Reborn into a new life, he awakens a divine eye.
In his previous life, Shen Yan was framed by Zhou Jingshan, a big shot in the antiques world. Falsely accused of smuggling cultural relics, he lost his family and home, then was silenced by being thrown into the river.
When he opens his eyes again, he is eighteen, with twenty-five days left before the college entrance exam.
This time, armed with his memories of the past and his newly awakened divine eye, he returns to Jiangzhou’s antiques district.
He can spot the fakes and artificially aged pieces that fool everyone else at a glance. When others fail to recognize a priceless heirloom, he can identify it with a single word.
Starting with a fake shard of porcelain, he carves out a place for himself in the antiques world. Fifty thousand, two hundred and twenty thousand, five hundred thousand... Everything he could only dream of owning in his past life is now within easy reach.
Lin Zhenghong of Chenggu Pavilion recognizes his keen eye, gives him a family manuscript, and takes him on as his last disciple.
In the shadows, Zhou Jingshan grits his teeth. Chenggu Pavilion’s legacy should have been his.
But Shen Yan knows that an even more powerful force stands behind Zhou Jingshan: Longting.
This organization has branches across Asia. The Fujiwara family holds sway in Dongdu, while the smuggling kingpin Kunchai rules Southeast Asia. They plunder national treasures and weave a smuggling network that stretches across oceans.
In his previous life, Shen Yan died without ever managing to make a dent in their power.
This time, he will start in the antiques districts of China and pursue them all the way to Dongdu, Siam, and Nanyang, bringing every national treasure lost overseas back home, one by one.
Appraising treasures, exposing fakes, beating rivals to the prize, tracking down lost treasures... Behind every relic lies a weighty history.
Every clash tests both his discerning eye and his character.
In this life, he is no longer an ant trampled underfoot.
He is the third-generation heir to Chenggu Pavilion, a master of appraisal, and every smuggler’s worst nightmare.
Well written, keep following it