Weren’t You Collecting Scrap? How Did You Become an Antiques Appraisal Master?

[Antique appraisal, bargain hunting, getting rich, everything can be appraised, no female lead!]

Lu Hu is a fresh university graduate, pure-hearted but a little dim, who can’t find a suitable job after graduation.

Just then, a nationwide livestream launches a challenge!

One thousand professions are assigned at random. Whoever earns the most within a year wins a prize of ten billion!

And Lu Hu draws the job of collecting scrap!

Scrap collecting?! How is he supposed to complete the challenge?

Luckily, Lu Hu awakens a special appraisal skill.

Anything can be appraised.

“Newspaper wrapped around a cabbage cleaver? Look closer! This is the first issue of an in-house publication, worth 30,000!”

“You say this is a modern crafts piece? Sorry, I’ll take it!”

He resells it to a collector for 650,000. “If you ask me, this is one of the oldest artifacts from that historical period!”

“Hey, who wants this broken bamboo mat?”

“Come on, let me have a look!”

“Tsk, it’s made of ivory and was used by an emperor. Its value is... incalculable!”

With his keen eye, Lu Hu rides his little three-wheeler from street to street, buying low and selling high. Everything he flips becomes worth a fortune!

A broken wooden cabinet in an old courtyard, piles of old books at a street stall, a battered wooden chest unearthed at a construction site...

Before he knows it, Lu Hu has made the Forbes list as a scrap collector?!

Host: “Mr. Lu, tell us how you made your fortune.”

Lu Hu: “How I made my fortune? Oh, I just rode my little three-wheeler around collecting scrap!”

Audience: “The God of Appraisal’s success story is one of a kind. Who could possibly copy it?”

(The histories of all the artifacts in this book have been researched by the author using the Palace Museum database and auction records. They are real artifacts, adapted for the story.)