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- 1 Tidepool Foraging, Fishing, and Diving: I’m a Seafood Tycoon! 赶海，捕鱼，潜水，我海鲜大亨！ Beachcombing, fishing, diving, daily life, leisure, food. After Zhang Shukai drops out of school and returns home, he binds a Fishing System. From then on, he becomes a fisherman and sets out on the road to wealth. After developing his business for a while, he looks back and realizes he’s become the world’s number one seafood tycoon. The Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and even Arctic Oceans are dotted with his fishing grounds! Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and even Antarctica are aliv 12.2kReads7.7Score869Shelves
- 2 My Superpower Turned Me into a Professional Angler 异能让我成为职业钓鱼佬 After a setback at work, Yang Qi was feeling down. He went to the beach to clear his head and stumbled upon a golden finger. He started by fishing to save up for a boat, then took it out to sea to fish and catch seafood. After that, he bought bigger boats and sailed farther offshore to catch more and bigger fish. The ocean was his own backyard!... [Superpowers]+ [Fishing]+ [Fishing and catching seafood]+ [Undersea treasures] 37.7kReads8.1Score5.4kShelves
- 3 Golden Fisherman: The Fish I Catch Are Worth a Fortune 黄金渔夫：我捕的鱼超值钱 [Cozy and Relaxing + Fishing for Profit + Raising Spiritual Pets No Livestreaming + No Over-the-Top Drama + No Filler A must-read for fans of leisurely farming, coastal fishing, and ocean treasure-hunting stories!] Fang Mu, a young man from a fishing village, has an unexpected stroke of luck. From then on, he enjoys a carefree, laid-back life as a fisherman, full of fun. Giant lobsters, king crabs, groupers, and yellow croakers: he catches so much valuable seafood that he can barely keep up. Sha 343Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 4 An Ancient Qi Refiner Takes on the Ocean 上古炼气士玩转大海 {Shore Foraging} + {Sea Fishing} + {Everyday Life} + {Farming} (There’s a touch of the supernatural, but it’s not too fantastical. Best read without overthinking it.) Chen Yumo, an art student who failed the college entrance exam, set out to make his way in the world. Just as his career was beginning to take off, he discovered that his girlfriend worked as an emotional comforter for lonely men. Heartbroken and disillusioned, he unexpectedly inherited the legacy of an ancient Qi cultivator. After 357Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 5 Period: Raising Three Ex-Wives and Seven Daughters, I Strike It Rich Gathering Seafood 年代：带三前妻和七女儿赶海暴富 In 1980, the coastal fishing village has only just opened up, and every family is still scraping by on tiny plots of land and shallow fishing grounds. Xu Hailang is the laughingstock of the village. He has three ex-wives and seven daughters, and the whole family is crammed into a ramshackle fisherman's hut. But who could have imagined that this family, divorced but still living together, is actually a hidden team of wealth-makers! Xu Hailang has a golden finger and knows all the secret signs of 687Reads—Score160Shelves
- 6 Transmigrating to a Fishing Village in 1980: I Make My Fortune at Sea 穿越1980小渔村：我靠打渔发家致富 [This is an everyday-life story about the development of a seaside fishing village in the 1980s! It's not a power fantasy, just a laid-back life by the sea! If that's not your thing, move along! Don't come in just to complain!] Chen Xu never expected that all this would happen because of an electric ray that wasn't quite dead. After a jolt of electricity, he woke up lying in a cramped space. As he sat up, the old Taoist priest in front of him, who had been trying to summon his soul, rolled his e 2.3kReads7.0Score107Shelves
- 7 Reaping the Sea: The Brother Who Rides the Waves 赶海：乘风破浪的哥哥 [Shore Foraging] [Fish Farming] [Deep-Sea Fishing] [System] [Deep-Sea Treasure Hunting] [Building Wealth] When Lin Fan woke up, he had returned to the summer after his college graduation. Before him stood an old house with a leaking roof, parents whose hair had turned gray too soon, and a younger sister about to drop out and work in a factory to pay off the family's debts. In his previous life, his sister had worked herself to death trying to repay those debts, ruining her health and dying in he 4.4kReads7.1Score314Shelves
