After dying a horrific death on a rainy night, Shen Yan was reborn at twenty-two, carrying boundless hatred and endless regret.
The brother who once betrayed him and swindled him out of all his savings was right before his eyes. The enemy who had ruined his entire family was still lurking in the shadows.
This time, he would no longer be naive and kindhearted. Drawing on decades of future experience, he had an unrivaled eye for antiques, worldly savvy, inside knowledge of the black market, and a memory for connections. He made his way through Nanzhou's ghost market.
He found treasures at street stalls and became rich overnight. He opened a shop and stirred up the local antiques world. Along the way, he met Su Qingyan, a cool-headed and insightful prodigy in relic restoration, and the two grew close, staying by each other's side.
He planned every move carefully, taking revenge on those who betrayed him, settling scores with unscrupulous merchants, and fighting the smuggling underworld. He went to the capital to take on the most powerful antique families, then ventured abroad to recover Chinese national treasures that had been lost overseas.
His true identity was astonishing: he was the sole heir to a treasure-protecting family from the late Qing dynasty, burdened with a blood feud and a mission a thousand years in the making.
Power struggles among the wealthy, international battles, ancient secret realms, prehistoric civilizations...
With his own strength, Shen Yan reshaped the global antiques world, took charge of treasures spanning the ages, protected China's cultural heritage from extinction, and kept its lands and people safe.
