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The Deadly Treasure Hunter 绝命大藏家
[Entirely handcrafted, with no AI involved + adapted from industry secrets + authentic antique appraisals with photos and text + a mogul’s redemption] After more than forty years in the antique trade, twenty-eight years robbing tombs, and fifteen years faking antiques, sixty-year-old Ma Wangye had finally washed his hands of the business and planned to enjoy his retirement. Who could have guessed that on New Year’s Eve, someone would kill him with a pickaxe in front of Old Wangye’s grave? His li
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The Art of the Steal 捡漏
One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p
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- 3 Reborn in 1993: From the Start, I Break Off the Engagement and Marry a Rich Beauty 重生93：开局退婚迎娶白富美 Appraising treasures, not cultivating immortality. Antiques go great with cigarettes! The book includes illustrations of several antiques. Some come from the internet, while others were photographed by the author’s friends. They are all genuine antique images. Gamble on stones, gamble on jade, gamble on your youth; protect your wife, your family, and the nation’s treasures! “Damn it, where are the treasures we stole from China?” “You said this was the China Pavilion. Where’s everything inside?” 23.2kReads8.8Score2.6k14d adds
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Bargain Hunting: I Make My Fortune by Touching Things 捡漏：我的财富全靠摸
[Antique appraisal + urban life + tycoon + urban fantasy + golden finger] Finding treasures and spotting fakes takes a keen eye, but he chose a different path! Qin Li, an ordinary young man from the countryside with no connections, money, or credentials, failed the college entrance exam and moved to Jiangcheng to make a living as a delivery runner. By chance, his finger fused with a Buddha finger relic struck by lightning. Touching an object with that finger let him see how it had been made, cha
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The King of Bargain Finds in the Jade Trade 赌石之捡漏王
[Modern City + Stone Gambling + Antiques Appraisal + Workplace + Everyday Romance] [Short drama adaptation of the same name: A Jade Appraiser at My Side] Wei Yang, a poor young man, is struck by misfortune and nearly goes bankrupt, with nowhere to sleep. Then, by chance, a jade appraiser's spirit possesses him, and he begins his rise by gambling on stones and finding overlooked treasures, eventually reaching the pinnacle of life. See how he uses his profound jade-appraising skills to find hidden
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- 6 The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 [Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra 99.7kReads9.4Score18.4k14d adds
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I Told You to Pan for Gold! Do You Even Know What That Means? Why Are You Hauling It Away by Car? 让你淘金，淘金懂吗！你用车拉？
A financial crisis sent wages plummeting, and newly graduated students fought tooth and nail for jobs paying just 1,200 yuan. Fresh graduate Chen Feng couldn’t take the disappointment. He stayed home, hanging around doing nothing, smoking and drinking every day. Luckily, he awakened the Gold Prospector System. With a metal detect
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- 8 Divine Truth-Eye: You Don’t Know the Joy of Mining for Treasure 神级真眼：挖矿寻宝的快乐你不懂 Poor Zhao An unexpectedly acquires the Eye of Truth, just like the true sight in a certain game. Once he plants it, he can see through every hidden thing and every illusion in the world. So what are they waiting for? Buy lottery tickets, gamble on jade, start companies, dig for gold and gemstones, and uncover all the secret treasures buried across the planet... Zhao An shouts, “It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s all mine!” “What? King Solomon’s treasure, ranked number one in the Western world? Hand it o 8.2kReads8.8Score61914d adds
- 9 The Antiquities Restorer 做旧师 [Entirely handmade, with no AI whatsoever + Behind-the-scenes industry secrets + Authentic antique identification with images and text + National vendettas and family feuds] If you want to truly understand the antiques trade, start by making fake antiques! Start by learning to age forgeries! My name is Mei Jiu. I was just a temporary odd-jobber on a film crew, but after I helped them repair a broken bowl, I was promoted to assistant prop master. I fix props, so why are they asking me to make fak 40.4kReads9.2Score4.9k14d adds
