The Urban Appraisal Queen: The Secret Treasure of West Lake

Su Qingyuan is a young antiques appraiser who inherited the family secret art known as the “Spirit Eye,” which lets her sense the authenticity and history of artifacts through touch. She first made a name for herself by publicly exposing a high-quality fake at a museum, but then her grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind only a cryptic final message and an ancient musical key. To uncover the truth, Su Qingyuan enters the perilous world of antiques appraisal. Drawing on her expertise, she solves one artifact mystery after another and meets Lu Shiyan, a refined and gracious archaeologist. He is not only her staunch supporter in her career, but also the perfect partner in love. Together, they go from joining forces against their enemies to becoming deeply devoted and engaged, collecting seven scattered musical keys as they search for a thousand-year-old hidden treasure beneath West Lake. Yet suspicion lurks beneath the sweetness. Su Qingyuan gradually discovers that her grandfather’s death, her father’s disappearance, and even every crisis that seemed like a coincidence all point to a vast web of conspiracies. When she gathers all seven keys and opens the secret vault with the man she loves, she finds not treasure but a cruel truth: Lu Shiyan, the perfect husband she trusted without question, is in fact the mastermind behind “Chronowheel,” an international organization that manipulates the antiques trade. All his tenderness was a carefully designed deception, meant to exploit her Spirit Eye and gain control of a device powerful enough to upend the global antiques market.