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During the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi was greedy for pleasure and built the Old Summer Palace to collect treasures from the Central Plains. In the tenth year of Xianfeng's reign, I heard that a sacred jade was found on a high mountain in the Central Plains. The jade seemed to have the ability to fulfill the wishes of those who made wishes. Cixi was overjoyed to hear this and ordered a 24-man treasure transport team to transport the jade back to the Old Summer Palace as a treasure. However, foreign coalition forces suddenly invaded the Central Plains and fought all the way to the Old Summer Palace. They looted all the treasures in the Old Summer Palace and set it on fire. After hearing this, the 24-man treasure transporting force hid with the jade during the journey to protect the safety of the sacred jade. When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard about it, she thought that these 24 people had swallowed the jade for themselves. She was furious and called these 24 people the Twenty-Four Thieves. However, since the foreign coalition forces burned the Old Summer Palace, the Qing Dynasty's court has plummeted, and there has been no search for the twenty-four thieves and the sacred jade again. From then on, the Twenty-Four Thieves and the Sacred Jade Artifact disappeared without any news until 2010. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.