The Storyteller: Every Tomb-Raiding Secret I Tell Is True

A young storyteller has arrived at Sanqing Garden. He tells no tales of the Three Kingdoms or Journey to the West, only old stories about the mysterious families who raid ancient tombs. The audience thinks they are just exciting stories, unaware that descendants of the people in them are sitting right there. When he talks about the blood corpse tomb on Biaoziling, Wu Laogou’s nose, and the Warring States silk manuscript that was swindled away, the young master of the Wu family, Wu Xie, turns pale. When he delivers the three verdicts of the “Old Nine Gates” and reveals the truth behind “Chess Master of Heaven” Xie Jiuye’s battle of wits against Guangzhou’s chess sage, the head of the Huo family slaps the table in astonishment from inside a private booth. Zhang Lin wields his pen like a knife and his words like a sword. With tale after tale, each impossible to distinguish from truth, he quietly stirs the nerves of the entire archaeological world and its ancient families. He speaks not only of stories, but of history deliberately buried. And through the rewards he earns from storytelling, he himself rises from an ordinary man to a storyteller who commands hidden secrets.