explosive Garfield暴炸加菲Urban3.0M WordsOngoing [No System + Relaxed Daily Life + One Heroine + Mountains and Seas + Farming] Lin Dongyang shook his head. He had only been watching as a leatherback turtle was hauled ashore and helping release it back into the sea, but it got tangled up with him. The moment he opened his eyes, he was back in 1982, on the very day he had made a terrible mistake. The sight of the shabby old house brought distant memories flooding back. Looking at his wife beneath him, belly swollen and tears on her face, he felt 22.5kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves

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   These two are considered some of the better Tomato Beachcombing novels.

5. 5 重 Back to 1981: The Little Fishing Village 重回那年，1981小渔村 Poor Ghost Having Fun Alone穷鬼自嗨Urban3.5M WordsOngoing A laid-back slice-of-life story about earning a living and supporting the family, nestled against the mountains and facing the sea. Climb the mountains, explore the sea, and enjoy a relaxed life, with no overpowered showboating or face-slapping. A period story about everyday life: gathering seafood, raising children, farming, and all the little things that happen in a family and village. 28.3kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
6. 6 我 I Have a Penglai Immortal Island 我有一座蓬莱仙岛 Peach Creek Wilds桃溪野Modern Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Also known as: After Finding a Divine Artifact, She Became Famous Through Her Fishing Livestreams A theme park called Nevernight suddenly becomes famous across China. It features the “Penglai Realm,” protected by a seventh-tier grand formation; the “Sea Monster Castle,” where mermaids are rumored to live, with glass tunnels leading straight down into the deep sea; the mysterious and eerie “Yellow Springs Road”; the opulent “Divine Capital”... Everyone who visits even once starts questioning real 7.9kReads9.2Score890Shelves

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   If we're talking about books about beachcombing, these are definitely worth reading. I kept them on my bookshelf for a long time after reading them, and I highly recommend them!

7. 7 赶 Tide-Chasing System: I Get Rich Fishing by the Sea 赶海系统：我靠赶海钓鱼暴富 Rain Falls Over Jiangnan江南雨纷纷Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (System + Coastal Foraging + Island Life + Fishing + Relaxed Daily Life) A cheerful everyday life of coastal foraging and fishing, with a slow-paced, immersive feel. Digging for razor clams and picking up octopuses on the beach, catching big green crabs on the rocky shore, finding trapped groupers, catching sea eels, and heading to uninhabited islands to forage and hunt for treasure, or going out to sea to fish for big ones… After quitting her job, Chen Zhiyao unexpectedly obtains a coast 7.8kReads9.1Score700Shelves
8. 8 重 Reborn After Divorce, I Raise My Child and Quietly Get Rich 重生离婚后我带娃芶着致富了 I Was Once the Village Belle我也曾是村花Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Chen Hong opened her eyes and found herself reborn. She was back in the days before she was about to take her child to her parents' home. Unwilling to spend another life constantly walking on eggshells around others, Chen Hong decided to take a difficult but independent path this time. She headed up the mountains to farm and out to sea to fish, but unexpectedly ended up with a whole harem of men. 6.6kReads9.3Score768Shelves
9. 9 假 The Fake Heiress Strikes It Rich with Seafood 假千金靠海鲜暴富了 Big Ginger Heads East大姜东去Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Fishing + Food + Fake Heiress and Real Heiress + Face-Slapping + Sweet Romance] A fake-and-real heiress story had come to life, and Su Junhe was the fake heiress who had usurped another girl’s place. “The real heiress is back, and she still has the nerve to act like a young lady of the Su family!” “Maybe her parents were the ones who switched her and Su Ruan in the first place!” At a banquet, elegantly dressed ladies and young women sneered at her. “You’re just my sister’s stand-in. What give 2.5kReads8.9Score273Shelves

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   The first four are female-oriented novels, featuring beachcombing, fishing, and treasure hunting. The last two are male-oriented novels, with a single female lead and no harem, written in a light and humorous style that female readers will also enjoy. ① Strong female lead, minimal romance, focus on career, amateur skier. The female lead returns to her hometown, fishes, builds an island, and develops tourism. The male lead is a navy officer, awesome!! [Thumbs up] ② The female lead quits her job and returns home, enjoying a joyful daily life of beachcombing and fishing, a slow-paced and immersive beachcombing experience. ③ After rebirth, the female lead divorces and returns to her hometown with her child, farming in the mountains and fishing in the sea. ④ The real and fake heiress, the female lead is a fake heiress, after the real heiress returns, the female lead goes to her biological parents' home, has the superpower to attract fish, and there are face-slapping moments. ⑤ The first beachcombing novel I read on Tomato, I followed it for two years, it's really good! There's a system, you can see your luck value, beachcombing, fishing, and treasure hunting. ⑥ There's a system, you can see nearby fish schools, also very good!

