A retired reconnaissance soldier uses his top-notch restoration skills and extraordinary powers of deduction to expose fakes and crack cases in the antique world, uncover a family injustice from thirty years ago, and make money, friends, and a clean sweep of a criminal industry chain.
Retired special forces soldier Lu Chen returns to his family home in Qingzhou and inherits his grandfather's antique restoration skills, only to get caught up in the undercurrents of the antique trade. When he stumbles upon a crooked auction house setting up an old man, he spots a genuine Xuande incense burner at a glance. His talents make an early impression, but he also earns the enmity of appraisal expert Huang Qiming.
Huang Qiming joins forces with Sun Yuan of the Antique Dealers Association to set a trap during a livestream. They frame Lu Chen for forgery using an artifact contaminated with fluorescent dye, getting him blacklisted across the internet and ruining his reputation. Refusing to give in, Lu Chen teams up with Su Qinghe, an inspector from the Cultural Relics Bureau. Following the clues, they find a warehouse full of fluorescent dye and a counterfeiting workshop, piecing together a complete chain of evidence.
In a second livestream, Lu Chen turns the tables in spectacular fashion, exposing Huang Qiming's scheme in front of everyone. He digs deep into an unjust case involving stolen cultural relics from thirty years ago and gradually tears away the cover-up concealing forgery and collusion between officials and businessmen in the antique world. With his peerless restoration skills, he conquers the undercurrents of the trade and clears his grandfather's name at last!
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