Global Pawnshop: From the Start, I Pawn the Forbidden City

Lin Beichen is a cultural relic restorer at the Palace Museum, and his life is quiet and uneventful.

Until one day, all 197 countries around the world receive the same System message at once:

"The National Destiny Pawnshop is now open."

Every country gets a pawnshop where cultural assets can be exchanged for national destiny tokens. Relics, traditions, and historical memories can all be converted into tangible national strength.

Lin Beichen is chosen to manage China's pawnshop.

On his very first day, a foreigner shows up at the door: "I'll make an offer for your Forbidden City."

Lin Beichen takes a sip of tea as he looks at the astronomical price offered:

"I'm afraid the Forbidden City isn't available as collateral."

"Then we'll pawn Shakespeare's manuscripts in exchange for the rights to pass down Peking opera."

Lin Beichen opens the pawnshop's ledger and discovers a wall full of riddles left behind by the previous manager, Old Du. The basement's fourth level hides a secret no one knows about. Something called "Entity #0" is secretly pulling strings around the world, trying to siphon away the core assets of Chinese civilization one by one.

The Silk Road, oracle bone script, the spirit of craftsmanship, love of country and family: when all of these become numbers on a System panel, Lin Beichen's job is about more than just protecting the pawnshop.

At the global pawnshop table, he intends to reclaim, one by one, everything China has lost.

The pawnshop's rules are simple: if you dare to pawn it, I'll dare to take it.