Shen Yan, an antiques counterfeiter, ran into the real thing in a haunted alley.
A frozen old beggar could only repeat, "Please, have mercy. Give me something to eat." Just as Shen Yan was about to be dragged away, a lazy voice came from the bronze pendant his father had left him: "Don't move. Hold your breath. This thing tracks people by the scent of lies."
After that, one sinister case after another dragged him into a shadowy world: the lingering soul inside a jade burial figurine, a wedding gown in the River God's temple, and a girl who had been dead for ten years yet still had people deliver things for her...
Behind every antique lurked an obsession. To unravel them, you had to understand the rules, and Shen Yan was best at finding the truth in the cracks between real and fake.
He just never expected that when all the cases were pieced together, the mystery they revealed would be his own.
