Scrap Recycling Center: I Collect Old Junk to Build Up My Country’s Fortune

Lin Chen, a graduate of a top university, is laid off and spends half a year unemployed and penniless. His uncle’s family pressures him at every turn, mocking him in public and demanding he hand over the ancestral home. A scholar reduced to scavenging for scraps becomes everyone’s laughingstock.

At his lowest point, the [Fortune of Nations Treasure-Hunting System] activates! Old objects and antiques that people throw away as garbage are actually fragments of the lost fortune of nations. Recycle and restore them, and he can earn cash, an extraordinary physique, and ancient appraisal skills.

A chipped porcelain bowl, an old wooden comb, debris from a demolition site: what others see as trash is all an opportunity for him. He face-slaps his snobbish relatives, crushes crooked antique dealers, and rescues scattered cultural relics from the hands of ordinary people. From the owner of a scrap yard everyone looks down on, he steadily accumulates overwhelming national fortune and becomes a top powerhouse hidden in plain sight.

No harem, no frustrating setbacks, and satisfying face-slapping, with a focus on an underdog’s rise and the protection of old treasures.