10. 10 赶 Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海：开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩 Mountain Peak山峰Urban4.6M WordsCompleted (Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke 130.1kReads9.4Score12.3kShelves

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    These two books are so good, it's just that they're not finished yet, and the updates are so slow! [Facepalm][facepalm][facepalm]

11. 11 我 I Have a Tidepooling Map 我有一副赶海地图 Spring Rain on a Pear Tree一梨春雨Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Let me tell you, sea cucumbers feel slippery and smooth. It's so satisfying. When you touch a live abalone, it contracts. It's so much fun. Huh? Why are those two crabs hugging? What are they doing? Hehehehe. Do you want to come and find out? It's really fun. 3.5kReads8.4Score227Shelves
12. 12 乔 Granny Qiao Is Reborn to Catch Seafood: Ungrateful Descendants, Get Out! 乔老太重生赶海：不孝子孙滚出 Shu Ning舒甯Modern Romance350k WordsOngoing [1980s Coastal Foraging System] [Cutting Ties with Family] [Saving His Daughter from a Tragic Death] [Becoming the Richest Man] When Qiao Meizhu died, she was living in a drafty pigsty. Her sons brought a critically ill man to see her. He was her ex-husband, who had run off with their money years ago after faking his death. “Mom, he is still my dad, after all.” “We were married once, so there was some affection between us. All he did was beat you until you lost control of your bladder, then run 10.9kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves

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    This was alright; although there was some drama, it was quite satisfying.

13. 13 分 Dumped and Back on the Island, the Ocean Becomes My Golden Fishing Ground 分手回岛，大海成了我的黄金渔场 I'm Not Peppa Pig's Mom我不是佩奇妈妈Urban2.1M WordsCompleted [Everyday life + seaside foraging + lighthearted + tycoon] I spent four years fawning over her and gave her everything. After Ye Tiantian got into graduate school, she dumped Jiang Han without a second thought. Heartbroken, Jiang Han decided to return to the island. Everyone had written him off, but then he unexpectedly awakened the Extreme Scanning System. Beneath the sand, under the rocks, on the seabed... He could see all the precious seafood others would never find. Mantis shrimp, moon snail 30.5kReads8.4Score2.6kShelves
14. 14 荒 After Going Viral for Surviving in the Wilderness, I Quit Showbiz to Enjoy Retirement 荒野求生爆红后，我退圈养老了 SixSix Cutie六六小可爱Modern Romance557k WordsCompleted After a car accident, Yan Qiao is selected by the Space-Time Bureau. If she completes ten lifetimes' worth of missions, she can be reborn. She works overtime around the clock, completing her missions under a 996 work schedule. But after being reborn, she becomes a minor celebrity hated by the entire internet, and her agent dumps her on a deserted island to take part in a survival reality show. While scandal after scandal about Yan Qiao fills the internet, and everyone bets on how many days it wi 11.3kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves

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    ✨✨The real daughter of the Su family has returned, while Su Junhe, the fake daughter, quietly packs her bags and returns to the small fishing village, where she lives a carefree life as a fisherman.

15. 15 不 The Angler Who Can't Fish 不会钓鱼的钓鱼人 Big Brother Who Loves Meat爱吃肉的大哥Urban869k WordsCompleted While struggling to make a living in the big city, Li Feng unexpectedly got a game-changing advantage and set off on the road to wealth. This life led him into a completely different world. See what he chooses in the end... 2.1kReads8.3Score117Shelves

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    I especially enjoy stories about beachcombing; they're lighthearted and very enjoyable to read.

16. 16 流 Exiled to the South China Sea, I Have a Marine Life Guide for Foraging 流放南海，赶海我有生物图鉴 Zhou Fengfeng周疯疯Two Male Leads561k WordsCompleted Two powerful leads, farming, golden finger, happy ending, exploration, alternate historical setting Proud rascal x sunny golden retriever A slow, gently flowing story, and a very long one! (I'm really going to make it long!) A lighthearted slice-of-life story with no awful relatives, just a family working hard to make a living. Plenty of surprising facts about plants and animals, the wonders of exploring the sea, and the dangers of venturing deep into the rainforest. Every plant and tree in natu 1.7kReads9.0Score225Shelves

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    ⭐️⭐️This is a guide to Shuangnan, about getting rich through beachcombing. It has some cheats, but they're limited and not unlimited. The guide also includes some pictures of plants and animals, which was very educational.

