[Unethical Appraisals + Subverting Expectations + Scandalous Secrets + Comedy, No Harem]
Cheng Zheng unexpectedly awakens the ability to see through things. He thinks he can make a fortune by spotting hidden treasures, but it turns out his power comes with a nasty catch!
He can't see through rough jade, or even scratch-off lottery tickets. All he can see are the scandalous secrets attached to people's belongings!
The richest man in town brings over a top-quality heirloom jade pendant to test him. Cheng Zheng takes one look and blurts out, “The jade is a genuine Ming dynasty antique, but the son you've raised for twenty years might not really be a member of the Tang family.”
From that day on, the powerful elite of Jiangzhou gain a new bogeyman: an utterly shameless living King of Hell.
Other appraisers judge antiques by their patina and craftsmanship. He digs into people's dirty laundry to judge their character.
A mob enforcer presses a knife to his throat to collect a debt. Cheng Zheng takes out some medicated balm and takes a deep sniff. “Boss, you used that switchblade to lance an external hemorrhoid last week, didn't you? You haven't even peeled off the bandage yet.”
A high-class gold-digger uses an ancestral hairpin to play the victim and scam a lovestruck rich kid. Cheng Zheng looks disgusted. “The hairpin's nice, but you stirred it around in a foot spa last night. You didn't wash off all that athlete's foot stink!”
A sanctimonious master shows off a copy of Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars that cost him his entire fortune. Cheng Zheng sucks in a breath. “Master, your devotion to filial piety is hardcore. Did you chop up your own father's coffin in the middle of the night and make the paper pulp from it?”
Faced with a rich heiress whose silicone implants are leaking, a hitman whose girlfriend cheated on him, and all kinds of big shots driven to the brink of madness, Cheng Zheng helplessly spreads his hands.
“Boss, I can appraise this, but I'm afraid you won't sleep peacefully for the rest of your life once I tell you what I see.”
Open the book and see how the living King of Hell fights fire with fire, strips the elite of their dirty secrets, and even digs up their ancestors' graves!
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