My Eyes Can Appraise Treasures

Name: My Eyes Can Appraise Treasures
Author: Watery Fruit

我的眼能鉴宝

by Watery Fruit (水水的果)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 710k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 2mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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In China in the 2020s, the bustling cities seem to shine with prosperity, but beneath the surface runs an undercurrent a thousand years old: the world of antiques. It is an era of transition, where old and new collide and truth is hard to distinguish from forgery. Under the lights of an auction house, a blue-and-white porcelain vase can fetch hundreds of millions. At a Panjiayuan street stall, a “broken rock” might conceal a fortune in imperial-green jade. In the alleys of Liulichang, an old shopkeeper can leave an amateur penniless over a single cup of tea.

Rapid economic growth has sparked a massive collecting craze. The newly rich flock to the antiques world to cultivate an air of refinement, only to become easy prey for the experts. “Getting fooled,” “letting a treasure slip away,” and “snagging a bargain” are everyday terms in this world. Behind every artifact lies a contest between genuine and fake, and a game of human scheming. Meanwhile, as archaeological discoveries increase and more artifacts return from overseas, things that should never have appeared in the human world begin to quietly enter the market: artifacts bearing ancient runes and strange, otherworldly energies.

A deeper undercurrent is stirring. At the highest level of the appraisal world, there is a secret circle whose members see more than an object's age and craftsmanship. They can perceive what ordinary people cannot: the “qi” accumulated on artifacts, the “spirits” sealed within runes, and clues behind certain antiques that lead to another world. Several major disappearances in the archaeological community, strange noises in museums at night, and astronomical purchases by mysterious overseas buyers all point to the same truth: the world is not as simple as it appears.

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