17. 17 重 Reborn as a Fisherman: I Hear Seafood's Thoughts and Make My Whole Family Rich 重生赶海：偷听海产心声富养全家 Mad Dragon Post疯龙帖Rural Life224k WordsOngoing As his vicious wife pulled out his oxygen tube in the ICU, Chen Chen learned that he had spent thirty years raising his enemy's illegitimate child, while his wife had cut off his four younger siblings' pleas for help and let them starve to death! Reborn in 1978, one second before he was about to abandon his younger siblings, Chen Chen tore up his marriage application on the spot and slapped the wicked woman twice, sending her flying. Then he took his four gaunt siblings back to their dilapidated 350Reads—Score128Shelves

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    A very interesting new book about beachcombing, with a unique setting, distinctive characters, and a very novel story about beachcombing.

18. 18 海 A Thousand Years of Acceleration in the Sea, and Every Fishing Rod Explodes at Once! 海域加速千年，钓鱼佬百竿齐炸！ Ming Min冥旻Urban1.1M WordsOngoing [A Hilarious Daily Life of Me, My Younger Brother, and the Fishing Guys Livestreaming Our Shoreline Foraging!] Farming, no female lead (focused on career), island development, funny everyday life, fishing and shoreline foraging, adorable pets and kids, family squabbles. A slow-paced story that starts modestly and gets better as it goes! Its rating keeps climbing! "Ding! The Host's intense determination to protect has been detected. The Island Prosperity System is now activated!" To repay the 15kReads7.5Score1.5kShelves

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    The first book, an older work, is probably the strongest in the genre of beachcombing fiction; I guess everyone who reads beachcombing has read it! It's very well written about everyday life in the village and beyond during that era! The second book, currently being updated, incorporates humorous and lighthearted elements. It's a modern beachcombing story that's very interesting, with good family relationships, everyday life, and well-developed characters!

19. 19 鱼 Too Many Fish to Clean, My Mother Beats Me Until Tears Run Down My Face 鱼获太多宰杀忙，母亲暴打泪两行 Bland Green Tea清茶乏味Urban1.4M WordsCompleted A laid-back story about fishing and gathering seafood. Su Ye, an unemployed young man, planned to go home and rest for a while. The ocean, blue skies, and white clouds were the best cure for a weary heart. Su Ye realized that fishing, gathering seafood, catching fish, and keeping a cat or dog seemed like a pretty nice way to live. His parents, though, seemed to be looking at him more and more strangely! On his first day fishing, he caught a large grouper, and his mother beamed with joy. On the s 16.7kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
20. 20 直 Livestreaming Shore Foraging: I Beat Up a Great White Shark from the Start 直播赶海：开局暴揍噬人鲨 Three-Year-Old Youngster三岁少年郎Urban1.7M WordsCompleted [Shore for seafood, fishing, livestreaming, treasure hunting, pets, one heroine] Jiang Cheng was expelled from school. When he returned home, he unexpectedly acquired a shore-foraging livestream System. Livestreaming his shore foraging earned him popularity, which he could use to redeem all kinds of fishing tools from the System. During his very first shore-foraging livestream, Jiang Cheng was attacked by a vicious man-eating shark. He unleashed his full firepower, beat the shark senseless, and 1.5kReads8.5Score149Shelves

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    Live streams of beachcombing, fishing trips, the thrill of catching fish, tiger shark pets, and the underwater world.