- 8 The Farming Fisherwoman: I Made My Fortune by Gathering Seafood 种田小渔女，我靠赶海发家了 (The novel was just rated, so the score is a little low. It should rise later.) [Growing crops + foraging by the sea + everyday life + family squabbles + heartwarming] After transmigrating, she became a fisherman's daughter. Her parents were gone, and her grandparents schemed to take the house and boat. On top of that, the imperial court had issued an edict requiring everyone to marry before turning eighteen, or face an arranged match at random! Xia Ning: What the heck?! With no other choice, sh 2.4kReads8.1Score295Shelves
- 9 The Ultimate Beachcomber 最强赶海王 [Everyday life + Easygoing + Beachcombing + Fishing + Mega-rich] After Zhang Hai transmigrates, he binds to the strongest beachcombing System and becomes a fisherman. From then on, Giant groupers weighing hundreds of pounds, The rarest rainbow lobsters, Bluefin tuna weighing over a thousand pounds, Treasures hidden deep beneath the sea… They’re all his. As long as it’s in the sea, there’s nothing he can’t find or get!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 4.9kReads8.4Score412Shelves
- 10 Fishing My Way to Wealth: Starting by Robbing a Stray Dog 钓鱼发家：从打劫土狗开始 [Fish farming + fishing + urban farming + multiple female supporting characters] “Bro, don’t say that. Has wine and women left you completely drained? Then come fishing! Sunbathing is great for boosting your kidneys. Hiking up and down hills is good exercise, and staring at a bobber by the water lets you clear your mind and forget your worries. You can get away from the noise, breathe some fresh air, and do your heart and lungs good too!” 14.9kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
- 11 Reborn in 2007: Changing My Fate Through Fishing and Tidal Flat Gathering 重生07：靠着钓鱼赶海改写命运 At thirty-nine, Wang Mancang had made a complete mess of his life. His parents had passed away, and he had left home in a fit of youthful anger, wandering ever since. He had worked as a male escort at a nightclub, then been lured to northern Myanmar and trapped in a desperate situation. But fate suddenly played an absurd joke on him: he was unexpectedly reborn in 2007. Back in his youth, Wang Mancang resolved to change his fate and make up for his regrets. He would save his parents and never let 4.2kReads8.2Score267Shelves
- 12 A Life of Tidal Foraging: Back to a Fishing Village in 1983 赶海人生：重回1983小渔村 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 41kReads8.1Score2.8kShelves
- 13 Back to 2006: Making a Fortune by Fishing and Gathering Seafood 重回06，从赶海钓鱼开始发家 After Su Yanbai gets drunk yet again, he opens his eyes and discovers that he has returned to 2006. He swears to get a second chance and give his wife and daughter a happy, fulfilling life. Just then, a ding sounds. The System has arrived. And so begins his legendary life. He heads out to the shore to catch green crabs, razor clams, mudskippers, and mantis shrimp. He fishes for groupers, large yellow croakers, and tuna. He also befriends the creatures of the sea. 8.3kReads7.6Score567Shelves
- 14 Beachcombing from the Start: I Never Meant to Become a Playboy 开局赶海：我真没想当海王 [Beachcombing + fishing + sailing + everyday life + making money] My name is Chu Yang, and this is my everyday life beachcombing with my sister. Spiny king crabs, ornate spiny lobsters, gooseneck barnacles, large yellow croaker, and bluefin tuna. I fish, haul in nets, and salvage shipwrecks. Before I know it, I’ve become a fishing tycoon. I’m no good at writing blurbs, so just head into the story! The happiest Welcome, everyone, to my world. 7.8kReads8.5Score544Shelves
- 15 The Greatest Fisherman: Island Dad 最强渔夫：海岛奶爸 (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
- 16 Beachcombing: The Entire Ocean Is My Fishing Ground 赶海：整个海洋都是我的渔场 (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
- 17 Tidepool Treasure Hunting: With Violet-Gold Eyes, I Command the World's Oceans 赶海：一双紫金瞳，驾驭全球海洋 [No livestreaming + beachcombing + fishing + laid-back daily life + going out to sea + pets + ultra-wealthy + high-resolution pictures] An accident injured Lu Chuan’s eyes, but unexpectedly turned out to be a blessing in disguise, giving him a pair of “Violet-Gold Eyes.” Already fed up with his wage-slave life, he quit his job and returned to his hometown, a small fishing village, to build a new life. His eyes could pinpoint any marine creature, leaving nowhere for them to hide. The “spiritual t 703Reads8.2Score185Shelves
