1988: It All Began with a Bowl of Seafood Dumplings

[Period setting, food, family matters, daily life, parental generation romance]

Lin Haisheng was reborn in 1988.

He met many familiar people: his honest and down-to-earth father, his domineering grandparents, his scoundrel of an uncle, his first love, who had been forced to break up with him because they had no money, his eldest brother, who had remained single all his life, and his younger sister, who had been forced to drop out of school because they had no money...

When all was said and done, it was all poverty's doing.

After pondering for a long while, Lin Haisheng decided to make full use of their coastal location by digging for spoon worms and buying miscellaneous fish.

He wrapped the fish nobody wanted to eat into dumplings, made fish balls, and carried them to the streets to sell.

The pot atop the honeycomb coal stove bubbled merrily.

Lin Haisheng boiled all the regrets of his previous life into it, and in the end, it became a pot of incredibly delicious seafood dumplings.

Fresh, salty, fragrant, sweet, and rich.

With seasonal vegetables and all kinds of seasonal seafood, even fruit could be served at the table.

Before long, the small county town had gained a place that sold dumplings.

In spring, have some shepherd's-purse seafood dumplings.

In summer, enjoy a bowl of cool and refreshing seafood cold noodles.

In autumn, try a few tonguefish fried to a golden, crisp perfection.

In winter, have a bowl of steaming-hot Chinese cabbage and fish-ball soup.

Having gained a second life, Lin Haisheng would make plenty of money, rekindle his old romance, and make up for all his regrets...