My name is Bai Mu. I'm from Guizhou and currently live in Beijing.
I took part in tomb-robbing operations more than ten times. After two years on the run, I finally returned to China to turn myself in.
Over those two years, I traveled from place to place and spent nearly all my savings buying back 28 cultural relics through various channels. I surrendered them all when I turned myself in.
That was also why I was granted bail pending trial.
Being granted bail proves there’s a chance of a lighter sentence, or even a suspended sentence. After all, what I did could count as a major meritorious act. But in truth, I don’t care what sentence I get. I only care whether what I did can prevent certain things from happening...
The truths I once desperately wanted to uncover now fill me with nothing but fear.
And it all began five years ago, when I left the military...