21. 21 深 Deep-Sea Fishing: The Bigger the Waves, the Pricier the Fish 深海渔猎：风浪越大鱼越贵 The Cat Who Doesn't Sneak a Bite不偷腥的狸猫Urban2.0M WordsCompleted With a disabled younger sister and little hope for the future, unemployed Yang Bin leaves the city and returns to the countryside to make a living in aquaculture. His life should have been ordinary and hard, but a toad sends it off course. By chance, he gains a mysterious sixth sense like radar. From eels hiding beneath aquatic plants and softshell turtles buried in the mud, to scallops hidden on the ocean floor and lobsters among the coral reefs… From ponds in a small town to the boundless open 3.6kReads8.5Score391Shelves
22. 22 直 Livestream: My Carefree Life at Sea 直播：我的悠闲赶海生活 The Advancing Tiger King进击的虎王Urban1.2M WordsCompleted His grandfather is gravely ill, and the family is buried in debt. Lin Changfeng resolutely gives up life in the big city and returns to a village on an island. After gaining the Sea King System, he settles into a laid-back life of foraging along the shore, planting trees, patrolling the mountains, and farming. Five-pound giant mud crabs are nothing to brag about, and even 30-pound giant conchs aren’t enough to satisfy him. He works hard for hundred-pound yellow croakers, wild ginseng that’s 600 1.5kReads8.1Score104Shelves
23. 23 潮 Fortunes on the Tide: From a Million in Debt to the Richest Man 潮声暴富：从负债百万到首富 Chelsea Silk切尔西丝Urban614k WordsOngoing [X-Ray Vision + Coastal Foraging + Debt-Free Comeback + Power Couple + Turning the Tables on the Big Players] At four in the morning, Chen Yu was three minutes late delivering takeout and lost six yuan from his pay. Meanwhile, he owed 1.41 million yuan: 740,000 to relatives, 670,000 in online loans, and thirty collection calls a day. His wife, Shen Nian, said, "Let's go back to Qingluo Village. I'll livestream, you can forage along the shore, and we'll pay it off together." On Chen Yu's first 445Reads—Score101Shelves

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    This one is highly recommended.

24. 24 我 I Have a Fishing Tackle Workshop 我有一个渔具工坊 You Are the Truth of This World你是人间真理Urban721k WordsCompleted Cui Xiaoli runs a fishing tackle shop. Just as it was about to go under, a high-tech fishing tackle workshop fell from the sky. All he had to do was put materials into the storage unit, and it would make high-quality fishing gear. Fishing, collecting the money, and traveling: from then on, Cui Xiaoli enjoyed a relaxed, carefree life in the countryside. 2.5kReads9.0Score153Shelves
25. 25 海 Ocean Ranch: I Live-Stream Myself Feasting on King Crabs 海洋牧场：我直播狂炫帝王蟹 Three-Year-Old Youngster三岁少年郎Urban2.4M WordsCompleted [Fishing, livestreaming, treasure hunting, one female lead] After graduating from college, Lin Ran became a coastal foraging streamer. During a sea fishing trip, an accident occurred, and a fellow female streamer pushed Lin Ran into the sea to save herself. Lin Ran luckily survived, but unexpectedly obtained the Ocean Cleanup System. Cleaning up ocean trash could be exchanged for all kinds of rare items: rare fish fry, diving equipment, fully equipped fishing boats, and even the ability to turn 2.3kReads8.9Score220Shelves
26. 26 赶 Getting Rich from Sea Foraging: Premium Seafood Fills My Buckets to the Brim 赶海致富：极品海货疯狂爆桶 A Big Crab on a Branch一枝大螃蟹Rural Life386k WordsOngoing [Everyday Life + Laid-Back + Beachcombing + One Heroine, No Harem + Building Wealth] After years of working himself to the bone for his family, Lin Zhou never imagined that his wife was a leech who kept siphoning money to support her younger brother. The moment they divorced, the cruel truth hit him: his wife had drained all their savings, leaving him with nothing. At the end of his rope, he returned to a remote island and unexpectedly bonded with an Ocean Contract System. With intelligence on e 14kReads—Score1.1kShelves

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    Here are two lighthearted and enjoyable stories about beachcombing, featuring a single female lead and accompanying illustrations.

27. 27 退 I Return to the Island After Breaking Off My Engagement: I Catch Fish by the Tide, Earning Over Ten Thousand an Hour 退婚回岛：我赶海捕鱼，时薪过万 A Little Kitty一只小猫吖Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Everyday Life + Relaxed + Beachcombing + Tycoon + One Female Lead, No Harem + Getting Rich + An Ordinary Worker’s Easy Comeback] After ten years as a wage earner, Zhang Cheng has not made a name for himself in the city. To make matters worse, his future father-in-law urges his fiancée to go on a blind date behind his back. After breaking off the engagement, Zhang Cheng quits his job, heartbroken, and decides to move back to the island. To his surprise, he awakens a beachcombing scanner System. 24.2kReads7.7Score2.9kShelves

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    Beachcombing + lighthearted daily life + super-rich + getting rich, single female lead [laughs]. It has the satisfying feeling of beachcombing, but also the realism of ordinary people: the male lead also runs out of money, his savings run out after buying big-ticket items, and he cares about the tide times and is always vigilant about the dangers of high tide. Neighborly affection and family warmth are interwoven, making it very down-to-earth. Recommended for readers who like farming and beachcombing themes.

