I was a socially anxious shut-in, until I casually picked up a piece of porcelain on Antique Street. “A Longquan kiln piece from the Song dynasty, worth a million.”
Those words drew the attention of the Antiques Appraisal Association and brought the mysterious organization “Snake Lord” after me.
As it turned out, I was born with Divine Eyes, able to see through the authenticity of antiques. But I had no idea this power was a curse carried by a family of antique appraisers: every time I used it, my lifespan shrank!
A note left by my father warned: “Only the Heavenly Secrets Diagram can break this curse.”
But the diagram had been broken into three pieces. One was up for auction on the black market, another was in my late father’s old house, and the last… was inside my girlfriend, Wen W Wan’er!
As Snake Lord’s minions tore through Wen Wan’er’s consciousness and a bronze mirror revealed the tomb of a nine-headed snake demon, I faced a choice:
Burn away my life to activate my Divine Eyes, or watch helplessly as the woman I loved became a vessel for an evil entity?
