32-Year-old Lin Shen is a typical middle-aged man who has been crushed by life: he has been laid off in disguise; he is burdened with a million-dollar mortgage loan; his daughter's school district housing qualification is in jeopardy; his father suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and required 200,000 surgical fees; his wife Su Wanqing filed for separation due to high economic pressure - the triple blow of the mid-life crisis has made him the most embarrassed person in the "urban middle-class sandwich class."
In a desperate situation, the ancestral bronze ring is accidentally activated, and the remnant soul of "Xuan Lao", the master of antiques in the Republic of China, appears, giving him the three golden fingers of "precious eye", "business deduction" and "crisis prediction". From earning surgery fees by spotting high imitations of Tang Sancai, to relying on short-term stock market strategies to buy a school district house and slapping mockers in the face; from picking up leaks in Panjiayuan to rising up, to fighting against the international cultural relics criminal group "Ghost Hand" to protect the Yungang Buddha head, Lin Shen's middle-aged counterattack touches on realistic anxiety at every step, but also hides a super cool twist.
Furthermore, the secret of the inheritance of his grandfather's "Ghost Hands of Liulichang" and the millennium-old grudge between Guanxing Pavilion and Jiuyao Society have surfaced. His wife Su Wanqing has also gone from being disappointed and separated to growing up side by side, becoming his "behind-the-scenes think tank" on the road to protecting the treasure. When the battle of business and wits collides with the protection of cultural relics, and when the warmth of family supports the counterattack, this middle-aged man who has been beaten down by life will eventually live to be his own light and become a shield to protect the people he loves - his middle age is not the end, but the beginning of take-off.