28. 28 赶 Beachcombing: It All Began When I Found a Splendid Spiny Lobster 赶海：从捡到锦绣龙虾开始 Five Strong五强Urban1.8M WordsCompleted (Steady updates + beachcombing + devoted husband and father + System + reborn + fishing + catching fish + upgrading fishing rods) At sixty, Yao Chenggong is reborn in 2002. In his previous life, he had been a timid, downtrodden man. He never expected that, right after being reborn, the System's ability to guide him to anything in the world would help him find a splendid spiny lobster. Back then, an ordinary factory worker e 2kReads7.3Score160Shelves

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    Not bad, pretty good, highly recommended.

29. 29 赶 Beachcombing: Helping Beautiful Women Make Their Fortunes 赶海：我带美女们发家又致富 Fisherman A Jie渔夫阿杰Urban422k WordsCompleted [Beachcombing + fishing + slice of life + lighthearted + multiple female leads] Yao Kun is reborn and activates the Beachcombing System. From then on, life is smooth sailing. With the help of the Beachcombing System, he uses nothing but a fishing rod to catch bigfin tuna, giant groupers, blue-spotted groupers, and leopard coral groupers as easily as making a meal. A casual stroll along the beach brings him incredible luck. He finds large yellow croakers, razor clams, and sandworms, all just sid 7.3kReads7.4Score584Shelves
30. 30 重 Reborn in 1998: This Time, I'm Living the Easygoing Life of a Beachcomber 重生98：这辈子，做悠闲赶海人 Gu Mufeng顾沐风Urban1.6M WordsCompleted (System + reborn + daily life + helping his sister-in-law get rich + explosive coastal foraging + comeback and face-slapping) Chen Kang opened his eyes and found himself back in 1998, in a coastal fishing village, as a scoundrel hated by everyone, known for stealing chickens and dogs. His sharp-tongued but kind-hearted sister-in-law had a little girl to raise, and his pockets were emptier than his face. Then, all of a sudden, the coastal foraging System activated! One pair of fire tongs, and he 9.4kReads7.9Score523Shelves
31. 31 一 Three Jobs a Day? I'd Rather Return Home, Gather Seafood, and Become a Rich Man 一天三份工，不如回乡赶海成富翁 Stars Turning Toward the Sun星星向阳哟Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [Animated series now streaming, short drama now streaming] [Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon] A few years ago, during a difficult period, my company went under, and I went bankrupt, selling my house and car. Two years ago, my wife painfully sent our adorable daughter back to her hometown. The two of us moved into a cramped little rental in Peng City’s urban village. After that, I worked three odd jobs every day. Buried in debt and crushed by the weight of supporting my family, L 24kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
32. 32 老 Reborn Grandma: Making a Fortune at Sea, with Her Daughter-in-Law’s Support 老太重生：赶海致富儿媳拥护 The Value of Stars星星的价值Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (No romance + no golden finger + beachcombing + livestreaming) She had tormented her daughter-in-law, lost her granddaughter, and watched helplessly as her son went astray. Wang Meihua died with regrets. Reborn on the day her daughter-in-law went into labor, she slapped herself hard across the face! “In my last life, I ruined your family. In this one, I'll make you all rich!” Premium green mud crabs and sandworms worth a fortune: while others combed the shore for bargains, she used her memor 1.1kReads8.9Score162Shelves
33. 33 滨 Seaside Town: The Carefree Fisherman 滨海小镇：逍遥渔夫 Dream-Only Fish梦唯鱼Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Just after the new manager fired him, he walked into a lottery shop and scratched off a 400,000-yuan jackpot. Tired of the grind of city life, Chen Xiaoyun headed straight back to his hometown, a fishing village on the coast of Nangguang Province. There, he was lucky enough to find a Shanhai Pearl by the sea. From then on, he enjoyed a leisurely life fishing, going out to sea, and raising chickens and ducks. The carefree fisherman sets sail at last! (This is entirely fictional. Just think of it 33.9kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves

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    (Mainly the first two books!) ① The female protagonist's company went bankrupt, so she came back to recuperate. As a result, she encountered a fishing and beachcombing system, and thus began her fishing and beachcombing journey. (The book has a lot of illustrations. Basically, as long as a type of fish appears, there will be an illustration. I am really satisfied with this. I don't have to rely on my little brain to imagine it.)

