Antique Appraisal Livestream: Every Relic Is Tied to an Unsolved Case

Graduate student Lin Zhou, who specializes in antiques appraisal, is tricked by his advisor into setting up a stall at Panjiayuan, where he livestreams free appraisals of family heirlooms. The first is an enamel mug. On its bottom, someone has engraved: "Son: Come back alive. Mom. 1952." A mother who waited seventy years for her son to come home. The second is an ancestral jade pendant, whose miniature carving reveals a secret adoption from seventy-two years ago. The third is a military canteen, with a blood-written promise from a comrade on the Korean battlefield hidden beneath it. From then on, his livestream explodes in popularity: every antique holds a long-buried story of human joy and sorrow. The System feeds him clues, and he uses professional reasoning to present them as conclusions. Viewers think he is a genius appraiser, the police pursue him for leads, and relatives separated for seventy years reunite at his stall, clutching the antiques that brought them together. All the stories buried by time over the past five thousand years are waiting for him to uncover them.

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