A poor young man tumbles off a cliff and finds a jade pendant capable of imparting inherited knowledge. Overnight, medicine, martial arts, physiognomy, and antiques become second nature to him. When someone suffers a heart attack at the village entrance, two needles bring him back. A man whose legs have been paralyzed for half a year stands up after a few more. He talks the price of a wild lingzhi mushroom from a hundred yuan to thirty-five thousand in just three sentences. When the village chief comes to audit the books, one photograph is all it takes for him to pin the man against a stone table. But the real trouble only begins when he steps into that high-walled compound. A powerful man bedridden with illness drinks a bowl of beef-bone soup laced with drugs three times a day. The first thing Lin Ping'an asks him is, “Who made that soup for you?” Someone wants a life, and someone wants his. Lin Ping'an slips the jade pendant into his pocket and smiles. “Just what I was waiting for.”
