The Silver Needle Shocks the World

Cast off by the Su family and pushed off a cliff, Su Zhaozhao awakens a treasure-appraisal ability through her family's heirloom jade pendant: when she touches an artifact, she can read its maker's memories. After exposing the Su family's money-laundering scheme involving fakes during a live appraisal, she becomes the target of a deadly hunt. To survive, she signs a "symbiotic blood pact" with Fu Chenzhou, head of a family of ancient martial artists. Every full moon, she must use his blood to suppress her ability before it runs wild.

Though Fu Chenzhou seems cold and ruthless, he is actually the first experimental subject of the Netherworld Pavilion. Their blood pact lets them share pain and memories, binding their fates together. As memories embedded in artifacts reveal a gene-smuggling network at a black-market auction, Su Zhaozhao uncovers the Fu family's secret of protecting the bloodline of a holy maiden. Meanwhile, the truth about her foster sister Su Mingwei's identity as a test-tube baby makes the conspiracy even more bewildering.

Clues to crimes hidden in artifacts, bloody deals behind the genes: as the ability monopolists' "hidden world plan" comes to light, can these lovers bound by a pact break free of fate and set off a world-shaking revolution in the world of treasure appraisal?

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