- 18 Others Rely on the Weather to Gather from the Sea. I Rely on Ridiculously Good Luck 别人赶海靠天，我赶海靠暴爽气运 [Tidepool Foraging and Fishing + Farming in the Past + System and Transmigration + Island Cuisine + Rural Entrepreneurship] Lin Feng is an overworked office drone stuck in a 996 schedule. He gets run over by a truck after saving an old man, and dies on the spot. Only in his final moments does he realize that the old man was a professional scammer who faked accidents for money. Reborn in a small fishing village, Lin Feng is overwhelmed. What kind of family is this? A dim-witted little brother who 5.3kReads8.7Score421Shelves
- 19 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 [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 16.3kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves
- 20 Beachcombing: I Strike It Rich with a Lucky Beachcombing Tool 赶海：从幸运赶海夹开始暴富 [Tidepooling + Fishing + Lighthearted + Everyday Life + Tycoon] After transmigrating to a small fishing village, Cao Dapeng discovered that he could see a different symbol on every fish. Successfully catching a fish earned him a corresponding reward that he could cash out. Catch a grouper marked with ¥, and 350 yuan lands in his bank account. Catch an octopus marked with ⚔, and he can cash out a lucky tidepooling grabber. Catch a green sea turtle marked with ☯, and he can cash out an underwater 4.9kReads8.4Score346Shelves
- 21 Tidepool Foraging: Buckets Full Every Day, They Call Me the Clean-Sweep 赶海：天天爆桶，人送外号一扫光 [Period Setting] [Rural Farming] [Coastal Foraging] [Family Life] Wang Qiang accidentally transmigrates to a small fishing village, where he gains a fortune golden finger and begins a life of coastal foraging. With a little bucket and a shovel, he fills his haul every day. People give him the nickname “The One Who Sweeps It All Up.” He works hard along the shore, and with nothing but a shovel, he digs his way to a big house and a small car, and even marries a beautiful wife! From then on, his li 10.8kReads8.3Score778Shelves
- 22 The Ultimate Fishing Guy 极品钓鱼佬 [Fishing + Space Exchange + Showing Off the Catch + Island Life] “He’s here, he’s here! That fishing nut is walking over with a huge fish on his back. Quick, get out of the way. He’s about to start showing off!” Bystanders scatter in alarm. Fang Sheng carries a big yellowfin tuna over his shoulder, gripping its head with one hand as he strides down the street. “Oh, this little 150-kilogram yellowfin from the South China Sea is nothing special, nothing special.” “That ten-pound red grouper from 4.4kReads8.6Score270Shelves
- 23 Deep-Sea Fishing: The Bigger the Waves, the Pricier the Fish 深海渔猎：风浪越大鱼越贵 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 3.6kReads8.5Score386Shelves
- 24 Reborn in 1983: From Coastal Foraging to Success 重生1983，从赶海走向成功 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? 7.8kReads8.8Score429Shelves
- 25 Fisherman: It Starts with Salvaging a Spy Device 渔民：从打捞间谍装置开始 Wei Hong retires from a special forces unit and returns home to make a living from the sea! What? Going out to sea depends on luck? You just have to hope the heavens throw you a bone? Wei Hong: I have a virtual Real-Time Fishing Information screen. I can see exactly what’s going on under the sea! What? The Real-Time Fishing Information screen can be upgraded? Wei Hong: Not only can it be upgraded, it gets more and more powerful. And so Wei Hong sets out on the path to fortune through offshore fi 8.3kReads8.7Score505Shelves
- 26 Bound for the Open Sea: Starting Out as a Deckhand 目标远海：从远海打工者开始 Orphan Yu Chao joins a fishing boat as a deckhand to earn tuition money, only to unexpectedly gain golden eyes that can see through the seabed. From then on, he sets out to bring in haul after haul from the sea. Oh, how vast the ocean is. Oh, how expensive seafood is. A golden finger (not too overpowered) + one heroine (the male lead has a partner) + the everyday life of working hard (some prices are exaggerated compared to reality) 9.2kReads8.7Score625Shelves
- 27 Back to 1981: The Little Fishing Village 重回那年，1981小渔村 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. 28kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
