Yun Jiao is a legendary mermaid who accidentally traveled to a small fishing village in the 1980s. Her beauty is still there, but her body has shrunk. The beautiful mermaid has become a white and soft baby with short arms and legs. Her fish tail has degenerated into legs, but it doesn’t matter, she can still breathe in the sea water and she doesn’t need to learn how to swim and dive. Her ability to cry and turn into pearls is gone, but it doesn’t matter, she can look for pearls in the sea. She is no longer a mermaid, but she is still the darling of the ocean. Going out to catch fish, others have worked hard but can’t find anything valuable. She took her brothers to pick up big yellow croaker, lobsters as long as their arms, and even the coconut snails they picked up bloomed expensive flames.

When he opened his eyes, Xie Zhao had returned to the year 1983.

That was the year when the wealthiest family in Hudong County, the Chens, found their real son, and he—the imposter—was driven back to Shishui Village.

He couldn’t believe that the parents who had once cherished him like a precious jewel no longer wanted him. Could it be that the eighteen years of affection had all been a lie?

He went to their door to ask, but they only cried and cursed, calling him a jinx who had brought disaster on their real son, making him suffer and endure hardships—branding him a black-hearted bastard.

From then on, he fell into utter despair.

His biological parents, feeling guilty for the way things had turned out, arranged for him to marry an exceptionally good wife—

a girl with long, straight black hair in neat braids, a pretty, pure melon-seed face, and bright, lively eyes that seemed to speak.

But deep down, he didn’t like her. He felt it was all a scheme concocted by her and his biological parents, meant to trap him here for life.

Later, that year at the end of winter, he still couldn’t let go. He went again to visit his adoptive parents, only to be beaten and thrown out once more—exactly as he had expected.

As usual, he drowned his sorrows in alcohol until he was completely drunk and unconscious.

But on this particular morning, when he opened his eyes, everything had been turned upside down.

His wife lay quietly in bed, her face ashen.

Two little children, their bodies covered in blood, lay silently in a wooden tub beside the bed. They had long since closed their eyes, no longer breathing. They were a pair of adorable little girls.

From that day on, he lived in hell for the next thirty years, each day worse than death.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back on that fateful day.

Xie Zhao made up his mind:

Even if he had to go bankrupt, he would find a way to raise money and send his wife to the hospital!

He would treat her well for the rest of her life!

And he would give both his wife and his biological parents the best life possible!

Chen Yan traveled to a rural area in southwest China in 1983.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw two hungry children, a girl who was almost three years old and a boy who was one year old.

They were his original body's, and now they are naturally Chen Yan's.

His original body and his wife went into the mountains to collect herbs, and encountered a mountain torrent.

His wife died on the spot, and his original body was possessed by Chen Yan's soul.

As a novice dad, Chen Yan was in a hurry, making rice porridge and changing diapers, and he was so depressed that he doubted his life.

Others traveled through time to enjoy happiness, but did he travel through time to suffer?

Finally one day, Chen Yan, who was overwhelmed by the children, suddenly found that there was a gentle and beautiful girl in the house.

It was his wife's sister, 17-year-old Xu Qingning.

She was in the third year of high school in the county town, and she came to help her brother-in-law take care of the children.

Time travel, but I just want to live like a salted fish.

There are warm and kind families here, there are slim little flowers, and there are charming white lotuses.

There are natural beauties who are numb to life, and there are petite neighbors who have to work in the fields every day.

And I just want to guard my warm family and quietly be a charterer like a salted fish.

But some things cannot be avoided, and some people cannot be stopped either.