I Can Fish Up Everything!

But letting the shipyard owner call the shots in the future was out of the question. From now on, they had to be the first to know about the catch.

The shipyard owner understood this as well. He had only gotten the advantage this time because he ran his own shipyard.

Seeing this, he pondered for a moment before proposing, "How about this? We’ll stick to the three-year, interest-free installments, but whenever there’s a prime catch, the three of us can compete for it privately. How does that sound?"

"Fine!"

"Then it’s a deal!"

Wang Junhe and Guo Xiao exchanged a look and finally agreed.

After all, the three of them had been good friends for years. If their bond wasn’t strong, they never would have opened the club together. They couldn’t just tear everything apart over fish.

The diving instructor: Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to be doing?

The main topic of the day was the large yellow croaker. After that, Wang Junhe, on behalf of the club, gave him another 100,000 in reward money.

As for the large swordfish, it hadn’t been bled in time, which had ruined the meat, so no one was particularly interested in it. In the end, Gu Nan simply gave it to the club to have it mounted as a display for the main hall.

A swordfish nearly four meters long was certainly worth mounting.

After leaving the club, Gu Nan sent Yi Chen a message, asking if she was home!

’He found it a little strange. She had come over to see him every night for the past few days. Why not tonight?’

Meanwhile, Yi Chen was at home. She had indeed planned on going to the club that evening.

She had been there to look after Gu Nan when he returned to the club that afternoon. But since she had her own shop to open, she’d only stayed until four o’clock before heading back to work, planning to come over again in the evening.

But unexpectedly, her father called her after she closed up shop, telling her to come straight home.

Yi Chen wasn’t usually so obedient toward this father of hers, who had never paid her much mind.

But after that chance encounter with her stepmother at the shop, she knew it was only a matter of time before her father would start asking questions. So, after thinking it over, she decided to head home first.

’With Grandma here, Dad can’t push me around anyway.’

Besides, Yi Chen didn’t think they would argue tonight. Given Gu Nan’s character and financial standing, most ordinary families would approve of him once they knew the situation.

Her guess was right. Yi Linfei had, in fact, already heard from his wife that his eldest daughter had a boyfriend. He’d also been told the man was the owner of a seafood shop, and business seemed to be doing well.

It was just that he had been away on a business trip at the time, so he hadn’t gotten around to addressing the matter.

Of his three daughters, his feelings for Yi Chen were the most distant because she was the child of a woman he did not love.

But however distant his feelings, she was still his daughter. As her father, he certainly had to be involved in matters like her getting a boyfriend or even marrying.

So, after returning from his trip and getting some rest, he decided to look into the matter while visiting his own mother.

When Yi Chen got home, she was happy to see her two younger sisters were there as well, and she took out the snacks Gu Nan would periodically ply her with.

The three sisters got along, but due to their awkward family dynamic, they didn’t get to see each other very often.

"Chenchen, tell me about this boyfriend of yours," Yi Linfei said slowly, looking at the eldest daughter he’d paid little attention to, who had blossomed into an increasingly beautiful young woman. "If he’s suitable, we’ll talk to your mother about it, and our two families can meet to make things official."

Yi Miaomiao was only eleven years old, but kids these days grow up fast. What was there that she didn’t understand?

Her eyes lit up when she heard Yi Chen had a boyfriend. "Big Sis, you have a boyfriend?"

"Mm..." She was a bit shy discussing this topic with her elders. Plus, her father was being so agreeable, allowing her to feel a rare sense of familial warmth.

In the past, Yi Chen had always liked to defy Yi Linfei, but she wasn’t foolish enough to do so when it came to Gu Nan. No matter how complicated her feelings toward her father were, she wouldn’t act recklessly in this matter.

She then told her family about Gu Nan’s situation, including the details about his family background that he had shared with her.

Leaving other things aside, just hearing about the general income of the seafood shop made both Yi Linfei and her stepmother, Qiao Xiuxian, extremely satisfied.

’He’s what you’d call a great catch. If they ever run into trouble, this son-in-law could lend them a hand.’

In Yi Linfei’s mind, although Yi Chen had been raised by her grandmother, he had paid for more than half of her expenses. Her biological mother was even more neglectful than he was and often failed to pay child support.

He wasn’t short on the money, so he hadn’t argued much over the support payments.

