Modern Antiquities Appraisal: The Secret Key to Emperor Qin's Underground Palace

On a stormy night, Chen Mo's girlfriend slaps him in the middle of the street. "You loser, you can't even pay rent!" Clutching his family's ancestral copper coin, he ducks into a pawnshop. When his blood drips onto it, he unexpectedly awakens the ability to appraise treasures. The next day, at the ghost market's stone-gambling stalls, his eyes burn as he studies a pile of discarded rocks. One cut reveals imperial-green jade. When the rich young man who once humiliated him frantically bids at an auction, Chen Mo swirls his glass of red wine. "That Ming dynasty imperial kiln vase? I picked it up at a secondhand market last week for 300 yuan." Beneath the colored-glass lights, the CEO he has long admired quietly grips the hem of his jacket. "Come by my office tonight... to look at my collection?"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.