A tornado at sea carried away his parents and five older brothers overnight, leaving his sisters-in-law to grit their teeth and support Lu Yiming through college. Yet in his past life, when he returned after graduation, the family had scattered completely: his third sister-in-law was disfigured, his fourth and fifth sisters-in-law were cheated abroad and their lives or deaths remained unknown, his eldest sister-in-law fell gravely ill from overwork, and his second sister-in-law remarried only to suffer beatings. Living a second life, Lu Yiming desperately blocked the sisters-in-law who wanted to go south to work, wagering a bet of making ten thousand in ten days. Binding himself to the wealth system and starting from beachcombing—digging up razor clam kings, catching butter crabs, hauling in sky-high large yellow croakers, buying boats to go out to sea, and auctioning conch pearls—he stubbornly propped up the dilapidated small courtyard into a million-aire home that made the whole village green with envy.