Lin Ye is a broke young man who can’t find a job after graduation and runs a secondhand goods shop in the old city. By chance, he awakens the ability to spot bargains: he can see the “spiritual glow” on old objects, and the more valuable they are, the brighter they shine. From the start, he finds the ancestral jade pendant the heroine lost while in trouble. From then on, he makes a fortune picking through junk while sticking close to her and falling in love.
Su Qingyuan is a beautiful, aloof young lady from a once-wealthy family, and a restorer of cultural relics. At first, she can’t get Lin Ye to leave her alone. Gradually, though, she falls for him, helping him appraise treasures every day as the two build a business together and shower each other with affection.
The story is packed with satisfying moments: finding national treasures, face-slapping the relatives who look down on the male lead, throwing money around to grab priceless artifacts, opening a private museum, and helping the heroine reclaim her ancestral home. He rises from king of the junkyard to a titan in the cultural relics world. The sweetness is off the charts: the male lead is quick-witted and flirtatious, the heroine is cool on the outside and sweet on the inside, and there’s no wicked female rival, just nonstop thrills and romance.
