The Bronze Cipher: A Thousand-Year Pact

[Antique Appraisal + Jianghu + Tomb Raiding + Exploration + Schemes Within Schemes] As a child, Su Mo watched his parents get murdered by their enemies, and the flames of vengeance blazed in his heart. Luckily, a mysterious old man took him in. Su Mo spent twelve years training at an ancient temple deep in the mountains, mastering the art of antique appraisal and the skills needed to survive. When he enters the world of antique appraisal, he discovers that beneath its surface pursuit of rare treasures lies a fierce contest of human desire, cunning, and ambition. As two familiar sayings in the trade go: “Appraising an object is thirty percent; reading a person is seventy.” “Judge porcelain by its glaze, jade by its patina, and people by their greed.” What secret does the amber pendant his parents gave him on the night they were killed conceal? Just when his revenge seems complete, Su Mo realizes that everything has only just begun...