- 28 Called Off, I Make a Fortune Fishing for Seafood 退婚赶海赚亿万 [Eight Hit Animated Dramas Now Streaming] Three More in Production! Plus Three Adaptations in Every Language for Overseas Release! [Daily Life] [Lighthearted] [Coastal Foraging] [Fishing] [Slow-Burn Urban Farming] His childhood sweetheart publicly tore up their engagement and looked at him with contempt. She despised his bare-bones home, his younger sister's leukemia, and the burden of supporting his elderly, sickly grandmother. To her, he had no future. Little did she know, he had awakened the 588Reads8.7Score137Shelves
- 29 Coastal Foraging Days: A Hold Full of Fish, Doting on Five Sisters 赶海年代：鱼货满仓，宠飞五姐妹 (Reborn in a bygone era + fishing village + lighthearted + daily life + beachcombing + fishing + farming + pocket dimension) Xu Mo died on the operating table. When he opened his eyes, he was back forty-five years earlier, at the moment Li Qingyue asked him to marry her. In his previous life, his cowardice and refusal to take responsibility led to all five sisters dying, while his parents wasted away in grief. In the end, he too passed away with a heart full of regret. This time, the chance to m 19.3kReads7.6Score1.1kShelves
- 30 Fishing My Way to Riches: Starting by Feeding a Spirit Cat 钓鱼暴富：从投喂灵猫开始 [Fishing + laid-back farming at a ranch + decisive, mature rich woman + gamer girl + an utterly hooked Mulan] With no one to rely on, what could be more than a strange opportunity fate has given me? Alone and without help, this is the hidden moment to turn the tide. Yin and yang together make the Way. When hope and delusion both fade into nothing, a predicament that seems hopeless becomes the perfect moment for rebirth. The turmoil of the world rises and falls like waves. Only by shedding it and 6.6kReads8.7Score399Shelves
- 31 Tidepooling: Raising a Child by the Sea 赶海：我靠赶海养娃 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
- 32 Reborn in 1980, I Married a Lovely Wife with Heterochromia 重生80，娶了异瞳小娇妻 [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 12.5kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 33 Back to the 1990s with a Fish Finder: Fishing My Way to a New Life 带着鱼探回九零钓鱼改写人生 While Shen Zichen was using a fish finder, it exploded. His soul traveled back in time with the fish finder to the moment when, after being betrayed by his girlfriend and misunderstood by his family, he went fishing to ease his sorrows. By chance, he fell into the sea among the reefs and hauled up a corpse. He made two friends, and with their help, bought stocks and lottery tickets, invested in real estate in Hainan, and, after making money, bought a fishing boat of his own. He went out to sea t 3.1kReads8.4Score248Shelves
- 34 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 [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 30kReads8.4Score2.6kShelves
- 35 I Have a Sea Serpent Doppelganger, Yet I Became a Fishing Pro 我有海蛇分身，却成捕鱼达人 A young man from a fishing village gains a sea serpent clone and settles into a laid-back country life of fishing, gathering seafood along the shore, and hunting for treasure. Every day, his catch is just a little bit enormous. One day, his sea serpent clone finally evolves into the overlord of the ocean. But the original, who has always lived on land, gets scolded by the campus belle, his senior fellow apprentice, and the landlady: “Pah, you womanizer! You’re such a player!” The young fisherman 17.3kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 36 Seaside Town: The Carefree Fisherman 滨海小镇：逍遥渔夫 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 33.7kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 37 Transmigrating to a Fishing Village: Lying Flat in Hong Kong 穿越小渔村之润去香江躺平 (Period setting, pocket dimension, treasure hunting at sea, daily life, Hong Kong) Chen Hao arrives in an Eighties-era fishing village on the coast of Fujian with a pocket dimension. Through a twist of fate, he makes his way to Hong Kong, where he and his family lie flat, raise fish on rafts, buy fishing boats, build a submersible and a house, and collect all kinds of things. (You think I'm writing, but actually I'm watching short videos and editing pictures 🫢) 897Reads—Score124Shelves
- 38 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 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 16.5kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
- 39 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 (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 128.4kReads9.4Score12.1kShelves
- 40 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 172Reads7.2Score149Shelves
- 41 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 532Reads7.7Score135Shelves
