Lin Yuan, a first-year history student at Qingbei University, grew up in an orphanage and studied hard on his own to get into one of the country's top universities. His future should have been bright, but he dies in an accident at a museum during his graduation trip.
Reborn, he returns to the first day of his freshman year. Fate gives him not only a second chance, but also a pair of golden eyes that can see the true nature of all things.
With his supernatural ability, Lin Yuan enters the antiques trade. To him, every ordinary stall in Panjiayuan is a treasure trove. A bronze fragment he buys for 350 yuan turns out to be a major ritual vessel used by a Warring States noble, while an ignored black jade chessboard contains a secret memorial written on silk by Dongfang Shuo of the Western Han dynasty.
With a single glance, he can tell the real from the fake and spot a stroke of fortune. He quickly rises through the antiques world, his wealth soars, and he quietly draws the attention of powerful figures from every walk of life.
As one national treasure after another comes to light, an ancient, hidden clue gradually emerges. Every trace points to the foothills of the Kunlun Mountains, where a mysterious stone gate, no part of human civilization, lies buried.
Beyond the gate stands a prehistoric city far more advanced than the civilization of Huaxia. Sealed beneath the city is an ancient, formidable power from beyond the heavens.
Only then does Lin Yuan understand that the golden eyes were never meant merely to help him find hidden treasures among antiques. They are the only key left in the mortal world by an ancient being, capable of opening a secret realm.
As the sealed abyss slowly awakens, the road ahead is fraught with danger. He can choose to live in peace and pass his life in obscurity, or clench his fists around the golden eyes and walk step by step toward the ancient stone gate, which even the gods dare not approach lightly, to uncover the world's greatest secret.