34. 34 重 Reborn in 1980, I Married a Lovely Wife with Heterochromia 重生80，娶了异瞳小娇妻 Luo Aichen洛爱尘Urban2.6M WordsCompleted [Sweet romance] + [No System in this era] + [Everyday coastal foraging] + [Three chapters daily] Also known as: Coastal Foraging, Fish Filling the Hold, and My Lovely Wife with Different-Colored Eyes, Don't Worship Me! Zhou Chen is unexpectedly reborn on an island in the 1980s. Looking at his once-infamous self, he has barely begun to process things when the village chief shouts, “Zhou Chen, your bride is here! Hurry up and come get her!” Dazed, Zhou Chen steps outside and sees a girl following 12.1kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves

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    🍒🌈Male-oriented beachcombing novels that girls can also enjoy: 1️⃣ A hoodlum protagonist travels back in time and finds himself with a fiancée—a heterochromatic-eyed loli. To support his wife, he starts beachcombing, buying a boat and going out to sea to collect fish (no cheat codes). 2️⃣Cheat code: The protagonist is dumped by his childhood sweetheart and goes home to laze around. He unexpectedly awakens a cheat code—he can see the seafood on the seabed—and gets rich with his sister and childhood friend.

35. 35 赶 Tidepooling: Raising a Child by the Sea 赶海：我靠赶海养娃 I Just Want to Be a Fat NEET我只想当一名肥宅Urban3.5M WordsOngoing A corporate drone is reborn in the good old days of 2008. While everyone else who gets a second chance is trading stocks or flipping houses, Gu Han can only bury himself in the grand pursuit of harvesting seafood from the shore. With a bucket, a shovel, and a rain cape, he ushers in a brand-new era of beachcombing. “Dad, are we going to catch big crabs today? We’re going to make lots and lots of money, right?” 3.4kReads8.6Score206Shelves
36. 36 赶 Fishing by the Sea: After Winning the Lottery, I Go Home to Become a Fisherman 赶海钓鱼：中奖后，回家当渔民 Rain Falls Over Jiangnan江南雨纷纷Urban636k WordsCompleted Focused on fishing and gathering seafood, with plenty of pictures of all kinds of seafood. After one misfortune after another, Lin Yang unexpectedly walked into a lottery shop and won the grand prize of 300,000 yuan. After winning, he decided he was done being a wage slave and went home to become a fisherman. Ever since his win, his fishing luck had been off the charts, and his daily life was filled with overflowing buckets, bursting creels, and packed holds. One giant catch after another came a 5kReads7.8Score295Shelves

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    Beachcombing, fishing, and trawling.

37. 37 重 Reborn in a Fishing Village in 1983: Making a Fortune Gathering Seafood 重生83小渔村：靠赶海发家致富 Dong Changxin东长欣Urban3.0M WordsOngoing [Period drama, everyday life, gathering seafood, hunting, farming to support the family, working the land and sea, no showing off and face-slapping, family matters, small-scale ambitions. If that's not your thing, don't read.] Chen Yefeng is reborn in a small fishing village in 1983, giving himself a chance to make up for the regrets of his past life. He embraces his family and starts a leisurely life through gathering seafood and farming. There are no schemes, only ordinary happiness and hard w 16.5kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves
38. 38 开 A Little Wooden Boat from the Start, and I Take Over the Entire Ocean 开局一条小木船，我承包整个海洋 The Fifth Dimension第五空间Urban2.0M WordsCompleted I only wanted to rescue someone who had fallen into the sea. I never expected to get dragged into it myself and wake up back in 1990. It was the same familiar little fishing village on the island, but I was no longer the jerk I used to be. I was reborn aboard the boat on my first trip out to sea, and happened to come across a school of large yellow croaker. A few drift nets brought in hundreds of pounds. I was rolling in money. At first, I thought I was just lucky. But on later fishing trips, I 421Reads8.6Score128Shelves
39. 39 这 This Fisherman Delivers: One Trip to Sea, One Boatload of Catch! 这渔夫能处，出海一次收获一船！ Fortune From All Directions八方进宝Urban1.4M WordsCompleted [System + one heroine + island] After Jiang Nanzhou was harassed by his female superior, he simply quit and returned to his hometown to rest for a while and spend time with his family. While fishing offshore, he accidentally activated a System. With the System's help, he never returned empty-handed from a fishing trip and even discovered sunken treasure hidden deep beneath the sea. He built a shipwreck museum in his hometown and developed the tourism industry alongside the goddess he had secretl 13.4kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves

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    These two books are absolutely amazing!

