The night flames devoured the ancestral home, Ye Siming escaped the inferno by the skin of his teeth, clutching his younger sister.
Besides his trembling sister, the only thing he carried was the family heirloom, the Record of Treasure Appraisal, hidden close to his body.
His parents' dying words still rang in his ears: “Protect Xuan'er. Protect this book. Don't avenge us...”
But fate gave the young siblings no time to catch their breath.
They could endure the hunger and cold of life on the road, but eventually the traffickers came for them.
Ye Xuan disappeared...
Seven years passed. The boy grew into a young man. Ye Siming traveled far and wide, searching everywhere, from street beggar to laborer to apprentice. He never gave up.
Then, by chance, he crossed paths with another gang of traffickers and learned of their associate, Brother Snake.
It was also then that blood revealed the secrets of the Record of Treasure Appraisal.
As Ye Siming's blood soaked into the pages, an eye opened in the palm of his hand: the “Eye in the Palm,” capable of sensing the aura of all things and seeing through disguises!
At last, the secret his ancestors had guarded opened a door for him in his darkest hour.
Determined to find the truth, Ye Siming headed south.
Beneath a sea of neon lights lay antique black markets, underground auctions, and a tangled web of powerful factions. With the Eye in the Palm, Ye Siming was in his element.
Yet the deeper his investigation went, the more confusing things became.
Would his journey south reunite him with his long-lost sister, or lead him into an abyss that would bury every truth?
Who was really behind the raging fire that took his parents' lives?
