After Donating to the Nation, I Became a Master Restorer of Cultural Relics

There was 127 yuan in his bank account, he had just failed his fourth job interview, and his girlfriend had broken up with him by text.

Zhou Ye figured that was probably all life had in store for him.

Then he dug out a porcelain bowl left behind by his grandfather: a Northern Song Ding ware white porcelain bowl worth 100,000 yuan. It came with a “Cultural Relic Restoration System.”

The System had simple rules: restore cultural relics and hand them over to the state to earn money, skills, and upgrades. Sell or smuggle them privately, and you lose points, drop levels, and get locked in a little black room.

Zhou Ye had only wanted to use it to scrape by.

He never expected that his first donated bowl would get him into a museum, that his first treasure appraisal livestream would face-slap a fake expert with 500,000 followers, or that his first operation with customs would intercept three hundred million yuan worth of smuggled cultural relics, including a national-treasure-grade Ru ware bowl with a sky-blue glaze.

After that, some people asked him to appraise their treasures, some offered him 500,000 yuan to restore stolen relics, and someone watched him from the shadows.

The code list belonging to the tomb-robbing gang “Gray Wolf” ran from DM-01 all the way to DM-36.

Zhou Ye had only a pair of hands skilled at mending bowls, a cold System, and the last words his grandfather had spoken:

“Keep it safe.”

Only later did he understand that his grandfather hadn’t been talking about the bowl, but about a mission.