After working for three years, Lu Zhou saved 50,000 yuan for his bride price, only for his mother to steal it to buy a car and a house for his younger brother. She even used his identity without permission, leaving him saddled with fraudulent debts. After falling into the sea and being rescued, he unexpectedly obtains a luminous pearl that can detect marine treasures. Making a living and building his fortune through coastal foraging and deep-sea fishing, he untangles the financial mess with his birth family and fights back against malicious competitors colluding with his younger brother. He also protects his relationship with his fiancée, Xia Wanqing. With extraordinary courage, he builds a successful business and earns the appreciation of influential benefactors. In the end, he establishes his own fortune, proudly visits his fiancée's family to formally ask for her hand in marriage, breaks free from the shackles of his family's preference for sons, and begins a new life of his own.