A battered bronze censer bought for five yuan sold for hundreds of thousands.
An old bowl bought for fifty yuan was worth thirty million.
A broken jar used for pickling vegetables turned out to be Yuan-dynasty blue-and-white porcelain once the mud was scraped off.
Shen Yuan, an antique-market employee earning 3,500 yuan a month, awakened the Eye of Appraisal.
He started appraising antiques on livestreams. When the young master of the Jiang family showed off a treasure worth 100,000 yuan, Shen Yuan glanced at it and said, “Eight hundred.”
An antique-world big shot came to challenge him and was exposed on the spot.
He could name a price at a glance for things even auction-house experts couldn't identify.
In three months, he gained a million followers and made sales totaling twenty million. The entire Jiangcheng antique world was asking who had taught him.
Shen Yuan gave no answer.
He was searching for one himself: the wooden box his grandfather left behind bore the number 0037.
