Shen Qingli was crushed to death by a falling chandelier at an auction preview. She was reborn three years earlier, on the very day her mentor, Gu Weizhou, expelled her from his school and her reputation was ruined. A rising star in the restoration of ancient ceramics, she had been framed by her junior sister, Lin Miaoyin. While restoring a Qianlong famille rose enamel vase, she supposedly made a “mistake” that damaged a national treasure. In truth, Lin Miaoyin had conspired with Zhou Muye, the auction house’s director, to switch the genuine vase for a fake and pin the blame on her. Reborn, Shen Qingli exposes the truth behind the “mistake” in front of everyone, using chemical reagents to prove that the vase is a fake. But her real trump card is remembering that, at this point in her previous life, the genuine famille rose enamel vase was in Zhou Muye’s private safe. She calls the police, and they catch him red-handed, but deliberately lets Lin Miaoyin go.
Lu Yanbai is the illegitimate son of the Lu Group’s head family. He appears to be a spoiled rich kid, but is actually the leader of Jin Tang, an underground intelligence organization. He “happens” to run into Shen Qingli outside the police station. Her method of exposing the fake matches the one he is investigating in a cultural relic smuggling case.
Shen Qingli discovers that her death in her previous life was no accident: someone had loosened the chandelier. The culprit knew she had uncovered a secret.
