How Much Are Your Eyes Worth?

Chen Shi is the grandson of a scrap collector, driven to desperation by 68,000 yuan in debt. On the night of his grandfather's wake, he unexpectedly gains a pair of eyes that can “read the ledger at a glance,” instantly revealing an old item's history, authenticity, and true value. To pay off the debt, he takes the last of his belongings and steps into the modern antiques trade, hoping to use valuable pieces to gain entry to the Treasure Appraisal Society. With his special eyes, he exposes an antique shop owner's pricing tricks right to her face, then turns a profit by finding undervalued treasures at the ghost market. But an outsider picking up bargains inevitably threatens the insiders' livelihoods, and powerful figures in the trade soon start publicly putting him down. More dangerously, he discovers that his grandfather's old account book is tied to a secret in the antiques world dating back twenty years. How will he use eyes that can see through every lie to carve out a path for himself in this treacherous world of antiques?

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