Reborn in the Republic of China: I Plundered Empress Dowager Cixi’s Tomb from the Start

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Su Chen, a restorer of cultural relics at a museum in the twenty-first century, unexpectedly transmigrates into a Republican-era family of tomb raiders. With no parents and a fate marked by misfortune, he makes his first descent into a tomb at the age of eight. His uncles are caught between rival raiders and tomb guards after a dispute over the spoils and an accidental exposure. In the end, they are wiped out in a secret passage barely a hundred meters from the underground palace. Su Chen narrowly escapes, and the shock awakens his memories of his past life and a space spanning ten thousand mu...

Two and a half years later, his space contains Shang-dynasty bronzes depicting the war between Yan and Huang and Chiyou; the Nine Tripods of the Zhou dynasty; the Twelve Golden Men of the Qin dynasty; Emperor Gaozu of Han’s Chixiao Sword; Wang Xizhi’s Preface to the Orchid Pavilion; a Journey to the West painted by Wu Daozi; Zhao Guangyi’s painting of the Candlelight and Ax-Sound incident; Genghis Khan’s sulde banner; Zhu Yuanzhang’s Treasure Basin, and even the Qing imperial tombs.