- 10 Treasure-Hunting Livestream: Everywhere I Look, I See Hidden Treasures 直播捡漏：我眼中到处是宝藏 A sudden accident leaves Xiao Ran in an impossible predicament, but also grants him an unbelievable superpower. With this miraculous ability, Xiao Ran sets out on an extraordinary treasure-hunting adventure in a foreign land, finding hidden bargains along the way. This book is also known as "Live-Streaming Treasure Finds: Clearing Out the West's Wealth", "Finding a Bargain Feels Great, and Finding Bargains Forever Feels Even Better", "Scammed by Americans: My Revenge with X-Ray Vision", "Live-St 41.9kReads9.0Score3.2k14d adds
- 11 I Found a Treasure on Antique Street: From the Start, a Hundred-Thousandfold Profit 我在古玩街捡漏，开局十万倍利润 At the end of the Ming dynasty, the mysterious Mohist school vanished from the world. Chen Han, a university student majoring in cultural relics, activates the Mohist legacy by a stroke of luck. The Mohist school’s divine techniques, lost for more than four hundred years, return to the world and astonish everyone. His appraisal skills are terrifying, his talent for restoring antiques is unheard of, and he can perform mysterious mechanical arts and techniques, as well as counter-heavenly feats of 20.1kReads9.0Score2.6k14d adds
- 12 Earth-Eye Treasure King: Buried Treasures Just a Meter Underground 地眼捡漏王：地下一米全是宝 Other people dig dirt. I dig up treasure! I went straight to a construction site after middle school, thinking I’d spend my whole life hauling bricks just to make ends meet. Then I dug up half a blue-and-white porcelain bowl from the Republican era at a site in Qingdao and sold it for 5,000 yuan! From then on, I awakened the “Earth Eye” ability. Other people see dirt as garbage, but he sees treasure everywhere! Silver dollars from the Republican era? One shovel and I dig up half a jar! A family 821Reads—Score16314d adds
- 13 From the Start, I Find Treasures at Panjiayuan and Multiply My Profits Ten Thousandfold 开局潘家园捡漏，利润飙升一万倍 Xu Cong gets the Antiques Authentication System, which can identify whether any item is genuine. He thinks it’ll be pretty useless, but an online video about finding hidden treasures reignites his hope. So he goes to Panjiayuan Antique Market and finds a gold pattern coin from the Qing dynasty for just 180 yuan, then sells it for 1.8 million. He chips in 4,000 yuan with others to buy a rare set of Large Dragon stamps, then sells it for a premium of 8 million. He finds an inscription rubbing of t 5.9kReads8.3Score32414d adds
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Back to 2003: My Rise Begins in the Demolition Zone 重返03，从拆迁区开始逆袭
Treasure hunting and bargain finds across the board: demolition zones, construction-waste yards, antique street stalls, scrap-buying stations, and more. The experiences of his past life taught Chang Shun a truth more commonplace than any other: money can't buy everything! But without money, you can't take a single step! Reborn with experience living in demolition zones, all he wants is to start making money...
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- 15 The Bargain-Hunting Master 捡漏大师 Synopsis: A treasure appraiser who had amassed trillions died in an accident, only to be reborn twenty-five years earlier, in 1997, in the body of an impoverished middle-school graduate. It all begins again. See how the protagonist finds hidden treasures, goes on adventures, digs for buried riches, raids tombs, and invests his way to the pinnacle of life. An extraordinary story awaits, with thousands upon thousands of priceless treasures ready for you to discover. 10.7kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 16 Stone Gambling: Keeping a Low Profile While Finding Hidden Treasures 赌石：保持低调捡漏 [Stone gambling + X-ray vision + spatial powers + bargain hunting + treasure appraisal + satisfying read] He lost his job just before the New Year, but gained a mysterious jade head that merged with his body. Not only could he absorb the energy within jadeite, he could also determine its quality by the amount of energy it contained. 15.7kReads8.3Score2.5k14d adds
- 17 While Others Appraise Antiques, I Find Hidden Treasures and Become the Richest Man Without Lifting a Finger 别人鉴宝我捡漏，躺着成首富 [Antique appraisal, bargain hunting, older woman-younger man romance, sweet everyday love] A blow to the head gave him a magical eye that can appraise antiques. By sheer luck, Chen Jing, with nowhere else to turn, enters the antiques trade! From Tang tri-color pottery and Song official wares to Yuan blue-and-white porcelain and Ming Xuande pieces, with beauties as lovely as jade by his side, he begins a life of wealth, success in business, and love! 15.5kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
