Lin Beichen is a restorer of cultural relics in the Forbidden City, and his life is ordinary.
Until one day, 197 countries around the world received a system message at the same time——
"Guoyun Pawn Shop is online."
Each country has a pawn shop where cultural assets are pawned in exchange for chips for national games. Cultural relics, traditions, and historical memories can all be exchanged for tangible national strength.
Lin Beichen was elected as the manager of the Chinese Pawn Shop.
On the first day he took office, a foreigner came to his door and said, "I have made a bid for your Forbidden City."
Lin Beichen looked at the sky-high price quoted by the other party, picked up the tea cup and took a sip:
"Sorry, the Forbidden City does not provide collateral."
"Then we will pawn Shakespeare's manuscripts in exchange for your right to inherit Peking Opera."
Lin Beichen opened the pawn shop's ledger and found that the previous shopkeeper, Lao Du, had left a wall full of puzzles. The four underground floors hide unknown secrets. Something called "Entity #0" is secretly deployed around the world, trying to take away the core assets of Chinese civilization one by one.
The Silk Road, oracle bones, craftsman souls, feelings of family and country - when these become numbers on the system panel, Lin Beichen has to do more than just hold on to the pawn shop.
He wants to redeem China's lost things one by one on the card tables of pawnshops around the world.
The rules of the pawn shop are simple - if you dare to pawn, I dare to take it.
