A first-grade national cultural relic disappears during a museum inventory.
The surveillance footage is intact, the accounts are correct, and every procedure was followed.
There are no signs of a break-in, no alarm, and no suspects.
It's as if it never existed.
Cultural relics investigator Shen Guan takes on the case.
But the deeper he investigates, the more he uncovers a far more dangerous truth: this isn't theft.
It's a loss permitted by the system.
When the investigation is shut down, his access revoked, and those in the know fall silent,
Shen Guan finally realizes that he isn't facing just one person.
He's up against an undercurrent that swallows cultural relics and the truth alike.
When a cultural relic can legally disappear,
who can prove we ever owned it?
[Contemporary fiction × cultural relic crime × suspenseful criminal investigation] Professional investigative details, with a realistic, step-by-step case.
