The Qinling Secret: My Tomb-Raiding Adventures with My Childhood Friend

Tang Jin Ci, a cultural relic restorer, has spent his whole life wanting nothing more than to be surrounded by antiques and live out his days in peace.

That is, until he discovers a bloodstained map of the Qinling Mountains among his grandfather's belongings. The strange symbols on it are identical to those at the scene of the massacre that wiped out his family ten years ago.

To uncover the truth, he decides to venture into forbidden territory.

Fang Yuzhou, the rich second-generation childhood friend who grew up with him and always seemed carefree, grabs him by the wrist. His gaze is more serious than Tang Jin Ci has ever seen:

“Trying to leave me behind, Tang Jin Ci? Not unless I'm dead.”

Deep in the Qinling Mountains, ghostly loops trap travelers, thousand-year-old mummies rise from the dead, and ancient mechanisms threaten their lives at every turn.

Everyone thinks Tang Jin Ci is a frail scholar who needs protecting, until he solves the thousand-year-old death trap in the Hanging Soul Hall with his bare hands and calls down heavenly lightning. Only then does Fang Yuzhou realize his childhood friend is hiding a secret powerful enough to turn everything upside down.

And when the mastermind finally emerges and the truth behind the massacre is revealed, Fang Yuzhou takes a fatal blow for him. As he teeters on the brink of death...

Tang Jin Ci finally sheds his cool facade, clutching him tightly with bloodstained hands as he rasps:

“Fang Yuzhou, just try dying on me. I haven't told you... how much I need you.”

[Cool-headed, genius-level cultural relic restorer × loyal, top-tier fighter and outdoor expert]

We're not tomb raiders. We're stepping into a deadly trap laid a thousand years ago, all to uncover a shocking secret buried by history. And at the end of the truth, there's you.