Antique Appraisal Around the World: I Can Hear Antiques' Inner Voices

I’d barely woken up in the hospital when the antiques in my room started arguing so loudly they gave me a headache!

[The vase by the bed: Good grief, young man, don’t touch me! I only came out of the kiln in Jingdezhen last week. I’m still hot!]

[The walnuts belonging to the old man next door: Back in the day, I met Emperor Qianlong himself... or rather, his great-great-great-grandson!]

I thought I’d just gained the ability to read objects’ minds and make a fortune spotting hidden treasures, until I touched an artifact from the Old Summer Palace...

[The Twelve Zodiac Animal Heads (fragment): Don’t believe the history books!

We weren’t stolen. We were... running for our lives!]