Chen Mo, 26 years old, graduated from the Department of Archeology of a third-rate university. He works as a handyman in an auction house with a monthly salary of 3,500 yuan and lives in a single room in a village in the city. Colleagues call him "bumpkin" because he sees everything as a treasure.
Until he cut his finger on a piece of broken blue and white porcelain while sorting out scraps in the warehouse - the Treasure Appraisal Eye system was activated. After looking at it for three seconds, a halo appeared on the items: gray and white were scraps, green was valuable goods, purple was hundreds of thousands, and red was national treasure.
At the ghost market, he spent three hundred yuan to buy a broken bowl filled with soot - purple halo. After cleaning, the authentic Cizhou kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty was auctioned for 470,000 yuan. From then on, the name "Ghost Market Xiao Chen" spread.
But he soon discovered that there were more than just pickers in the circle. The owner of the auction house set up a trap to let him eat high-imitation Ru kiln brushes, causing him to lose millions. The counterfeiting group used the "Xuanjianhui" veteran defection method to make it look old. Even the system can only judge that "the craftsmanship is valuable" and cannot distinguish between authenticity and fakeness.
He started reading ancient books from scratch, became a disciple of retired Forbidden City experts, and traced the source of counterfeit goods. Along the way, he uncovered the shocking secret of the museum's national treasures being subcontracted and the authentic ones being smuggled overseas.
In the final showdown, he exposed the subcontracting scheme in public at the National Cultural Relics Exhibition and became a god in one battle. But he did not join the Xuanjian Society. Instead, he returned to the small town and opened a "Chenji Jianbao Shop" to recruit apprentices and teach his skills.
"Searching for artifacts is not about making a fortune, it is about finding the place where the dumb cultural relics should go."