- 18 X-Ray Vision: I Became a Tycoon by Foraging in the Mountains 透视：我靠赶山成首富 [X-ray vision + enhanced body + treasure hunting in the mines + revenge on an ex-girlfriend] When Zhang Wei awakened his ability to see through stone, his body was enhanced as well. Zhang Wei’s family had been tricked into paying an outrageous price for an abandoned jade mine. Zhang Wei looked over the mountain with his X-ray vision and said, “There’s so much raw jade here. This mine isn’t abandoned at all.” When the village bully picked on his father, Zhang Wei beat him up and sent him off to p 4.2kReads8.5Score53314d adds
- 19 Treasure Hunting: Archaeology Major Sparks a Cultivation Craze 寻宝：读考古专业，掀起修仙狂潮 Liu Banxia studied archaeology, and her life was simple. She spent year after year working at archaeological sites, never accomplishing much. Then one day, she unexpectedly discovered traces of immortal cultivation. After a series of dangerous adventures, exploring ancient sites and searching for treasures, she unwittingly sparked a craze for cultivating immortality! 8.4kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 20 X-Ray Appraisal: From Scrap Collector to the Peak of Success 透视鉴宝：从收废品走上人生巅峰 [X-ray vision + treasure appraisal + stone gambling + tycoon + treasure hunting + beauties + face-slapping] The day he gained X-ray vision, a beautiful CEO came knocking. From then on, he entered the perilous world of antiques, where calligraphy and paintings came with beauties, ancient tombs hid traps, and blue-and-white porcelain led to schemes. Surrounded by it all, how would he resist temptation and turn danger into safety? 3.8kReads8.9Score48414d adds
- 21 A Treasure-Hunting Adventure: My Warehouse Can’t Hold Any More Treasures 寻宝奇缘，仓库的宝贝都装不下了 Tang Songyuan, an excavator operator, accidentally dug up a small metal ball and gained an extraordinary power of X-ray vision. From then on, he embarked on a fantastical journey of treasure hunting and discovery. Imperial green jadeite, meteorites from beyond the heavens, legendary antiques... He claimed countless rare and precious treasures as his own. 9kReads8.9Score95714d adds
- 22 Antique Appraisal: My Eyes Can Identify Anything 鉴宝：我的双眼能鉴别万物 (Finding hidden treasures + stone gambling + X-ray vision + cultural heritage + political intrigue) After an accident, Jiang Cheng discovered that he could see the value of objects with his own eyes. On his very first stone-gambling venture, he struck a top-grade blood-red jadeite with an icy, translucent texture! On his first overseas storage auction, he uncovered cultural relics that had been lost abroad. Jiang Cheng said, “All I want is to quietly become the richest man alive and do my part t 983Reads9.0Score21014d adds
- 23 Antique Appraisal Comeback: X-Ray Vision Makes Me Unbeatable 鉴宝逆袭：透视无敌手 [Bargain Hunting + Appraisal + Scheming + Stone Gambling + X-Ray Vision] After Lin Xuan is betrayed by his girlfriend, he gains the power of x-ray vision and turns his life around. His adventures in bargain hunting include street-stall cobblestones, a battered clay Guanyin, fake calligraphy and paintings worth more than the genuine articles, apotropaic porcelain, soul jars, a painting of a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, a burial shroud, an unmarked cup, a Buddha statue with cinnabar 3.8kReads8.9Score38514d adds
- 24 Calamity: Hey, Buddy, You Can't Mess Around with This 灾变：宝友，这可不兴盘 With spiritual qi revival and mutations sweeping the globe, everyone else was busy venturing into strange realms, seizing opportunities, and fighting over rare treasures. Zhang Xibao stayed behind and started a treasure appraisal livestream. Good heavens, buddy, you really shouldn't fiddle with that treasure of yours. Touch it too much and you'll drain your yang energy, and you won't grow any taller! Now that's a crime! This buddy's treasure is fine to fiddle with, but do it too much and the Bla 9.4kReads9.1Score64214d adds
- 25 Stone Gambling: One Touch and I'm Rich 赌石：让我摸一下就发财 [Myanmar + Jade Gambling + Pocket Dimension + Wish Fulfillment + Appraisal + Tycoon] In the mining districts of Myanmar, he gains the ability to gamble on jade and a small portable pocket dimension. Just by touching a piece of jade with his left hand, he can tell its quality. So it makes perfect sense that every top-grade jadeite rough stone should belong to him, right? 15.8kReads8.6Score1.2k14d adds
