Siheyuan: The Phantom Thief from the Start, Castrating Yi Zhonghai

"I hear you possess a gnarled dragon root that is useless to you, yet too precious to throw away. I cannot help but be curious, and my heart longs to see it. At midnight tonight, I shall come by moonlight to take it. You are a gracious and refined man, so I am sure you will not make me come all this way for nothing."

Yi Zhonghai stared at the letter, puzzled. What gnarled dragon root? Useless to him, yet too precious to throw away? He had no idea what it meant, or when such a thing had appeared in his home.

Only when Yi Zhonghai let out a scream that night, realizing something had gone missing, did he understand what it meant.

From then on, valuable things regularly disappeared from their courtyard, but they could never figure out who was responsible.

The courtyard was only the beginning. This trend gradually spread across the whole capital, and eventually overseas as well.

Foreign treasures vanished without a trace, then somehow ended up on the black market. Some people in China could buy them with ease, but foreigners couldn't. Even if they managed to buy one, it would disappear again.

The whole world was searching for him. They would turn the planet upside down twice if they had to, but they had to find him. Otherwise...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.