40. 40 赶 Beachcombing: The Entire Ocean Is My Fishing Ground 赶海：整个海洋都是我的渔场 A Road to Certain Death Every Day不日万死路一条Urban2.2M WordsOngoing (Everyday Life + Tidal Flat Foraging + Fishing + Undersea Treasure Hunting) Jiang Bei fell into the sea while fishing offshore and accidentally used himself as bait. When he woke up, he had returned to the year he was eighteen. But in this life, his luck was unbelievably good. Every time he went to forage along the shore, he came back with a massive haul. Blue crabs weighing four or five pounds. Large yellow croakers weighing dozens of pounds. Giant groupers weighing over a hundred pounds. And c 12.8kReads7.9Score841Shelves
41. 41 赶 Gathering Seafood and Running a Personal Shopping Business to Become a Billionaire 赶海，搞代购成亿万富翁 Chilled Yellow Peaches冰镇黄桃Urban1.0M WordsCompleted I ended up in jail after a fight and missed the college entrance exams. Then both my parents were lost at sea, and the shock sent me into a downward spiral. I gave up on myself and lived recklessly, becoming the kind of delinquent everyone hated. Then one day, I discovered I could see things other people couldn’t. Could I use the System to buy and sell goods? I bought tools and a fishing boat, and from then on, I began climbing to the top of life. Today, a bucket of abalone. Tomorrow, two bucket 4.2kReads7.7Score279Shelves
42. 42 穿 I Transmigrated to the 1960s and Stockpiled Supplies by Foraging at Sea 穿越六零，我靠赶海囤物资 Lots of Durian Daifuku榴莲大福多多Modern Romance159k WordsOngoing [Period] [Tidepooling] [Stockpiling Supplies] [Pocket Dimension] [Love Grows Over Time] [Family Life] [Building Wealth] Tian Qiaoqiao loves tidepooling, but one careless moment sends her transmigrating to the impoverished 1960s, and she ends up in a small fishing village. From the start, a wild boar chases her. Then her original body's family, who favors sons over daughters, tries to force her into marriage. They want her to marry a cripple nearly twenty years her senior, just to get a bride pri 2.6kReads—Score359Shelves

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    It's a period drama about beachcombing, featuring a cheat system, a good plot, and is quite enjoyable.

43. 43 赶 A Life of Tidal Foraging: Back to a Fishing Village in 1983 赶海人生：重回1983小渔村 Writing for the People执笔问苍生Urban2.9M WordsOngoing A short drama based on the novel is now streaming. In old age, Yang Jianguo jumps into the sea to save someone, only to be swept back by a wave to 1983, just as the villagers are offering a sacrifice to the Dragon King. A dragon pearl? I don’t want it. I want to save my beautiful wife. So what if I have two daughters? My girls are treasures. By the time people are just starting to trade clams and become ten-thousand-yuan households, Yang Jianguo’s fleet already rules the Yellow Sea. In this life 39.1kReads8.1Score2.6kShelves

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    Family members, take a look at this book! It's a genuine story about beachcombing, with very original content and a great narrative.

44. 44 刻 Forget Scheming, Mean Relatives: I’ll Take Mom Tidal-Flat Foraging and Get Rich 刻薄亲戚别算计，我带娘赶海暴富 Chang of TwinofTSTwinofTS的常Ancient Romance171k WordsOngoing [Reborn + make a fortune from the sea + seafood cuisine + face-slapping power fantasy + everyday life of a fishing family + light ensemble cast] On the night before she was to be sold by her uncle and aunt to a fishing tyrant as his second wife, Lin Chaoshen, a fisherman's daughter, tore up the contract instead. Her spineless father did whatever her younger brother said. Her cruel uncle and aunt were draining every last drop from her family’s fishing boat, and even planned to sell her for a brid 19Reads—Score107Shelves

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    Reborn overnight, the fisherwoman prevents her from being sold off by her aunt and uncle. Unwilling to covet the family's fishing boat and belongings, she decisively separates from the family with her mother. Using her special abilities to discover marine life in the shallows, she engages in aquaculture and opens a shop, her life flourishing as she fiercely punishes her scum.

