With his family fallen on hard times and no job or money, Lin Zhou dives into the antique stalls, relying on the appraisal notes his grandfather left behind. He spends 300 yuan on a Republic-era gilt ink box and sells it for ten times as much; spots at a glance a Qing-era imitation of a Ming blue-and-white vase and earns a wealthy collector’s generous reward; and turns a battered bronze mirror hiding Tang-dynasty gold foil into 100,000 yuan. He keeps finding hidden treasures, appraising antiques, and solving one crisis after another, exposing high-end forgery scams and taking on unscrupulous figures in the trade. He is also unexpectedly drawn into the Shen family’s century-old treasure mystery. From street-stall peddler to antique-world heavyweight, he uses his uncanny eye to make enormous profits from genuine and fake antiques alike, stirring up the whole city!
