In 2025, Lin Chen, the country's top cultural relic restoration expert, encountered an accident while rescuing a sunken Song Dynasty shipwreck on the seabed. He was reborn back to the day in the millennium of 2000 when he just graduated from the History Department of Nanjing University.
After rebirth, Lin Chen accidentally activated the mysterious "Cultural Heritage System" and gained super powers such as cultural relic appreciation, repair, and perception. Facing the background of the millennium when the cultural relics market has just started, a large number of national treasures have been outflowed, and the awareness of protection is weak, he quickly rose to prominence in the Palace Museum by relying on his knowledge accumulation and systematic support in the cultural relics industry over the next two decades.
From becoming famous after restoring Song Dynasty Ru kiln porcelain plates, to uncovering cultural relic smuggling plots; from establishing the "Cultural Heritage Guardian Association" to protect national treasures, to fighting wits and courage with international cultural relic dealers; Lin Chen goes further and further on the road of cultural relic restoration. Not only does his career flourish, but he also falls in love with Su Yurou, a descendant of a family of cultural relic restorers.
As the system was upgraded, Lin Chen gradually discovered that "cultural inheritance" is not only the mission of restoring cultural relics, but also the destiny of connecting past and present lives. When the system unlocked the ultimate function of "Cultural Revitalization", he finally understood: the true inheritance does not rely on the power of the system, but on the protection and love of cultural roots between people.
This book takes the restoration of cultural relics as its core, and integrates elements such as rebirth, system cheats, and dividends of the times. It shows the protagonist's growth process from a young graduate to a legend in the cultural relics world, and also conveys the profound theme of protecting Chinese cultural heritage and inheriting historical civilization.
