In 1980, the military compound in Beijing. Han Qisheng's grandfather was the founding general of the People's Republic of China, his father was a professor at Tsinghua University, and his mother came from a family of collectors in Fujian. Before her death, her mother left behind a copper key and a hand-drawn map, pointing to the last authentic Dong Qichang hidden by the Lin family during the Cultural Revolution. Han Qisheng resigned from public office and embarked on the long road to recover the lost cultural relics of his family.
From the sandwich walls of abandoned temples to the placards of Hong Kong auction houses; from the Western Zhou bronzes that were treated as scrap iron in the warehouses of state-owned enterprises, to the famous paintings handed down by overseas collectors - Han Qisheng has made a breakthrough in the antique world with a pair of eyesight that can "see through a hundred years". But he soon discovered that the real opponent was not eyesight, but human nature. The former compound brother Lu Yiming used his power to seek rent and set up a trap. His beloved Su Jian represents the logic of capital and is pressing harder. Zhou Mingyuan, a financial genius who has returned from overseas, taught him to "break the rules with strong thinking."
In the past twenty years, he recovered 98 of the 126 cultural relics of the Lin family and established his own business territory, but in the end he faced a choice: let these "things" turn into money, or turn into a breath? "Qilinzi" tells a story of "going against heaven and changing one's destiny" - not going against heaven, but going against human nature; not changing one's destiny, but keeping one's roots.
