Reborn in 1984: Riding the Tides of the Beibu Gulf

A slice-of-life story set in the 1980s, full of coastal foraging, mountain hunting, marriage, children, and family squabbles. Chen Haisheng, dying of terminal liver cancer, lies in a rented room. When he opens his eyes, he has returned to an old fishing village in 1984. In his previous life, he was impoverished and died alone. In this life, when the tide goes out, he grips the sandworm spade his grandmother left him and turns the foraging skills etched into his bones into real money. He digs for sandworms at Leshan and trades across the Beilun River, earning in one day what others make in two months. He sells dried sandworms in Beijing and Shanghai, and leopard coral grouper in Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Two thousand becomes twenty thousand, then two hundred thousand, as he steadily builds his business into something big... And the educated young woman who stayed behind, whom he eventually broke up with in his previous life because he had no money, now sits in his BMW with a happy smile on her face. For forty years, the tides rise and fall, and gold lies all across these mudflats. In 1984, he arrives.