I Expose the Dark Side of the Antiques Trade on Livestream, Becoming the Industry's Public Enemy

On the first day of his livestreamed antique appraisals, Chen Mo gets "invited for tea" by the Cultural Relics Bureau.

Because he tells the truth:

"Ninety-nine of the items at your stall are fakes. The only real one is the piece stolen from the museum last week."

From then on, he becomes the industry's public enemy.

Stall owners hate him for exposing their fakes, auction houses hate him for ruining their scams, and certain people at museums hate him... for knowing too much.

But the internet loves him.

Watch his livestreams and learn:

How to spend 500 yuan at Panjiayuan and find a treasure worth 300,000

How to spot an auction house's bait-and-switch traps

And... why national treasures that should be in museums are turning up in private mansions

Then one day, Chen Mo livestreams an appraisal of a "decorative vase" at a museum director's home:

"This is a Western Zhou bronze, a Grade One cultural relic. It cannot be bought or sold."

"Director, was your family descended from the Western Zhou?"

His livestream gets shut down, his home gets smashed up, and his life is threatened.

Chen Mo laughs and opens another livestream:

"Folks, we're not appraising antiques today."

"I'm going to show you what 'one piece for the Palace Museum, one piece for me' really means."

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