A Fisherman's Life for a 1990s Couple

Shi Qingqing dreams that, over the next thirty years, poverty will bring her endless misfortune and hardship.

When she wakes up, she cuts her finger on a seashell she picked up by the seaside and encounters a shopping mall connected to the ocean. From that moment on, the course of her destiny begins to change.

Just three months into her marriage, Shi Qingqing asks her husband for a divorce and chooses to leave with nothing.

It is all because of a dream. In it, the married couple grows resentful of each other in their youth, becomes like strangers in middle age, and she turns into an invalid before reaching fifty. Yet her husband unexpectedly cares for her through the final years of her life.

When she wakes from the dream, her husband is young, and their life is still difficult.

The only difference is the ocean harvest shopping mall that has suddenly appeared.

This mall is quite the taskmaster. It makes Shi Qingqing dig for oysters and go sea fishing, and even deducts points when she fails.

Still, these products and rewards are truly irresistible.

Wuchang rice, Hami melons from Xinjiang, aged vinegar from Shanxi, fresh flower cakes from Yunnan, hot-pot base from Sichuan and Chongqing, premium beef...

Delicious food, useful goods, and fun things from every corner of the country are all hers with a tap on the mall panel. What a thrill! What enjoyment! What comfort!

A Simmons bed, a three-story house, a Santana sedan... She begins living a fair life where effort is always rewarded. As she looks back on the events from her dream, Shi Qingqing's state of mind seems to change as well.

There are no perfect lives where every wish comes true. You are not perfect, and neither am I, but together we can live the life we want and walk hand in hand to the very end. That is the meaning of becoming partners.