Lu Chen was nailed to the pillar of shame in the antiques world, despised by everyone as a “destroyer.” Then, in a fit of anger, he scolded a shattered Buddha head: “Are you really content to rot here?!”
To his astonishment, the Buddha head wept in his mind, lamenting a thousand-year-old wish. The National Treasures Emotional Resonance System awakened.
From then on, he commanded the most secret language of civilization:
Touch a fake, and he could hear its “sneering deceit.” Restore a priceless artifact, and he could feel the “burning heat of craftsmanship.” Face a national treasure, and he could even resonate with “an emperor’s majesty” or “a poet’s loneliness.”
When an authority figure tried to ruin him with a high-quality copy of A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Lu Chen merely brushed the painting with his fingertips. The scroll responded, and its blue-green splendor returned to the world.
When a multinational corporation stole national treasures and rewrote history, he traveled across the globe, making lost relics wail in auction houses and awakening the ancestral memories of a billion people.
And when the hidden hand behind it all sought to sever the long river of Chinese civilization...
Lu Chen stood atop Kunlun, with the ritual music of the Marquis Yi of Zeng’s chime bells, the keen edge of the King of Yue’s sword, and the whispers of countless sages’ works behind him.
“Today, honored predecessors, let us sound once more a symphony of civilization for this world!”
[Artifact restoration + treasure appraisal and face-slapping + passionate Chinese cultural revival]
This is an overwhelming battle for the dignity of civilization.
