My Life of Appraising Treasures Has Failed

On his eighteenth birthday, Xiao Shitou received an enamel rice bowl as a coming-of-age gift. Grandpa Butler said: "From today on, use the skills I teach you to support yourself." The skills he was talking about were the long-extinct eight methods of treasure appraisal, the three essentials of Feng Shui, and the thousand-year-old miscellaneous knowledge in the world. During the day, he is a delivery boy walking through the streets, witnessing the fireworks of the world; at night, he is the most vicious-eyed picker in the ghost market, seeing through the mystery of the real and the fake. Until the rusty Qing Dynasty copper lock spit out a roll of blood-stained silk pointing to "Baijiao Town"; until Shopkeeper Zhou of Yaji Zhai whispered about the old case of "playing with antiques and causing trouble" twenty years ago. Only then did Xiao Shitou understand that what his parents left him was not an inheritance, but a life and death situation that spanned two generations. The "Jiudinghui", which is determined to seize treasures, has already extended its tentacles to various fields such as antiques, real estate, and finance. What they are looking for is not earthly treasures, but taboo objects that can change fortunes and steal national connections. From then on, he stepped into a secret world hidden under the neon lights of the city: Thousands of doors' traps, stolen door's locks, Gu door's medicine, organ door's tools... Ancient skills are awakened in the steel forest. And he will use a pair of discerning eyes to appraise treasures to distinguish the authenticity of ancient objects, and also distinguish the right and wrong of people's hearts; with his unique knowledge of Feng Shui, he will be able to judge good and bad luck, and even end the life and death of grievances.