Grocery vendor Lu Chen has a secret he can't tell anyone about:
He puts a fake copy of the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion" up for sale, and the next day Wang Xizhi video-calls him from the Tang Dynasty to scold him: "Your copy looks even more authentic than my original!" 1.
Then he accidentally activates a mysterious ledger, and golden words appear across the Dunhuang Flying Apsaras murals:
[Current human civilization survival rate: 0.003%]
Antiques all over the world suddenly come back to life en masse:
The Sanxingdui bronze sacred tree transforms into a particle collider, Goujian's Sword of Yue triggers a quantum wormhole, and Tang Dynasty sancai camels carry nuclear fuel pods on their backs...
On the day the United Nations issues an ultimatum accusing him of destroying civilization, Lu Chen rips open his suit to reveal a shirt embroidered with oracle-bone script and sneers:
"You call my goods fake? Even the relics from the Western Zhou dynasty on the emblems of your five permanent members were bought through me!"
Now he has to deal with a double set of KPIs:
By day, he sends Zhu Yuanzhang star destroyer schematics by SF Express;
at midnight, he helps Cleopatra's livestream sell out beauty-enhancing pyramids in seconds.
Worst of all, the archaeology senior he's had a crush on for ten years kicks in his door holding handcuffs: "That fake luminous pearl you sold made the Martians think Earth can fire Ultra beams!"