45. 45 失 After Losing My Job, I Became an Online Sensation Through Farming 失业后，我靠种田爆红全网 Ran Xi Xi染习习Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted This novel is also known as: Everyone Online Is Begging Me to Livestream Tong Ranhua transmigrated to the cultivation world and spent a hundred years there, only to die unexpectedly while exploring a secret realm. She returned to the modern world, bringing with her the cultivation world’s specialties: a secret realm and its spirit. On the very day her boyfriend cheated on her with the company president’s daughter and she was fired, Tong Ranhua, who had spent a hundred years grinding away in the 12.3kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves

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    The first two are about beachcombing, and the last one is about farming and retirement through live streaming. I highly recommend the first one! The writing is excellent, and it's not one of those typical system novels. All of them are completed!

46. 46 赶 Hunting in the Mountains to Protect My Family 赶山打猎守护一家 Three-Minute Passionlove三分热度loveUrban2.0M WordsCompleted Reborn, she heads into the mountains to hunt and protect her family. That winter, her family was torn apart, and the little shadow who used to follow her everywhere was gone forever. Now she's back, and she won't let this life be filled with regrets... 47.8kReads8.4Score3.1kShelves

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    Adorable kids from the era of mountain and sea adventures, lighthearted and entertaining, not heartbreaking to watch, a million-word story.

47. 47 不 I'm Done Competing. I'm Going Home to Explore the Mountains and Seas 不卷了，回去看山海 Kai Wuwu开呜呜Urban1.7M WordsCompleted All that hard work gets you nowhere, and then you get laid off? By the time you regret it, I’ll be lying flat by the sea, feeling the breeze, watching the sunset, and feasting on seafood. I’ll watch the wind brush my face and the willows droop along the riverbank, and listen to raindrops patter from the eaves. 10.3kReads8.4Score572Shelves
48. 48 开 Divorced from the Start: Returning to the Village to Fish for Treasure 开局离婚：回村赶海捕鱼捞宝藏 Siren Is a Fish塞壬是条鱼Modern Romance2.7M WordsCompleted (Beachcombing + fishing + taking down scumbags + family life) Fu Wan, a fisherwoman, has been reborn! In her previous life, after she was thrown out, her daughter was sold into the mountains. Her father went out to sea and was caught in a storm, his fate unknown. Her brother, whose leg had been pierced by a stingray and left him bedridden, killed himself. Her mother couldn’t bear the shock and took rat poison. But Heaven treated her kindly: not only was she reborn just before her divorce, but th 112kReads9.1Score5.1kShelves

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    These are my absolute favorite books about beachcombing. I even created a separate group for them. I cried several times while reading the fourth one, it was so touching. Junjun is such a good boy, it's irresistible for anyone with kids at home.

49. 49 最 The Greatest Fisherman: Island Dad 最强渔夫：海岛奶爸 Sweet Big Apple香甜大苹果Urban4.1M WordsOngoing (Devoted Dad + Foraging at Sea + Husband and Wife Through Thick and Thin) After being reborn, the gambling addict Li Rui unexpectedly gained a System that let him see through his catch. Determined to quit gambling for good and work hard, he would give his wife and children a happy life. Spiral sea snails, seashells, yellow croaker, mantis shrimp… Into the pot they go! He can earn money and raise the kids at the same time. 12.6kReads8.5Score662Shelves
50. 50 重 Reborn in 1983: From Coastal Foraging to Success 重生1983，从赶海走向成功 Wang Gangdan王钢蛋Urban643k WordsCompleted Born in the best years of China's Reform and Opening-Up, Zhang Weiqing nevertheless missed almost every opportunity to escape poverty. Reborn once more, can he turn his life around with forty years of memories? 7.9kReads8.8Score434Shelves

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    🎉🎉(System + Single Female Lead + Island) Jiang Nanzhou, harassed by his female boss, decides to resign and return to his hometown to rest and spend time with his family. While fishing at sea, he accidentally activates a system. With the system's blessing, he never returns empty-handed and even discovers a shipwreck treasure hidden deep in the sea. He builds a shipwreck museum in his hometown and, together with the goddess he has always secretly loved, develops tourism, leading the islanders out of poverty and towards prosperity.

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