Ma Mintian is trapped in the depths of despair: three months behind on rent, bombarded by debt collectors, and betrayed by his girlfriend of three years, who has hooked up with a rich heir and mocked the Six Ren divination he relies on for a living, saying it could never earn him a home or a car. With nowhere else to turn, he breaks his vow and casts a divination. The reading reveals that an astonishing fortune lies hidden in an antiques district to the west.
With not a penny to his name, he uses just 87.50 yuan of credit card limit to buy a shabby wooden box for 80 yuan from a junk stall at an appraisal fair in the western part of the city. At that moment, the Myriad Forms Revelation System activates. The box turns out to be made of Qing dynasty rosewood, lined with golden nanmu, and worth 180,000 yuan. Hidden inside is an authentic painting by Ni Zan, View of Mountains from the Riverbank, lost for three hundred years.
An appraisal expert immediately offers five million yuan. His ex-girlfriend and the rich heir turn pale, consumed with regret. But before Ma Mintian can change his fate, someone frames him for stealing cultural relics, putting him at risk of arrest.
No one knows he is the prized disciple of Wan Zhenbang, a master appraiser. The cool beauty Wan Qingying at his side is the old man’s granddaughter. The person constantly scheming to frame him is Huangfu Chen, heir to the Huangfu family, a clan of appraisers that holds a grudge against Wan Zhenbang.
Facing the harassment and false accusations of the wealthy elite, Ma Mintian uses Six Ren divination to read Heaven’s secrets and the System to appraise all things. He swears to clear his name and make his enemies pay. From finding hidden treasures on the street to reaching the pinnacle of the appraisal world, he turns the tables and serves up one face-slapping moment after another, forging a legend in the city’s antiques scene.