Antique Appraisal: The National Treasures Return to Their Hidden Places

Lin Mu, owner of a small antiques shop in Panjiayuan, unexpectedly activated his family’s legacy: the National Treasures Repatriation System.

The System assigned him a mission: recover the Imperial Seal, missing for a thousand years, and hand it over to the state.

From that moment on, his fate was no longer his own.

A chicken feeder from the countryside turns out to be a Longquan kiln brush washer from the Song dynasty. A lucky find, worth 2.8 million!

A chipped cup ignored by everyone at an auction turns out to be a Chenghua doucai chicken cup. Face-slapping, valued at 30 million!

A worthless stone no one dares touch is cut open to reveal imperial green jade. A stone-gambling win that makes him rich overnight!

But his true mission is to recover the Chinese treasures lost to the passage of history.

The authentic Orchid Pavilion Preface, the Yongle Encyclopedia, the Peking Man skull, the Imperial Seal...

The mercury sea beneath the Qianling Mausoleum, the quicksand traps of the Taklamakan, the ghost shipwreck in the Taiwan Strait, the time glacier atop the Kunlun Mountains...

Corpse beetle swarms, forbidden women, sea monkeys, wild chicken-neck snakes: unknown creatures of the underworld, with death lurking at every turn.

Odyssey in America, Mitsui in Japan, the Knights of the Round Table in Britain: international forces vie and scheme, making every step a struggle.

Xiao Yuqing, a calm and brilliant archaeology PhD, is his finest strategist.

Tie Jun, a retired special forces soldier, is unwaveringly loyal and his brother in life and death.

Their iron-triangle treasure-protection journey begins in Panjiayuan and leads them across the world.

When the ultimate secret of the Imperial Seal finally comes to light, Lin Mu discovers...

What he is protecting is not just national treasures, but the flame of five thousand years of Chinese civilization.

“I’m no tomb raider. I’m a guardian of our heritage.”