In 2025, Chen Mo, a top antiques appraiser, dies by suicide under a cloud of shame after a mistake causes a fire at a museum. When he opens his eyes again, he has been reborn in 1990, in the body of his younger self: a fourth-year archaeology student on the verge of being expelled from academia.
This time, he carries thirty-five years of future memories. During an internship at a Han tomb, he unexpectedly awakens two supernatural abilities: the Eye of Truth and a spiritual connection to jade. Cast out by the establishment, he turns to the antiques world, starting with a five-yuan find of a Qianlong imperial kiln piece at Baxian'an. He travels to Luoyang, Kaifeng, Ruili, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, New York, and beyond... Using internet investments to build a network of protection, he forges a friendship across generations with the Rockefeller family.
He never takes controlling stakes in tech companies, accepting shares only in exchange for ease of travel and the protection of influential connections. He does not chase excessive profits. Instead, guided by his belief in “dialogue between civilizations,” he brings back the Old Summer Palace zodiac animal heads, Dunhuang manuscripts, and scattered pages of the Yongle Encyclopedia that had been lost overseas. In 1996, his “Mo Studio” opens; in 2008, the “Mo Collection” Museum is completed. He ultimately becomes the antiques world’s “unofficial cultural envoy.”
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