The Third Young Master's Book of Karma

[For readers aged 22–35, high-intensity action] Chen Yan, an antique restorer, has a strange condition: anyone who gets close to him suddenly “sees” the most painful memory of their life. The young master of the Old Nine Gates being abandoned by his family in the dead of night; Zhang Qiling’s hand trembling as he grips his knife; even the remorse of a Wang family survivor as he kills... Chen Yan calls it “karmic constitution.” That is, until he runs into Wu Xie, who has returned to Beijing to investigate a case, while restoring a bronze mirror in Panjiayuan.

“I’ve got a tough fate.” Wu Xie stares at the mirror, where he sees himself as a child being protected by Chen Yan. His ears flush red. “Your weird condition is just a nuisance, at most.” But then he stuffs Chen Yan into his backpack and hauls him to a clinic in Panjiayuan in the middle of the night. After all, Chen Yan faints at the sight of blood, and Wu Xie secretly kept half a box of gauze after Chen Yan cut his hand while taking apart an antique mirror.

Clues to a shipwreck tomb in the South China Sea begin to surface: an old photograph hidden in a compartment of the bronze mirror, the “Karmic Pearl” spoken of by Tanka boatmen, and the pursuit of the Wang family remnant faction, the Cangming Pavilion... Chen Yan’s condition becomes the key to solving the mystery, but it also draws the four-man team into an even greater conspiracy. A surviving heir of the Wang family’s main branch wants to seize his constitution and “defy fate” in order to bring their family back to life! The team also includes Wang Pangzi, who’s always saying, “You need a full stomach before you can fight.”

See how an antique restorer uses karma to unravel the mystery, how Third Master Wu goes from “naive” to “fighting the whole world for you,” and how the taciturn Zhang Qiling turns “protection” into silent action.

The cruelest karma in this world is meeting the right person; the sweetest solution is, “I’ll be with you, from now until forever.”