The construction boss ran off with the money, leaving Jiang Chen penniless and with no choice but to set up a street stall at Kunlun Ruins just to get by.
By chance, he picks up a grimy, broken stone and awakens the Divine Eye of Appraisal! He can see through anything and tell what’s real or fake, identifying its age and value at a glance.
He spends 100 yuan on a Han dynasty Hetian jade pendant and makes 500,000 overnight;
At Panjiayuan, he picks up a Yuan dynasty blue-and-white porcelain shard for 100 yuan, and it turns out to be worth 20 million!
He serves up face-slapping to every fake expert and crushes crooked antique dealers, becoming worth over 100 million in just a few days.
By chance, he sees a wall of photographs of Chinese national treasures lost overseas at the National Museum. Deeply moved, he makes a vow:
“I’ll travel the world and bring every Chinese national treasure that’s fallen into foreign hands back home!”
He ventures deep into the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, intercepts tomb robbers before they can strike, and protects the ancient burial pits;
He travels to Thailand, Japan, Britain, and France, striking back against international smuggling rings and stopping national treasures from being shipped overseas;
He recovers the complete set of twelve zodiac animal heads from the Old Summer Palace and brings tens of thousands of Dunhuang manuscripts back to their homeland.
He wipes out a global cultural relic smuggling network that has existed for over a century and establishes the world’s largest museum of Chinese civilization.
When he reaches the top of the Forbes list of the world’s richest people, a reporter asks him what his greatest achievement is.
Jiang Chen points to the national treasures filling the museum, his gaze resolute:
“My greatest achievement is bringing them home.”
