1982: A Fisherman from a Seaside Village

In 1982, in Baisha Village, southern Fujian, Ye Dongyang had spent forty years drifting at sea. When he fell overboard and awoke, he was twenty-five again. In his previous life, people had called him “the useless second son of the Ye family” all his life. His wife, Lin Qiaoyun, had worked herself to the bone for him, and she died before he did. This time, he has no grand ambitions. He just wants to make up for what he owes her, get Grandma’s dentures fitted, and fix that battered sampan. He’ll gather seafood, cast nets, dry salt, and raise children, reclaiming his life inch by inch from the tidal flats. They say the sea is merciless, but he believes that wherever the waves recede, something is always still alive.