Therefore, he felt that no matter how distant his daughter was from him, she wouldn’t abandon her family, which meant her husband would naturally have to take care of them as well.

Qiao Xiuxian, on the other hand, didn’t have such ulterior motives. She was just happy that her eldest stepdaughter could live a good life and not be a burden to the family.

’Her own two daughters were beautiful, too,’ she thought. ’They’ll surely marry well in the future.’

Just as the family was discussing Gu Nan, Yi Chen didn’t see his message because her phone was upstairs.

As a result, while the family was chatting, Gu Nan suddenly appeared at their front door.

When he saw the whole family inside, his heart skipped a beat.

’He’d met Qiao Xiuxian before—she was Yi Chen’s stepmother. So, was the middle-aged man next to her Yi Chen’s biological father?’

’So... did I just walk right into the lion’s den?’

Yi Chen was stunned as well. ’Why would Gu Nan come over without messaging me first?’ she thought. ’We just started dating; I’m not ready for him to meet my parents!’

Three minutes later, Gu Nan was sitting primly in the living room, having already greeted all the elders present.

Yi Chen, sitting beside him, leaned close and whispered in his ear, "Why did you suddenly show up?"

Her warm, fragrant breath made Gu Nan shiver, and his ear tickled.

He then copied his young girlfriend, leaning toward her delicate little ear and saying, "I sent you a message, but you didn’t reply! I was worried something happened to you, so I came looking for you!"

"My phone’s upstairs, I didn’t know..."

Before she could finish, Yi Chen noticed her two younger sisters staring at them, their big, round eyes wide with curiosity, clearly wondering what the two of them were murmuring about.

Qiao Xiuxian, meanwhile, watched her stepdaughter and her boyfriend with a fond, knowing smile. It couldn’t help but remind her of when she first met Yi Linfei.

She had been recently divorced at the time, with no children, and had thought that was how the rest of her life would be. But then she’d unexpectedly met and gotten to know Yi Linfei, and they’d had their own sweet romance.

As for Zhao Chunlan, her face was wreathed in a wrinkled smile. Her eldest granddaughter had found someone she could entrust her life to, and she could finally, truly rest easy.

"Ahem..." Yi Linfei, however, couldn’t bear to watch anymore. No matter how distant he felt from her, she was still his precious daughter, and seeing this "pig" nuzzling up to her right in front of him felt... wrong, somehow.

"You’re Gu Nan, is that right?"

"Yes, sir. You can just call me Ah Nan," Gu Nan replied.

"I’ve learned the general situation with you and Chenchen tonight. I was originally thinking of letting you two get to know each other for a while longer, but since you’re here, find a time to speak with your parents. When can our two families arrange a meeting?"

"Yes, of course. I’ll go back and talk to my parents tonight, and then we can arrange a time with you and ma’am," Gu Nan nodded repeatedly, acting as obediently as he possibly could.

’You have to make a good impression before you can successfully lure your girlfriend home with you.’

’Sure, with his current status, it wouldn’t be hard to find a woman as beautiful as Yi Chen. But finding someone with a personality as good as hers? That would be difficult. And especially her cooking skills—Gu Nan had zero desire to be force-fed poison by his girlfriend.’

’Even if Yi Chen weren’t so beautiful—as long as she was above average—he would still want to marry her after getting to know her housekeeping skills, her business sense, and her personality.’

’Perhaps these qualities were common in the sixties and seventies, but they were incredibly rare in modern society.’

𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

’Just think about it: why does the North have the country’s only shelter for men?’

’Just think about it: why are men from the western regions so famous nationwide for being henpecked?’

’Just think about it: the South... you either get the kind that are so cloyingly sweet it makes your teeth ache, or...’

Gu Nan much preferred the fine grain; he just couldn’t stomach the chaff!

At ten o’clock that night, Yi Linfei took his family and left, while Gu Nan took Yi Chen and her two younger sisters, who were staying behind, out for a late-night snack.

It was a school holiday, so the girls had nothing to do the next day. They stuck close to their older sister, wanting to have a sleepover with her.

As their future brother-in-law, how could Gu Nan not make some sort of gesture?

He immediately drove them to his seafood shop. Unlocking the door and flicking on the lights, he swept a hand out grandly. "Dongxue, Miaomiao, tell me what you want to eat tonight, and I’ll find a restaurant to cook it for us."